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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9781350116788
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47This 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... -
The House Of Bernarda Alba: La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713686777
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47Bernarda 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... -
"Antigone" by Jean Anouilh
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31'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,... -
Miss Julie by August Strindberg 9780413775825
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40Miss 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... -
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.67Originally 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... -
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39This 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... -
Lorca: Three Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.63Three 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... -
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71'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... -
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.67What 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... -
Don Juan and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.03Contains: 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... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00Love 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... -
Faust, Part I by Goethe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Goethe'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... -
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov 9780413771001
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55A 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... -
Four Major Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39`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... -
Art by Yasmina Reza
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71Serge 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... -
Christ Recrucified by Nikos Kazantzakis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The 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... -
Cold War by Conor McPherson 9781839043093
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.78Poland, 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... -
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.40Antigone 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... -
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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.73Christopher 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... -
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides by Mary Lefkowitz
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $22.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983098Author Mary LefkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint -
Faust: Part One by J. W. von Goethe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39The legend of Faust grew up in the sixteenth century, a time of transition between medieval and modern culture in Germany. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) adopted the story of the wandering... -
Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.46Taken 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... -
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.51'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 ... -
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780713683264
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55Yerma (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... -
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.12A 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... -
Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $6.27Drama 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... -
Blood Wedding: MCE by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47Blood 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... -
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo 9780413772671
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.55'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... -
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen 9781848420632
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19Richard 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... -
Miss Julie and Other Plays by Johan August Strindberg
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.58The 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... -
Faust, Part II by Goethe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust... -
Us/Them by Carly Wijs
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.70In September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking hundreds of children, their parents and teachers hostage. The ensuing siege lasted three days and left... -
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht 9780713685114
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55This Student Edition of Brecht's classic satire on the rise of Hitler features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters,... -
The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother by Pierre Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais 9780199539970
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.85The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put... -
The Threepenny Opera: v.2 by Bertolt Brecht 9780413390301 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.04Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society... -
An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen 9781839043345
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28When Dr Stockmann makes a disturbing discovery about the healing waters in his local baths, he holds the future of the whole town in his hands. But doubt spreads faster than disease, and those with... -
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss 9780714503615
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714503615Author Peter WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9780199539239
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.76`Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.' The first English... -
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry 9780486426877
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $4.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486426877Author Alfred JarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen 9780571336753
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free.This vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer, Three Days in the Country) opened at the National Theatre, London, in December 2016.'A bold,...