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Buy at Amazon Kaufman, George S., and Moss Hart. You Can't Take It With You. Dramatists Play Service, 1998. ISBN: 9780822212874.

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Buy at Amazon Giraudoux, Jean. The Madwoman of Chaillot. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1998. ISBN: 9780822207146.

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Buy at Amazon Cocteau, Jean. The Infernal Machine and Other Plays. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1950. ISBN: 9780811200226.

Buy at Amazon Sartre, Jean-Paul. No Exit and Three Other Plays. Vintage, 1989. ISBN: 9780679725169.

Buy at Amazon Camus, Albert. Caligula. Schoenhofs Foreign Books, 1993. ISBN: 9782070386703.

Buy at Amazon Genet, Jean. The Maids. Faber and Faber, 2011. ISBN: 9780571251148.

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Buy at Amazon Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Penguin Books, 1982. ISBN: 9780140481754.

Buy at Amazon ———. The Entertainer. Faber Paperbacks, 1974. ISBN: 9780571063673.

Buy at Amazon Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802132758. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon ———. Arcadia. Faber & Faber, 1994. ISBN: 9780571169344.

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Buy at Amazon ———. Waiting for Godot. Grove Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780802144423.

Buy at Amazon Ionesco, Eugene. The Bald Soprano and Other Plays. Grove Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780802130792.

Buy at Amazon ———. Rhinoceros and Other Plays. Grove Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780802130983.

Buy at Amazon Albee, Edward. The Zoo Story. Samuel French, Inc., 1959. ISBN: 9780573042225.

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Buy at Amazon Kennedy, Adrienne. Funnyhouse of a Negro. Samuel French, Inc., 2011. ISBN: 9780573621666.

Buy at Amazon Wilson, August. Fences. Plume, 1986. ISBN: 9780452264014.

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