THE STORY: On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician.

This is the first scholarly edition of Othello to give full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes.

A celebrated translation of this masterpiece of Chinese literature, in an updated edition

An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle aunts have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.

As well as an authoritative text, this edition boasts an introduction that explores multiple facets of the play.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play tells of a group of men and women in the 1980s who are affected by the AIDS epidemic.

THE STORY: Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the fat of the land, have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place.

A serious play about two women who run a school for girls.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering conjuror who accepts Mephistopheles's offer of a pact, selling his soul for the devil's greaterknowledge; over a period of 60 years he produced one of the greatest ...

A unique feature of this book is the introduction to tragic language and style. The text, revised for this edition, is accompanied by an abbreviated critical apparatus.