King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
A moving tragedy of political intrigue and family strife, William Shakespeare's King Lear is edited by George Hunter, with an introduction by Kiernan Ryan in Penguin Shakespeare. 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!' The ageing King Lear, tired of office, decides to split ...Show more
The Trojan Women by Euripides; Diskin Clay (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Focus Classical Library
A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison. The war is over. Beyond the prison walls, Troy and its people burn. Inside the prison, the city's captive women await their fate. Stalking the antiseptic confines of it ...Show more
Two Weeks with the Queen: A Play by MARY MORRIS (ADAPTED FROM MORRIS GLEITZMAN)
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Teenage S.
NEW from Longman School Drama This play version cleverly lifts the key moments from Gleitzman's novel and presents them in a light-hearted, amusing and open way, making an ideal drama text for Key Stage 3.
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the ...Show more
Shakespeare His Life and Works by Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
A new edition of the comprehensive guide to Shakespeare, exploring his life and works, and his enduring legacy, in a stunning gift format Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works. Comedy and romance ...Show more
Educating Rita (Notes) by RUSSELL Willy
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Longman Literature Ser.
Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday Times Educating Ritawas premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, i ...Show more
The Arden Shakespeare Third Series - Complete Works by William Shakespeare; Ann Thompson (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Editor); H. R. Woudhuysen (Editor); Richard Proudfoot (Editor)
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Ser.ies | Reading Level: very good
This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare- Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward ...Show more
Macbeth - A Dagger of the Mind (HB) by Harold Bloom
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.
From Harold Bloom, the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shakespeare's most complex and compelling anti-heroes--the final volume in a series of five short books about the great playwright's most significant personalities: Falstaff, Cleopatra, Lear, Iag ...Show more
Private LivesAn Intimate Comedy in Three Acts by Noel Coward
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays
"Revived in 2002 by the Royal National Theatre in a production that sparkled on Broadway, Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and im ...Show more
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
No library is complete without the classics This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, considered by many to be the English language's greatest writer. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth--the works o ...Show more
Contemporary Australian Plays: "The Hotel Sorrento"; "Dead White Males"; "Two"; "The 7 Stages of Grieving"; "The Popular Mechanicals" by Russell Vandenbroucke
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Play Anthologies
Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out Dead White Males: "Triumphant...The neatly lined up ducks of academic absolutism are ruthlessly, and hilariously, assassinated" - ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Drama/Theatre/Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more