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Off-Broadway Plays 2
Includes Red Cross by Sam Shepard, Botticelli By Terrence McNally, Good Day by Emanuel Peluso and Now There's Just the Three of Us by Mike Weller
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - PENGUIN EDITION
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof conveys Williams' vision of the dark, primitive elements that lurk beneath the superficial civilization of the American South One hot summer night in the house of the Mississippi…
King Lear
An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she…
Theory of the Modern Stage
This anthology presents the ideas about their art and about the future possibilities of drama of ten leading voices from the modern theatre - Appia, Artuad, Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Pirandello, Shaw, Stanislavsky,…
The Comedy of Errors
Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as children, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults Soon, their friends mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment abounds,…
The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent…
Four Comedies - The Taming of the Shrew & A Midsummer Night’s Dream & As You Like It & Twelfth Night
‘Therefore they thought it good you hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment’ Shakespearean comedy has as much to do with the structure and movement of the drama as with the wit of its dialogue…
Four Histories - Richard 11 & Henry 1V Part 1 & Henry 1V Part 2 & Henry V
Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by Bolingbroke to the triumph - some…
Marlowe - Complete Plays
A spy, a homosexual and a heretic who was eventually killed in a brawl, Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) was a born outsider, yet many now rank him second only to Shakespeare as a master of the Elizabethan…
The New Penguin Dictionary of Theatre
This provides a comprehensive guide to the world of theatre. In over 5000 thoroughly researched and clearly written articles, it explores the theatre of all ages, nations and styles, while paying…
The New Penguin Dictionary of Theatre
This provides a comprehensive guide to the world of theatre. In over 5000 thoroughly researched and clearly written articles, it explores the theatre of all ages, nations and styles, while paying…
The New Penguin Dictionary of Theatre
This provides a comprehensive guide to the world of theatre. In over 5000 thoroughly researched and clearly written articles, it explores the theatre of all ages, nations and styles, while paying…
Our Town & The Skin of our Teeth & The Matchmaker
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out to bring back realism and to celebrate the innocent, simple and religious. Yet he also tried to endow individual…
The Rose Tattoo and Other Plays - Camino Real & Orpheus Descending
The Rose Tattoo, set in a Sicilian peasant community, opens with news of a violent death. ‘In the blind and frenzied efforts of the widow, Serafina, to comprehend the mysteries of her dead husband,’ Tennessee…
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays - An Inspector Calls & Time and the Conways & I Have Been Here Before & The Linden Tree
An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival While holding its audience with the gripping tension…
Misanthrope & Tartuffe & Doctor Despite Himself & Would-be Gentleman & Such Preposterous Ladies & Those Learned Ladies
Translated by John Wood and David Coward with an introduction and notes by David Coward Such Foolish Affected Ladies/ Tartuffe/ The Misanthrope/ The Doctor Despite Himself/The Would-be…
Terence Comedies - Girl From Andros & The Self-Tormentor & The Eunuch & Phormio & The Mother-in-Law & The Brothers
All six of the Roman dramatist’s comedies—from The Girl from Andros, the first romantic comedy ever written, to the socially sophisticated The Brothers—show why Terence became a model…
The Comedies
Terence’s subtle plots and sensitive characterization have had a lasting influence on modern theatre. In ‘translating’ Greek New Comedy into a different world, the Roman dramatist Terence (c.186-159 BC)…
The Empty Space
One of the world’s most gifted directors gives the distillation of his knowledge & experience of the theatre ... He writes freely with immense understanding of the problems facing any…
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays - Prometheus Bound & The Suppliants & Seven Against Thebes & The Persian
The first of the great Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote a large number of plays, of which seven survive. Of the four included in this volume, The Persians is unique in Greek tragedy in having as its subject…
Three Revenge Tragedies - The White Devil & The Revenger’s Tragedy & The Changeling
These three plays are among the finest examples of Jacobean Revenge Tragedy. By the early seventeenth century Renaissance humanism had reached a crisis. The period of mental unrest, and the sense of moral…
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…
