Secondhand Drama & Classics Bargain Book Box SP4119

Secondhand Drama & Classics Bargain Book Box SP4119

Twenty-four Penguin plays and classics: Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinter, Miller’s Crucible, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Wilde, Ben Jonson, Thornton Wilder, Richard II, three volumes of Plato, Chaucer’s Troilus, Gawain, Stevie Smith, Robert Frost, Iris Murdoch and Carson McCullers. The drama-and-philosophy shelf of a reader who kept the good Penguins.

1. Troilus and Criseyde — Geoffrey Chaucer — The Trojan War love story Shakespeare rewrote, in Nevill Coghill’s modern English. Penguin Classics.
2. Androcles and the Lion — Bernard Shaw — The Christian slave, the lion with the thorn, and Shaw’s long preface on Christianity, which is longer than the play. Orange Penguin.
3. Poems from the Sanskrit — trans. John Brough — Love poems, epigrams and court verse from ancient India, in a translation that reads like verse. Penguin Classics.
4. Stevie Smith: Selected Poems — ed. James MacGibbon — Not Waving But Drowning and the rest, with her drawings. Penguin Poetry Library.
5. Robert Frost: Selected Poems — ed. Ian Hamilton — Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods. Penguin.
6. Pinter: Plays Two — Harold Pinter — The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, Night School, The Dwarfs. The Caretaker alone is worth it. Methuen.
7. Our Town / The Skin of Our Teeth / The Matchmaker — Thornton Wilder — Three plays: the one every American school stages, the apocalyptic comedy, and the one that became Hello, Dolly! Penguin Plays, 6/-.
8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — trans. Brian Stone — The green giant who picks up his own head and tells Gawain to meet him in a year. Penguin Classics.
9. Henryson: Selected by Hugh MacDiarmid — Robert Henryson — The Scots makar’s Testament of Cresseid and fables, chosen by the nationalist poet. Poet to Poet series.
10. The Crucible — Arthur Miller — Salem, 1692, as McCarthy’s America. Penguin Plays.
11. Chekhov: Plays — Anton Chekhov — The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov. Elisaveta Fen translation. Penguin Classics.
12. Ibsen: Plays — Henrik Ibsen — Ghosts, A Doll’s House, A Public Enemy and When We Dead Awaken. Penguin Classics, Munch cover.
13. The Oresteian Trilogy — Aeschylus — Agamemnon murdered in the bath, Orestes killing his mother, the Furies put on trial. Vellacott translation. Penguin Classics, 5/6.
14. The Mortgaged Heart — Carson McCullers — Early stories and essays, collected after her death. Penguin.
15. Oscar Wilde: Plays — Oscar Wilde — The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance and Salomé. Penguin Plays, 5/6.
16. Ben Jonson: Three Comedies — Ben Jonson — Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Penguin English Library.
17. The Knight of the Burning Pestle — Beaumont & Fletcher — A grocer’s apprentice heckles the play from the audience and gets written in. The first meta-comedy, 1607. Standard English Classics.
18. Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues — Iris Murdoch — Murdoch writes Socrates and his friends arguing about art and religion. Penguin.
19. Richard II — William Shakespeare — The Macmillan Shakespeare edition, with Ian McKellen on the cover.
20. The Theban Plays — Sophocles — Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. Watling translation. Penguin Classics.
21. None But the Brave: Poems of Courage and Daring — ed. Jennifer & Graeme Curry — An anthology of adventure verse for schools.
22. The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 1: The Apology and Other Dialogues — trans. Benjamin Jowett — Socrates on trial.
23. The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3: Timaeus and Other Dialogues — trans. Benjamin Jowett — The creation of the universe.
24. Plato: Protagoras and Meno — Plato — Can virtue be taught? Guthrie translation. Penguin Classics.