Books like A hat full of rain, in 3 acts by Michael V. Gazzo

The Crucible is a 1953 play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692–93. Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government persecuted people accused of being communists. ---------- Also contained in: - [Arthur Miller's Collected Plays](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66341W) - [Collected Plays 1944-1961](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15111386W) - [Crucible and Related Readings][1] - [Penguin Arthur Miller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL22318521W) - [Portable Arthur Miller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66337W/The_Portable_Arthur_Miller) - [Prentice Hall: Literature: The American Experience](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24558139W) - [Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16060982W) - [Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17727371W) [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18512368W/The_Crucible_and_Related_Readings

The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams's first great popular success. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and enjoyed a long Broadway run with the incomparable Laurette Taylor in the starring role. Since then it has become one of the most-performed plays in the repertory of American community theaters. Also contained in: - [Backpack Literature: Fifth Edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26371856W) - [Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing: 6th edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27051398W) - [Contemporary Drama: Eleven Plays](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7507900W) - [Experience of literature](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15842685W) - [Experience of literature: second edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6913239W) - [Exploring Literature: Fourth Edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26428556W) - [Literature: Structure, sound, and sense: Fourth Edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27052590W) - [Plays 1937 - 1955](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15077942W/Plays_1937_-_1955) - [Representative Modern Plays, American](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15858030W/Representative_Modern_Plays_American) - [Six Great Modern Plays](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15163994W) - [Trio: Fourth Edition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27053317W) - [The United States in Literature][1] - [The United States in Literature][2] - [The United States in Literature](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15164554W/The_United_States_in_Literature) - [United States in Literature][3] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15395648W/The_United_States_in_Literature [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15395980W/The_United_States_in_Literature_The_Glass_Menagerie [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15155144W/United_States_in_Literature_The_Glass_Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destroyed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blance's tragedy. Produced across the world and translated into many languages, A Streetcar Named Desire has won one of the widest audiences in contemporary literature. Also contained in: - [New Voices in the American Theatre](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15163013W/New_Voices_in_the_American_Theatre) - [Plays 1937 - 1955](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15077942W/Plays_1937_-_1955)

George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed. Considered by many to be Albee's masterpiece.

Author Eugene O'Neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife. Fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor, and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and misfit, the family is reflected by their youngest son, who at 23 is a sensitive and aspiring writer.

From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment by American and British audiences, *Waiting for Godot* has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. Now in honor of the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth, Grove Press is publishing a bilingual edition of the play. Originally written in French, Beckett translated the work himself, and in doing so chose to revise and eliminate various passages. With side-by-side text the reader can experience the mastery of Beckett's language and explore the nuances of his creativity. Upon being asked who Godot is, Samuel Beckett told Alan Schneider, "If I knew, I would have said so in the play." Although we may never know who we are waiting for, in this special edition we can rediscover one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.