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The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing by Simon Critchley 9781781682562
RRP: $19.34$12.51Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Everyone can quote at least six words from the play; often people know many more.In this riveting and thought-provoking re-examination, philosopher Simon... -
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by Revd Prof. John Webster
RRP: $16.76$11.73These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and issues of power, sex and corruption... -
Medea by Euripides 9780486275482
RRP: $5.15$4.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275482Author Euripides EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Chewing Gum Dreams by Michaela Coel
RRP: $16.76$15.30Tracey Gordon, the 67 bus, friendship, sex, UK garage, school, music, teachers, friendship, periods, emergency contraceptive, arse and tits, friendship, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship. Aaron, Candice, sex and Connor Jones. Chewing Gum... -
King Richard III by William Shakespeare 9781909621947
RRP: $12.89$8.86Shakespeare's skillful manipulation of events and people makes Richard III a chilling incarnation of the lure of evil and the temptation of power.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold... -
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
RRP: $14.18$10.18Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied... -
David Wood Plays for 5-12 Year Olds: The Gingerbread Man; The See-Saw Tree; The BFG; Save the Human; Mother Goose's Golden Christmas by David Wood
RRP: $25.79$22.87Looking for a whizzpoppingly wonderful collection of plays for your whole class? Want some ready-made, delumptious lesson plans to accompany them? Biffsquiggled at the thought of how to stage these pieces? Well, look no further because this is a... -
Bouncers (1990's Remix) by John Godber
RRP: $14.18$11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761720Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Beginning by David Eldridge 9781350146174
RRP: $14.18$10.51"A wry, funny and touching meditation on loneliness, that private shame of the singleton in the era of the dating app and of fraudulent boasting on social media ... written with a real depth of insight, humour, compassion and a keen sense of the... -
Women Beware Women, and Other Plays by Thomas Middleton
RRP: $15.47$10.87This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are... -
Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage
RRP: $14.18$9.95The Crump family is adrift. Widowed Godfrey is under the spell of Sweet Father Divine, while his daughters, Ernestine and Ermina, immerse themselves in Hollywood illusions to escape racial prejudice. But things change when free-spirited Aunt Lily shows... -
Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.31$7.47The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
To Sir, With Love (stage version) by E. R. Braithwaite
RRP: $16.76$11.64An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere 1940s Britain. Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First... -
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare 9780141396453
RRP: $11.60$8.32'Unable to rely on heaven, we look to Shakespeare as a contemporary conscience' Peter ConradCoriolanus, a famed warrior turned politician, is driven from Rome as a traitor when he arrogantly speaks out against popular rule and loses the good will of the... -
Mila and Blake (working title) by Estelle MAskame 9781785303777
RRP: $12.89$9.17The breathtaking finale in the MILA trilogy... Return to sun-soaked Tennessee for one last summer of romance.Mila's back in Nashville, two years since the fallout with Blake and on a mission to put the past behind her before heading to college. Goodbye... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 9781509889778
RRP: $12.89$8.86Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and... -
The Merchant of Venice: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $10.31$7.47What was Shakespeare's attitude to Semitism? The Introduction to this edition of The Merchant of Venice opens by addressing this vital issue raised by the play, and goes on to study the sources, background, and date, includuing a discussion of Sigmund... -
Notelets of Filth: A Companion Reader to MLM's Emilia by Laura Kressly
RRP: $45.14$39.80This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play, Emilia. Critically acclaimed and beloved by audiences, this innovative and ground-breaking show is a speculative history, an imaginative... -
Cruising by Alecky Blythe
RRP: $15.47$10.80A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy. Maureen is a pensioner in search of passion. After 33 blind dates, 12 cruises and one broken heart, she is still determined to find Mr... -
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
RRP: $16.76$11.73The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford in Penguin Classics.In the Oresteia Aeschylus... -
The Corn is Green: A Play by Emlyn Williams
$15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017384Author Emlyn WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Eclogues and Georgics by Virgil
RRP: $11.60$8.32The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended an idealized Arcadia with contemporary history. To his... -
Bouncers by John Godber 9780856761324
RRP: $15.47$12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761324Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays -
Mosquitoes by Lucy Kirkwood
RRP: $15.47$10.80A play about families and particle physics. Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As the Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is embarking on the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs Boson particle. Jenny is her... -
Shifters by Benedict Lombe 9781839043307
RRP: $15.47$10.80'Something is shifting between you - again. Something terrifying and comforting.' Dre and Des. Dream and Destiny. Young. Gifted. Black. He stayed. She left. Now, tragedy brings them crashing back into each other's lives - carrying new secrets... -
This Wide Night by Chloe Moss
RRP: $15.47$10.80Marie, twenty-something, and Lorraine, early fifties, have shared a cell. Now Marie is in her own bedsit, coping with life on the outside - just about. That is until poor, hopeless Lorraine shows up.Book InformationISBN 9781848420021Author Chloe... -
Peter and Wendy by James Matthew Barrie 9781484867990
RRP: $10.31$10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484867990Author James Matthew BarrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $14.18$9.44Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and... -
Boys by Ella Hickson
RRP: $16.76$11.64It's finals day for the Class of 2011. Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their five bedroom flat tomorrow morning; five bedrooms, five chairs, four boys - and one hell of a party. Stepping into a world that doesn't want them, these boys start to... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9780393926644
$17.20"Sources" helps readers navigate King Lear's rich history and includes the nine essential primary sources from which Shakespeare borrowed significantly in creating his play, along with two additional likely sources. "Criticism"provides thirteen major... -
The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird by Christopher Sergel
$23.49The play of Harper Lee's famous story of racial tension in America's deep South makes a gripping drama in its own right. It is a moving and exciting story for classroom reading or a school production. This edition has notes and activities to help your... -
30 Monologues and Duologues for South Asian Actors: Celebrating 30 Years of Kali Theatre's South Asian Women Playwrights by Kali Theatre
RRP: $20.63$19.66Published to celebrate the 30th anniversary year of Kali Theatre this is a brand new book of 30 monologues and duologues spoken by South Asian characters to be performed by actors from a South Asian/dual heritage background in auditions, workshops and... -
Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: $12.89$9.17Alcestis * Heracles * Children of Heracles * Cyclops Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth,... -
An Intervention by Mike Bartlett
RRP: $14.18$9.95A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend. One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought... -
Zinnie Harris: Plays 1: Further than the Furthest Thing; Midwinter; How to Hold Your Breath; Meet Me at Dawn by Zinnie Harris
RRP: $25.80$17.52In this first collection by Zinnie Harris, Further than the Furthest Thing evokes the fragility of an island community as their way of life is threatened and they must determine their future, while Midwinter opens as a woman steals a dead horse to feed... -
Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim
RRP: $16.76$11.64The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits. From the writing partnership behind A Little Night Music. Victim of a gross injustice that robbed him of his wife and child, Sweeney Todd... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: Hamlet by Alan Durband
$17.07Full comprehension of the plays is gained from the line-by-line modern English translation given on facing pages. Understanding of the plays is increased as pupils take part in the variety of related activities included in each book. The significance of... -
The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $16.76$11.73In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.The Rose Tattoo is set in a bustling, Sicilian-American community, where newly widowed Serafina is paralysed by grief, until she has her... -
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde by Peter Raby
RRP: $34.82$30.70The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde offers an essential introduction to one of the theatre's most important and enigmatic writers. Although a general overview, the volume also offers some of the latest thinking on the dramatist and his impact on the... -
Calendar Girls by Tim Firth
RRP: $15.47$14.13When Annie's husband John dies of leukaemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women's Institute members to pose nude with them for an 'alternative'...