Best German Dramas & Plays

Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles―dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and soaring. Martin Greenberg’s revised version conveys the outrage yet also shows again and again why the poem does stand with the major works of the western tradition. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit.

First published in 1920, The Last Days employs a collage of modernist techniques to evoke a despairing and darkly comical vision of the Great War from the perspective of Kraus’s hometown, Vienna. ‘It is wonderful to at last have the Viennese satirist’s entire modernist masterwork … available, complete, and with a scholarly introduction … Healy conveys the communal bewilderment and rage in a dazzling vernacular as a chorus of voices reacts to the outbreak of the Great War and the hell it created … It sizzles and flares.’ – Eileen Battersby’s favourite fiction and nonfiction of 2016, The Irish Times, December 17, 2016.

On May 13th 1939, five strangers boarded the MS St. Louis, a German ship leaving Hamburg on its way to Cuba.

• An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater. • A special introduction to the play by the editor, William and Barbara Rosen. • Selections from Plutarch's Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans , the source from which Shakespeare derived Julius Caesar • Dramatic criticism from Roy Walker, Maynard Mack, Richard David, and others. • A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions. • Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable text. • And more... Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets.

The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painting) as well as the meaning of friendship, to both the man who bought the painting and the two friends who come to see it." “This is not some irrelevant fringe production; it is a major intervention in the cultural debate of the country by people who are keen to keep the reactionary tides running. “ Art , which has been translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, is filled from first curtain to ending with a dazzling array of language.” ― Iris Fanger, Christian Science Monitor. “It's an actor's dream, a nonstop cross-fire of crackling language, serious issues of life and art expressed in outbursts that sound like Don Rickles with a degree from the Sorbonne.

Here in the authorized translation by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O’Connell, with an illuminating biographical introduction by the poet’s brother, Francisco García Lorca, are three tragic dramas by the great modern Spanish poet and playwright which have caught the imagination and won the critical acclaim of the literate world. “Lorca is such a virtuoso of the theatre that he can use and control all its resources to present his poetic vision.”. - Kenyon Review.