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| Presents a collection of non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama. This book covers the full sweep of dramatic performances, including State progresses and |
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| A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders t |
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of 18th-century Vienna doesn't recognize his t |
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| Brings the fabled figures of Jonathan Harker, the archetypal innocent abroad, Mina Westerman, his anxious fiance, Renfield, Van Helsing and, of course |
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| Presents the story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax. |
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| Oedipus' sons have slain each other on the battlefield, but Kreon, their uncle and Thebes's new ruler, has decreed that only Eteokles be buried. Polyn |
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| A programme play text of Simon Stephens' play that captures the euphoria and promise at London being awarded the 2012 Olympics and the chaos and trage |
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| The soldier Philoktetes - with a festering, god-given wound in his foot - has been abandoned on the desolate island of Lemnos by the Greeks under Odys |
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| Ionesco's farce combines a comic portrait of human folly with an experiment in theatrical possibilities. In a house on an island a very old couple pas |
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| A new translation of the Buchner play considered the forerunner of most modern drama. |
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| Presents a TMA award 2007 winning play. This title shows how lives of Mia and Henry are controlled by Martha, their mother. |
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| Brandon wants excitement and little cares how he gets it. He persuades his weak-minded friend, Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow under |
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| Tensions rise between father and adopted daughter in this scathing, dark thriller from the author of the acclaimed "Mogadishu." |
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| A play set in London in the 60s reflecting a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young peopl |
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| This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each |
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| When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But no |
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"Skylight" premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and then went on to become one of the most internationally successful plays of recent years.
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| This play was published to coincide with its British premiere, directed by Harold Pinter, at the Royal Court Theatre, London. |
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| First modern edition of a highly provocative Scottish drama. |
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| Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here are their individual plays, which woven |
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| Justine and Alan need to get away from it all. And what better way than camping on a farm in the Welsh countryside? So long as that's camping with all |
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| Translation by Jo Clifford. |
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| The Crucible is Miller's classic dramatisation of the witch-hunt and trials that besieged the Puritan community of Salem in 1692. This definitive crit |
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| A play from the author of "Mojo". On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron, local waster and modern day Pied Piper, is a |
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| Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when h |
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| "Antigone" was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian |
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| This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdown of communication, broadly in the tradition of the |
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| Part of a collection of Harold Pinter's works, this is a comedy of sexual manners in which Pinter captures the psyche's sly manoeuvres for self-respec |
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| A dark, elegiac play of the gulf between parents and children and the anguish of approaching death... |
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| A collection of eight monologues that offer a group-portrait of diverse characters, from high-class hookers to 7/7 survivors. It paints a revelatory p |
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| Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and wo |
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| August 1833 - the first Royal Ordnance Survey is translating the local Gaelic place names of the townland of Baile Beag in County Donegal into English |
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| In the course of one wild night, the drunken guide Scullery conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street. This play was premiered at the Ro |
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| A play that charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became 'the most vilified figure f |
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| Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to conta |
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| A play that looks at the desire of a mother, Mrs Alving, to shield her son, Oswald, from the truth about his dead father and from the grisly time-bomb |
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| Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want su |
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| When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr Dysart is the man given the task o |
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| It's Moscow, 1938. It's a dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalk |
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| An identical, terrifying dream haunts Londoners in the midst of economic gloom and ineffective protest. Whilst the prime minister considers a preventi |
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| In a brothel of an unnamed French city the madam, Irma, directs a series of fantastical scenarios. The patrons of the brothel wait anxiously for the c |
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| With the Trojan War won, the Greeks' last great hero, Aias, has suddenly become obsolete. The world is changing - as he witnesses when the armor of hi |
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| Orestes has returned to his homeland intent on exacting a bloody vengeance upon its rulers: his mother Klytemnestra and his step-father Aegisthus, who |
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| "Closer" is a play which views love and sex like politics: its not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. |
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| A rollicking Restoration comedy written in 1677. |
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| p>Waterstones is proud to present this collection of stories shortlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Chosen from a wealth |
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| A book of 26 poetic essays written in English by a Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer. |
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| First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, |
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| An inspirational guide to living that delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life, including: love, |
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| The new collection from the Poet Laureate |
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| This play was published to coincide with its British premiere, directed by Harold Pinter, at the Royal Court Theatre, London. |
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| Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, this title depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures |
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| A stunning new translation of the classic tale of Greeks, Trojans and the fall of Troy; An ILIAD for the 21st century. |
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| A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to |
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| The inspirational masterpiece from the Lebanese born poet, philospher and artist |
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| When Eva's parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins the process of denial of her roots. It is only when her own daughter |
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| The Tempest isone of Shakespeare's enduringly popular and much-studied later plays. The introduction has been extended to focus on new scholarship abo |
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| An epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confro |
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| Presents the story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax. |
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| Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature |
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| Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learn |
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| A reissue of Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist - a sharp satire on police corruption. The play concerns the case of |
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| Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of gro |
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| Who knocked Wee Thomas over on the lonely road on the island of Inishmore, and was it an accident? "Mad Padraig" will want to know when he gets back f |
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| Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the |
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| Explores the underlying tensions and potential violence in a group of affluent, articulate seventeen year old students. This title presents the story |
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| 'A Streetcar Named Desire is a play of mythological centrality, redefining American Theatre with its indelible heightened poetic naturalism, breaking |
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| This is a adaptation of Carlo Goldini's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook and crook. |
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| George III's behaviour was often odd, but now he is deranged, rumoured to have even addressed a tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, t |
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| Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study |
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| An Arthur Miller play set in Brooklyn in 1938. A woman is stricken by a paralysis in her legs. Her doctor finds that she is obsessed by the news from |
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| Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentlema |
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| The definitive critical edition of Miller's tragic masterpiece featuring a comprehensive commentary together with notes and questions prepared by one |
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| Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, straight off the boat from Italy |
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| This volume collects some of the author's most famous writings, including plays, short stories, and essays. |
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| What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about |
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| When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to destroy him is hatched by those determined to preserve the threatened republic. B |
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| An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest |
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| In the Trojan War, the Greek army is camped outside Troy and Achilles refuses to fight. Inside the city Troilus, the Trojan King's son, falls in love |
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| This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Coriolanus, a chronology, sugg |
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| A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the |
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| This new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Gregory Doran a |
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| The Tempest isone of Shakespeare's enduringly popular and much-studied later plays. The introduction has been extended to focus on new scholarship abo |
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| Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler who listens o |
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| One of Shakespeare's late romances - along with Pericles, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale - Cymbeline tells three connected stories: the resistance |
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| The second volume in West's Hellenica trilogy is devoted to lyric poetry and drama. |
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| For this updated edition Marga Munkelt has added a substantial new section to the Introduction. |
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| HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. |
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| Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erup |
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| In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree - a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War - has been torn down by a storm. B |
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| The Student Edition of Ibsen's classic play, in Michael Meyer's definitive translation. |
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| Written around 1940, but not staged until 1956, this autobiographical work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright recreates his own family experience, |
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| The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl |
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| A new translation of Chekhov's masterpiece. |
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| Sophocles' immortal Oedipus plays personify both the cosmic and the all-too-human forces that wreak emotional and physical mayhem upon the lives of a |
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| Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister |
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| Includes plays "An Inspector Calls", "Time and the Conways", "I Have Been Here Before", and "The Linden Tree". |
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| Deianeira is an ordinary woman married to Herakles, the most feared and storied hero of the ancient world. To keep his affection and preserve her marr |
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| The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. |
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