This play, written by a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, is set in an old and slightly seedy house in North London. There lives a family of men: Max, the aging but still aggressive patriarch; his younger, ineffectual brother Sam; and two of Max's three sons, neither of whom is married--Lenny a small-time pimp, and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son, Teddy, who, having spent the past six years...

The complete texts of four of Shakespeare's classic dramas are accompanied by a critical introduction and textual notes.

"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."—Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the "five hundred acres inclusive of lake" where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the Gothic

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A collection of comedies by Richard Brinsley Sheridan that discuss hypocrisy, satire, and the ideals of the eighteenth century.

"Where There is Nothing" was written by William Butler Yeats in collaboration with Lady Augusta Gregory and Douglas Hyde in 1902.