Our Late Night and A Thought in Three Parts is copyright © 2008 by Wallace Shawn
 
Our Late Night, A Thought in Three Parts, the Introduction and Afterword are copyright © 2008 by Wallace Shawn
 
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Our Late Night was published previously by the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1999 and by William Targ Editions, New York, in 1984; A Thought in Three Parts was published previously in Wallace Shawn: Four Plays by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, in 1991 and by PAJ Publications in Wordplays 2: New American Drama, Baltimore, in 1982.
 
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eISBN : 978-1-559-36663-2
I. Shawn, Wallace. Thought in three parts. II. Title. III. Title: Thought in three parts.
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