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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…
Early Plays - The Moon of the Caribbees & Bound East for Cardiff & In the Zone & The Long Voyage Home & Ile & Beyond the Horizon & Where the Cross Is Made & The Rope & The Straw & Anna Christie & The Emperor Jones & The Hairy Ape
This volume brings to readers a selection of Eugene O’Neill’s early work, written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922 Included…
Rhinoceros & The Chairs & The Lesson
These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality…
Shakespearean Tragedy - Lectures on Hamlet & Othello & King Lear & Macbeth
In this seminal work, approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the line…
Selected Short Plays - includes The Music-Cure & How He Lied to Her Husband
These fifteen dramatic sketches include ... The music Cure which chronicles the emotional collapse of a fragile aristocrat, Sir Reginald Fitzambey. Convalescing after a disastrous financial venture, Reginald…
Back to Methuselah
Written between 1918 and 1920, this work mirrors Shaw’s experience of the war, which had enveloped him in a mood of despair Here, Shaw puts forward the concept of Creative Evolution, an invisible…
