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Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology by Robert Knopf 9780300103366
Booksplease Price: £44.79This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's... -
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... -
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"The Speculator and the Meeting" by David Greig 9780413743107
Booksplease Price: £14.24Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premieres in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International... -
Crime in Fact and Fiction by Brian P. Block 9781909976221
Booksplease Price: £16.17This intriguing book highlights differences in how crime is portrayed in the arts compared to reality, focusing on the roles of the police, courts and forensic investigators. Of interest to... -
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... -
Afterlives of Abandoned Work: Creative Debris in the Archive by Matthew Harle 9781501365515
Booksplease Price: £35.46Afterlives of Abandoned Work considers the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from... -
The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9781474274319
Booksplease Price: £14.24He who learns must suffer.Before setting out for the Trojan War, King Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Many years later, when Agamemnon returns to his palace, his adulterous Queen... -
British Radio Drama, 1945-63 by Professor Hugh Chignell 9781501377228
Booksplease Price: £34.84British Radio Drama, 1945-1963 reveals the quality and range of the avant-garde radio broadcasts from the 'golden age' of British radio drama. Turning away from the cautious and conservative... -
The Weaker Vessel Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126356
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in... -
Brief Lives by Paul Johnson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican... -
Three Poems: Northleigh, 1940; In Stereo; all of it Mr Alistair McDowall 9781350427051
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.30I suppose I never questioned why I was only one piece before A woman trapped at home during an air raid. A mother who starts to see double. A whole life in one breath. Three short plays by... -
Conclusions by John Boorman 9780571353798
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £7.56'What a life! What a career!' Harold Pinter'Boorman is one of the world's great directors, a master storyteller.' Paul AusterJohn Boorman is one of cinema's authentic visionaries whose travels have... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Steve Nicholson 9781408129579
Booksplease Price: £32.38Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s... -
Storytelling: A Sort of Memoir by 9781853981890
Booksplease Price: £17.71During a remarkable lifetime, Andrew Sinclair has bridged the worlds of university and literature, art and cinema. A child of the Second World War, he has known many of the leading figures of the... -
Eigengrau by Penelope Skinner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Eigengrau / [ay-gen-gr-ow ] - noun. intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness Rose believes in true love and leprechauns. Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle... -
Words as Swords: Verbal Violence as a Construction of Authority in Renaissance and Contemporary English Drama by Sila Senlen 9783898219822
Booksplease Price: £27.02Verbal violence, as a sophisticated means of persuasion and manipulation, is as effective on the stage as physical violence. Since the destructive effects of verbal violence are less recognized and... -
Absolute Turkey(Trans. Nicki Frei/Peter Hall) by Georges Feydeau 9780948230745
Booksplease Price: £14.24Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at... -
Modern British Playwriting: The 1960s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations by Steve Nicholson 9781408181980
Booksplease Price: £112.13Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s... -
Political Death: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228587
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Summoned by the wayward Lady Imogen Swain, Jemima is entrusted with the diaries she kept in 1964, diaries which contain an account of her passionate affair with Burgo Smyth MP; now Foreign Secretary... -
Your Royal Hostage: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228549
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'We don't want to hurt her. We must remember that. All of us. She is after all innocent ... Well, isn't she?'As preparations for the royal wedding advance, a secret organisation is formulating plans... -
Norfolk Summer: Making the Go-Between by Christopher Hartop
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Norfolk Summer presents the story about the making of a film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates Joseph Losey's award-winning movie The Go-Between was filmed entirely on location in Norfolk in... -
Sacred Theatre by Ralph Yarrow 9781841501536
Booksplease Price: £29.42The notion of the sacred has long informed the work of British dramatists like Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Ralph Yarrow's Sacred Theatre is the first book to examine the role of the sacred in the... -
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave: A Jemima Shore Mystery Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780228600
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From treachery in the Caribbean to mischief in the Mediterranean, from murderous drama to sleek black comedy, from a baffling number of suspects to a single confrontation with a maniacal rapist, here... -
Story Of O by Pauline Reage 9780552089302
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99The classic French erotic bestseller that preceded Fifty Shades of GreyA beautiful young French woman, known only as 'O', is taken by her lover Rene to a splendid mansion near Paris. Here, she is... -
Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden by Javed Malick 9780472105878
Booksplease Price: £67.25Toward a Theater of the Oppressed is an engaging study of the dramaturgy of contemporary British playwright John Arden and the political implications of his work. Arden made his debut on the London... -
The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End Danny Dyer 9781784297435
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This book is a window into the world of Danny Dyer - and he's seen more of the world than most so he's got one or two things to say about it.Tackling such vital questions as 'Where have all the old... -
Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama by W. B. Worthen 9780521841849
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69What does it matter what we read? The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing, where the bookish qualities of dramatic literature,... -
Jemima Shore's First Case: A Jemima Shore Mystery by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The screams came again: by now they sounded quite blood-curdling to the girl alone in the small room - or was it that they were getting nearer?'From murders and ghostly visitors to devious plots and... -
Fifty Fifty: Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters by Robyn Marsack 9781784108786
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's... -
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 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... -
Linda by Penelope Skinner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95I'm an award-winning business woman. I'm happily married with two beautiful daughters and I still fit in the same size-ten dress suit I did fifteen years ago. What could possibly threaten me?Linda... -
Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama by W. B. Worthen 9780521602693
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98What does it matter what we read? The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing, where the bookish qualities of dramatic literature,... -
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.80Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.Martha: Look,... -
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present by Michael Billington
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal... -
The City and the Town by Mr Anders Lustgarten 9781350400917
Booksplease Price: £13.26Tricky things, memories. Not always the way you remember them. When Ben, a successful London lawyer, returns home for his father's funeral after thirteen years away, he is confronted with... -
Contemporary Monologues: Men by Michael Earley 9780413681201
Booksplease Price: £20.70A collection of the best stage monologues of the eighties and nineties (including new translations) This volume brings together monologues of all types - from serious to comic and shades in between -... -
Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama by Ruby Cohn 9780521472678
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon,... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
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The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell 9780340823118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking...