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A riveting new work about power--and the abuse of power-- in ancient Rome that has startling resonance with our age, Conversations in Tusculum reimagines the intense interaction among Brutus, Cassius, and Cicero leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar, the leader they had once followed into battle but whom they have come to despise. Passionate in their beliefs but torn by their sense of loyalty, they struggle to continue believing in him despite their fear that his actions may pose great dangers to the nation. Conversations in Tusculum had its world premiere at the...

This commentary on Deuteronomy,
now available in a new casebound
edition, meets and exceeds the high
standards of the Old Testament Library
series. It provides one of the most
sophisticated explanations of the
compositional process that produced
Deuteronomy, presenting that process
as a combination of large-scale
redactional activity and "micro-
redaction." The commentary is also
attentive to the historical background
of Deuteronomy's origins in the reigns
of Manasseh and Josiah. The fresh
translation that heads each section is...

"I am normally wary of any new play that could be called Chekhovian' it implies something fragile and wispily atmospheric. But Richard Nelson's extraordinary play about the pioneering playwright-director Harley Granville Barker combines a command of realistic detail with a sense of suffering and loss that genuinely evokes the Russian master.
As in many of his previous plays, such as Some Americans Abroad, Nelson deals with cultural collision. In this instance, Granville Barker finds himself in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1916, surrounded by a group of English refugees....

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST portrays a middle-aged Czech EmigrE couple struggling to adapt to a new country.

"The title of Richard Nelson's unsettling new play is deliberately misleading. East-West politics do, however, provide the backdrop and premise of the play: It concerns the experience of a Czech couple forced for political reasons to emigrate to New York. The problems they face in exile, Nelson suggests, have as much to do with the residual gap between America and Europe as with that between East and West. But the focus is on the conflict between Gregor and Erna, the two exiles,...