Resident among the preponderance of traditional "literary" fiction, there lies yet another kind, constructed of entrances and exits: plays and their adjacent kin. This week in the field, a small but Vagabound-ish collection of classic and contemporary plays-in-translation in addition to anthologies and standards of world theatre.
Books in this dispatch — 6 titles
The Painter of Dishonour
Calderón
The Servant of Two Masters: And Other Italian Classics (Applause Books)
Eric Bentley
All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays
David Ives
Three Tragedies
Federico Garcia Lorca, James Graham-Luján, Richard L. O'Connell, Francisco García Lorca
The Cocktail Party
T. S. Eliot
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Samuel Beckett
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