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Witness for the Prosecution: Play by Agatha Christie
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573015007Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Romans in Britain by Howard Brenton
RRP: £10.99£8.38First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's... -
Northanger Abbey by Zoe Cooper 9781839043130
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of any sort of... disappointed love.' Catherine Morland knows little of the world, but who needs real-life experience when you have novels to guide you? Seizing her chance to escape her... -
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Do you ever wonder what would happen if we could live our lives all over again but be fully conscious of it the second time? I bet we'd try to do everything differently, or at least would know to create a different world for ourselves.' In a room... -
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare 9781853264160
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction by Tim Cook. Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the poet has an obsessive... -
Midsummer [a play with songs] by David Greig 9780571253616
RRP: £10.99£7.32Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at... -
It's a Wonderful Life by Mary Elliott Nelson 9781839042782
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.' Christmas Eve, 1946, Bedford Falls. Down-on-his-luck banker George Bailey feels life has passed him by, and he's at the end of his rope. But when George's guardian angel pays him a visit, he's... -
Stories by Nina Raine
RRP: £9.99£7.27How do you have a baby when you're thirty-nine and single? You decide. But what happens next? The story, like a child, has a life of its own. The story becomes stories... A funny and touching play about the fertilisation of an idea, Stories... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights by Elaine Aston 9780521595339
RRP: £23.99£20.37This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century. The chapters explore the historical and theatrical contexts in which women have written for the theatre and examine the work of... -
Rotterdam by Jon Brittain 9781350018334
RRP: £11.99£11.87No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman. It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend... -
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
RRP: £10.99£9.66"Albee's perversely funny sendup of a standard mid-life crisis drama ... dares to suggest that even the most flawed and confused human beings deserve compassionate understanding, and the failure to proffer it is a species of bestiality far more abhorrent... -
Henry VI, Part One: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45The 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... -
The Train Driver and Other Plays by Athol Fugard
RRP: £14.99£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559363860Author Athol FugardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights by Michael Patterson 9780521277327
RRP: £43.99£38.14This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play-writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffith, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton,... -
Coward Plays: v.4: "Blithe Spirit", "Present Laughter", "This Happy Breed", "Tonight at 8.30" (ll) by Noel Coward 9780413461209
£23.25Volume Four of Noel Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely... -
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner 9781839041457
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Let's just talk until it goes.' The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a tender and funny rom-com about what... -
King Henry VIII: The Oxford Shakespeare: or All is True by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.79The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of... -
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 9781350108981
RRP: £8.99£7.99This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and considers the play through the lens of Queer Identity. The introduction includes discussion of very... -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare 9781912464159
RRP: £9.99£5.79What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the Scottish crown. How many people will have to die in Macbeth's pursuit of power? With armies, ghosts and magic against him, will Macbeth survive in this... -
Playhouse Creatures by April De Angelis
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130076Author April De AngelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe 9781474295178
RRP: £10.99£9.66This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied the play across the centuries. As well as the complete... -
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by Mary Lefkowitz
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983098Author Mary LefkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm)... -
Aristophanes: Clouds by John Claughton 9780521172561
RRP: £11.25£9.90Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis... -
Porcelain by Margaret Perry
£11.42Tipperary, 1895. Bridget Cleary's not feeling quite herself. Her husband believes she has been taken by fairies and a changeling left in her place, with devastating consequences. London, 2017. Hat is a new mother. She has a great life. So why does she... -
Studying Plays by Mick Wallis 9781350007321
RRP: £21.99£21.89Now in its 4th edition, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the critical study of drama. Using familiar examples of classic and contemporary works such as Shakespeare's King Lear, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Timberlake Wertenbaker's... -
London Road by Alecky Blythe
RRP: £10.99£7.93In late 2006 the everyday life of the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with the soliciting and kerb-crawling that they frequently encountered... -
The Family Reunion: With an introduction and notes by Nevill Coghill by T. S. Eliot 9780571054459
RRP: £10.99£7.32Eliot's haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.'What is wonderful is the marvellous opening out of consciousness, the... -
Di and Viv and Rose by Amelia Bullmore 9781472508577
£13.09'How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?' Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. Crackling with... -
Broken Biscuits by Tom Wells
RRP: £11.99£8.60'The point is: we're losers. Nobodies. Carry on like this, we're losers forever. And we don't have to be. Fresh start, two months to completely one hundred per cent reinvent ourselves. And I know exactly how we can do that.' Megan, Holly and Ben are... -
This Restless House: an adaptation of Aeschlyus' Oresteia by Zinnie Harris
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Electrifying . . . This four-hour epic of ambition and power is a sinewy reworking of Aeschylus that explodes into a cacophonous climax.' GUARDIAN *****Aeschylus' Oresteia opens with Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter to the gods; an act which sets in... -
Cathy Come Home by Jeremy Sandford 9780714525167
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714525167Author Jeremy SandfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning by Tim Price
RRP: £11.99£11.95It's 2011: Bradley Manning is the 24-year-old US soldier accused of releasing 250,000 secret embassy cables and military logs from the Iraq and Afghan wars. After nearly two years in prison without charge, Manning now faces a court martial, accused of... -
Graceland by Ava Wong Davies 9781350409279
RRP: £10.99£10.77There was a cliff on the horizon. I didn't know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didn't want to look. She meets him at an old friend's barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer. He stands away from everyone else,... -
King John: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: £15.99£14.37The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This... -
debbie tucker green plays: one by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: £18.99£13.81Very few playwrights can be identified from a single line of dialogue - debbie tucker green is one of them. This collection of her first six plays, together with a short introduction by the author, shows a dramatic artist in full control of her craft. ... -
Blackout by Davey Anderson
RRP: £9.99£8.76This play can be performed with any number of characters, and with simple settings. Inspired by the true stories of a young offender from Glasgow, a 15 year old who had committed a violent crime, this short play was part of the National Theatre's "New... -
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.79'This is tragedy naked, godless and unredeemed' Kenneth TynanAn embittered Roman general returns from war, having captured the Queen of the Goths and her three sons. Sacrificing the eldest in memory of his own sons killed in battle, he provokes the... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: As You Like It by William Shakespeare
RRP: £7.99£5.23Oxford 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. As You Like It is a popular... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 9780141396422
RRP: £7.99£5.79An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one of Shakespeare's most memorable clowns. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Sanders with an introduction by... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9780393926262
£12.37By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the present day. This edition includes: Introductory materials and...