The School for Scandal and Other Plays

8 best books like The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Richard Brinsley Sheridan): The Glass Menagerie, Cold Comfort Farm, Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter, Six Plays of Strindberg: The Father / Miss Julie / The Stronger / Easter / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata, The Miser and Other Plays, Harrow County, Vol. 4: Family Tree, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Glass Menagerie

Author	Tennessee Williams
ISBN	0811214044

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere...

Cold Comfort Farm

Author	Stella Gibbons
ISBN	0143039598

Update I've just watched the film. It's even better than the book, by a long way. It's very affectionate, and very much played for gentle laughs. The cast is fantastic, some of the best actresses around including Eileen Atkins and Joanna Ab Fab Lumley, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan. The attention to detail...

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

Author

Henrik Ibsen

In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of...

The Caretaker & The Dumb Waiter

Author

Harold 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...

Six Plays of Strindberg: The Father / Miss Julie / The Stronger / Easter / A Dream Play / The Ghost Sonata

Author	August Strindberg
ISBN	0385092725

August Strindberg one of the founders of the modern theater, a playwight whom Bernard Shaw considered "the only genuinely Shakespearian modern dramatist" and of whom Sean O'Casey exclaimed, "Strindberg, Strindberg, Strindberg, the greatest of them all."

This collection offers the most...

The Miser and Other Plays

Author	Molière
ISBN	0140440364

This volume of Moliere's dramatic commentaries on society presents The Miser, a misguided hero who obsessively disrupts the lives of those around him. The School for Wives is newly translated for this edition and was fiercely denounced as impious and vulgar. Moliere's response to his detractors...

Harrow County, Vol. 4: Family Tree

Author	Cullen Bunn
ISBN	1506701418

A little of the spooky stuff near Halloween never hurt anyone, right?



Family Tree is exactly what it sounds like, and we all get to find out a bit more of Emmy's past and where her bloodline comes from.
And it turns out, she has a family that's just as fucked up as everyone else's.



There's...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Author	Hilda D. Spear
ISBN	0333372867

I can't believe I'm rating this 4 stars! The entire time I read it, I kept thinking, I can't stand this book, it's so bizarre, what's wrong with all these psycho characters, it's so dark etc.... But I couldn't put the book down! How often does that happen with classics? Not that often when I'm reading them!...