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The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148398
RRP: €13.08€9.25The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays - through the flourishing of the... -
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €9.51€6.89Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance... -
hang by Debbie Tucker Green
RRP: €13.08€9.17His life. In her hands. A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision. debbie tucker green's play hang premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2015, in a production directed by the author, and featuring Marianne... -
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €13.08€11.50The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition for students with on-page notes to help... -
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
RRP: €14.27€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573010446Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackImprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g -
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
RRP: €11.89€11.14A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama. Set on a country estate in late nineteenth... -
Miss Julie and Other Plays by Johan August Strindberg
RRP: €10.70€7.68The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme,... -
International Connections: New Plays for Young People by Cecily Gayford 9780571216475
RRP: €20.22€13.78With contributions by Kay Adshead, Horton Foote, Julian Garner, Andy Hamilton, Jackie Kay, Bryony Lavery, Christian Martin, Timothy Mason, Tamsin Oglesby, Fausto Paravidino, Judy Upton.International Connections features ten new plays and a musical drawn... -
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€8.71At the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: €23.80€17.01The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays - through the flourishing of the... -
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Workbook: New GCSE Grade 9-1 English Literature AQA: GCSE Grade 9-1 (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: €7.13€6.07Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Targeted practice questions covering your... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel 9780571385379
RRP: €11.89€7.97A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights.This edition was published in 2023 with a beautifully redesigned text and cover, to coincide with the National Theatre' revival. It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a... -
Like a Virgin by Gordon Steel
RRP: €14.27€13.11A romp through the bubble-gum years of teenage life. Angela and Mazine, besotted with Madonna, play truant from school, form a band, attempt to write songs and, with hairbrushes in hand, live out their adolescent dreams of becoming famous. Meanwhile... -
The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
RRP: €13.08€8.71It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early... -
A Christmas Carol: Play by Sir John Mortimer
€14.72Charles Dickens' tale of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from embittered skinflint to generous benefactor has been dramatized by Mortimer. It retains Dickens' own ironic point of view through the use of the a chorus to propel the drama.Book... -
Bussy D'Ambois: By George Chapman by N. S. Brooke 9780719056963
RRP: €23.79€20.75Revels stuff. . . .|This Edition of George Chapman's tragedy differs from all other modern editions in being primarily based on the Quarto of 1607 in preference to the much revised Quarto of 1641. N. S. Brooke believes that the earlier text gives a more... -
Shed: Exploded View by Phoebe Eclair-Powell 9781839042744
RRP: €14.27€9.96'There was a fork in her face. An actual fork. He dug a fork into her face. A fork stood on end in her cheek. A fork.' The smallest tremble. A smashed glass. The ripping apart of space and time. Three couples. Thirty years. Mothers and daughters... -
Jeeves & Wooster in 'Perfect Nonsense' by The Goodale Brothers
RRP: €14.27€9.96An inventive, fast-paced comedy featuring P.G. Wodehouse's iconic double act. Winner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker -... -
55 Days by Howard Brenton
RRP: €15.46€10.73A gripping historical play that dramatises a crucial moment of English history. December 1648. The Army has occupied London. Parliament votes not to put the imprisoned king on trial, so the Army moves against Westminster in the first and only military... -
Plays from VAULT 2: Five new plays from VAULT Festival by Tristan Bernays
RRP: €15.46€10.73This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival. The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told is exposed in Testament by Tristan Bernays. Four lesser-known biblical characters are... -
Rules for Living by Sam Holcroft
RRP: €13.08€9.17Everyone creates their own coping strategies or rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly? As long-held mechanisms for survival are laid... -
Stepping Out by Richard Harris
€14.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114151Author Richard HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: €17.84€13.03Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, The Robbers was his first play. A passionate... -
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan
RRP: €13.08€12.83You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. Everything that's worth living for. 1. Ice Cream 2. Kung... -
Visitors by Barney Norris
€14.72On a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can't afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can't afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger with blue hair moves in to care for Edie as her... -
Consent by Nina Raine
RRP: €13.08€9.17Why is Justice blind? Is she impartial? Or is she blinkered? Friends Ed and Tim take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of... -
Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: €13.08€12.82Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in... -
The History Boys: New Grade 9-1 GCSE English Literature AQA Text Guide (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: €7.13€5.32Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your... -
Welcome to Thebes by Moira Buffini
RRP: €13.08€8.71He put this gun into my hand and made me human once again.Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation. Without the aid of Theseus,... -
Word-Play by Rabiah Hussain
RRP: €13.08€9.17'History always ripples on. Even if we don't realise it.' In the Downing Street Press Office an emergency meeting has been called. The Prime Minister has been ad-libbing on live TV (again) and his words are going viral. There is a flurry of... -
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
RRP: €13.08€9.70"As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality." The Guardian A play-within-a-play... -
Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
RRP: €11.89€7.97Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short... -
Dr Faustus: A Guide (B Text) by Christopher Marlowe
€20.23Doctor Faustus exists in two versions, both of which were edited from performances in the time of Marlowe. Both are considered to be authentic, but there are notable differences, both the b text containing additional scenes as well as different wording... -
Oxford Student Texts: The Importance of Being Earnest by Jackie Moore
€13.99Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde... -
King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781909621923
RRP: €11.89€7.63In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of... -
Tarantula by Philip Ridley
RRP: €14.27€13.89Of course - as you've no doubt guessed - there's a big 'But Then' moment heading this way... It's a sunny, spring day in East London. On a street corner, two teenagers kiss. One of them is Toni. This is her first kiss. It makes her very happy. ... -
Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley 9780906399019
€12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Evening Standard Award - Most Promising Playwright 1977 and Plays & Players Award 1977 and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 1978 and Hollywood Dramalogue Critics Award... -
The World of Sanditon: The Official Companion to the ITV Series by Sara Sheridan
RRP: €23.80€17.08The official TV tie-in to accompany the ITV drama scripted by Andrew DaviesThe World of Sanditon delves behind the scenes of Sanditon, giving you the inside scoop on Jane Austen's unfinished masterpiece, adapted for television by Andrew Davies.Produced... -
The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: €10.70€8.87In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through... -
No Quarter by Polly Stenham
RRP: €13.08€8.71You were brought up on mythology. Hollow mythology. That's why you're all stuck, all angry, a prince in the wrong story. A prince with a black eye.Fleeing a world he has rejected, Robin finds solace in his music and the sanctuary of his remote family...