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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...

New to Modern Classics The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the...

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...

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also...

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,...

These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer...

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,...

With new introduction by Margery Morgan Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and...

The book titled Shakespeare Dictionary by the author Dr. Sandra Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This play, a specified text for Revised Higher English, is the story of three women in war-torn Belfast. Although their men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities,...

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...

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied...

The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers....

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,...

Romantic Meg. Shy Beth. Wilful Amy. And, of course, passionate and fiery Jo. Little Women tells the story of the March sisters growing up in genteel poverty against the backdrop...

Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There's one...

'One way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education ... Another would be to say that it was about the meaning...

"Ziegler's thoughtful, empathetic play brings home with bitter comedy the unlovely male-domination of this world in the 1950s ... glorious." Independent London 1953. Scientists are on the verge of discovering...

After all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for...

This revised Student Edition of Ibsen's popular play contains introductory commentary and notes by Sophie Duncan, which offer a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics and consider seminal productions...

This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play's treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental institutions...

Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become...

The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to...

A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during the Troubles in Northern Ireland against the drab backdrop of a bare, rustic Irish cottage and unending boredom in...

New York, summer 1954 Criminal Courts Building A man is dead The life of another is at stake A "guilty" verdict seems a foregone conclusion. But one member of the...

Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella...

Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are brought together for mutual salvation and for the healing...

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living...