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When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with Henry had fought the church...

The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.In The Art of Success the events of ten tumultuous years are compressed into a single night, as newlywed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362078Author Conor McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621709Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

On 15 October 2011, protest movement Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul's Cathedral. On 21 October 2011, a building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its doors. On 28 October, City of London initiates legal...

Ex-boxer Taylor Flint wants to put the past behind her. Yet back on the Hull estate where she grew up, she is drawn into running a boxercise class. For Lauren, Jazz, Aneta and Grace, boxercise soon becomes more than a way to lose weight and have a laugh...

'If you can cook, if you know flavour and taste and texture, people will pay you to do it. People always need to eat. Always.' They don't seem an obvious match. Joanne is spiky, defensive, a survivor; Paul is quiet, considered - and hiding profound...

Settled... Until suddenly you're not... Forced out of London by spiralling living costs, Cathy finds herself in an unfamiliar town with no friends and no money; pushed to make choices she doesn't want to make... Candid, poignant and intimate, Ali...

John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural...

Sophie is about to become a single mum - a third-generation one - and she's terrified. How will she afford to feed her baby? Or a Deluxe Snuggle Pod? Can she hold on to her job? What if she's crap at parenthood? Surely she can count on her own mum and...

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A bestselling, beautifully designed edition of William Shakespeare's sonnets and poems, complete with valuable tools for educators. The authoritative edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely...

A stranger washed up on the shores of a great city claims to be Odysseus, sacker of Troy. Bedraggled and desperate, he pleads for help to get back to his native land of Ithaca and his waiting wife Penelope. To do so he must tell his remarkable tale of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528267Author Peter GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573016073Author Ray CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare...

Karl Hendryk is a brilliant professor who, with his wife and her cousin, has fled persecution in his homeland and finds himself ensconced in London. The play concerns itself with the relationships the professor has with the women in his life. His wife,...

Well yes and no. It's sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon.Four couples gather in a suburban London home for a night of wine, cheese, and more intimate pleasures. Some are curious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573062308Author J. B. PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856761294Author Arthur SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof. They concoct a play-based on a perfumed letter-to trap him at the Hotel Coq d'Or in Montretout.5 women, 9 menBook...

This hilarious and heartbreaking play was seen at the Lyric Theatre, London in 1999. It is set in the foreseeable future when everything has changed except human nature; a future where TV daytime soaps are performed by android actors emotionally...

Collects some of the author's most famous writings, including plays, short stories, and essays.Book InformationISBN 9780802132376Author Harold PinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Avalon Travel PublishingPublisher Avalon Travel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111204Author Don W. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899747009Author Alistair McCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Upstart Crow PublicationsPublisher Upstart Crow Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899747009Author Alistair McCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Upstart Crow PublicationsPublisher Upstart Crow Publications

Full of warmth, understanding and humour, this is an affectionate and appealing portrait of an ordinary family struggling with change, bereavement and the generation gap. On his graduation day in 1978, John looks back over his teenage years, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486266879Author Richard Brinsley SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486266879Author Richard Brinsley SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session' Sunday Times 'A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation' Independent...

"Doug Lucie is perhaps the only young British dramatist with a truly distinctive voice and in Fashion, it is at its most splendidly scornful, bilious and charmless." Benedict Nightingale (The Times) Doug Lucie is one of Britain's most acerbic...

Anthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work for the stage is widely admired. In Two Plays, we see him tackling major monuments of French and Russian theatre: The Miser by Moliere and Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov. Miser,...

Music hall routines with clever and ribald lyrics highlight this British hit about an army entertainment unit in post World War II Malaya.1 woman, 10 menBook InformationISBN 9780573113475Author Peter NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel...

Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical...

A servant girl persuades her mistress to write to a man who made her pregnant during a brief romantic interlude. Only after the wedding does the young man discover it is the letter writer he loves.-4 women, 2 menBook InformationISBN 9780573015540Author...

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Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls by night.Book InformationISBN 9780573018022Author...

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Mag lives in a rustic cabin in the Canadian wilds, far from neighbours and further from her past. It's an unremarkable life, save for the enormous bear carcass on the kitchen table. But when her estranged daughter Beth turns up on the doorstep having...

A bitterly ironic portrait of Nigeria after Biafra Madmen and Specialists is one of Soyinka's most excoriating portrayals of abusers and abused in the new Nigeria ushered in by Biafra. Set in the 'surgery' of a doctor, the play is populated by mendicants...