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Seneca: Oedipus: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by A. J. Boyle
RRP: £56.00£55.69Seneca's Oedipus is a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental, intellectually... -
Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie 9780573702303
RRP: £18.95£13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702303Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Age is a Feeling by Haley McGee
RRP: £10.99£7.93Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to change course and all the things you leave unsaid. Inspired by interviews with hospice workers, conversations with mystics and trips to the cemetery, Age is a... -
Starting Drama Teaching Mike Fleming (University of Durham, UK) 9781138207974
RRP: £31.99£28.33Why teach drama? How can a newcomer teach drama successfully? How do we recognize quality in drama? Starting Drama Teaching is a comprehensive guide to the teaching of drama in schools. Exploring the aims and purposes of drama, it provides an insight... -
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sarte
RRP: £15.95£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573613050Author Jean-Paul SarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.26An unsettling play about infidelity seen from the perspective of the three women involved: the wife, the lover and the daughter. George and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist... -
NKJV, End-of-Verse Reference Bible, Compact, Leathersoft, Teal, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £23.00£18.73An easy-to-carry Bible that easily fits in a purse or backpack with cross references allowing this Bible to be an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.Reading the Bible on the go? This compact-sized edition was designed with you in mind. Even... -
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by David Grene
£12.14Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
RRP: £10.99£7.77These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into... -
The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt 9780573013409
£11.42The scene is a madhouse and the focus is on three inmates who are nuclear physicists. One thinks he is Newton and another, Einstein. The third has visitations from Solomon. They appear to be nice, likeable lunatics, but nothing is as simple as it seems... -
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £10.99£7.93Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family. Queen Elizabeth II is dead. After a lifetime of waiting, her son ascends the throne... -
Oxford Student Texts: John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi by Jackie Moore 9780198325741
£11.76Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to... -
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by David Grene
RRP: £12.00£10.16Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: Top Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping and F***ing; The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £19.99£18.80With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria... -
Strictly Murder by Brian Clemens 9780573114298
£11.42It is in April 1939. An English couple, Peter and Suzy, are living in Provence in idyllic isolation, far, it seems, from the rumblings of the coming war. Their peace is shattered from within when Suzy discovers she has been betrayed: Peter is not the man... -
Scot Free: New Scottish Plays by Alasdair Cameron
RRP: £20.99£15.14A collection of seven plays from Scottish writers, reflecting the upsurge in Scottish playwriting in the late twentieth century. Selected and introduced by Alasdair Cameron, the collection draws on adventurous theatres such as the Edinburgh Traverse... -
Chaos by Laura Lomas
RRP: £10.99£7.93A girl is locked in a room. A boy brings another boy flowers. A girl has tied herself to a railing. A boy doesn't know who he is. A girl worries about impending catastrophe. A woman jumps in front of a train. A boy's heart falls out his chest. A... -
Othello: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£6.87An intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction, Othello is arguably Shakespeare's most topical and accessible tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges... -
The Time Machine by Steven Canny 9781839042966
RRP: £10.99£7.93When the worlds of science-fiction and science-fact collide... extraordinary things can happen. Dave is the great-great grandson of H.G. Wells, author of the 1895 novella The Time Machine, a book that foretold (with suspicious accuracy) the future of... -
The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble 9780413774064
RRP: £11.99£11.42Brilliant new play about dating through the internet I like the internet. I like that way of talking to people. It's honest. It's a place where people are free to say anything they like. And most of what they say is about sex. Dani's on a mission. She's... -
James and the Giant Peach: Play by Roald Dahl 9780573051388
£11.42Orphan James is sent to live with his aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after his parents are killed in a tragic accident involving a rhino, but the aunts treat him horribly. One day he meets an old man who gives him a bag containing the strongest magic in the... -
The Revenger's Tragedy by Gretchen E. Minton
RRP: £15.99£15.37A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated... -
Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre: A Practical Guide Chris Palmer (Guildford School of Acting, UK) 9781350011250
RRP: £23.99£21.08Voice and Speech for Musical Theatre is the first book to combine traditional actor vocal training with musical theatre training, offering support and guidance for performers seeking to train their spoken voice specifically for singing and performing in... -
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573697142Author John BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Permanent Way by David Hare
RRP: £10.99£7.32In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways. As a result, the taxpayer subsidizes rail more lavishly then ever before. In The Permanent Way, David Hare, working... -
Brian Friel Plays 2: Dancing at Lughnasa; Fathers and Sons; Making History; Wonderful Tennessee; Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel 9780571197101
£18.80This second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa, Fathers and Sons, Making History, Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney. The collection is introduced by... -
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.79William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.'What fool is not so wiseTo lose an oath to win a paradise?'Ferdinand, King of Navarre and his lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville... -
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 9781853260759
RRP: £3.99£2.87Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and... -
Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £9.99£7.11Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapid... -
Andorra by Max Frisch 9780413305107
RRP: £11.99£11.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Grenfell: in the words of survivors by Gillian Slovo 9781839042638
RRP: £11.99£8.60'It was a tower block, but it was home.' The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twenty-four-storey residential tower. The scene of a national tragedy. This powerful... -
The Moment of Speech: Creative Articulation for Actors by Annie Morrison
£29.07Annie Morrison, creator of the Morrison Bone Prop, abandons the notion that language and thought are mainly processed in the left cerebral hemisphere, and coaches the actor to speak from the heart. Through this method, words acquire physical properties,... -
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 9780713667943
RRP: £9.99£8.82The action of She Stoops to Conquer (1773) is largely confined to a night and a day in Squire Hardcastle's somewhat dilapidated country house: Young Marlow, on his way there to meet the bride his father has chosen for him, loses his way and arrives at... -
Scenes from 68* Years by Hannah Khalil
£12.46What are we doing then? Come on, lets go - all of us, lets tell everyone in the street, its too late we've lost, all the years of hardship, being murdered, imprisoned, having your homes taken, your jobs, your fields, your olives, your ability to move... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot 9780571362790
RRP: £10.99£7.32Murder in the Cathedral, written for the Canterbury Festival in 1935, was one of T. S. Eliot's first dramatic achievements, and it remains one of the great plays of the century. It takes as its subject matter the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of... -
Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573120633Author Alan AyckbournFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Downing Street Guide to Party Etiquette: The funniest political satire of the year! by Verity Bigg-Knight 9781035410569
RRP: £9.99£6.80Partygate? More like party GREAT!While the UK locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Boris Johnson's Number Ten played host to a series of boozy shindigs. Now, for the first time, you can learn to get wasted like they do in Whitehall. The Downing... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: £10.99£7.93'When that bell rings, your life is entirely in your hands.' London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets,... -
Conor McPherson Plays: Two by Conor McPherson
RRP: £18.99£13.81The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years. In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky... -
House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn 9780571205936
RRP: £18.00£11.31Two plays about love and marriage take place in different auditoria simultaneously with the same large cast appearing in both of them. As always in Ayckbourn, hilarity is combined with hurt.About the AuthorAlan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939 to a...