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Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works by Ann Thompson 9781474296366
RRP: €26.17€24.29This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by... -
Bird by Katherine Chandler
RRP: €15.46€10.73Ava and Tash are up on a cliff, looking out at the flocking birds - and at their future. On the cusp of adulthood and about to leave the care home they've shared, the two friends road-test their impending freedom and living in the outside world. Ava... -
A Mirror by Sam Holcroft 9781839042669
RRP: €13.08€9.17'With great pleasure Leyla & Joel Invite you to celebrate their marriage. Dress code is smart casual. Doors at 7.30 p.m., followed by the exchange of vows. And at the signal, the entertainment will begin. (This performance is being staged without a... -
Collins Complete Works Of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: €20.22€14.84The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard's plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for... -
Stephens Plays: 3: Harper Regan, Punk Rock, Marine Parade and On the Shore of the Wide World by Simon Stephens
RRP: €26.17€24.53Harper Regan follows a woman's road trip through the heart of England in a violent and comic exploration of the moralities of sex and death. Quietly harrowing, this play is a barometer for our times exploring dark secrets and familial estrangement. ... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collins Classics) by William Shakespeare 9780007902378
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My Oberon! what visions have I seen!Methought I was enamoured of an ass.' When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted... -
Shakespeare Made Easy: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Alan Durband
€15.74Full 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... -
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
RRP: €13.08€8.71Professor Coghill was invited to prepare this annotated edition of Murder in the Cathedral by Eliot himself, and he approved his introduction. Coghill discusses Eliot's subject matter, and the play's importance in his oeuvre. Forty pages of notes... -
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €11.89€8.46Lady Windermere's Fan/Salome/A Woman of No Importance/An Ideal Husband/A Florentine Tragedy/The Importance of Being Earnest'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'The Importance of Being Earnest is a... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781909621855
RRP: €11.89€7.63Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with... -
Slave Play (NHB Modern Plays) by Jeremy O. Harris
RRP: €13.08€9.17The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation - in the breeze, in the cotton fields... and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on... -
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 9781909621909
RRP: €11.89€8.18Shakespeare's gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a favourite with Shakespearian audiences.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized... -
Out For Blood: A Cultural History of Carrie the Musical by Chris Adams 9781350320536
RRP: €26.17€21.54Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this 'horror of a Broadway... -
Hangmen by Martin McDonagh
RRP: €13.08€8.71I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint.In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars,... -
As You Like It by William Shakespeare 9780141396279
RRP: €9.51€6.89'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players' Rosalind, banished by her cruel uncle, travels secretly to the Forest of Arden, where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man... -
The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
RRP: €13.08€9.39The screenplay of the latest macabre and haunting comedy from the writer of In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.Winner: Best Screenplay, BAFTAs 2023Winner: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023.Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: €9.51€6.89Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own... -
Othello by William Shakespeare
RRP: €10.70€9.51This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent... -
Noughts & Crosses (Royal Shakespeare Company version) by Malorie Blackman
RRP: €13.08€9.25An electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism. Adapted from Malorie Blackman's best-selling novels. Sephy (a Cross) is the daughter of the Deputy... -
The House of Bernarda Alba: La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: €13.08€11.50Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war... -
Stirring Up Sheffield: An Insider's Account of the Battle to Build the Crucible Theatre by Colin George 9781838403621
RRP: €35.70€25.83WINNER: 2022 THEATRE BOOK PRIZE Written by the Crucible Theatre's first Artistic Director, Colin George, and his son, Tedd, 'Stirring Up Sheffield' is the extraordinary story of a group of visionaries who came together to build a revolutionary thrust... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9780141396668
RRP: €9.51€6.89'He could mingle sublimity with pathos, bitterness with joy and peace and love' Aldous HuxleyIn one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies a young woman, Hermia, flees ancient Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband... -
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 9780486282084
RRP: €4.75€3.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486282084Author Christopher MarloweFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €4.75€3.42With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme... -
Colder than Here by Laura Wade
RRP: €13.08€11.50"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing" Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be... -
"King Richard II" by William Shakespeare
RRP: €11.89€10.97This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence. Forker places the play in its political context, discussing its relation to... -
"Love's Labours Lost" by William Shakespeare
RRP: €10.70€9.51'With the publication of Woudhuysen's Arden 3 edition, the magisterial study of the play that will energise a new generation of readers and directors has now arrived.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare SurveyThe latest Arden... -
Clare: Everyman's Poetry by John Clare
RRP: €7.13€5.02John Clares verse is a celebration of country life. Clare ended his life in an asyum, yet his work expresses an innate wisdom and a profound understanding of nature and of his contemporary rural society.* Introduction by leading academic or author notes:... -
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: €27.37€19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626860988Author William ShakespearePage Count 1392Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 1826gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm... -
The Arden Introduction to Reading Shakespeare: Close Reading and Analysis by Jeremy Lopez
RRP: €27.36€24.10Shakespeare's plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to pay careful attention to the multiple, shifting meanings of and relationships between their words, is to gain a deep and lasting appreciation for the complex... -
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
RRP: €10.70€9.51Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be ... when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted, driven and yet held back by empty dreams of prosperity and... -
Translations by Brian Friel
RRP: €13.08€9.48The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey... -
Protest by Hannah Lavery 9781350428140
RRP: €13.08€11.50Hope is a superpower. Running is Alice's happy place - you might even say it's in her DNA. She's the best runner at her school but is struggling to prove her worth. Jade is slowly coming to realise that prejudices can be found everywhere, even in the... -
The Tempest: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: €9.51€6.89Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius as a poetic dramatist found its fullest expression. Significantly, it was placed first when published in... -
Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RRP: €20.22€18.18"Greenberg has accomplished a magnificent literary feat. He has taken a great German work, until now all but inaccessible to English readers, and made it into a sparkling English poem, full of verve and wit. Greenberg's translation lives; it is done in a... -
King Richard III by William Shakespeare
RRP: €11.89€10.50Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses on how beguiling, even funny, he can be, especially in the earlier parts of the play. Siemon also... -
Bacchae by Euripides 9780099577386
RRP: €9.51€6.89This stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson (Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlist 2018), has reinvigorated Euripides' devastating take of a god's revenge for contemporary readers, bringing the ancient verse to fervid, brutal life... -
Breathing Corpses by Laura Wade
RRP: €14.27€13.11Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom. There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units. And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police. There's no going back after what they've seen. Breathing Corpses was first... -
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons by Sam Steiner
RRP: €13.08€9.17'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 imagines a world where we're forced to... -
I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die by Mark Wheeller
RRP: €14.27€13.89I'd had a conversation specifically with Dan about ecstasy. It's one of the things you do as a parent, isn't it? Wear your helmet when you're out on your bike, you know, don't take drugs. To be honest, I was more worried about him being safe on his...