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The Psychology of Tragic Drama Patrick Roberts 9781032914985
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of... -
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by Sorrel Kerbel
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £62.54Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study.This volume: examines canonical... -
Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation by Martin Crimp
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.26A 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... -
Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster by Andrew Murray Scott 9781849210720
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in the... -
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson's Pamela by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Go on then: lock the doors and see what happens. Show me how much power you really have.When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other breaks through the surface of contemporary debate to explore the... -
Not One Of These People by Martin Crimp
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy? If a playwright's job is to make dialogue, is there a... -
Perspectives on Contemporary Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett 9780807124208
Booksplease Price: £24.43Contemporary theatre is nearly as controversial as the changing society it reflects. Much of its journalistic notoriety derives from its seeming advocacy of behavior, language, and ideas once... -
Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature by Dr. Tomáš Jirsa 9781501362347
Booksplease Price: £91.39What happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an... -
Disformations: Affects, Media, Literature by Dr. Tomas Jirsa 9781501374890
Booksplease Price: £33.84What happens when forms fall apart? And how do affects such as fear, shock, fascination, and desire drive and shape formal disturbances in modern literature, cinema, and contemporary art? Opening an... -
Writing for Nothing: Fiction, Short Plays, Texts for Opera by Martin Crimp
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her... -
The Seagull: by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Martin Crimp by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Young girl lives on shore of lake since childhood - like you. Loves the lake - like the seagull. Is happy and free - like the seagull. Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys... -
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller 9780811203227
Booksplease Price: £12.10One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them... -
Zenobia by Gellu Naum 9780810112551
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24One of the best-known novels by prolific Romanian avant-garde writer Gelu Naum, Zenobia is the evocation of the singular quest of a Surrealist knight-errant who strives to be true to the gentle... -
In the Republic of Happiness by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95- What're you doing here Robert? - Well to be frank with you, I've really no idea. I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared. A family Christmas is interrupted by the... -
Modern Monologues: v.2: Women by Michael Earley 9780413672209
Booksplease Price: £20.95The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre - and the plays most constantly performed are represented in this unique collection. Playwrights include: Ayckbourn, Bond, Beckett,... -
Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama: From Handke to Shepard by Jeanette R. Malkin 9780521383356
Booksplease Price: £90.57In this book, Jeanette Malkin considers a broad spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. The playwrights examined include Handke, Pinter, Bond,... -
The Psychology of Tragic Drama Patrick Roberts 9781032914978
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of... -
New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American Sara Kippur 9781503642614
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation-from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo-but less often appreciated is the... -
New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American Sara Kippur 9781503643086
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation-from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo-but less often appreciated is the... -
Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.21This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a frightening voyage to the next dimension, assisted by a teenaged Captain, a... -
The Dark Comedy by J. L. Styan 9780521095297
Booksplease Price: £33.50Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforwardly heroic; the subject-matter seems at some times grimly realistic and at... -
High Energy Electrons in Radiation Therapy by A. Zuppinger 9783540101888
Booksplease Price: £46.28Radiotherapy using fast electrons, whether alone or in combination with high-voltage, has met with increasing interest in the last few years. This book provides a useful account of the present state... -
Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France by Leonard C. Pronko 9780520360389
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France explores the evolution and significance of the avant-garde theater in France from its inception in the late 19th century to its flourishing in the... -
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature Michael Y. Bennett 9781032188133
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are... -
Language-Paradox-Poetics: A Chinese Perspective by Richard John Lynn 9780691606187
Booksplease Price: £32.93In attempting to define a "poetics of paradox" from a traditional Chinese standpoint, James Liu explores through a comparative approach linguistic, textual, and interpretive problems of relevance to... -
Roman Comedy against the Subject Mario Telò 9780198920090
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £76.92Roman Comedy against the Subject provides an expansive interpretation of four Roman comedies named after objects--Plautus's Cistellaria, Aulularia, and Rudens, and Terence's Eunuchus. In this book,... -
Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying... -
The False Servant by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own?When Lelio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of... -
Pains of Youth by Martin Crimp
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95You could do insane twenty hours shifts in theatre. You could be mother of ten children. You could be toughest whore on the block. You contain all possibilities. You are the ultimate cliche of... -
Cousins by Aurora Venturini 9780571372393
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23** With an introduction by Mariana Enriquez **A Granta Book of the Year'Cruel and strange and colourful.' Catherine Lacey 'Brimming with life, humour and a vital twist of darkness.' Alexandra Kleeman... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he... -
The River Underground: Selected Poems & Prose by Jean Tardieu 9781852240998
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Jean Tardieu's poetry has an almost child-like simplicity, and in France his work is studied both in universities and in primary schools. Yet while he is a household name in France and has been... -
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz 9780300181678
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.89In this bitterly funny novel a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in... -
Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent by Colin Chambers
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38With a new foreword by Stewart Pringle, Playwright and Dramaturg of the National Theatre of Great Britain. Winner of the 1997 Theatre Book Prize Peggy Ramsay was the most admired British play... -
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady
Booksplease Price: £39.23George Orson Welles (1915-1985) is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. At just twenty-five years old, he co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in his... -
Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee by Edward Albee 9780786717996
Booksplease Price: £16.39America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50 years. Beginning with his debut play, The Zoo Story... -
Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque by Mary Ann Frese Witt 9781611475388
Booksplease Price: £85.65Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the... -
the end of history by Jack Thorne
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10"No talent at all when it comes to cooking - as you will discover - but when it comes to pissing off my children - immense talent - Olympian talent." Newbury, 1997. Sal is attempting to cook... -
Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy by Josephine Gray 9781786615091
Booksplease Price: £95.49This critical intervention in the study of the comic seeks to investigate how the comic act is also an expressive and performative philosophical act that precedes philosophical conceptualisation. The... -
Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country by Martin Crimp
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.98This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country.'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The...