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Cyrano de Bergerac
First time in Penguin Classics for Rostand's popular comedy about the love-sick swain with an ear for a fine phrase and an extravagantly large nose. Poet and soldier, brawler and...
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Penguin Classics relaunch Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound...
The School for Scandal and Other Plays
A collection of three of the sharpest Restoration comedies The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee,...
Hamlet: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, discovers his father was murdered, he...
Macbeth: Staged: the origins of YA's greatest tropes
STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'It will have blood, they say- blood will have blood.' On a bleak, stormy night, three witches prophesy- Macbeth...
Saint Joan
Penguin Classics relaunch Exclusive to Penguin Classics- the definitive text of Shaw's powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature-part of...
Man and Superman
A landmark of modern drama Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not...
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Martha- Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want...so don't worry about me! George- Martha, I gave you the prize years ago...There isn't an abomination award...
Twelfth Night
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as...
Electra and Other Plays
A new translation by David Raeburn, with introduction and notes by Pat Easterling Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound...
Medea and Other Plays
Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice' 'Medea', in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by...
The Theban Plays
The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate. KING OEDIPUS tells of a man who brings pestilence to...
Damned by Despair
Obsessed with his own salvation, the hermit Paulo dedicates himself to ten years of prayerful penance. When his faith wavers, the ever-watchful Devil seizes the moment to convince him that...
The Philanthropist
When first written in the late 60s, the play proved so out of synch with the spirit of the times that the Royal Court theatre in London hesitated over it...
Like a Fishbone: An argument and an architectural model
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A remote valley. An unspeakable crime. A prominent architect is commissioned to design a memorial to the victims. On the evening of the presentation of the memorial to the public,...
Manor
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This place is about to blow.A violent storm sweeps the coast. Diana Stuckley and her daughter are struggling to keep the roof on their run-down manor house, when neighbours and...
The Fun Widow's Book Tour: A Novel
From the author of Inheriting Edith comes a brave new novel about the intersection of art and grief after the tragic loss of her own husband in 2017.Mia used to...