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- New Plays from Italy Vol 1: The Origin of the World
- New Plays from Italy Vol 2: Three Plays
- Four Arab Hamlet Plays
- Ten Years PRELUDE
- Decadent Histories: Four Plays by Amelia Hertz
- The Trilogy of Future Memory
- Four Millennial Plays From Belgium
- Four Plays from Syria
- Theatre from Medieval Cairo
- New Plays from Spain
- Shakespeare Made French
- Jan Fabre: The Servant of Beauty
- Timbre 4
- Quick Change
- Playwrights Before the Fall
- Czech Plays
- Jan Fabre: I Am A Mistake
- Two Plays: Fleeting Stages
- Barcelona Plays
- BAiT
- roMANIA after 2000
- Four Plays from North Africa
- The Arab Oedipus: Four Plays
- Seven Plays by Witkiewicz
- The Heirs of Molière
- Pixerecourt:: Four Melodramas
- Comedy: A Bibliography
- Zeami and the Nô Theatre in the World
- Four Works for the Theatre by Hugo Claus
- Theatre Research Resources in New York City
- Contemporary Theatre in Egypt
List of Journals
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Four Plays from Syria: Sa‘dallah Wannous
Edited by Marvin Carlson and Safi Mahfouz
Translations by Marvin Carlson, Safi Mahfouz, Robert Myers, and Nada Saab
Sa‘dallah Wannous, generally considered the leading Syrian dramatist of the twentieth century, was selected in 1996 by UNESCO and the International Institute of Theatre as the first Arab playwright to deliver the keynote speech on International Theatre Day. This collection contains four full-length works, available in English for the first time: Rituals of Signs and Transformations, The Evening Party for the Fifth of June, The Adventure of the Mamluk Jaber’s Head, and The Drunken Days. Together they represent almost thirty years of Wannous’s remarkable career, and indicate the range of his political, social, personal, and metatheatrical contributions to modern drama.