{"product_id":"secondhand-drama-classics-bargain-book-box-sp4119","title":"Secondhand Drama \u0026 Classics Bargain Book Box SP4119","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Drama \u0026amp; Classics Bargain Book Box SP4119\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTroilus and Criseyde — Geoffrey Chaucer — The Trojan War love story Shakespeare rewrote, in Nevill Coghill’s modern English. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrocles 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoems from the Sanskrit — trans. John Brough — Love poems, epigrams and court verse from ancient India, in a translation that reads like verse. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStevie Smith: Selected Poems — ed. James MacGibbon — Not Waving But Drowning and the rest, with her drawings. Penguin Poetry Library.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Frost: Selected Poems — ed. Ian Hamilton — Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePinter: Plays Two — Harold Pinter — The Caretaker, The Collection, The Lover, Night School, The Dwarfs. The Caretaker alone is worth it. Methuen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur 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\/-.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSir 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHenryson: Selected by Hugh MacDiarmid — Robert Henryson — The Scots makar’s Testament of Cresseid and fables, chosen by the nationalist poet. Poet to Poet series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Crucible — Arthur Miller — Salem, 1692, as McCarthy’s America. Penguin Plays.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChekhov: Plays — Anton Chekhov — The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard and Ivanov. Elisaveta Fen translation. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIbsen: Plays — Henrik Ibsen — Ghosts, A Doll’s House, A Public Enemy and When We Dead Awaken. Penguin Classics, Munch cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Oresteian Trilogy — Aeschylus — Agamemnon murdered in the bath, Orestes killing his mother, the Furies put on trial. Vellacott translation. Penguin Classics, 5\/6.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Mortgaged Heart — Carson McCullers — Early stories and essays, collected after her death. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOscar 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBen Jonson: Three Comedies — Ben Jonson — Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Penguin English Library.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Knight of the Burning Pestle — Beaumont \u0026amp; Fletcher — A grocer’s apprentice heckles the play from the audience and gets written in. The first meta-comedy, 1607. Standard English Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcastos: Two Platonic Dialogues — Iris Murdoch — Murdoch writes Socrates and his friends arguing about art and religion. Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRichard II — William Shakespeare — The Macmillan Shakespeare edition, with Ian McKellen on the cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Theban Plays — Sophocles — Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. Watling translation. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNone But the Brave: Poems of Courage and Daring — ed. Jennifer \u0026amp; Graeme Curry — An anthology of adventure verse for schools.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dialogues of Plato, Volume 1: The Apology and Other Dialogues — trans. Benjamin Jowett — Socrates on trial.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3: Timaeus and Other Dialogues — trans. Benjamin Jowett — The creation of the universe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlato: Protagoras and Meno — Plato — Can virtue be taught? Guthrie translation. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50975244320987,"sku":"SP4119","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4119.jpg?v=1793246848","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-drama-classics-bargain-book-box-sp4119","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}