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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9781350350274
RRP: $18.85$18.49Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Bronte's story of the trailblazing Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and dynamic production uncovers one woman's fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms. From her beginnings as a destitute orphan, Jane... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
RRP: $13.71$8.97Oxford 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. The Merchant of Venice is a... -
Contemporary Monologues for Teenagers (Female) by Trilby James
RRP: $22.28$15.47Forty fantastic female speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today. Whether you're applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it's... -
"Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare
RRP: $15.42$13.71John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs to this new edition. Clarity, accessibility and rigour are the hallmarks of an edition which will provide... -
Cymbeline Ed3 Arden by Shakespeare
RRP: $17.14$15.82In Cymbeline, Ancient Britain's female heir to the throne is slandered by a decadent Italian while the Romans invade Britain to retain it as part of their empire. Shakespeare's late romance is full of unpredictable conjunctions that are explored in the... -
How To Draw Dogs And Puppies: A Complete Guide for Beginners by J. C. Amberlyn
RRP: $30.79$23.48How to Draw Dogs and Puppies is a step-by-step guide to drawing over 100 different breeds of dogs in pencil and pen-and-ink. Best-selling author J. C. Amberlyn combines her love of dogs with her beautiful, detailed drawing style. The book includes 40... -
Many Moons by Alice Birch
$20.84Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9780141396477
RRP: $15.42$11.06'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a... -
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $22.28$14.68Krapp's Last Tape was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and described as 'a solo, if that is the word, for one voice and two organs: one human, one mechanical. It fills few pages. It is perhaps the most original... -
Oedipus Tyrranos by Sophocles
$22.86This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's superb translation of Sophocles' best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator's note and explanatory footnotes.Comparative ancient sources that provide insight into the many... -
The Railway Children (stage version by E. Nesbit
RRP: $18.85$13.33Mike Kenny's imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic. Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - mother and three children - forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the... -
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
RRP: $20.57$20.00It's Grandma's birthday and the Frasier family have gathered to celebrate. Beverly just wants everything to run smoothly, but Tyrone has missed his flight, Keisha is freaking out about college and Grandma has locked herself in the bathroom. But something... -
Young Chekhov: Platonov; Ivanov; The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $29.14$19.86Anton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his own personality well off-stage. But when he was young he wrote three plays - Platonov, Ivanov and The... -
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard 9780571169344
RRP: $18.85$13.53In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is... -
Oxford School Shakespeare: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
RRP: $13.71$8.97Oxford 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. Julius Caesar is a popular... -
Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes by Aristophanes
RRP: $17.14$12.50Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are... -
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare 9780141396552
RRP: $13.71$9.93'Language is his power. His characters are precisely the words they speak' A. S. Byatt A young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo to save him, he offers her a bargain... -
Harold Pinter Plays 3: The Homecoming; Old Times; No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
RRP: $32.57$22.01This revised third volume of Harold Pinter's work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Man's Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare... -
The Moderate Soprano by David Hare
RRP: $18.85$12.56I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it.A man of great passions, John Christie wooed his opera singer wife with a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos... -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 9781350110069
RRP: $18.85$16.57Too frightened of scandal to become involved with a brilliant writer, Hedda Gabler opts instead for a conventional but loveless marriage. But, when her first love returns with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career, Hedda decides to take... -
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 9781839042300
RRP: $22.28$15.47'I promise you more patience, more gratitude. I promise you less vanity, less selfishness, less complaining, less fear. I promise you. You just have to survive.' A Little Life follows the complex relationships of four college friends in New York City:... -
The Comedies by Terence 9780140443240
RRP: $25.71$18.78The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play, The Girl from Andros,... -
Oxford Playscripts: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
$22.97An engaging classroom playscript. Frankenstein is the famous story of a young man who thinks he can change the world by making better human beings. Instead he creates a living monster with a mind of its own. New, innovative activities specifically... -
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare 9780141192574
RRP: $29.14$21.06Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When... -
Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780486272788
RRP: $6.84$4.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272788Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Too Much Punch For Judy: New revised 2020 edition with bonus features by Mark Wheeller 9781913630300
RRP: $18.85$12.66New edition with bonus features This hard-hitting verbatim play is based on a tragic drink drive accident that results in the death of the vehicle's front seat passenger, Jo. Her sister Judy, driving the car, escapes physically unhurt - but can never... -
The Empire: The debut novel from the master of musical theatre, Michael Ball by Michael Ball
RRP: $34.31$23.57Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid the glitz and glamour, he soon learns that the true magic of the theatre lies in its cast of characters -... -
Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal
RRP: $18.85$12.56Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding three new chapters. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of the Bard, revealing... -
The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
$16.24This is one of the best-known plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. It is set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle. The main characters are Sidi (the Jewel), 'a true village belle' and Baroka (the Lion), the crafty and powerful Bale of the... -
Swan Lake: Reimagining A Classic by Bill Cooper
RRP: $77.19$70.48Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful woman, Odette, he is enraptured. But she is under a spell that holds her captive, allowing her to regain her human form only at night. ... -
Medea by Euripides 9781839041150
RRP: $18.85$13.22'She's chucked out like an old coat that nae langer fits him...' Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this alien and unsympathetic society. Now Jason has a plan to better... -
GuRu by RuPaul
RRP: $29.14$20.48THE OFFICIAL RUPAUL BOOK WITH A FOREWORD BY JANE FONDA. AS SEEN ON RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE!A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world's most famous shape-shifter RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented... -
The School for Scandal and Other Plays by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 9780199540099
RRP: $18.85$13.33Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which... -
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
RRP: $17.14$12.20King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9781909621879
RRP: $17.14$11.00Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These... -
"Educating Rita" by Willy Russell 9780413767905
RRP: $18.85$13.98Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday Times ... -
Kes (stage version) by Barry Hines
RRP: $18.85$13.22A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel. Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school and at home: he's neglected by his mother, beaten by his... -
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $34.29$23.07The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on... -
Godber Plays: v. 1: "Bouncers"; "Happy Families"; "Shakes" by John Godber
RRP: $37.72$35.35"John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn" - Guardian Bouncers, a play about nightlife: "A show... -
The Duchess of Malfi A Level Edition by John Webster
$27.44Ferdinand forbids his widowed sister to marry again. When he discovers that she is not only married but had a child he is driven mad with fury. The Duchess of Malfi is a study in strong characters, dark deeds and dreadful revenge. This edition includes...