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The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge
RRP: €10.70€9.51This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for today's students on the play's context; themes; dramatic... -
The Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780393330694
RRP: €33.31€30.19This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their... -
Chris Bush Plays: One by Chris Bush 9781839042973
RRP: €23.79€16.85Since her play Steel opened in her native Sheffield in 2018, Chris Bush has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful and widely staged playwrights, with her plays on stage at the National Theatre, in the West End, and across Europe. Celebrated for... -
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €13.08€8.71Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.CLOV: There's no more nature.HAMM: No more nature!... -
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: €17.84€13.03A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of... -
Shadowlands by William Nicholson
€13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573018947Author William NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Trainspotting by John Hodge
RRP: €11.89€7.97Mark Renton is an unrepentant drug abuser, doing his level best to elude the claims and responsibilities Life throws up to him. His pals - Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie - are devoted to much the same heroically seedy existence. Both harrowing and... -
Dracula (stage version) by Bram Stoker
RRP: €15.46€10.73Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Asked to adapt it by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, she immersed herself in the book. 'After a sleepless night,' she writes in the... -
The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: €13.08€9.17One life in the hands of 12 women. Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 matrons are taken from their housework to decide... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413772671
RRP: €13.08€11.50'The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful ...[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption' Guardian 'Simon Nye's witty translation updates and relocates the play ...suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that rare thing,... -
Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
RRP: €15.46€10.19Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation.POET... -
Henry V by William Shakespeare 9781840224214
RRP: €4.75€3.46Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William... -
Our Generation (NHB Modern Plays) by Alecky Blythe 9781839040658
RRP: €15.46€10.73'To be honest with you, before I went secondary school I thought that the kids they would be like really mature and like by the time I reached Year Ten I'd be fully mature and everything. And I'd lose my like funsense and stuff... But, I don't know if... -
Soldier, Rebel, Traitor: John, Lord Wenlock and the Wars of the Roses by Brondarbit, Alexander R 9781399003476
RRP: €23.79€16.99John Wenlock, first Lord Wenlock, was a leading diplomat, courtier and soldier during the Wars of the Roses whose remarkable career offers us a fascinating insight into one of the most turbulent periods in English medieval history. And yet he has... -
Life of Pi by Lolita Chakrabarti
€13.28Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play "Life of Pi will make you believe in the power of theatre" (Times). After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a... -
Pericles by William Shakespeare
RRP: €9.51€6.89Pericles was Shakespeare's first full-blown tragicomedy, the precursor to The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, and one of his most popular plays in the seventeenth century. This Penguin edition is edited by Eugene Giddens.'One sin, I know,... -
Oxford Playscripts: Oliver Twist by Guy Williams 9781408521311
€15.15Dickens' irresistible portrayal of poverty, cruelty and crime in Victorian Britain tells of Oliver's arrival in London, where he falls under the influence of Fagin, a gang of young thieves and the irrepressible Artful Dodger.Book InformationISBN... -
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €10.70€7.72This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the... -
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill 9780224610735
RRP: €13.08€9.92Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt... -
Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale
RRP: €13.08€9.17London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers. Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from... -
Hadestown by Anais Mitchell
RRP: €14.27€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708855Author Ana s MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Woyzeck (Drama Classics) by Georg Buchner
RRP: €5.94€4.51Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today. Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier... -
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 9780393934007
€15.86The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full introduction and illustrative materials intended for student readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century audiences, and its central elements-a play-within-a-play and a ghost... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9781904271208
RRP: €15.46€14.11In All's Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France. Following him to Paris, she concocts an endangering plan to win the King of France's favour and induce... -
David Shrigley by David Shrigley
RRP: €35.70€26.05Get Your Shit Together is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by beloved British artist David Shrigley. This volume celebrates Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying... -
Art by Yasmina Reza
RRP: €13.08€8.71Serge 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 such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides with hilarious consequences. The... -
The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: €23.79€16.90Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about the works of... -
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset by Richard Linklater
RRP: €17.84€12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096046Author Richard LinklaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: King Lear by William Shakespeare
RRP: €9.51€6.22Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. King Lear is a popular text... -
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €17.84€16.35The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins... -
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne 9780571038480
RRP: €13.08€8.71In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre.'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a significant achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle... -
The Merchant of Venice (Collins Classics) by William Shakespeare 9780007925476
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven' Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful... -
Further than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris
RRP: €14.28€9.46On a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic secrets are buried. When the outside world comes calling, intent on manipulation for political and economic reasons, the islanders find their own world blown apart from the inside as well as beyond... -
Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade
RRP: €15.46€10.82Philosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood.About the AuthorDonatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade (1740 - 1814), was a French aristocrat and writer of... -
Henry VI Part One by William Shakespeare
RRP: €10.70€7.68The first of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, dramatizing the rivalry between power-hungry noble houses, divided by grievances inherited from the past. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca 9781350249844
RRP: €14.27€13.11"Well we've got three floors right. Plenty of room... Room for a children's bedroom. Room for two." London, the present day. A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Written and directed by Simon Stone, this... -
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama by Simon Barker 9780415187343
RRP: €47.59€44.87This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political context, along with newly edited and thoroughly annotated texts of the following plays:* The Spanish Tragedy (Thomas Kyd)* Arden of Faversham (Anon.)* Edward... -
Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare by Alanna Beeken
RRP: €15.46€10.73This dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, part of the bestselling Drama Games series, offers dozens of games to help bring Shakespeare's plays to life in the classroom or rehearsal room - making them fun and accessible to actors, students,... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: €9.51€6.89A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays. It brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there the enchantment begins. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the less... -
Ella Hickson Plays: One by Ella Hickson
RRP: €22.60€16.07When her first play, Eight, transferred from student theatre in Edinburgh to the West End and then New York, Ella Hickson was still in her early twenties. She has since built on that promise with a series of engaged and engaging dramas that pit...