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Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts'...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853992568Author Anton Pavlovich ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Theatre and theatregoing was central to the cultural life of later eighteenth-century Britain. In this engaging work, Jean I. Marsden explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Using...

Nadia Blye is a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and background is a surprise and a challenge, both to...

Archie Rice is a failure as a comedian. News of his son's death while on military service arrives as the family is anticipating his return with a party. Archie tries to stage a comeback for his befuddled, has-been father who, mercifully, dies in the...

Coward's 'forgotten' play, published to tie in with its world premiereIn his wickedly funny final play, NoeI Coward takes us behind the scenes of a new West End production. Conjuring up an authentic backstage world of talent and treachery, Coward creates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964295Author Oliver GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573702877Author Dennis KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

"A highly entertaining political political thriller...the play shows where that peculiarly Gallic combinations of sex, politics and suspense has its origins" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Crime Passionnel reflects Sartre's fascination with the mentality...

Blonde Poison is based on the true story of a Jewish woman during World War II who betrayed up to 3,000 fellow Jews. Gail Louw's powerful play examines the motivation of evil. Stella Goldschlag was living illegally in war-torn Berlin when she herself was...

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'The great importance of these plays is not that we are given many thoughts to further our understanding of anthroposophy, but that we are shown the transforming power of spiritual striving in individual lives, and especially the development in human...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's shocking and suspenseful novel Lady Audley's Secret was one of the most popular examples of the "sensation fiction" craze of the 1860s. Within a year of the novel appearing in book form, no less than three theatrical...

Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573115455Author Mufaro MakubikaFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

If there is anyone who should be the children's playwright laureate it is David Wood' (Evening Standard) The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See - '...the funniest, prettiest and most melodious children's show I have ever seen' (Guardian); The BFG - 'Any...

Although it was written shortly before or after Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 and performed by the boy company at Blackfriars, this play foreshadows the light ladies and callous gallants of Restoration comedy. Passion is a scourge, love is humiliation,...

The first collection of its kind, Chartist Drama makes available four plays written or performed by members of the Chartist movement of the 1840s. Emerging from the lively counter-culture of this protest campaign for democratic rights, these plays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573051197Author Jacqui ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Walter Greenwood's depiction of a northern town in the midst of the thirties' depression.Book InformationISBN 9780573012525Author Ronald GowFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 140g

Dramatic new play of crime and redemption by winner of Pearson Most Promising New Playwright Award, 2001 A story of crime and redemption, starting at the mouth of the River Thames and moving across England over twenty years. It begins with a life choice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780571211098Author Michael FraynFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Faber IncPublisher Faber Inc

The McKenna family convenes at their remote West Ireland holiday home to mark the 21st birthday of their late son Gene. Eccentric cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday cake and conversation, and ready to expose a family...

A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels The Monstrous Regiment in question is made up of a vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), a troll, Igor (who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too particular...

In this merry comedy of marital mishaps the, scene is set for an evening and morning of riotous misunderstandings and mistaken identities as the guilty parties in question try desperately to keep their romantic secrets secret!3 women, 3 menBook...

Alan Bennett is the acknowledged master of the television play. This vintage collection of his work from the 1970s illustrates his skill and mastery of the medium from the beginning. Perceptive, poignant, truthful and very funny, the work here gives as...

Rory Stewart, a thirty year old former British diplomat and soldier of distinction and accomplishment, is posted to serve as governor in a province of the newly liberated Iraq. His job is to help build a new civil society at peace with itself and its...

Class 6 are well-behaved, hard-working... and bored. Every day is much the same and then Mr Parker, the supply teacher, sets them an interesting project: to re-enact Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world in 1577. Within minutes the room is...

"Blue Murder is an absolute cracker, as ingenious as it is riotously funny" (Daily Telegraph) Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury and the drinks are laced with cyanide. As the son of the...

The eighth volume in the Coward Collection includes I'll Leave It To You and The Young Idea, the first of Coward's plays ever to be produced. These were, as he said, "enthusiastically acclaimed by the critics and ran five weeks and eight weeks...

Everyone has their dream, and this is no exception for the six mice living in the loft. Their dreams are conjured up by music as each hears a different tune played by an invisible Piper and each has to answer his call until only Tattymouse, who is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573114915Author Matthew BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Over the last forty years, French director Ariane Mnouchkine and her theater collective, Le Theatre du Soleil, have devised a form of research and creation that is both engaged with contemporary history and committed to reinvigorating theater by focusing...

There was an owl sat up an oak;The more he heard the less he spoke;The less he spoke, the more he heard;Oh that we were all like that wise old bird. The verbatim monologues in Deep Heat are drawn from conversations Robin Soans has had or overheard, or...

'I'm so sick of hearing about family. Of feeling guilty for not enjoying family. Or being pressured into joining a standing ovation for a show I didn't particularly care for in the first place.' Two estranged sisters meet after twenty years. In a remote...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787804111Author Margaret CavendishFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm

'Three years ago the doomsayers were predicting the end. Financial apocalypse. But the system survived. Because the system works. Time to take advantage of the goodies on offer.'1978, New York. John Anderson is barely out of college and has landed...

A caustic new comedy by one of Scotland's most important contemporary playwrights When Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to meet his family. Derek's mother is in a nursing...

Terence Rattigan's epic and probing drama about the man immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia. Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn and with a talent for self-concealment, the mysterious Aircraftman Ross seems an odd recruit for the Royal Air Force. In fact the...