What's Hot| Upload Video| Email this Page| Your Account

Drama Books at Barnes and Noble

Shop in drama book, compare prices and buy your book at the best price from a reliable bookstore.

RecentlyViewed

WishList

Search within results

ShopperTips

How to Shop Smarter for Drama Books

  • Sort by Rating
  • Try Something New
  • Read the Synopsis
  • Compare Prices to Find Deals
  • Get Lost in Your New Book

BrowseProducts

1 - 20 of 37 Results
close This product has been added to your Wish List.

( your Wish List is on the left )

close Your WishList is full! Delete an item to add this product.
close This product is already in your Wish List.
A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that... more

  • from $0.25
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    A Raisin in the Sun

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-30-2009
    • A story of reversion and redemption
    • This story was one of the most fascinating plays I have ever read. In particular, whenever I watch old re-runs of "Good Times" I always think of Walter, and and the Younger Family, living happily,...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jun-08-2009
    • Language is distracting, so maybe I missed the point.
    • "A Raisin in the Sun" tells how the Younger family lives in a cramped apartment. They are waiting for a check that could make all the difference in the world. We are introduced to Mama, who runs...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Nov-29-2007
    • Realism at work
    • I found that this play was somewhat easy to read but definitely fits into the realism genre which I'm not really into so much. The story in mainly one about race relations but also has a large...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
The Crucible (Penguin Plays)

The Crucible (Penguin Plays)

A drama based on the witch trials in Salem Village. more

  • from $9.10
  • Free Shipping
  • 4 Stores
  • at 4 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    The Crucible (Penguin Plays)

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jun-10-2009
    • Arthur Miller's Classic Drama
    • Arthur Miller's classic play offers an unparalleled view into basic human nature. The story, set during the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s, centers around the relationship between protagonist,...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Oct-24-2008
    • Ordered this with enough time and never got it
    • I ordered this book for my sons class, and after no response to my order from the seller, I took it upon myself to ask what was the hold up, but it was too late, my son got a very low grade because...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jan-11-2008
    • Clear and Effective but Dull
    • Arthur Miller's Crucible is an eloquent rebuttal of the Red Scare and the McCarthyism of the time period in which this work was written. But it does not bear the mark of brilliance. Straightforward...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)

The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)

Antigone defending her integrity and ideals to the death, Oedipus questing for his identity and achieving immortality... more

  • from $2.71
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Mar-23-2009
    • The Best of Both Worlds
    • To anyone who cares for classic theatre, the Theban plays by Sophocles are among the best to be found. And to anyone who reads the classics of Greece or Rome -- regardless of genre -- the...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-11-2003
A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play?reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death... more

  • from $1.39
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Aug-04-2009
    • A Streetcar and a Broken Tower
    • In the published edition of his masterwork, "A Streetcar Named Desire", Tennessee Williams uses as an epigraph the following stanza from "The Broken Tower", probably the final poem written by the...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-09-2008
    • no good choice
    • The choice of copies of _The Streetcar Named Desire_
      (required reading for high school academic English
      this summer) seemed to narrow down to ones with
      lurid covers or this plain...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Feb-07-2007
    • Classic play, be careful when ordering.
    • Although I don't love this play everybody seems to know it so it's probablly a good idea to have read it at one point or another. HOWEVER, there are many many different versions of this play, and...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Hamlet (Signet Classics)

Hamlet (Signet Classics)

Newly revised, this edition of "Hamlet" features an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life and world; an editor's... more

  • from $1.91
  • Free Shipping
  • 5 Stores
  • at 5 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    Hamlet (Signet Classics)

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-25-2009
    • Over My Head
    • Still on my Shakespeare kick, I decided to carefully read Hamlet including the footnotes and introductory material in my Arden Shaekspeare version of Hamlet.

      The play; there is much...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Mar-01-2009
    • Hamlet paperback
    • I am in an English Honors class and we studied Hamlet in class. This book was helpful in understanding the language of Shakespeare, but I think the book could have made better footnotes on certain...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Apr-18-2002
    • For dummies only
    • This 2-star rating is based not on the content of the original, which is quite good, but on the absurd "modernisation". Really, kids, why not just watch 'Friends'?
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale... more

  • from $3.49
  • Free Shipping
  • 8 Stores
  • at 8 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 9 coupons available

    • Code:BUY380
    • Detail:

      3% off of $80 or more at eCampus.com

    • Expires:Dec-31-2011
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:BUY250
    • Detail:

      $2 off $50 or more at eCampus.com

    • Expires:Dec-31-2011
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:freeshipping
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping with $35 at BookCloseouts

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:pass: bookcloseouts.com
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on Orders Over $59

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:HIGHTEN
    • Detail:

      $100.00 off $200.00

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:TSHIRT99
    • Detail:

      Use code TSHIRT99 during checkout to get Free Tshirt with purchase of $99 or more at eCampus

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Aug-13-2009
    • DO NOT BUY THE KINDLE EDITION!!!
    • I bought the Kindle edition of the play and received commentary rather than the actual play. I don't know if Amazon is aware of this mistake, but until they are, DO NOT BUY THIS.
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jun-12-2009
    • An old favorite
    • I've been a huge fan of this play for years (and the movie) and got it to see about staging it at the high school where I teach. I think it is a bit too much for the kids - very wordy and requires...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Feb-28-2003
    • I'm not as charmed as others.
    • Disclaimer: I read this for English class.

      I did not think this book was good. The movie is somewhat better. However, the essential problem is that, given the lack of plot or drama, everything...

    • read full review | report as inappropriate
The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee... more

  • from $2.03
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay $.99 Standard Shipping on any item $10 or more at Textbooksrus.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:See site for details.
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    The Glass Menagerie

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Sep-29-2009
    • How Fragile We Are
    • "If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door." ~Paul Beatty

      The Glass Menagerie is a classic play of physical and emotional entrapment. The three members of the...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Apr-11-2009
    • A tragic play of biblical proportions
    • Along with A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie is a famous play written by Tennessee Williams. Although the play is well-written, I still question the point of it. As I mentioned that the...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Apr-19-2005
    • great message... not
    • This play is one of the many "classics" that english teachers and literary critics seem to love; all of these classics have the defining characteristic that they bring out the worst in human nature...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1)

The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies,...

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."?Robert Brustein, The... more

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

English versions of Sophocles? three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience... more

  • from $3.99
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Sep-07-2009
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Mar-14-2009
    • A true classic
    • Rereading - and teaching - "Oedipus Rex" as an adult was an interesting experience. While I am always a bit wary of translations, the text itself (as translated by Robert Fitzgerald) is rich with...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Mar-01-2000
    • This play is preposterous!
    • I have never found a piece of work to be at once so lauded, and at the same time so vulgar and suggestive as The Oedipus Rex. How is it that you people do not see it for the crude, obscene work...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Antigone

Antigone

Paul Woodruff's translation of one of Sophocles' most famous tragedies captures the dramatic and poetic intensity of... more

  • from $5.55
  • 4 Stores
  • at 4 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 3 coupons available

    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    Antigone

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jan-12-2009
    • Mixed Up
    • The condition of the book is good, the pages are like new, but the pages are out of order. The book is split up into chunks that are out of order, first there's part of the Introduction on pages...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Oct-06-2008
    • Student's English book delevered on time, darn it!
    • Very prompt delivery to Hawaii.The book was in excellent condition. I think my son would have prefered to have it lost in the mail. Lucky for me.. .too bad for him!
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Oct-29-2005
    • Watch out for the translation!!!
    • You probably already know the story of Antigone, I'm not going to go into reviewing the play. If you're looking for that, look elsewhere.

      You might, for an instant, think "Why would I...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII. more

  • from $1.39
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    A Man for All Seasons

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:May-09-2009
    • One of the greatest literary works of our time
    • This is one of my all-time favorite books. I was required to read this book in high school, over the summer, and was pleasantly suprised. However, upon re-reading the book I discovered its...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Sep-05-2008
    • Silence as one effective mode of communication
    • Even for a woman infertility is a difficult topic to discuss let alone for a stranger about another man's wife. Sir Thomas More's profundity of agony surfaced when he spoke of birth and death in...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Dec-21-2002
    • Practically a waste of time.
    • "Spark Notes A Man For All Seasons" was not condensed, but was merely the play reworded. Granted that it did help decipher hidden meanings behind some of the dialogue, or certain innuendo's which...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving... more

  • from $3.35
  • Free Shipping
  • 9 Stores
  • at 9 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 9 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:TSHIRT99
    • Detail:

      Use code TSHIRT99 during checkout to get Free Tshirt with purchase of $99 or more at eCampus

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay $.99 Standard Shipping on any item $10 or more at Textbooksrus.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:See site for details.
    • Code:10off150
    • Detail:

      $10 off plus free shipping on $150 or more

    • Expires:Dec-31-2011
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:HIGHTEN
    • Detail:

      $100.00 off $200.00

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:BUY380
    • Detail:

      3% off of $80 or more at eCampus.com

    • Expires:Dec-31-2011
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on Orders Over $59

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:freeshipping
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping with $35 at BookCloseouts

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:pass: bookcloseouts.com
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Sep-05-2009
    • Special note for Kindle readers
    • On the Kindle, there are instances in which the type becomes microscopically small and can't be made any larger. It's a technical SNAFU. Don't buy this book for the Kindle unless you can read...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Aug-27-2009
    • "tate-ready!"
    • If it can be hung, I'm afraid 'waiting for godot' is primed for the tate gallery! I can imagine it created quite a stir back in the early fifties, but then so did Hirst with his sliced-up pigs and...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Sep-09-2008
    • Waiting for the book to end...
    • If the author was trying to effect in the reader the pain of interminable, open-ended waiting in line with no insight as to when the line might move, with no other diversions, he succeeded. I...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Fences

Fences

A Pulitzer Prize winner. Garbage collector Troy Maxson clashes with his son over an athletic scholarship. more

  • from $2.71
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    Fences

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-29-2009
    • Fencing Out Mr. Death
    • "Fences" (1987) is part of August Wilson's ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle, set in the 1950's. I have never seen one of his plays performed so I am at a distinct disadvantage in being able to judge this...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Apr-13-2007
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Dec-02-1999
    • Fences A book of Conflicts
    • The play Fences by August Wilson was a interesting read. It had a captivating story line and the conflicts that the characters dealt with were real. One of the good qualities of a play is that it...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published... more

  • from $3.32
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 5 coupons available

    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay $.99 Standard Shipping on any item $10 or more at Textbooksrus.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:See site for details.
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    Long Day's Journey into Night

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Sep-11-2009
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Feb-13-2009
    • Boring unless you' r an actor.
    • Boring as hell!
      Heard about this great work by O'Neill for years and finally got to read it. Maybe this makes a decent play. Maybe if you sit and watch you can
      enjoy the performances...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Aug-23-2005
    • A bit over the top or am I missing something?
    • An alcoholic actor-manque father, an opiated mother, a dying son with TB whose father sends him to quack doctors--this is supposed to be great drama--but to me it seems more like melodrama or soap...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson

Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's... more

  • from $3.35
  • Free Shipping
  • 7 Stores
  • at 7 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    The Piano Lesson

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-24-2009
    • Vibrant Characters in His Pittsburgh Cycle
    • "The Piano Lesson" (1990) by the late August Wilson is part of his ten-play series, the Pittsburg Cycle or the Century Cycle. It focuses on a frequent literary device--a family feud over money,...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jan-16-2004
    • A lot of words for a ghost story
    • In August Wilson's play, "The Piano Lesson", there are some good points and there are some bad points, but mostly boring points. The story just did not seem to be able to keep my attention.
      ...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Sep-29-2001
    • Heirloom and heritage
    • August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson" won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for drama, and is one of several works that have established Wilson as a major figure in the American theater. While there is...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)

The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin...

In the "Oresteia" - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the... more

  • from $2.71
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Apr-05-2009
    • Probably the best translation of the Oresteia
    • I appreciated the opportunity to read Robert Fagles' translation of The Oresteia. To be sure, it is a difficult text and translation to read, but probably the best. By difficult, I mean dense and...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jun-15-2006
    • How do you say a classic is way overated?
    • Sure the poetry is great,
      but these three plays make a small episode in modern terms...
      A very slow one at that.
      The three plays:
      1) Agamemnon: The killing of the returned King...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Oct-12-1998
    • Only read this if you want to re-read a few times..
    • This book was boring, and poorly setup....It consists of too much stupid diction, and the tone fails it in many places.

      If you have to read this for a class, or are considering a form of...

    • read full review | report as inappropriate
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics)

Newly revised, this comic play by Shakespeare features a new Introduction by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the... more

  • from $1.91
  • Free Shipping
  • 5 Stores
  • at 5 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jun-26-2007
    • "The course of true love never did run smooth."
    • I recently re-read A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM prior to attending The Colorado Shakespeare Festival's performance of this play under the summer stars here in Boulder. Shakespeare (1552-1616) produced...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
No Exit and Three Other Plays

No Exit and Three Other Plays

4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young... more

  • from $6.20
  • Free Shipping
  • 5 Stores
  • at 5 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    No Exit and Three Other Plays

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-08-2009
    • Philosphy and Theatre: Two Masterpieces and Two Lesser Titles
    • Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is extremely difficult to approach, for his reputation rests heavily upon the work BEING AND NOTHINGNESS: AN ESSAY ON PHENOMENOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY--an extremely complex...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-09-2006
    • good but not great
    • These four plays were good plays- they are easier to understand if one is familiar with Sartre's philosophy. The plots in all these plays were both unique and exciting yet at times, especially in...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Oct-12-2000
    • Terribly written
    • First of all, let me say that I do find Sartre as a philosopher and essayist interesting/stimulating. Secondly, I don't speak French so I fully acknowledge that everything I didn't like about NO...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Hamlet (Dover Thrift Editions)

Hamlet (Dover Thrift Editions)

The quintessential Shakespearean tragedy, whose highly charged confrontations and anguished soliloquies probe depths... more

  • from $0.25
  • Free Shipping
  • 5 Stores
  • at 5 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 9 coupons available

    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay 8% of total order over $100 for Standard shipping at ChristianBooks.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay $7.99 UPS Ground Shipping on your order of $20.01 to $50 at ChristianBooks.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay 12% of total order over $100 for UPS Ground shipping at ChristianBooks.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay $5.99 StandardShipping on your order of $20.01 to $50 at ChristianBooks.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay $5.99 UPS Ground Shipping on your order under $20 at ChristianBooks.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay 15% of your order of $50.01 to $100 for UPS Ground shipping at ChristianBooks.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Pay 10% of your order of $50.01 to $100 for Standard shipping at ChristianBooks.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    Review
    Selected reviews for:

    Hamlet (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Jul-25-2009
    • Over My Head
    • Still on my Shakespeare kick, I decided to carefully read Hamlet including the footnotes and introductory material in my Arden Shaekspeare version of Hamlet.

      The play; there is much...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Mar-01-2009
    • Hamlet paperback
    • I am in an English Honors class and we studied Hamlet in class. This book was helpful in understanding the language of Shakespeare, but I think the book could have made better footnotes on certain...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Apr-18-2002
    • For dummies only
    • This 2-star rating is based not on the content of the original, which is quite good, but on the absurd "modernisation". Really, kids, why not just watch 'Friends'?
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
Spark Notes NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE The Tempest (SparkNotes No Fear Shakespeare)

Spark Notes NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE The Tempest (SparkNotes No Fear...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of?The Tempest?on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an... more

  • from $0.25
  • Free Shipping
  • 6 Stores
  • at 6 Stores
    images/v5/compare_but.gif
  • 4 coupons available

    • Code:J7M3C9V
    • Detail:

      20% off single item when you use Master card at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Dec-31-2009
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Standard shipping on any order at DeepDiscount.

    • Expires:Aug-31-2010
    • Restriction:Unknow
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      FREE Shipping on orders over $25 at Amazon.

    • Expires:Dec-31-2010
    • Restriction:Some restrictions apply. See site for details.
    • Code:No Code Required
    • Detail:

      Free Shipping on orders of $25 at Barnes & Noble

    • Expires:Jun-30-2010
    • Restriction:see site for more details
    Review
    • From:Amazon
    • Posted:Aug-08-2009
    • Sparknotes Rule!!
    • We are collecting as many Sparknotes as possible. When you are required to read Shakespeare, you must have a guide. It's that simple. There is no guide better, in our opinion as teachers, and...
    • read full review | report as inappropriate
1 2 Next
How to Find Affordable Drama Books at Smarter.com: You will enjoy shopping through our selection of Drama Books especially if you find a coupon icon next to a product listing. Click on this for information on special offers and coupon codes. Make sure you check out store reviews to ensure that you are buying from the best toy store. If you would like to review a store or product simply sign up for our Smarter M.E. program. Click on "Your Account" at the top right of any page to sign up.
close
close
close
close

Video

More legal stuff: Smarter.com is a comparison shopping website that compares prices and products at online stores to help consumers save money. Stores are responsible for providing us with accurate price and product information, including the proper codes for coupons, discounts and rebates. Tax and shipping costs are estimates. Please confirm all costs before making your final purchase at the online store. All merchant ratings, product reviews and video reviews are submitted by shoppers or third-party websites. We are not responsible for their content. If you have any concerns about content on our website, please contact us.