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The Contrast
by Royall TylerThe first play professionally performed in the United States The Contrast by Royall Tyler A Comedy WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS J. McKEE
Brighton Beach Memoirs
by Neil SimonFourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
by Vikram ChandraIn Vikram Chandra's astonishing first novel, the gods Hanuman, Ganesha and Yama descend on a house in an Indian city to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live.The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, a tale of nineteenth century India: of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of hoofbeats thundering through the streets of Calcutta and the birth of a luminous child; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone 'mad with poetry'. And woven into this tapestry of stories is a second, totally modern narrative, the adventures of a young Indian criss-crossing America in a car with his friends and his eventual return to his homeland.
La Gloire: The Roman Empire of Corneille and Racine
by Louis AuchinclossA short but provocative book on the way these two playwrights deal with Rome.
Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill
by Stanley WeintraubShaw's opinions of, or actual relationships with notable Victorians including the Queen. Includes extensive quotes from a man whose life spanned later Victorian Britain and the first fifty years of the twentieth century.
Northrop Frye On Shakespeare
by Northrop FryeCriticism and interpretation of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Henry IV, Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.
Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy
by Northrop FryeIn Dr. Frye's view, 3 general types can be distinguished in Shakespearean tragedy: the tragedy of order, the tragedy of passion, and the tragedy of isolation, in all of which a pattern of "being in time" shapes the action.
Julius Caesar Literary Classics
by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar, the first of Shakespeare's Roman plays, dramatizes the life of Rome's great general-turned dictator, and chronicles the power struggle that occurred after his assassination. This classic tragedy demonstrates the suffering that is the inevitable result of human pride, deceit, and lust for power. Part of A Beka Book literature series for 10th grade