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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)…
