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10 best books like Brand (Henrik Ibsen): The Dance of Death, The Prince of Homburg, Women of Trachis, The Last Crusader, Complete Plays and Prose, The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter, The Recruiting Officer, Bestialitetens historie: Frihetens øyeblikk / Kruttårnet / Stillheten, Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis, Naked Masks: Five Plays

The Dance of Death
AuthorAugust Strindberg
ISBN1854597507
[Night. An apartment near Marble Arch. From outside, sounds of Muslims celebrating Ramadan; the restaurants are just beginning to fill up. NOT is sitting at a table typing on a laptop, while MANNY lies on a couch reading a slim paperback book. He closes it, puts it down next to him, and stares into space]

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The Prince of Homburg
AuthorHeinrich von Kleist
ISBN1840022671
"Tell me, please - is this a dream?' The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man's fantasies - love, ambition and victory. But when the morning comes, a single reckless act of disobediance...
Women of Trachis
AuthorSophocles
ISBN0195070097
Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous change: these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tragic vision. But nowhere are they elaborated with more urgency than in Women of Trachis. There are no subtle shifts of Fortune's favors in this tragedy, only stunning and total reversals, a relentless...
The Last Crusader
AuthorLouis de Wohl
ISBN1586174142
A Novel about Don Juan of Austria

Don Juan of Austria, one of history’s most triumphant and inspiring heroes, is reborn in this opulent novel by Louis de Wohl. Because of the circumstances of his birth, this last son of Emperor Charles the Fifth spent his childhood in a Spanish peasant’s...
Complete Plays and Prose
AuthorGeorg Büchner
ISBN0809007274
The life of Georg Buchner was short, intense, and tragic—and extremely significant for the development of modern drama. His three plays, Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck, were greatly ahead of their time in their penetrating dramatic and psychological treatment. They served as...
The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter
AuthorHarold Pinter
Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in...
The Recruiting Officer
AuthorGeorge Farquhar
ISBN0803253575
Since its first appearance in 1706, The Recruiting Officer has remained a scathing satire of military recruitment. George Farquhar knew the subject well, since he had been involved himself in the tricks and intimidation that enlisted recruits for Queen Anne's army in the War of Spanish Succession...
Bestialitetens historie: Frihetens øyeblikk / Kruttårnet / Stillheten
AuthorJens Bjørneboe
ISBN8205300283
Bestialitetens historie regnes av mange som hovedverket til Jens Bjørneboe. Gjennom tre frittstående, men tematisk beslektede romaner gjør Bjørneboe nærgående studier av menneskets ulvenatur.

Denne ukonvensjonelle og sydende sterke romantrilogien er her samlet i ett bind....
Euripides IV: Rhesus / The Suppliant Women / Orestes / Iphigenia in Aulis
AuthorEuripides
ISBN0226307832
Rhesus by Euripides is about an event told in Book Ten of Homer’s Iliad. It is a short play. It’s interesting but without the dramatic impact of Medea, Orestes or Electra.

The play contains spying, disguises, deception, murder, mistaken identity, manipulation by the gods, horse theft...
Naked Masks: Five Plays
AuthorLuigi Pirandello
ISBN0452010829
This special one-volume edition features five great plays by one of the most celebrated and fascinating dramatists of the twentieth century.

Pirandello, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934, was the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His modern and sensationally...
Gift
AuthorAlexander L. Kielland
Mensa rotunda, svarte lille Marius og døde. Sitatet er et av høydepunktene i historien om skolegutten som dør av for meget latin, og som kanskje er blitt den mest kjente av alle norske skolehistorier. Den er et oppgjør med den autoritære pugg, karakter og konkurranseskolen, med konfirmasjonspresset...
Selected Satires of Lucian
AuthorLucian of Samosata
ISBN0393004430
Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and literary form which is represented in this collection.


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The Royal Hunt Of The Sun
AuthorPeter Shaffer
ISBN1868881024
The Royal Hunt of the Sun recreates the story of Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca empire in Peru, with a group of only 167 men, in 1532. The play is an incisive and visually dazzling exposition of colonization in which cultural and religious clashes, driven by the promise of immense wealth, lead...
The Arabian Nights
AuthorMary Zimmerman
ISBN0810120941
A twelve-member cast enacts Scheherazade's tales of love, lust, comedy, and dreams. Scheherazade's cliffhanger stories prevent her husband, the cruel ruler Shahryar, from murdering her, and after 1,001 nights, Shahryar is cured of his madness, and Scheherazade returns to her family. This adaptation...
The Portable Greek Reader
AuthorW.H. Auden
ISBN0140150390
It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some...
The Garden Party and Other Plays
AuthorVáclav Havel
Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country....
Homebody/Kabul
AuthorTony Kushner
ISBN1559362391
In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, Homebody/Kabul premiered in New...
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