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![The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780330458436 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9834687/10851215/9780330458436__90093.1782890511.jpg?c=1 "The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780330458436 [USED COPY]")
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780330458436 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.96Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? What makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? And how has Shakespeare come to be such a powerful symbol of genius? The Genius... -
Swimming with Sharks by George Huang
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25From bringing him coffee to getting him laid, it's up to new assistant and aspiring screenwriter Guy to satisfy every whim of the incendiary Buddy Ackerman, powerful movie producer and the boss from... -
The Pinter Ethic: The Erotic Aesthetic Penelope Prentice 9780815338864
Booksplease Price: £49.90The only comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists, The Pinter Ethic penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with compelling... -
A Walk On Part: The Fall of New Labour by Chris Mullin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Chris Mullin's witty and irreverent take on contemporary politics adapted for the stage, reflecting three worlds during a time of crisis and change - the febrile political village of Westminster, the... -
The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley 9780993344701
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.40Three unhappy characters, flee from their old lives to seek adventure on the open road. Fate brings them together and into the presence of a broken-down theatrical touring company. Throwing caution... -
Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of... -
Year of the King by Anthony Sher
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Other early 'stand-out' roles came in the premieres of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979) and Mike Leigh's Goose Pimples (1981). He was Malcolm Bradbury's History Man on TV (1981) before joining the... -
The Oxford Guide to Plays by Michael Patterson
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £14.77Anyone with an academic, professional, amateur, or recreational interest in the theatre is likely to want to look up details of particular plays sometimes - perhaps to check on the author, or on when... -
![Calderon Plays: v.1: "The Surgeon of Honour"," Life is a Dream", "Three Judgements in One" by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 9780413634603](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5158494/5235756/9780413634603__03665.1724535984.jpg?c=1 "Calderon Plays: v.1: "The Surgeon of Honour"," Life is a Dream", "Three Judgements in One" by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 9780413634603")
Calderon Plays: v.1: "The Surgeon of Honour"," Life is a Dream", "Three Judgements in One" by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 9780413634603
Booksplease Price: £26.60In recent years, the English-language theatre has rediscovered Calderon and a number of highly successful productions have been staged. These translations by Gwynne Edwards capture the ferocious... -
![Daniels Plays: v. 1: "Ripen Our Darkness", "Devil's Gateway", "Masterpieces", "Neaptide", "Byrthrite" by Sarah Daniels 9780413649300 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9909259/10925790/9780413649300__61756.1786475992.jpg?c=1 "Daniels Plays: v. 1: "Ripen Our Darkness", "Devil's Gateway", "Masterpieces", "Neaptide", "Byrthrite" by Sarah Daniels 9780413649300 [USED COPY]")
Daniels Plays: v. 1: "Ripen Our Darkness", "Devil's Gateway", "Masterpieces", "Neaptide", "Byrthrite" by Sarah Daniels 9780413649300 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £2.71Ripen Our Darkness was the play that established Sarah Daniels as a writer; The Devil's Gateway carries the flavour of life in Bethnal Green in the 1980s; Masterpieces, Daniels' most controversial... -
Invincible by Torben Betts 9781783191109
Booksplease Price: £12.27The recession is biting hard and so Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and to work and... -
Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden 9781474612821
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves'DAILY TELEGRAPHThe voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a... -
My City by Stephen Poliakoff 9781408159637
Booksplease Price: £14.24Heralding a return to the stage for renowned dramatist Stephen Poliakoff, My City is a lyrical exploration of storytelling, interwoven personal and political histories, memory and the ties of the... -
Plays by Women: v. 9 by Annie Castledine 9780413658500
Booksplease Price: £25.91Volume Nine in Methuen's highly successful series of anthologies provides a stunning selection of plays chosen by theatre director Annie Castledine. In addition to 'these fine new translations by... -
13 by Mike Bartlett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Work out what you want and go for it with all your conviction and don't care if you seem outrageous or stupid... All that's needed, in the end, is belief. An identical, terrifying dream haunts... -
A Museum in Baghdad by Hannah Khalil
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49This is about my responsibility. Doing what is right. Being where I'm needed. I've started a job and I must finish it. I owe it to the people of Iraq. In 1926, the nation of Iraq is in its... -
Fix Up by Kwame Kwei-Armah 9780413774972
Booksplease Price: £14.84It's Black History month but you wouldn't know it in Tottenham where Revive PLC plan to turn Kwesi's All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats, and it looks like Kiyi's 'conscious' bookstore... -
The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero 9781783191352
Booksplease Price: £14.76'That is what marriage gives - the right to destroy years and years of life.'Venice, Easter 1895. In the cafes around St Mark's Square, all the gossip among the English ex-pat community is about two... -
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance: An Un-historical Parable by John Arden 9780413492609
Booksplease Price: £13.26Set between 1860 and 1880, four deserters bring the body of a dead soldier back to his home town, a mining community in the grip of a coal strike and cut off by snow. Their leader, Serjeant Musgrave,... -
![The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties: "Roots", "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance", "Loot", "Early Morning" The "Ruling Class" by Arnold Wesker 9781408105887](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/7892053/8928082/9781408105887__41895.1747228337.jpg?c=1 "The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties: "Roots", "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance", "Loot", "Early Morning" The "Ruling Class" by Arnold Wesker 9781408105887")
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties: "Roots", "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance", "Loot", "Early Morning" The "Ruling Class" by Arnold Wesker 9781408105887
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Five outstanding plays from the British theatre of the 1960s. This volume contains major works by five of the most important playwrights ot emerge during the late fifties and early sixties. Bold,... -
![Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott 9780141976327 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9702440/10719144/9780141976327__72728.1781357473.jpg?c=1 "Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott 9780141976327 [USED COPY]")
Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott 9780141976327 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.57'I think we're fucked' Stephen EmmottTen Billion is a book about us.It's a book about you, your children, your parents, your friends. It's about every one of us. It's about our failure: failure as... -
Dream of Perfect Sleep by Kevin Kautzman 9781783191659
Booksplease Price: £14.24Dream of Perfect Sleep is the story of an ageing couple, Mary and Gene, and their adult children - recovering-addict Robert and new-ager Melissa. Mary suffers from severe vertigo and just wants to... -
Crime Passionnel by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413310101
Booksplease Price: £13.45"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... -
The Chair Plays: Have I None, The Under Room and Chair by Edward Bond 9781408172797
Booksplease Price: £14.24'I am nothing. Nobody. One day I could forget what I have done. Then I am nothing with no past. My knife is to tell me who I am. It is my passport to myself.' The Chair Plays are three one-act plays... -
Chicken Soup with Barley by Arnold Wesker 9781408156605
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99The kettle boils in 1936 as the fascists are marching. Tea is brewed in 1946, with disillusion in the air at the end of the war. Twenty years on, in 1956, as rumours spread of Hungarian revolution,... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9781350350274
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Almost 170 years on, Charlotte Bronte's story of the trailblazing Jane is as inspiring as ever. This bold and dynamic production uncovers one woman's fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms... -
!["Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413492708 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9951006/10967487/9780413492708__38262.1786534302.jpg?c=1 ""Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413492708 [USED COPY]")
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9780413492708 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.87This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language... -
Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People by Richard Eyre
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.23A superlative account of how theatre is made, in the words of the very people who make it. In Talking Theatre, Richard Eyre uses his unrivalled access to leading theatre people to allow us to... -
A Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun. The figure of... -
!["The Beauty Queen of Leenane" by Martin McDonagh](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/919309/919020/9780413707307__43828.1687821875.jpg?c=1 ""The Beauty Queen of Leenane" by Martin McDonagh")
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" by Martin McDonagh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68The Beauty Queen of Leenane was first presented as a Druid Theatre/Royal Court Theatre co-production in January 1996. Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane... -
The Glee Club by Richard Cameron 9780413772497
Booksplease Price: £14.45A brilliant new play by one of the UK's most established contemporary playwrights The Glee Club, made up of five hard working, hard drinking miners and a church organist is preparing for the local... -
Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education by Michael Simkins 9780091927530
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks worldly sophistication. While she spent her... -
Broken Glass Arthur Miller 9781350245082
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64"It's moral vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish Broken Glass." - The New York Times When Sylvia Gellburg, a young Jewish... -
The Westbridge by Rachel De-lahay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49'Everyone lived perfectly happily round here together before you young ones try to integrate and confuse things.' The accusation of a Black teenager sparks disturbance on the South London streets... -
The Red Devils Trilogy by Debbie Horsfield 9780413419002
Booksplease Price: £14.45Described as 'the funniest woman dramatist since Shelagh Delaney (Michael Billington, Guardian), Debbie Horsfield has created a formidable quartet, Alice, Nita, Phil and Beth: these are the 'Red... -
Days of Significance by Roy Williams 9780713683288
Booksplease Price: £13.64Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing and performed by Dominic Cooke's Pericles and The Winter's Tale Company, Roy Williams' Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts... -
![Crime Passionnel by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413310101 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9707277/10723965/9780413310101__44443.1781365315.jpg?c=1 "Crime Passionnel by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413310101 [USED COPY]")
Crime Passionnel by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413310101 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.98"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... -
Good C. P. Taylor 9781350376274
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Professor John Halder is a 'good' man. But 'good' men must adapt to survive. As the world faces its Second World War, Halder finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. ... -
Red by John Logan
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.99"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New Yorker Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening... -
!["Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9781408125755](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1853145/1852717/9781408125755__34385.1707214710.jpg?c=1 ""Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9781408125755")
"Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht 9781408125755
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49Mother Courage was first performed in Zurich in 1941 and is usually seen as Brecht's greatest work. Remaining a powerful indictment of war and social injustice, it is an epic drama set in the...