Court Theatre

Interested in learning more about the plays in our reimagined 2020-2021 Season? Consider reading the scripts before, during, or after our fall series of events! Seminary Co-op is excited to partner with Court Theatre to offer a simple way for you to purchase the scripts and have them shipped right to your front door. This optional way to further engage with our season helps support a local bookstore and gives you some new reading material while you quarantine!

To learn more about Court Theatre’s season, visit here!

Related Titles

The Bacchae

By: Euripides

Paperback | $9.95 | 9781566630672

Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance Series.

Les Blancs

By: Hansberry, Lorraine

Paperback | $10.95 | 9780573611513

New Revised Version 5 black m, 3 white m, 2 white f, 1 black f, 6 extras including 1 child Unit set Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that...

The Bacchae of Euripides:A Communion Rite

By: Soyinka, Wole

Paperback | $16.95 | 9780393325836

Wole Soyinka has translated in both language and spirit a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus and solo verse as well as a commanding dramatic use of the central social and religious myth. In his hands The Bacchae becomes a...

Churchill: Plays Two

By: Churchill, Caryl

Paperback | $26.95 | 9780413622709

Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and has a combination of directness and...

Leopoldstadt

By: Stoppard, Tom

| $16.00 | 9780802157713

**Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play**Finally making its Broadway debut in a limited engagement run, Tom Stoppard's humane and heartbreaking Olivier Award-winning play of love, family, and enduranceAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish...

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics (2004)

By: Shannon, S

Paperback | $54.99 | 9780230113015

This book offers new essays and interviews addressing Wilson's work, ranging from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also includes an updated introduction assessing Wilson's legacy...

Two Trains Running

By: Wilson, August

Paperback | $13.00 | 9780452269293

August Wilson surged to the forefront of American playwrights with the success of such critically acclaimed plays as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, as well as his Pulitzer Prize winners Fences and The Piano Lesson. Now, with Two Trains Running, which Time magazine hailed...

What Was African American Literature?

By: Warren, Kenneth W

Paperback | $31.00 | 9780674066298

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature--and to change the terms with which we discuss it.

Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for...

So Black and Blue:Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism

By: Warren, Kenneth W

Paperback | $26.00 | 9780226873800

Black and White Strangers:Race and American Literary Realism

By: Warren, Kenneth W

Paperback | $28.00 | 9780226873855

In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues that late-nineteenth-century literary realism was shaped by and in turn helped to shape post-Civil War racial politics. Taking up a variety of novelists, including Henry James and William Dean Howells, he...

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Related Titles

The Bacchae

Les Blancs

The Bacchae of Euripides:A Communion Rite

Churchill: Plays Two

Leopoldstadt

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics (2004)

Two Trains Running

What Was African American Literature?

So Black and Blue:Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism

Black and White Strangers:Race and American Literary Realism

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