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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9781350116788
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.54This revised Student Edition of Ibsen's popular play contains introductory commentary and notes by Sophie Duncan, which offer a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics and consider seminal productions and adaptations of the play into the 21st... -
The House Of Bernarda Alba: La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713686777
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.54Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of women within Catholic Spain in the years before the war... -
"Antigone" by Jean Anouilh
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.06'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.00Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Shocking in subject-matter, revolutionary in technique, it was fiercely attacked on publication for... -
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957.HAMM: Clov!CLOV: Yes.HAMM: Nature has forgotten us.CLOV: There's no more nature.HAMM: No more nature!... -
Frisch Three Plays: "Fire Raisers", "Andorra", "Triptych" by Max Frisch 9780413665607
Booksplease Price: £23.72Three contentious and enduring plays about the clash of the individual and society Fire Raisers (1958) tells the tale of a respectable bourgeois whose house is one day visited by three strangers. It "is successful on every level; the story is as gripping... -
Lorca: Three Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.91Three of Federico Garcia Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume, translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford. 'There's fire burning in my head. There's an ocean drowning my heart.' Lorca's... -
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51'Betrayal is a new departure and a bold one . . . Pinter has found a way of making memory active and dramatic, giving an audience the experience of the mind's accelerating momentum as it pieces together the past with a combination of curiosity and regret... -
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach ids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears... -
Don Juan and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.61Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own... -
Faust, Part I by Goethe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract or wager with the devil, Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seek to grant him a moment in life so... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780413771001
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.54A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation 'The play has been flooded with light, like a room with the curtains drawn back' John Peter, Sunday Times'The direct simplicity of this new translation ..... -
Four Major Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.19`I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish... -
Art by Yasmina Reza
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.51Serge 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... -
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.89The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and... -
Cold War by Conor McPherson 9781839043093
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.18Poland, 1949. Zula is bold and brilliant, a singer who ignites the stage. Wiktor is withdrawn and damaged, a composer longing to write. Irresistibly drawn to each other, they dream of escape. But in Communist-controlled Poland, the desire for freedom can... -
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.57Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy,... -
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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Christopher 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... -
A Servant to Two Masters Joseph Farrell 9781408131053
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.85This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a... -
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by Mary Lefkowitz
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983098Author Mary LefkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1066gDimensions(mm)... -
Phedre by Jean Racine 9781853994593
Booksplease Price: £23.91A critical edition of Racine's "Ph dre." The introduction examines the central facets of the play's enduring capacity to move and disturb its audience and readers, and includes a survey of 20th century productions. There is a section on... -
Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.62Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of... -
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles This volume brings together four of Moliere's... -
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.50This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the... -
Many Moons by Alice Birch
Booksplease Price: £12.65Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is and Meg has resigned herself to never having it. As these four people move through a July day in London, they orbit each other, unaware that they are hurtling... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.54Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'. It is possibly Lorca's harshest play following a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness... -
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.84A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading... -
Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.20Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age. When the people of the town of Fuente Ovejuna revolt against their tyrannical overlord and murder him, the... -
Blood Wedding: MCE by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713685169 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.35Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded... -
Blood Wedding: MCE by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413772671
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.11'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,... -
The Complete Plays Anton Chekhov 9780393330694
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.12This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their... -
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay 9780140432206
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century.In THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, John Gay turned conventions of Italian... -
The Trial, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony: Three Theatre adaptations from Franz Kafka Franz Kafka 9781738476909
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Three distinctive adaptations from a master of total theatre, Steven Berkoff fuses all the elements of drama together in a whole theatrical experience. Combining movement and mime with text to achieve a heightened dramatic intensity, Berkoff takes... -
An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Written in the aftermath of hostile criticism of Ghosts, Ibsen's three plays all deal with the moral courage needed to tell the truth. They are peopled not by symbolic figures and abstract concepts, but by complex individuals pitted against, or part of,... -
War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era: Sir Charles Stewart, Castlereagh and the Balance of Power in Europe by Reider Payne 9781350196100
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £27.73The lives and careers of Sir Charles Stewart and his brother Lord Castlereagh take in a grand stage, from Britain and Ireland to the kingdoms and empires of western and central Europe. Throughout his life Stewart played a key role in shaping Europe: his... -
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9781848420632 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her... -
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9781848420632
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.61Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it. Helene Alving has spent her life suspended in an emotional void after the death of her... -
Miss Julie and Other Plays by Johan August Strindberg
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65The 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,...