A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as "a brilliantly original work of art--an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come."

    This English edition includes the plays Caligula, The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu), State of Siege (L'État de siège), and The Just Assassins (Les Justes).

    Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the original cast listings and production notes.

    Each Noh play, while complete in itself, has a part to preform within the sequence as a whole, and in this larger context takes on greater scope and complexity of meaning . In the present volume Makoto Ueda has arranged five of the finest Noh plays (hithero untranslated) in the orthodox order of performance. This arrangement not only exhibits the artistic unity of a Noh cycle but also greatly clarifies the religious implications of the Noh. Primarily a religious drama, the Noh reveals the sinful nature if human life and suggests a scheme of salvation. The five-play sequence shows man's live in five stages: innocence, fall, repentance, redemption, and final glory. The Noh is far more than mere mood drama: it contains, as does every true work of art, mature comments on human experience in a beautiful and sophisticated form.Three of the plays translated are attributed to Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443); one is attributed to Kannami Kiyotsugu (1334-1384); and one is of unknown authorship.Cover design by Jack Brodie.

    1960s Bantam Classics edition, featuring:RosmersholmHedda GablerThe Master BuilderJohn Gabriel BorkmanWhen We Dead Awaken

    Three early teleplays by Horton Foote:"Old Man" (adapted from story by William Faulkner)Playhouse 90November 20, 1958"Tomorrow" (adapted from story by William Faulkner)Playhouse 90May 7, 1960"Roots in a Parched Ground" Du Pont Show of the MonthMarch 21, 1961