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The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy by Sean Carney 9781442613973
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark... -
New Readings in British Drama: From the Post-War Period To the Contemporary Era by Mesut Gunenc 9783631860229
RRP: £34.50Booksplease Price: £31.72"New Readings in British Drama: From the Post-War Period to the Contemporary Era" oers new readings of British plays produced after the Second World War by underlining the fact that... -
Celebrity Translation in British Theatre: Relevance and Reception, Voice and Visibility by Dr Robert Stock 9781350199132
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book explores the impact that high-profile and well-known translators have on audience reception of translated theatre. Using Relevance Theory as a framework, the book demonstrates how prior... -
Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre by Mireia Aragay 9783110546743
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.68Drawing primarily on Judith Butler's, Jacques Derrida's, Emmanuel Levinas's and Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation,... -
New Performance/New Writing by John Freeman 9781137467669
Booksplease Price: £96.35Contemporary theatre is going through a period of unparalleled excitement and challenge. Terms like 'postmodern' and 'postdramatic' have their own contested and defended histories, while notions of... -
EU Trade Strategies: Regionalism and Globalism by Edward Fogarty 9781403915108
Booksplease Price: £90.56All is not well in the World Trade Organization. Does a global economy require global institutions? One possible alternative is interregionalism: Economic integration between two distinct regions... -
Of Precariousness: Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre by Mireia Aragay 9783110651591
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £17.38Drawing primarily on Judith Butler's, Jacques Derrida's, Emmanuel Levinas's and Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation,... -
Magnificent Prayer: 366 Devotions to Deepen Your Prayer Experience (A Daily Devotional) by Nick Harrison 9780310238447
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Have you ever sensed that you’ve seen just the foothills of what prayer is about? Do you long for more? Magnificent Prayer points you toward the heights of communion with God. Drawing insights from... -
The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide: How to Make Your Show A Success by Mark Fisher 9781408132524
Booksplease Price: £20.70'Ah! The Fringe! I can't think of a more delightful way of putting my liver, bank account, relationship, complexion, and mental stability under the greatest strain they've ever known!' Mel Giedroyc ... -
The Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization: The Dragon Goes Global by Hui Feng 9780415650984
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China's accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an 'inside' look at Chinese WTO... -
EU Trade Strategies: Regionalism and Globalism by Vinod K. Aggarwal 9781403932587
Booksplease Price: £92.16All is not well in the World Trade Organization. Does a global economy require global institutions? One possible alternative is interregionalism: Economic integration between two distinct regions... -
The Contemporary Political Play: Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure by Sarah Grochala 9781472588470
Booksplease Price: £96.35What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs?... -
Theatre Uncut: The Anthology by Theatre Uncut
Booksplease Price: £17.19Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to publicspending since WWII - cuts which are the turning point of a generation,... -
In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today by Aleks Sierz 9780571200498
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomethings whose debuts startled critics and audiences with... -
Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy by Margherita Laera 9783034308076
RRP: £61.80Booksplease Price: £55.22Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the... -
Dea by Edward Bond
Booksplease Price: £14.24To be sane or not to be sane, that is the question - and if not, then be mad and all that follows. Edward Bond takes from the Greek and Jacobean drama the fundamental classical problems of the... -
Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender Michelene Wandor 9780415138567
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key,... -
Love and Money Dennis Kelly (Author) 9781350258754
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.49David conducts an office romance by e-mail. He has love at his fingertips. But a shocking admission unravels his relationship piece by chilling piece. Jess loves David. She believes happiness can be... -
British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics by Mireia Aragay 9780230005099
Booksplease Price: £46.74This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre - the 1990s. With a... -
Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development by Mark Beeson 9781137332356
Booksplease Price: £44.31This book examines the distinctive evolution of the political and economic relationships of East Asia. It does this by placing East Asian development in the unique historical circumstances that have... -
Mike Bartlett by William C. Boles 9781032191935
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Hailed as one of the most talented playwrights to have emerged in the late 2000s, Mike Bartlett's diverse range of plays strike at the heart of the various crises predominant in the early... -
Frontline Drama : The French Issue: v. 6: One More Wasted Year; Agnes; The Northern Fox; Mickey the Torch; A Desire to Kill... by David Bradby 9780413713308
Booksplease Price: £33.84Published in conjunction with the Royal Court Theatre, this volume includes translations of five extraordinary new plays from France which were presented as part of the French Theatre Season in... -
Death, The One and the Art of Theatre by Howard Barker
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Death, The One and the Art of Theatre is the latest collection of Barkers distinctive and revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is a stunning array of speculations, deductions, prose poems... -
The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting by Dominic Dromgoole 9780413771346
Booksplease Price: £24.92Now out in paperback, this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama which celebrates the plays and playwrights at the forefront of theatre today All the way from A-Z,... -
The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years by Uwe Boker 9789042014008
Booksplease Price: £79.46The present collection of essays is the outcome of the Oscar Wilde conference held at the Technical University of Dresden, 31 August - 3 September 2000. The papers cover a wide range of historical... -
Regionalism and Globalism in Southeast Asia by Eero Palmujoki 9780333734773
Booksplease Price: £46.28Eero Palmujoki examines the regionalist debate in Southeast Asia from the end of the Cold War up to the beginning of the new millennium. He focuses on the organization of the ASEAN (Association of... -
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Patrick Marber's "Closer" by Graham Saunders 9780826492050
Booksplease Price: £113.11A comprehensive critical introduction to the "Closer", giving students an overview of the background and context; detailed analysis of the play's structure, style, characters etc; analysis of key... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men by Chrys Salt 9780413772923
Booksplease Price: £20.95This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Howard Brenton and Bryony Lavery to Charlotte Jones and Mark... -
Doldrum Bay by Hilary Fannin 9780413773623
Booksplease Price: £14.45A new play by one of Ireland's most astute young writers "This is the problem with love - it is so fucking unpalatable...Every disease I have is caused by love, loving other people too much. Bald,... -
Breakout: the most explosive and gripping action thriller of the year Paul Herron 9781472274861
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A LETHAL STORM. THE MOST DEADLY PRISON. WHO WILL SURVIVE THE NIGHT? 'This is a stylish, heart-pounding thriller that would make one hell of a good film.' CRIME REVIEWJack Constantine - a former cop... -
Bertolt Brecht in Context by Stephen Brockmann
Booksplease Price: £98.74Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. It explores the specific context from which he... -
The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia by Richard F Doner 9780197520253
Booksplease Price: £107.59East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production. Yet, across the region, national automobile industries have had strikingly different patterns of development. Despite starting from equally low... -
Best of the Fest: A Collection of New Plays Celebrating 10 years of London New Play Festival by Phil Setren 9780951587782
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Celebrating 10 years of the London New Play Festival, featuring six plays: Wild Turkey by Joe Penhall: Two small businessmen struggle to keep their flagging burger bar afloat, in the face of... -
New Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific by Christopher M. Dent 9780230004863
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book studies the main causes, consequences and nature of the Asia-Pacific's new free trade agreement (FTA) trend, and its implications for the global economy. It explores the FTA policies of the... -
The Political Economy of Automotive Industrialization in East Asia by Richard F Doner 9780197520260
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.97East Asia is a powerhouse of automobile production. Yet, across the region, national automobile industries have had strikingly different patterns of development. Despite starting from equally low... -
Financialization and Government Borrowing Capacity in Emerging Markets by Iain Hardie 9780230360556
Booksplease Price: £90.56Hardie investigates the link between the financialization - defined as the ability to trade risk - and the capacity of emerging market governments to borrow from private markets. He considers the... -
Connections 500: Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug by Snoo Wilson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.99Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s by Aleks Sierz 9781408181331
Booksplease Price: £112.13British theatre of the 1990s witnessed an explosion of new talent and presented a new sensibility that sent shockwaves through audiences and critics. What produced this change, the context from which... -
New Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific by C. Dent 9781349281619
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book studies the main causes, consequences and nature of the Asia-Pacific's new free trade agreement (FTA) trend, and its implications for the global economy. It explores the FTA policies of the... -
Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford Clark by Max Stafford-Clark
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Inside accounts of the making of some of the most influential theatre productions of the last four decades. Max Stafford-Clark has been at the cutting edge of theatre in Britain for more than...