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  • The Theatre of Sean O'Casey

    by James Moran, Garry Hynes, Paul Murphy, Victor Merriman ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    This Critical Companion to the work of one of Ireland's most famous and controversial playwrights, Sean O'Casey, is the first major study of the playwright's work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland with which O'Casey's most famous plays are associated, it provides a clear ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Mary Barton

    by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ...
    The smog of Manchester hides a tragedy of poverty and desperation, tearing a young woman between the allure of wealth and the loyalty of her class. A murder mystery threatens to destroy everything she loves in a powerful indictment of industrial inequality. Feel the grit and heartache of a city divided. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    by William Shakespeare ...
    "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is a late romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. Written around 1606, the play follows Pericles, Prince of Tyre, on his journey to be reunited with his family after a storm at sea separates everyone. The play did not appear in Shakespeare’s First Folio, suggesting the editors did not believe he wrote the whole play. It is now generally accepted that Shakespeare wrote ... Read more

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  • Plays For The Poor Theatre

    The Saliva Milkshake; Christie in Love; Heads; Skinny Spew; Gum and Goo

    by Mr Howard Brenton ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they were first written - since each play requires a small cast and minimal set, yet yields maximum theatricality.Christie in Love, Gum and Goo, Heads and The Education of Skinny Spew, were all first staged ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Modern American Drama on Screen

    Edited by William Robert Bray, R. Barton Palmer ...
    From its beginnings, the American film industry has profited from bringing popular and acclaimed dramatic works to the screen. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account, focusing on key texts, of how Hollywood has given a second and enduring life to such classics of the American theater as Long Day's Journey into Night, A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Mahabharata

    by Jean-Claude Carrière ...
    Translated by Mr Peter Brook ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    A unique dramatization of India's greatest epic poem, fifteen times longer than the Bible, The Mahabharata has played to enthralled audiences throughout Europe, the Far East and America. Regarded as the culmination of Peter Brook's extraordinary research into the possibilities of theatre, the production has been hailed as the 'theatrical event of this century' (Sunday Times). British audiences ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy

    by Leon Golden ...
    Whether in life or on the stage, tragedy touches our hearts. Drawing on a lifetime of research into Aristotle’s Poetics, the brilliant mind of scholar Leon Golden explains why tragedy evokes such passion and how to interpret great literary tragedies, such as Oedipus Rex, Othello, Death of a Salesman.Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy is the latest of Leon Golden’s books to connect Ancient Greece to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009

    Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

    by Prof. Dan Rebellato, Jacqueline Bolton, Lynette Goddard, Professor Nadine Holdsworth, Michael Pearce, Richard Boon, Philip Roberts ...
    Series series Decades of Modern British Playwriting
    Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge

    On the Rise of Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes

    by G. Wilson Knight ...
    First published in 2002. This is the Volume III of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare’s tragic heroes for his early to later tragedies or Timon of Athens, Anthony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. This book has grown from Knight’s dramatic recital 'Shakespeare's Dramatic Challenge', and therefore includes a prefatory note on his stage experience. The complete ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: William Shakespeare: The Anatomy of an Enigma (1990)

    The Anatomy of an Enigma

    by P. Razzell ...
    First published in 1990, the aim of this book is to reveal the William Shakespeare whose life has been obscured by centuries of literary mythology. It unravels a series of strands in order to understand the man and the major influences which shaped his life and writing. The first part advances the thesis that his relationship with his father directly influenced the character of Falstaff — helping ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Fracked!

    Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word

    by Mr Alistair Beaton ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    How would you feel about sitting in front of that nice old village pub on a sunny afternoon while convoys of 40-ton tankers roll past six feet away?Deerland Energy's plans to drill for shale gas in the pretty village of Fenstock are going well. The company is looking at big profits.They can count on the support of distinguished scientists working in university departments funded by the energy ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Gammer Gurton's Needle

    Edited by Charles Whitworth ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward VI's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy. Although a university production, the play's doggerel rhymes, its village characters and their dialect speech, its ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD