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Ghosts and Other Plays

The Cid, Cinna, the Theatrical Illusion

Poetics

An Enemy of the People

Pygmalion

The Sisters Rosensweig

The Theatre of Illusion

Le Cid and the Liar

The Theater of War

Not Since Carrie

In Shakespeare's Shadow

Three Plays

Phedre

Jack Be Nimble

The Dream Factory

Beauty's Daughter, Monster, the Gimmick

24 Favorite One Act Plays

Twilight

Playing Shakespeare

A Practical Handbook for the Actor

Brecht Collected Plays

A Raisin in the Sun

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Four Major Plays, Volume II

Four Major Plays, Volume I

Fences

Night of January 16th

The Piano Lesson

The Playwright's Guidebook

Proof

Detroit '67

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