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PileofbooksLa Viuda/The Widow in Cuatro obras de teatro cubano,
(Havana: Casa de las Americas, 1961). In the UK there is a single copy available at Canning House Library, London, www.canninghouse.com

Mud, The Danube The Conduct of Life, Sarita in Plays, Preface by Susan Sontag
(New York: PAJ Publications, 1986).

Promenade, The Successful Life of 3, Tango Palace, Molly's Dream, A Vietnamese Wedding, Dr. Kheal in Promenade and Other Plays
(New York: PAJ Publications, 1987).

Fefu and Her Friends
(New York: PAJ Publications, 1978). The PAJ Publications give full early production details of each play. This site uses these records combined with information from published reviews. In addition, there are many single play publications: these are listed chronologically in Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes, pp.294-297.

Drowning in Orchards
Seven Stories by Anton Chekhov and Seven Plays They Have Inspired (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986). The other plays are: The Man In A Case by Wendy Wasserstein, Vint by David Mamet, A Dopey Fairy Tale by Michael Weller, Eve of The Trial by Samm-Art Williams, The Talking Dog by John Guare and Rivkala's Ring by Spalding Gray.

Abingdon Square
(Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2000)

Letters From Cuba and Other Plays
including Terra Incognita, Manual for a Desperate Crossing
(New York: PAJ Publications, 2007)

What of the Night?: Selected Plays
including Abingdon Square, The Summer In Gossensass, and Enter The Night
(New York: PAJ Publications, 2008)


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BOOKS CONCERNING FORNES

Maria M. Delgado and Caridad Svich, eds, Conducting A Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Lyne, New Hampshire: Smith and Kraus, 1999).

Robert Giard, Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1997).

Assunta Bartolomucci Kent, Maria Irene Fornes and Her Critics (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press), 1996).

Diane Lynn Moroff, Fornes: Theatre in the Present Tense (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).

Marc Robinson, ed., The Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1999).