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Othello: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48$12.50An intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction, Othello is arguably Shakespeare's most topical and accessible tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges... -
Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation by Martin Crimp
RRP: $19.48$13.07A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often... -
The Box of Delights by Piers Torday 9780571390151
RRP: $21.43$14.27Piers Torday's magical stage adaptation of the classic children's Christmas tale by John Masefield. There are tricks, and then there's magic!After a seemingly chance encounter on a train, orphaned schoolboy Kay Harker finds himself the guardian of a... -
Faith Healer by Brian Friel
RRP: $21.43$14.27'The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment... Brian Friel is the most profound and poetic of contemporary Irish dramatists.' ObserverThroughout the remote and forgotten corners of the... -
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
RRP: $21.43$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573017421Author Brian FrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6: Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Hero's Welcome; A Brief History of Women by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $37.03$25.02With an Introduction by the author.'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.' Evening StandardTime of My Life'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.' Wall Street JournalNeighbourhood... -
Grenfell: in the words of survivors by Gillian Slovo 9781839042638
RRP: $23.38$16.32'It was a tower block, but it was home.' The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twenty-four-storey residential tower. The scene of a national tragedy. This powerful... -
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48$13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451669411Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs
RRP: $25.33$16.69David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... -
The Sweet Science of Bruising by Joy Wilkinson
RRP: $21.43$15.03'When that bell rings, your life is entirely in your hands.' London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets,... -
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane 9780413748300
RRP: $23.38$21.494.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression. On February 20, 1999, aged 28, the playwright committed suicide. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters... -
The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft
RRP: $21.43$15.03A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Across seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid old wardrobe. It's the safest place they know - ... -
Death's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 9781857545999
RRP: $38.90$25.84"Death's Jest-Book" is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting. Conceived as a... -
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 9780141396583
RRP: $15.58$11.29'I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespeare' George Bernard ShawThe beautiful and witty Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. But when she is pursued by the wily Petruchio, it seems that she has finally met her match... -
The Human Body by Lucy Kirkwood 9781839043260
RRP: $21.43$15.03'The window for change - real change I mean - will close. It's already closing. Very soon it will be shut, and we shan't be able to get it open again.' 1948, Shropshire: the winter is freezing, austerity is biting and Iris Elcock, GP, socialist and... -
The Unfriend by Steven Moffat
RRP: $21.43$15.03'We're dying of manners. We're under siege from personal embarrassment. This is not sane. This is not rational. That woman is a monster!' While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than... -
The Rover and Other Plays by Aphra Behn 9780199540204
RRP: $17.53$12.89Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her... -
Scuttlers by Rona Munro
RRP: $23.38$16.32A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester. It's 1882 and the streets of Manchester are crackling with energy, youth and... -
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
RRP: $19.48$17.20Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennial mistake of elderly bachelors in English comedy and... -
Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
RRP: $21.43$15.15'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny'Daily TelegraphIn Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
RRP: $37.03$25.02This fifth collection of Tom Stoppard's plays brings together five classic plays by one of the most celebrated dramatists writing in the English language.The collection includes The Real Thing, Night & Day, Hapgood, Indian Ink and Arcadia, about which... -
Patriots by Peter Morgan
RRP: $19.48$13.07If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibility but the duty to become Russian heroes.1991. The Fall of the Soviet Union.With the dawning of a new Russia, there are winners and losers, and today's... -
Growth by Luke Norris
RRP: $25.33$17.59A painful comedy about growing up and manning up. Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off. He's successfully ignored his lump for two years but it's starting to get in the way - cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there... -
The James Plays by Rona Munro
RRP: $38.98$27.61Rona Munro's vividly imagined historical cycle brings to life three generations of Stewart kings who ruled Scotland in the tumultuous fifteenth century. James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock explores the complex character of the colourful Stewart King -... -
Behan Complete Plays by Brendan Behan
RRP: $44.83$44.56This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148398
RRP: $21.43$15.15The 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: $15.58$11.29Oscar 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: $21.43$15.03His 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: $21.43$18.84The 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: $23.38$21.35Apologies 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 -
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
RRP: $21.43$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573130106Author Robert HarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd -
International Connections: New Plays for Young People by Cecily Gayford 9780571216475
RRP: $33.13$22.58With 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: $21.43$14.27At 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: $39.00$27.87The 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: $11.68$9.95Exam 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: $19.48$13.07A 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: $23.38$21.49A 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: $21.43$14.27It 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
$24.12Charles 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: $38.98$34.01Revels 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...