Ghosts and Other Plays (Ghosts; A Public Enemy; When We Dead Awake)

5 best books like Ghosts and Other Plays (Ghosts; A Public Enemy; When We Dead Awake) (Henrik Ibsen): Saint Joan, Under Milk Wood, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays, Mother Courage and Her Children, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Saint Joan

Author	George Bernard Shaw
ISBN	0140437916

Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue, George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known...

Under Milk Wood

Author	Dylan Thomas
ISBN	0811202097

Some works of literature just beg to be read out loud - This is the House that Jack Built and Hiawatha are two that most people are familiar with. Under Milk Wood too, is better appreciated read aloud.

Try it for yourself. A sample (read aloud with Welsh accent, sing-song, go up like a question at...

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	0140436065

Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics.

'To lose one parent may be regarded...

Mother Courage and Her Children

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Author	Darcey Steinke
ISBN	0374156115

Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear,...