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Eccentric and hillarious, Georges Feydeau's much loved comedy mixes madness, mayhem, fun and frivolity. When the beautiful wife of Victor Chandebise suspects of having an affair, she enlists the help of her dearest friend to entrap him. Their plan to...

Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others. Critically acclaimed, this play...

In this radical new version of Peer Gynt, David Hare kidnaps Henrik Ibsen's most famous hero and runs away with him into the twenty-first century.Stripped of fretwork and greenery, the play is projected into a freewheeling modern world of music, dance,...

Ghosts is Ibsen's formidably realistic play about the effects of previous generations on the young, a stinging satire on contemporary Norwegian society and morality, and a haunting tragedy that, more than a century since it premiered, still retains its...

The three plays edited and translated in this volume are strongly linked to what we now think of as the Portuguese Discoveries. All three are fundamentally concerned with the expansion of Portugal in Africa and India through either crusade or...

Nobody says Shakespeare is dead. Antonio Fava tells us, but Commedia, they say, is dead. Why? Because clearly, he goes on, we have Shakespeare's texts, but nobody knows what to do with the improvisation that is the basis of the ""Commedia dell'Arte"",...

"Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from 1938 to 1955, the years of exile in Denmark, Sweden,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060928759Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Ghosts is Ibsen's haunting study of the lingering poison in a marriage based on a lie. Osvald Alving has returned from Paris to his mother's home, carrying with him a dreadful secret. His mother's delight at having him home soon turns to horror and grief...

Peer Gynt is a dreamer, a liar and a serial womaniser. Cast out from his hometown, Peer embarks on a wild and astonishing journey in search of fame and fortune that takes him from Norway to Africa and eventually back home again. This is an exhilarating...

As an internationally acclaimed playwright who is also proficient in Russian, Michael Frayn is ideally placed to offer us a wholly accurate yet modern and playable translation of Chekhov's classic play. For this edition he has also provided a full...

Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest precursors of modern drama. First published in 1989, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922819Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853992490Author Nikolai Vasilievich GogolFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573225083Author Jean AnouilhFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The Bildungsroman is a genre novel whose territory is well traveled, that of a young and often alienated hero on the cusp of maturity, intent on discovering who he or she is and being true to that identity. The German word Bildung refers to forming and...

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far behind others will follow... The young are waiting. In all their power. Knocking on the door.The master...

What if four children had been kept locked away in darkness and complete isolation since birth? What if, tonight, they were to be released? How would bodies and minds reared in darkness respond to the first words, the first lies, the first kisses? What...

Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.Informed by his own experience in French prisons, Jean Genet's first play,...

The work of German poet Frederich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) has inspired countless poets and philosophers from Paul Celan to Rainer Maria Rilke to Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. Yet, despite the international renown and respect his hymns and...

" Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Figaro Gets Divorced Two modern classics by Austrian dramatist, Odon von Horvath. Hampton's Don Juan Comes Back from the War was first performed at the Royal National Theatre. Figaro Gets Divorced, in which an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884092886Author Lars NorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Gordian Knot Books (imprint of Altschuler, Richard & Associates, Inc)Publisher Gordian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374717834Author Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572411807Author Felix MittererFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 318g

This 1995 critical study of Ibsen's A Doll's House addresses fundamental questions of text, reception and performance. What is the definitive 'version' of A Doll's House: original text, translation, stage presentation, radio version, adaptation to film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434457721Author Alexandre DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479400249Author Alexandre DumasFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and Rick Davis (A Doll House and Hedda Gabler). The...

The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156013109Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace International

Gotthold Lessing (1729-81), playwright, critic, humanist philosopher and polemicist was a leading figure of the German enlightnement era. From his immense literary output two plays stand out - The Jews and Nathan the Wise - for the passion of the writing...

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? In trying to answer these questions - usually ignored by...

Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dali, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico Garcia Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the...

One of Eduardo de Filippo's finest Neapolitan comedies Filumena Domenico is a former Neopolitan prostitute who has had three sons by three different fathers. As her sons become adults Filumena feels the pressing need to become respectable and so she...

"Includes the plays Don Carlos and Mary Stuart Major historical upheavals of the Sixteenth Century illuminate Schiller's increasingly troubled reaction to the present in these two plays. The huge epic Don Carlos (1787), a 'play expressing a view of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479400683Author Jean Francois MarmontelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150349Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 136g

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Bertolt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802131010Author Eugene IonescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams) 237g