Oedipus at Colonus: "Oedipus at Colonus" was Sophocles' last play, written when he was about 90. It is an elegant and touching portrait of the old, wandering blind king approaching his end with a tranquility earned through a lifetime of suffering for his unwitting sins. But first, he must withstand one last challenge from his uncle and brother-in-law, Creon; and settle a score with his opportunistic son and brother, Polynices

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No Wife No Kids No Plan: Four years ago, Drago gave up a successful career as an investment banker to publish a chain of small community newspapers in and around the city of Boston. It was the first big active change of his adult life, but there was to be a bigger transition on the horizon. Now turning 40 and finding it impossible to live as part of the yuppie lifestyle that his money granted him access to, Drago becomes disillusioned with himself and the world around him, and opts for a radical change. It's at that moment that he makes the conscious decision to move himself and his Ferrari to the 'hood, selling his p...

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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac: The story has just given the critical world of Paris subject for as grand a battle of words as the year has produced. It started with the presentation the other night of the screen version of Moli�re's comedy, "Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," presumably "under the high patronage of Monsieur Albert Lebrun, President of the Republic," and with a great deal of what the French call "empressement."

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Master of the Game: The book traces the life of Kate Blackwell from the mines to the glory of the battles that she won, and the only one she ever lost. Full of intrigue and in his peculiar style of capturing in vivid detail.

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Massacre at Paris: By English dramatist, Christopher Marlowe. First performed in 1593, this Play revolves around the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which occurred in Paris in 1572.

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Love for Love: By English dramatist, William Congreve, who wrote Love for Love as a response to an earlier popular play, Love for Money. Arriving as a writer late in the Restoration period, Congreve used the stage to comment upon an increasingly complex society and class structure that often seemed frivolous.

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Pygmalion: Based on the classical myth, Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.

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Life Is a Dream: Calderon's Life Is a Dream seeks to teach a lesson that may be learned from the philosophers and religious thinkers of many ages that the world of our senses is a mere shadow and that the only reality is to be found in the invisible and eternal.

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Izmir: Fictional drama based in Turkey, presented through a mixture of intrigue, humor, and inter-cultural elements.

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In the Shadow of the Glen: A one-act play by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, revolving around a farmer, his wife, and a young herd

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