{"product_id":"secondhand-drama-plays-bargain-book-box-sp4190","title":"Secondhand Drama \u0026 Plays Bargain Book Box SP4190","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Drama \u0026amp; Plays Bargain Book Box SP4190\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty plays and two volumes of Eliot: Miller, Williams, O’Neill, Shaw, Wilde, Brecht, Goethe’s \u003cem\u003eFaust\u003c\/em\u003e in both parts, Friel, and Australian work from Patrick White, Alan Seymour and Jane Harrison’s \u003cem\u003eStolen\u003c\/em\u003e. The set text shelf for a drama student or anyone who reads plays for pleasure. Some covers may carry price stickers or sticker residue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Poems — T.S. Eliot — Prufrock, The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, in the Faber paper-covered edition. The Eliot most people own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Plays — J.P. Donleavy — The Ginger Man and others adapted for the stage by the novelist himself. Rare in paperback.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree Australian Plays — Alan Seymour, Douglas Stewart, Hal Porter — The One Day of the Year, Ned Kelly and The Tower in a Penguin Plays volume. Seymour’s Anzac Day play is still argued about.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother Courage and Her Children — Bertolt Brecht — A canteen woman follows the Thirty Years War and loses her children to it one by one. Methuen edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFaust Part One — Goethe — The pact, Gretchen, and the Walpurgis Night. Penguin Classics, Philip Wayne translation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Man for All Seasons — Robert Bolt — Thomas More refuses to swear to Henry’s marriage and goes to the block. The play behind the film.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Plays — Patrick White — The Ham Funeral, The Season at Sarsaparilla, A Cheery Soul and Night on Bald Mountain. The Nobel novelist’s theatre, in the Sun Books edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStolen — Jane Harrison — Five Aboriginal children in a children’s home, and what the Stolen Generations did to them. Playbox edition; a landmark of Australian theatre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLong Day’s Journey Into Night — Eugene O’Neill — The Tyrone family over one day, morphine and whiskey and blame. O’Neill’s own family, published after his death.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA View from the Bridge \/ All My Sons — Arthur Miller — Two plays in one Penguin: a longshoreman’s obsession with his niece, and a factory owner’s wartime crime.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMurder in the Cathedral — T.S. Eliot — Becket’s martyrdom in verse, with the knights’ justifications to the audience. Faber.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePygmalion — George Bernard Shaw — The original My Fair Lady, without the happy ending Shaw refused to write.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams — Blanche arrives at her sister’s in New Orleans and Stanley sets about destroying her. Methuen Student Edition with notes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrian Friel: Plays 1 — Brian Friel — Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Living Quarters, Aristocrats, Faith Healer and Translations. Ireland’s greatest living playwright at the time, in one volume.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlays — Oscar Wilde — The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance and Salomé. Vintage orange Penguin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFaust Part Two — Goethe — The sequel, where Faust goes to the Emperor’s court and Helen of Troy. Penguin Classics.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnots — R.D. Laing — Not a play: the anti-psychiatrist’s book of tangled relationship patterns, written as verse. Fits a drama shelf oddly well.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMajor Barbara — Bernard Shaw — A Salvation Army major, her arms-dealer father, and the question of whose money is clean. Shaw’s sharpest argument.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeath of a Salesman — Arthur Miller — Willy Loman’s last day. Film tie-in edition with Dustin Hoffman.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616696766683,"sku":"SP4190","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4190.jpg?v=1791844091","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-drama-plays-bargain-book-box-sp4190","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}