Private View by Vaclav Havel
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- Fear of the Other
- Old Causes Finishing Business
- The Cost of Prohibition
- A New World
- African-Americans
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An Inspector Calls
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Men Should Weep
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The Woman in Black
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Twelve Angry Men
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The Dumb Waiter
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Blue Remembered Hills
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The Real Inspector Hound
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Arcadia
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When We are Married
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The Zoo Story
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The Art of Coarse Acting, or, How to Wreck an Amateur Dramatic Society
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Daisy Pulls it Off
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Teechers
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Abigail's Party
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Blithe Spirit
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Educating Rita
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Road
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Hay Fever
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And Then There Were None
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Confusions
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The Physicists
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Witness for the Prosecution
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Black Comedy
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Billy Liar
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Playhouse Creatures
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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Steel Magnolias
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Separate Tables
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Present Laughter
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Private Lives
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Waiting for Godot
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The Ghost Train
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Death Trap
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The Mousetrap
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Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
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Shadowlands
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Lettice and Lovage
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The Constant Wife
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A Murder is Announced
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A Man for All Seasons
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Pack of Lies
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Sparkleshark
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The Deep Blue Sea
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The Cagebirds
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The Roses of Eyam
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Outside Edge
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Juno and the Paycock
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Dancing at Lughnasa
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Habeas Corpus
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Letters to Olga
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Vaclav Havel
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To The Castle And Back
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Open Letters: Selected Prose
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The Garden Party
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The Power of the Powerless
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Three Vanek Plays
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Disturbing the Peace
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Open Letters
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Largo Desolato
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Leaving
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Summer Meditations
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Audience
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The Increased Difficulty of Concentration
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Selected Plays: 1984-1987
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Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe
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Literature and Tolerance
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The Memorandum
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Sotheby's Guide to Antiques And Their Prices Worldwide
Vaclav Havel was elected President of Czechoslovakia in 1989 and President of the Czech Republic in 1992. He is the author of many plays, essays, collections of letters, and memoirs, including Open Letters and Summer Meditations. Paul Wilson translated or cotranslated those books as well as Havel's Letters to Olga, Disturbing the Peace, and The Art of the Impossible. Peter Steiner is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context and Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics, both from Cornell.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780573122125 |
| ISBN 10 | 0573122121 |
| Title | Private View |
| Author | Vaclav Havel |
| Series | Acting Edition S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Samuel French Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |