Drama

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

Richard II

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

Newly revised with an Overview by Sylvan Barnet, former chairman of the English Department at Tufts University

Start Over, Finish Rich: 10 Steps to Get You Back on Track in 2010

by David Bach

Let 2010 Set You on the Path to Wealth.

Believe it or not, recessions make millionaires!  Will you be one? In Start Over, Finish Rich, America's best-loved financial expert, David Bach, explains that 2010...

Henry VI, Part 3

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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Simpatico

by Sam Shepard

Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico...

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

by Henrik Ibsen & Una Ellis-Fermor

‘Don’t let’s have any more of these reminiscences, I tell you. You don’t know how you’re tormenting me, raking up all this’ In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems...

The Misanthrope and Other Plays

by Jean-Baptiste Moliere & John Wood

"Molière (1622-73) combined all the traditional elements of comedy—wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire—with a deep understanding of character to create richly sophisticated dramas which have always delighted...

Greek Tragedy

by Aeschylus & Euripides

Three masterpieces of classical tragedy

Containing Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, and Euripides' Medea, this important new selection brings the best works of the great tragedians together in...

Japanese No Dramas

by Various & Royall Tyler

The Beggar's Opera

by John Gay & Bryan Loughrey

Whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another' The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,...

The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais & John Wood

A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro—triumphant successes that were used as the basis...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

The Man Who Had All the Luck

by Arthur Miller & Christopher Bigsby

It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such masterpieces as Death of a Salesman...

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

The Night of January 16th

by Ayn Rand

To the world, he was a startlingly successful international tycoon, head of a vast financial empire. To his beautiful secretary-mistress, he was a god-like hero to be served with her mind, soul and body. To...

Henry VIII

by William Shakespeare & Stephen Orgel

With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down

by John Steinbeck & James Earl Jones

Steinbeck’s two plays, dramatic adaptations of his most powerful short novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down, features a foreword by award-winning actor James Earl Jones.  Celebrating its 75th anniversary,...