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Tony Harrison - Plays 1 - The Mysteries
A collection of poetry for the stage, derived from the author’s adaptation of the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry medieval cycles of mystery plays (“The Mysteries”), which have…
Trelawny of the ‘Wells’
Large Mixed Cast Male, 8 Female
When actress Rose Trelawny falls in love with the grandson of a snobbish knight she finds that her visit to her lover’s home is a humiliating failure and that she can no longer act. Eventually the…
Troilus and Cressida
Shakespeare’s vision of the Trojan War reveals the love between Troilus, a prince of Troy, and Cressida, the daughter of a Trojan traitor
Twelfth Night
The Cambridge School Shakespeare offers a new approach to Shakespeare in the classroom, with each play treated not as a text but as a script The series is designed to help both experienced and inexperienced…
Twelfth Night - Audio production performed by Stella Gonet & Gerard Murphy & Full Cast - 2 CDs
TWELFTH NIGHT, first performed around 1600, probably at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, is the tale of separated brother and sister twins - Sebastian and Viola - and their love entanglements. It also offers…
Twelfth Night or What You Will
6 Male, 3 Female
This one-act adaptation tells the tale of Viola, who, after a ship-wreck finds herself stranded on the shores of Llyria and so disguies herself as a boy, only to fall in love with her boss! Specially adapted…
Two Gentlemen of Verona
If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the…
Victorian Theatricals from Menageries to Melodrama - a Study which also includes full script of The Factory Lad by John Walker & Society by T.W. Robertson & The Mikado by W.S. Gilbert & The Second Mrs Tanqueray by Pinero
By the 1890s the British theatre had transformed itself into a world where spectacles and public shows were aimed at the widest audience possible Theatre had become big business This anthology brings together…
Volpone
A play that has suffered many adaptations may be read here in its original form. A wealth of textual footnotes explain colloquialisms and period references. The text is preceded by the argument and prologue…
Volpone & Bartholomew Fair & The Alchemist
As Shakespeare’s nearest rival on the English stage, Ben Jonson has both gained and suffered. Productions of recent years have, as it were, rediscovered him as a comic dramatist of genius and a master…
Women Beware Women
This is one of the New Mermaid series which offers modern spelling & fully-annotated editions of important English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,…
York Mystery Plays - A Selection in Modern Spelling
This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected…
