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Magnificence by Howard Brenton
Booksplease Price: £14.86I loathe us, I loathe our stupid puerile view of the world ... That we have only to do it, that we have only to go puff, and the monster buildings will go splat ... London, the early 70s. Poverty,... -
Paul by Howard Brenton
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.42An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain. The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul on the road to... -
Drawing the Line by Howard Brenton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world. London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is... -
55 Days by Howard Brenton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17A gripping historical play that dramatises a crucial moment of English history. December 1648. The Army has occupied London. Parliament votes not to put the imprisoned king on trial, so the Army... -
Anne Boleyn by Howard Brenton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history. Traditionally seen... -
Lawrence After Arabia by Howard Brenton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Howard Brenton's Lawrence After Arabia explores the afterlife of a legend, when being a hero has become a burden, and the man once celebrated as Lawrence of Arabia wants only to be normal once more. ... -
The Shadow Factory by Howard Brenton 9781848427396
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages. Southampton is home to Britain's only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But when the Luftwaffe drops 2,300 bombs in three devastating raids, the city goes... -
Churchill in Moscow by Howard Brenton 9781839044175
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'Everything is possible in Moscow at night.' The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of English... -
Dr Scroggy's War by Howard Brenton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War. 1915. Jack Twigg, twenty-one years old, enlists in the London Regiment and goes on a journey he never imagined... -
Bloody Poetry by Howard Brenton 9780573690389
Booksplease Price: £14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573690389Author Howard BrentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher... -
Never So Good by Howard Brenton 9781854595515
Booksplease Price: £17.54A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century. Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez... -
Horatio Howard Brenton. a Naval Novel. by Edward Belcher 9781241388157
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241388157Author Edward BelcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint British Library, Historical... -
Horatio Howard Brenton. a Naval Novel. by Edward Belcher 9781241184896
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241184896Author Edward BelcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint British Library, Historical... -
Horatio Howard Brenton. a Naval Novel. by Edward Belcher 9781240874002
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240874002Author Edward BelcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint British Library, Historical... -
Cancelling Socrates (NHB Modern Plays) by Howard Brenton 9781839040894
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79'They say Pericles caught democracy from you in bed.' Today, Socrates is revered as the founding father of Western philosophy. But in 399 BC Athens, he was a pain in the neck. The plague is... -
The Magna Carta Plays: Ransomed, Kingmakers, We Sell Right, Pink Gin by Sally Woodcock 9781783192939
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.94Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock.RANSOMED... -
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play Rebecca Benzie 9781350191266
Booksplease Price: £90.57When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing... -
Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play Rebecca Benzie 9781350191310
Booksplease Price: £30.54When we think of the contemporary British history play, why might we automatically think of playwrights such as David Hare, Howard Brenton, Peter Gill and Edward Bond? Because for decades the writing... -
![Plays for the Poor Theatre: "The Saliva Milkshake", "Christie in Love", "Heads", "Skinny Spew", "Gum and Goo" by Howard Brenton 9780413470805](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5327296/5404554/9780413470805__69670.1725010784.jpg?c=1 "Plays for the Poor Theatre: "The Saliva Milkshake", "Christie in Love", "Heads", "Skinny Spew", "Gum and Goo" by Howard Brenton 9780413470805")
Plays for the Poor Theatre: "The Saliva Milkshake", "Christie in Love", "Heads", "Skinny Spew", "Gum and Goo" by Howard Brenton 9780413470805
Booksplease Price: £14.45These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they... -
Peggy to her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent by Colin Chambers 9781786826442
Booksplease Price: £16.43Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on. ... -
![Brenton Plays: v.1: "Christie in Love"; "The Churchill Play"; "Weapons of Happiness"; "Epsom Downs"; "Sore Throats"; "Magnificence" by Howard Brenton 9780413404305](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5223483/5300744/9780413404305__73133.1724712801.jpg?c=1 "Brenton Plays: v.1: "Christie in Love"; "The Churchill Play"; "Weapons of Happiness"; "Epsom Downs"; "Sore Throats"; "Magnificence" by Howard Brenton 9780413404305")
Brenton Plays: v.1: "Christie in Love"; "The Churchill Play"; "Weapons of Happiness"; "Epsom Downs"; "Sore Throats"; "Magnificence" by Howard Brenton 9780413404305
Booksplease Price: £24.92Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists Christie in Love is based on the story of John Christie, the 19th century serial killer, "like Genet, [Brenton] feels... -
Adapting Translation for the Stage Geraldine Brodie 9780367736095
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Translating for performance is a difficult - and hotly contested - activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between scholars, actors, directors, writers, and those... -
The Theatre of the Holocaust v. 2; Six Plays by Robert Skloot 9780299162740
Booksplease Price: £19.12This second volume of ""The Theatre of the Holocaust"", when combined with the first, represents an international collection of plays on the Shoah. Editor Skloot presents and comments on six plays... -
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (stage version by Robert Tressell
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.85Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by... -
Danton's Death by Georg Buchner 9781408132838
Booksplease Price: £14.24This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads...Why should an event that... -
Buchner - Complete Plays by Georg Buchner 9780413140906
Booksplease Price: £26.90The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at... -
![Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: "The History We Haven't Had" by Anthony P. Pennino 9783319966854](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/7911022/8947045/9783319966854__31495.1747290689.jpg?c=1 "Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: "The History We Haven't Had" by Anthony P. Pennino 9783319966854")
Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher: "The History We Haven't Had" by Anthony P. Pennino 9783319966854
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in... -
Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights by Michael Patterson 9780521277327
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £41.81This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play-writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John... -
Making Plays: Interviews with Contemporary British Dramatists and Directors by D. Wu 9780333740019
Booksplease Price: £90.86Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight... -
Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights by Michael Patterson 9780521258555
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.00This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play-writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John... -
Six Contemporary Dramatists: Bennett, Potter, Gray, Brenton, Hare, Ayckbourn by Duncan Wu 9781349237203
Booksplease Price: £90.56`A most illuminating study.' - John Bayley Six Contemporary Dramatists explores, in a straightforward manner, the central concerns of six of the most important contemporary dramatists. It... -
Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama by Ruby Cohn 9780521106931
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Ruby Cohn assumes realism to be the dominant mode in English theatre since 1956, the year of John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger. She argues, however, that the most provocative plays of the last few... -
Pravda by David Hare 9781472574770
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function. Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at the... -
Biofictions - The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama by Prof. Martin Middeke
Booksplease Price: £96.11A pioneering collection of articles on fictionalized biographies of the Romantics in contemporary fiction and drama. It appears that the lives of the British Romantics and the myths surrounding... -
The Hours by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Hours is David Hare's screen adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book... -
![David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare 9780571177417 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6098592/6175593/9780571177417__20430.1734234664.jpg?c=1 "David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare 9780571177417 [USED COPY]")
David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare 9780571177417 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £11.57This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British... -
David Hare Plays 1: Slag; Teeth 'n' Smiles; Knuckle; Licking Hitler; Plenty by David Hare
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.99This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British... -
David Hare Plays 2: Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon; The Bay at Nice; The Secret Rapture by David Hare
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his... -
The Absence of War by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Absence of War offers a meditation on the classic problems of leadership, and is the third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays (Racing Demon, Murmuring Judges) about British... -
Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre by Dr Siân Adiseshiah 9781350349315
Booksplease Price: £31.52Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in Western drama from antiquity to the present, Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre...