Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980

Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980

Twenty-one books of poetry, drama, and literary reference — Ibsen, Shaw, Euripides, Sophocles, Lorca, Howard Barker, Edward Albee, Sheridan, Geoffrey Dutton, Robert Frost, the Arden Shakespeare Othello, and the La Mama plays of the 1990s.

1. The La Mama Collection: Six Plays for the 1990s — ed. Liz Jones — Six plays from Melbourne's legendary La Mama Theatre: Sam Sejavka, Elizabeth Coleman, Daniel Lillford, Julie Goodall, Raimondo Cortese, and Ross Mueller. A document of Australian theatre at its most adventurous.
2. Sheridan Plays — The complete major plays of Sheridan: The Rivals, The School for Scandal, and The Critic.
3. Longman Guide to Shakespeare's Characters: A Who's Who of Shakespeare — Kenneth McLeish — A comprehensive guide to every character in the Shakespeare canon.
4. Selected Poems of Robert Frost — Introduction by Robert Graves — The essential Frost selection, introduced by the poet who understood him best.
5. William Plomer: Celebrations — Selected poems from the South African-born British poet and librettist for Benjamin Britten.
6. The Wordsworth Book of 19th Century Verse — Wordsworth Poetry Library — A comprehensive anthology of Victorian and Romantic verse.
7. Poems Soft and Loud — Geoffrey Dutton — Selected poems from one of Australia's most versatile literary figures: poet, biographer, publisher, and critic.
8. The Best of John Reid's Poets' Corner Vol. 3 — ABC Radio — A collection of poems, stories, and anecdotes from the long-running ABC Radio program.
9. Othello — The Arden Shakespeare, edited by M.R. Ridley — The scholarly Arden edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy of jealousy, race, and manipulation.
10. Howard Barker: Collected Plays Volume 1 — Claw, No End to Blame, Victory, Scenes from an Execution, and The Castle. Britain's most uncompromising theatrical voice in five major works.
11. Renaissance Poetry — ed. Leonard Dean (English Masterpieces Vol. III, Second Edition) — An anthology of English Renaissance verse from Wyatt and Surrey through Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Jonson.
12. Silver Poets of the 16th Century — Everyman Paperback — The collected verse of Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Raleigh, and Greville: the poets who invented the English lyric.
13. The New Golden Treasury of English Verse — chosen by Edward Leeson — A new selection from the tradition of Palgrave: the best-loved English poems across four centuries.
14. Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House and Other Plays — Penguin Classics edition including A Doll's House, The Lady from the Sea, and Hedda Gabler.
15. Lorca — Penguin selection of poetry and prose from Federico García Lorca: the Blood Wedding playwright and the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century.
16. Absurd Drama — Penguin Plays anthology: Ionesco's Amédée, Adamov's Professor Taranne, Arrabal's The Two Executioners, and Albee's The Zoo Story. The founding texts of the Theatre of the Absurd.
17. Sophocles: The Theban Plays — Penguin Classics edition of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.
18. Edward Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — The play that changed American theatre: a night of truth-telling, cruelty, and dark games between two couples. Penguin Plays edition.
19. Bernard Shaw: Three Plays for Puritans — The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion. Penguin Plays edition.
20. Ibsen: Four Major Plays Vol. 1 — A Doll House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. Signet Classics Centenary Edition.
21. Euripides: Medea and Other Plays — Penguin Classics edition including Medea, Hecabe, Electra, and Heracles.