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A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 9781408133491
RRP: $11.60$10.31The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This... -
Crave by Sarah Kane
RRP: $15.47$14.22Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire "A hugely unnerving theatrical experience, shot through with the language of the Bible and a... -
Art by Yasmina Reza
RRP: $14.18$9.44Serge has bought a modern work of art for a large sum of money. Marc hates the painting and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides with hilarious consequences. The... -
Macbeth (new edition) John O'Connor 9781408236864
$12.19Fully updated to meet the needs of the 2010 GCSE specifications. Exclusive awarding-body specific support to help students realise their full potential. The most accessible texts with supportive notes, activities and advice to engage students. Reamins... -
Richard III by William Shakespeare 9780141396651
RRP: $10.31$7.47'Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York'Shakespeare's final drama of the Wars of the Roses cycle begins as the dust settles on England after bloody civil war, and the bitter hunchback Richard, brother of the king,... -
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
RRP: $12.89$9.17WINNER OF THE MOST PROMISING PLAYWRIGHT AT THE CRITICS CIRCLE THEATRE AWARDS 2022 'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413772671
RRP: $14.18$12.46'The quality that makes Fo uniquely powerful ...[is] the ability to wring wild laughter out of insidious corruption' Guardian 'Simon Nye's witty translation updates and relocates the play ...suitably close to contemporary England. Fo is that rare thing,... -
Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
RRP: $14.18$10.23A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family - and a marriage - through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations. Bob and Fran have worked hard to give their four children the... -
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $11.60$8.32Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few... -
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 9781350275515
RRP: $14.18$12.46When this adaptation of C. S. Lewis's classic children's story opened at the RSC Stratford in November 1998, it received rave reviews and broke box office records. Four children are evacuated from London during the Blitz. While exploring the... -
Backstairs Billy by Marcelo Dos Santos 9781839042799
RRP: $14.18$10.23'One can't help where one is born. Or one's station, of course. The trick to happiness is to be content where one is. Or so I am told.' 1979. Clarence House, London. The Queen Mother's receptions are in full swing and the champagne is flowing. Guiding... -
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 9781853260223
RRP: $5.15$3.70Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of... -
The IT (NHB Modern Plays) by Vivienne Franzmann
RRP: $14.18$10.23'It is really small. Whatever it is. But it's here. It's definitely here.' A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually it takes over the entirety... -
Aristophanes: Frogs by Judith Affleck 9780521172578
RRP: $14.51$12.65Treating 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... -
"Educating Rita" by Willy Russell 9780413767905
RRP: $14.18$10.81Educating 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 ... -
Once Before I Go by Phillip McMahon
RRP: $15.47$15.42You can paint your placards 'til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never know what it is to truly be a faggot on the front line. Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140449297
RRP: $12.89$9.17Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert FaglesThis selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings... -
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet 9780413774187
RRP: $14.18$12.46A student edition of Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring... -
Tales from Shakespeare Charles Lamb 9781853261404
RRP: $5.15$3.70Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style,... -
Refugee Boy by Lemn Sissay
RRP: $15.47$15.42An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle... -
Valued Friends by Stephen Jeffreys 9780573019227
$14.73Four people live together in a large old house in London. They include Sherry a wacky girl trying to make it as a comedienne; Paul a pop music journalist; Paul's girlfriend Marion; and Howard, who is writing a left wing analysis of the corruption of... -
Playwriting: A Backstage Guide Prof. Dan Rebellato (Author, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781350135833
RRP: $12.89$11.38This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus... -
Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture by Douglas Lanier 9780198187066
$38.33Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? In the first book-length study to consider the modern 'Shakespop' phenomenon broadly, Douglas Lanier... -
Games by James Saunders 9780573025013
$14.73A series of sketches and vignettes. They are brief, witty and pointed. They are love encounters - the games people play. Here is the idiot way quarrels start up, or the way people meet and fence with one another. After Liverpool is not a play, but a... -
Richard II: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$8.32The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 9781914602030
RRP: $25.80$18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602030Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing -
The Hollow by Agatha Christie 9780573702396
RRP: $24.45$18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702396Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 145g -
The Clockwork Girl: The captivating and bestselling gothic mystery you won't want to miss! Anna Mazzola 9781398703803
RRP: $12.89$7.69'Historical fiction with a fantastical twist, done with verve and skill' IAN RANKIN'An atmospheric and constantly surprising thriller' SUNDAY TIMES'Kept me guessing until the end. An absolute masterpiece' JENNIFER SAINT'A deliciously dark historical... -
Bleak Expectations by Mark Evans 9781839042447
RRP: $15.47$11.09The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin... Follow half-orphan Pip's extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly... -
The House by the Lake: Play by Hugh Mills 9780573111525
$14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111525Author Hugh MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g -
Ruckus by Jenna Fincken
$14.25I don't think I'll ever meet someone who loves me as much as Ryan loves me and hates me as much as Ryan hates me A loving relationship can be anything but. In this one-woman thriller, Ruckus explores coercive control, an issue not widely... -
Hamlet: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$8.32Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original... -
The Wind in the Willows (stage version by Kenneth Grahame
RRP: $15.47$11.09This delightful stage adaptation combines all the joy and mystery of Kenneth Grahame's much-loved classic with the lightness of touch and playful theatricality that award-winning playwright Mike Kenny is known for. Tired of spring-cleaning, Mole... -
Black Coffee (Poirot) by Agatha Christie
RRP: $12.89$8.41Sugar and cream?Or a lethal dose of poison? The inventor of a powerful new explosive,Sir Claud Amory, is somewhat disconcerted when the chemical formula goes missing - the situation worsened by the knowledge that the thief is one... -
The Thrill of Love by Amanda Whittington
RRP: $16.76$11.95A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. A divorcee with a young child to care for, Ruth works in the kind of nightclubs where there's more than just a drink on offer. The girls work hard, play hard and dream of a... -
Trojan Women by Seneca 9780801494314
RRP: $14.18$11.08This free and eloquent translation skillfully reproduces the imagery, power, and frequent irony and sarcasm of Seneca's language.Book InformationISBN 9780801494314Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher... -
"Top Girls" by Caryl Churchill
RRP: $14.18$10.81Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the... -
The White Devil Benedict S. Robinson (Stony Brook University, USA) 9781904271741
RRP: $20.63$18.54Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt political world, the play explores the relations of... -
Saved by Edward Bond
RRP: $14.18$10.81Described by its author as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates. The play was first... -
The Lady in the Van Alan Bennett 9781781255407
RRP: $9.02$6.62In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord...