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Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also...

Interviews with one of the world's most stimulating creative talents Audiences internationally have been thrilled and moved by such remarkable and personal works as Robert Lepage's The Dragon's Trilogy, Needles...

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for...

Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" is one of the great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until...

Oscar Wilde's classic drama, "An Ideal Husband," is the story of an up-and-coming politician with a secret past and the blackmail scheme to keep that secret quiet. Wilde's play is...

Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight of an ironing board on a London stage. John Osborne's play...

Peter Gill specialises in lyric yet painful studies of desperate entanglement and all of the plays in this volume display his writing at its piercingly heartfelt best.

This powerful play is a dramatized autobiography of the great American playwright, Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long Day's Journey...

Marked by Winton's signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption. Winton's first play, Rising Water, sees middle-aged fringe-dwellers Col,...

The book titled Educating Rita by the author Willy Russell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507. Christopher, fifteen years old,...

Incident at Vichy explores the horrors of anti-semitism and persecution, a theme which Miller was to return to throughout his life and writing In Vichy France, 1942, a group of...

A major new translation of Goethe's Faust, Part Two - one of the greatest dramatic-poetic works in all of German literature - by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine In...

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach...

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation,...

This selection of 18 masques offers a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early 17th century.

Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970s Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work and numerous best-sellers followed. Now she has writer's block. Molly, an...

The book titled Ben Jonson: Selected Works by the author Ben Jonson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This comprehensive volume contains nine of the most important, most indispensable plays of the modern theatre. What Harold Clurman has done in this seminal collection is to create for us...

"Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language."-- Newsweek Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright's career, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is a...

A play which tells a story of love and adventure at the time of the decline of Imperial Rome, as Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, makes a stand for independence against...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century....

Five of Euripides' boldest and most moving tragedies,all focussing on strong female characters Written during a period overshadowed by the fierce struggle for supremacy between Sparta and Euripides' native Athens,...

The original 'state-of-England' play. When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather...

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret...

A collection of works by some of Ireland's greatest writers includes Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, J. M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World, and George Bernard Shaw's...

This is a powerful, fast-moving dramatisation of George Orwell's classic satire, Animal Farm . The script is fresh, funny and immensely enjoyable without in any way jeopardising the savagery of...

The book titled Guts and Pity: Hanging That Ended Capital Punishment in Australia by the author Barry Dickins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comic impact of the original Latin, this volume presents all six comedies: The Girl from Andros (Andria),...

Betty Roland - An Improbable Life

A reworking of Moliere's comic play. Alceste abhors hypocrisy and the well-rehearsed, sycophantic pleasantries of the chattering classes. He tells the truth, even it hurts. Alceste is in love with...

One of the iconic American playwright's late great plays, to be published during his centenary Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the...

In addition to the text of "The Two Noble Kinsmen", a play that the editor contends was written by Shakespeare in collaboration with his younger colleague Fletcher, this book includes...

A new edition of three Tennessee Williams plays that explore human suffering and kindness in all its strange guises Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these...

Miller's provocative play about a guilt-ridden man, fighting his inner demons Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense...

A collection of passionate and rousing plays, re-issuing in a new look. In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. The Rose...

Three of Racine's powerful and groundbreaking tragedies. Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological...

Three powerful plays on revenge, fate and justice, Agamemnon, The Choephori and The Eumenides Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy,...

Four radical plays which challenge the beliefs of the audience With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of...

This unique collection of monologues for women contains fifty pieces by women playwrights from all over the country.

One of the iconic American playwright's best late plays, to be published during his centenary A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in...

Jonson's rich and savage comedies The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone...

A new edition of Tennessee Williams drama, collecting three of his most elegiac plays These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for Miller's chilling debut novel A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this timeless drama Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets,...

Penguin Classics relaunch. One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli,...