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Twelfth Night

26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£6.99 26 Jan 2012 Paperback WW Norton & Co

About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

The Best American Short Plays

15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£26.95 15 Jan 2012 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Presents a selection of 13 plays such as: "The Beauty Inside"; "The D Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore"; "Brown"; "Everybody Else"; "Two Monologues for an Actor and a Dog, Queenie, and My Wife, the Rabbit-Eater"; "Reunions"; "Captain Abalone"; "The Changing of the Guard"; "Hermaphrodite"; "Sada"; "5:15 Greyhound"; and, "The Beauty Inside".

Twelfth Night

27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Norton Critical

By William Shakespeare

£6.99 27 Dec 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

Twelfth Night

28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Norton Critical

By William Shakespeare

£6.99 28 Nov 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

The Best American Short Plays

15 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£26.50 15 Nov 2011 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers

The Mirror Behind the Curtain

28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Perspectives on Leading Playwrights Writing for the Proscenium Stage

By Dominic Dromgoole

£14.99 28 Oct 2011 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

An indispensable guide to over a hundred years of drama, this book provides an invigorating and illuminating study of the work of over twenty-five playwrights who wrote for the proscenium arch stage. Beginning with the work of the great writers from the late-nineteenth century--August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, and Henrik Ibsen--Dominic Dromgoole takes the reader on an exhilarating journey into the work of writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde and Harold Pinter, and as recent as Sarah Kane and Caryl Churchill. Along the way, the plays of such luminaries as Noel Coward, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, and James MacPherson are considered in a series of essays that display all of Dromgoole's characteristic panache and insight.

Twelfth Night

28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Norton Critical

By William Shakespeare

£6.99 28 Oct 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

The Best American Short Plays

15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£27.95 15 Oct 2011 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Twelfth Night

29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Norton Critical

By William Shakespeare

£6.99 29 Sep 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

The Tempest

01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£12.99 01 Sep 2011 Paperback Nick Hern Books

This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore--as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age. Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.

"From the Paperback edition."

Twelfth Night

01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Norton Critical

By William Shakespeare

£5.50 01 Sep 2011 Paperback WW Norton & Co

The Best American Short Plays

15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£26.50 15 Jun 2011 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers

The Best American Short Plays

15 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£26.50 15 May 2011 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers

The Works of William Congreve (v. 1)

07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Congreve, William

£125.00 07 Apr 2011 Hardback Oxford University Press

Deals with the works of William Congreve (1670-1729), one of the Britain's most important literary figures. This work presents the texts of the plays, novel, poetry, opera, and letters in original spelling.

The Works of William Congreve (v. 1)

24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Congreve, William

£125.00 24 Mar 2011 Hardback Oxford University Press

The Best American Short Plays

15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£26.95 15 Mar 2011 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

The Works of William Congreve (v. 1)

24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Congreve, William

£125.00 24 Feb 2011 Hardback Oxford University Press

The Best American Short Plays

15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£25.50 15 Feb 2011 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan

23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Ezra Pound

£10.99 23 Jan 2011 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Fifteen of the most celebrated plays of the Noh theatre repertory plus five more in synopsis.

The Best American Short Plays

15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£25.95 15 Jan 2011 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

The Works of William Congreve (v. 1)

13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By Congreve, William

£125.00 13 Jan 2011 Hardback Oxford University Press

Hamlet

01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£11.99 01 Jan 2011 Paperback Palgrave Macmillan

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The Best American Short Plays

15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£25.95 15 Dec 2010 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

The Works of William Congreve (v. 1)

02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Congreve, William

£125.00 02 Dec 2010 Hardback Oxford University Press

The Best American Short Plays

15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£25.95 15 Nov 2010 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

Shakespeare in Transition

22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Political Appropriations in the Post-communist Czech Republic

By Marcela Kostihova

£50.00 22 Oct 2010 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

This book investigates the political dimensions of Czech Shakespeare appropriation and production in the wake of the fall of communism, uncovering an anxious struggle between dimensions of Czech nationhood that comes to a head in a competition for a 'true' Shakespeare, and addressing key issues such as gender, globalization and national culture.

The Best American Short Plays

15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£26.50 15 Oct 2010 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

The Works of William Congreve (v. 1)

30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Congreve, William

£125.00 30 Sep 2010 Hardback Oxford University Press

Yerma

16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Federico Garcia Lorca

£4.50 16 Sep 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Intended for study or performance.

Talk

19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Carl Hancock Rux

£14.99 19 Aug 2010 Paperback Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

"Carl Hancock Rux is full of promise and virtuosity . . . a gifted poet who offers up vibrant imagery like a street corner preacher in the midst of a nervous breakdown." -- "New York Times"

"Talk is the most intellectually ambitious play in years. It wins the case for a renewed theatre of ideas." -- "Time Out"

"Mr. Rux has a fertile imagination and exceptional talent." -- "Wall Street Journal"

"A dazzling play. Mr. Rux's ideas have the urgency and passion of actions. He draws on satire, rhetoric, naturalism (the kind that Strindberg said 'seeks out the points where great battles take place') and poetry." -- Margo Jefferson, "New York Times"

In the age of McCarthy and the Beat poets, a controversial African-American artist, Archer Aymes, became an overnight sensation for his first book, "Mother and Son" -- ten years later he was found dead in a prison cell. Decades later, a conference is formed and a panel comes together to debate the facts and importance of Aymes's life. Through Rux's vivid imagery, and meticulous research, his crackling dialogue and poetically constructed debate, we become participants at the conference, and listen very closely, achingly, as Rux scrutinizes the way we record history, skewers our reverence toward celebrity and academic authority, and dismantles our confidence in our own memory.

Carl Hancock Rux is a multidisciplinary artist who combines poetry, music, theatre and dance. He was a resident artist with Mabou Mines; The Ebenezor Experimental Theater in Lulea, Sweden; and the University of Ghana at Legon. He is the author of numerous plays, including "Waiting for the Dog to Die," and has been commissioned to write poetry/prose for the AlvinAiley Dance Theater and Urban Bush Women. His debut album, "Rux Revue, "(Sony) was named one of the top alternative music CDs of 1999. His second CD, "Apothecary Rx, " is to be released by Giant Step in 2002. He is the author of "Pagan Operetta, " a book of poems, and his first novel, "Asphalt," has been signed by Simon & Schuster.

"The Winter's Tale"

23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Third Series

By William Shakespeare

£9.99 23 Jul 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.

"The Winter's Tale"

23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Third Series

By William Shakespeare

£65.00 23 Jul 2010 Hardback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

This radical new edition of a favourite late play discusses the complexity of character and motivation, and above all the reflections on the marriage bond, which lie behind one of Shakespeare's most subtle and surprising plots. The relevance of the early seventeenth-century contemporary scene, with its concerns about the nature and responsibilities of royalty, the court/country dichotomy and the debt to classicism, are fully explored.

The Tragedy of Mariam

05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Elizabeth Cary

£45.00 05 Jul 2010 Hardback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. This edition includes the complete play script with notes beneath the text, as well as an extensive introduction, including biographical notes, textual details, and information about the staging of the play.

The Flowering of an Idea

03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins

By Alan M. Chesney

£10.50 03 Jul 2010 Paperback Johns Hopkins University Press

How, exactly, did the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions come into existence? This title addresses this question by presenting in four scenes, 'an imaginary conversation in which an idea is born'.

The Methuen Drama Book of Royal Court Plays

02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Under the Blue Sky; Fallout; Motortown; My Child; Enron

By David Eldridge, Lucy Prebble, Mike Bartlett, Roy Williams, Simon Stephens

£16.99 02 Jul 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

Five of the best plays from the first decade of the twenty-first century produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London. Royal Court Plays 2000-2010 is an essential anthology for anyone interested in the best work from the most important new writing theatre produced during the last decade.

Rosemary

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Glyn Idris Jones

£6.99 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Douglas Foote

Champagne Charlie

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Music Hall Entertainment

By Glyn Idris Jones

£6.99 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Douglas Foote

The 88

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Glyn Idris Jones

£6.99 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Douglas Foote

Harvest & Other Plays

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Ken Cameron

£13.50 01 Jul 2010 Paperback NeWest Press

A collection of three plays "My One and Only", "Harvest", and "My Morocco". In "My One and Only", a 15-year-old Canadian boy becomes Marilyn Monroe's secret companion when she comes to the Rockies in 1955 to film River of No Return.

All That Matters (Pt. 2)

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Collected Scripts from Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day'

By John L. Bell

£13.50 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Wild Goose Publications

This is the second volume of John L. Bell's 'Thoughts For The Day', augmented by three extended essays, 'Indebting the future', 'The love of God and global warming' and 'The beast that is in us'. For seven years, John has been a contributor to Radio 4's Thought For The Day, attempting - as the project demands - to offer a religious perspective on m

The Prince of Homburg

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Heinrich Von Kleist

£8.99 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

A Doll's House

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Henrik Ibsen

£6.99 01 Jul 2010 Hardback Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Spur of the Moment

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Anya Reiss

£8.99 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments 7 Volume Set

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

With Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation in English Prose

By Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb

£134.00 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Cambridge University Press

Sir Richard Jebb's seven-volume edition of the works of Sophocles, published between 1883 and 1896, remains a landmark in Greek scholarship.

Euripides: Helen

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Euripides

£8.00 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Michael James Gould

The Reunion

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Gordon

£8.00 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Josef Weinberger Plays

Welcome to Thebes

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Moira Buffini

£9.99 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Faber and Faber

Faced with an impoverished population, a shattered infrastructure and a volatile army, the first democratic president of Thebes, Eurydice, promises peace to her nation. Without the aid of Theseus, the leader of the vastly wealthy state of Athens, she doesn't stand a chance. But Theseus is arrogant, mercurial and motivated by profit.

Thomas Betterton

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage

By David Roberts

£55.00 01 Jul 2010 Hardback Cambridge University Press

The first biography for more than 100 years of the greatest English actor between Burbage and Garrick, Thomas Betterton.

Shakespeare's Poetics

01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Ekbert Faas

£15.99 01 Jul 2010 Paperback Cambridge University Press

This book tackles the topic of how Shakespeare viewed his own craft and creativity.

Collected Works of Robert McLellan

30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert McLellan

£20.00 30 Jun 2010 Hardback Luath Press Ltd

'Robert McLellan wasn't just a playwright, he was something else - something different, something special. He was a superb lyric poet who happened to have the additional gift of a theatrical imagination.' DONALD CAMPBELL

British South Asian Theatres

30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Documented History

By Graham Ley, Sarah Dadswell

£16.99 30 Jun 2010 Paperback University of Exeter Press

British South Asian theatre has been one of the most significant features of diasporic artistic activity throughout the world over the years, but despite its remarkable achievements it has remained largely uncharted. This book aims to reverse that neglect.

British South Asian Theatres

30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Documented History

By Graham Ley, Sarah Dadswell

£55.00 30 Jun 2010 Hardback University of Exeter Press

Typhus

26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Jean-Paul Sartre

£13.00 26 Jun 2010 Hardback Seagull Books London Ltd

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, this title centers on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nightclub singer, whose partner succumbs to the typhus epidemic sweeping the country.

The Tempest

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£12.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Reproduces the text of the "Shakespeare First Folio" (1623) in modern type.

Yerma

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Federico Garcia Lorca

£3.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Intended for study or performance.

Drama Classics Compact Display Unit Stocked

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

£43.89 25 Jun 2010 Nick Hern Books

Contains three copies each of the 12 best-selling titles in the "Drama Classics" series, including: "Woyzeck" by Buchner; "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov; "Three Sisters" by Chekhov; "Medea" by Euripides; "A Doll's House" by Ibsen; "Hedda Gabler" by Ibsen; "The Alchemist" by Jonson; and, "Doctor Faustus" by Marlowe

Drama Classics Standard Display Unit Stocked

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

£131.67 25 Jun 2010 Nick Hern Books

Ivanov

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Anton Chekhov, Stephen Mulrine

£3.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Part of "Drama Classics" series, this title presents a translation of Anton Chekhov's play.

Great Expectations

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Dickens, Jo Clifford

£8.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Pip longs to be a gentleman, but he is haunted by the memory of the mysterious Magwitch. Caught in the web of the reclusive Miss Havisham's desire for revenge against all men, Pip's love for the beautiful Estelle seems to be just another dream.

Ghosts

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Henrik Ibsen, Richard Eyre

£8.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

A play that looks at the desire of a mother, Mrs Alving, to shield her son, Oswald, from the truth about his dead father and from the grisly time-bomb - inherited syphilis - that he has bequeathed to his son.

Spring Awakening

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Frank Wedekind

£3.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

A once-banned and controversial German play from 1891 that focuses on a group of clasmates. It explores teenage sexuality.

Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Nick Flynn

£8.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback North Point Press

Four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded on the street with nothing but a television and the company of three individuals, each mysterious in their own way.

The Little Flower of East Orange

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Adly Guirgis

£10.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback North Point Press

When Marie-Therese arrives in the emergency room of a small hospital in the Bronx, frozen and in shock, no one knows her story. To the doctors and nurses, she is just another elderly, abandoned woman who can't even tell them her name. But Marie-Therese's dementia is not all that it seems.

12 Classic One-Act Plays

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Mary Carolyn Waldrep

£3.50 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Dover Publications Inc.

Marie Laveau and Steel

25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Derek Walcott

£10.99 25 Jun 2010 Paperback Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Features two plays - "Marie LaVeau" that lays bare the absurdities upon which the Old South rested; and "Steel", which tells the story of the Bandidos, a group of panband musicians in Trinidad, who struggle among themselves, do battle with the police, and fight against the weight of their colonial history.

La Bete

24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By David Hirson

£8.99 24 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

In this flamboyantly outrageous pastiche of the 17th-century French comedy dramas of Moliere, a vulgar and impossibly self-obsessed writer/perfomer attempts to win the favour of the resident Royal Personage and ignominiously oust his high-minded rival. All is accomplished in a virtuoso cascade of rhyming couplets!

The Complete Euripides (v. II)

24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro

£8.99 24 Jun 2010 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Complete Euripides (v. I)

24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro

£8.99 24 Jun 2010 Paperback Oxford University Press

Triumph For Rent

19 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Three Plays

By Peter Carlaftes

£12.00 19 Jun 2010 Paperback Three Rooms Press

Town and Honest

18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By D.C. Moore

£9.99 18 Jun 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

DC Moore's Northampton-based play Town is coupled with his hard-hitting, hilarious monologue Honest.

Male Trouble: Masculinity and The Performance of Crisis

18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Fintan Walsh

£50.00 18 Jun 2010 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre.

Alice

17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Lewis Carroll, Laura Wade

£8.99 17 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert Tressell, Howard Brenton

£8.99 17 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Robert Tressell's pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators has become a classic of working-class literature. Howard Brenton's vivid stage adaptation lays bare the many social injustices perpetrated on these men but captures their individual characters with touching truth to life.

Like a Fishbone ...

17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An Argument and an Architectural Model

By Anthony Weigh

£9.99 17 Jun 2010 Paperback Faber and Faber

A prominent architect is commissioned to design a memorial to the victims. On the evening of the presentation of the memorial to the public, a blind woman comes into the architect's studio. She is the mother of one of the victims and she demands to be heard.

About the Theater

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Stanley Kauffmann

£16.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Sheep Meadow Press,U.S.

"Brave New World"

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Harold Bloom

£42.50 15 Jun 2010 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

Features critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism; notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index; and, an introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Poets at Play

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology of Modernist Drama

By Sarah Bay-Cheng, Barbara Cole

£75.50 15 Jun 2010 Hardback Associated University Presses

Best American Short Plays

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Barbara Parisi

£15.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

Features such plays as - "Deboom: Who Gives this Woman?"; "And Then"; "The Cleaning"; "Breakfast and Bed"; "The News from St Petersburg"; "Double Murder"; "Running in Circles Screaming"; "Witness"; "Asteroid Belt"; "The Trash Bag Tourist"; "Glass Knives"; "Hearts and Minds"; "In Conclusive Woman"; "Mixed MeSSages"; and, "The Birth of Theater".

Best American Short Plays

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Barbara Parisi

£27.95 15 Jun 2010 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

The Best American Short Plays

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£27.95 15 Jun 2010 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

King Lear

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£9.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Broadview Press Ltd

Skydive

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Kevin Kerr

£15.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

Helps the skydiving performers to create not only the illusions of flight and freefall, but also to enact a physical metaphor for the power of dreams and imagination that lifts us above our individual physicalities.

The Trespassers

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Morris Panych

£15.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

Fifteen-year-old Lowell is no average teenager - and his grandfather, Hardy, no conventional role model. Whether urging the boy to pilfer peaches from an orchard, arranging for his sexual initiation with the small town's sole remaining prostitute, or teaching him the importance of gambling, Hardy is the despair of Lowell's born-again mother, Cash.

Still Laughing

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Panych, Morris

£28.50 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

Features three comedy classics including "The Government Inspector", "Hotel Peccadillo", and "The Amorous Adventures of Anatol".

The Ethos of Drama

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Rhetorical Theory and Dramatic Worth

By Robert L. King

£61.50 15 Jun 2010 Hardback The Catholic University of America Press

Using traditional rhetorical theory, this book evaluates moral values in plays since Shakespeare's time. It reviews other theories and critiques of drama to show that they ignore or minimize the argument from moral worth (ethos), the rhetorical proof that earns a speaker or work its credibility.

Life and Acting

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Techniques for the Actor

By Jack Garfein

£18.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Northwestern University Press

The product of more than sixty years in the world of theatre and film, this offers the kind of insight only gained by experience as both a teacher and practitioner. Garfein distils this experience into a holistic technique for learning and teaching that will be an invaluable resource for teachers and students.

Learning to Perform

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An Introduction

By Carol Simpson Stern, Bruce Henderson

£32.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Northwestern University Press

Enlivens the dialogue between theory and practice for actors and teachers alike and presents a dynamic performance methodology that offers the tools students need to develop and refine performance skills, analyze texts, and think and reflect critically on performed texts.

Dollhouse

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Play

By Rebecca Gilman

£16.95 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Northwestern University Press

Nora seems to have it all - a successful husband, three adorable children, and a beautiful home in the tiny Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. But what looks like the perfect life is woefully incomplete, propped up by dark secrets and bitter betrayals.

American Political Plays After 9/11

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Allan Havis

£28.50 15 Jun 2010 Paperback Southern Illinois University Press

A diverse collection of provocative plays that respond to the highly charged, post 9/11 political landscape. Though not all of the plays deal explicitly with the Al Qaeda attacks, they collectively reveal themes of sorrow and anxiety, moral indignation, a

Arcadia Restored

15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Modern-spelling Edition of MS. Egerton 1994, Folios 212-23 in the British

By Akihiro Yamada

£117.50 15 Jun 2010 Hardback AMS Press

The drama "Arcadia Restored" was composed at the time of the English Civil War, when public performances of plays were banned but when the theatrical culture that had surrounded Shakespeare was alive - and the glories of Restoration drama were soon to bloom. This book sheds light on illegal dramatic activities in the years before the Restoration.

The Wizard of Oz

14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Featuring Judy Garland

By L.Frank Baum

£5.95 14 Jun 2010 Audio Cd CSA WORD

Complete and unedited radio dramatized version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as heard on the Peabody Award Winning Radio Series the Lux Radio Theatre. Starring original 'Dorothy' Judy Garland, Hans Conreid, Herbert Vigran and Ed Max. Release to celebrate animated film release in 2010. 1CD / 1Hr / Dramatised / ISBN: 9781906147778

Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work

13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Foreign Bodies of Knowledge

By Claudia Tatinge Nascimento

£22.50 13 Jun 2010 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offers an analysis of how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination inform performance. This title redirects the intercultural debate by focusing exclusively on the actor at work. It draws from original interviews with Ang Gey Pin (formerly with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards) and Roberta Carreri (Odin Teatret).

Sucker Punch

11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Roy Williams

£9.99 11 Jun 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

Roy Williams' Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and Black in the 80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won.

Sweet Bird of Youth

11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Tennessee Williams

£9.99 11 Jun 2010 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Camino Real

11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Tennessee Williams

£9.99 11 Jun 2010 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Biography

10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Game

By Max Frisch

£8.00 10 Jun 2010 Paperback Seagull Books London Ltd

A play that celebrates not only the theater as a form of self-expression but also the human condition in its potential and limitations, showcasing both comic and tragic outcomes that define our lives.

Through a Glass Darkly

10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Jenny Worton, Ingmar Bergman

£8.99 10 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

The oscar-winning film by legendary director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman, adapted for the stage by Jenny Worton. The story of a young woman forced to take control of her life premiered at London's famous Almeida Theatre in 2010.

Morte D'arthur (Stage Version)

10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Mike Poulton, Sir Thomas Malory

£8.99 10 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Tells the story of King Arthur's attempt to unite his country, from pulling the sword from the stone to the establishment of the Round Table and the Quest for the Holy Grail. This title traces the adultery of Lancelot and Guinevere and ultimately the death of the 'once and future king'.

Dandy in the Underworld

09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Tim Fountain

£8.99 09 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Oi, Mate, Gimme Some More!

09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Yoof-speak Guide to the Complete Novels of Charles Dickens, Innit

By Martin Baum

£7.99 09 Jun 2010 Paperback Authors Online Ltd

If Charles Dickens's quill was still active today, as a writer living in the Gads Hill front line in the Higham turf, with a keen eye for contemporary detail he would reflect life as it is on the streets today by writing classics like 'Minging Times, 'Dombey and Sprog', 'Our Mutual Bro', 'Da Tale of Two Turfs', and 'Well Good Expectations'.

This Other City

07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Daragh Carville

£8.99 07 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

The Dicethrower

07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Drama in Two Parts

By N.G. Maroudas

£18.00 07 Jun 2010 Paperback Troubador Publishing

Loosely based on the life and times of Albert Einstein, this poetic drama explores the life of fictional physicist, Albert Dreistein, whose Time-Space is in Parallel Universe Number Three. By a mix of real documented fact and poetic fantasy, the subject is treated with greater psychological and scientific depth.

Lilies on the Land

06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By various

£8.99 06 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

A remarkable and sparkling piece of theatre celebrating an extraordinary episode in British history - the Women's Land Army of World War 11. Based on the letters and personal testament of hundreds of original Land Girls

The Flowering of an Idea

05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins

By Alan M. Chesney

£10.50 05 Jun 2010 Paperback Johns Hopkins University Press

How, exactly, did the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions come into existence? This title addresses this question by presenting in four scenes, 'an imaginary conversation in which an idea is born'.

Women - Power and Politics: Now

03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Joy Wilkinson, Bola Agbaje, Zinnie Harris

£9.99 03 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

The second in a fascinating collection of plays that look mat the position of women in politics in English History.

Women - Power and Politics: Then

03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Rebecca Lenkewiecz, Marie Jones, Moira Buffini

£9.99 03 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

The first of two volumes in which nine established female playwrights grapple with the complexities of women and politics in Britain's past and present.

Any Given Day

03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Linda McLean

£8.99 03 Jun 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

A searing, poetic and hard-hitting exploration of our fear of the unknown and responsibility towards ourselves and others, from one of Scotland's leading playwrights.

Simon Gray: Plays

03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Cell Mates; Life Support; Just the Three of Us; Little Nell; The Old

By Simon Gray

£16.99 03 Jun 2010 Paperback Faber and Faber

"Simon Gray: Plays 5: Cell Mates; Life Support; Just the Three of Us; Little Nell".

Apples

02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Milward, John Retallack

£8.99 02 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

The Crucible

02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Arthur Miller

£8.00 02 Jun 2010 Paperback Josef Weinberger Plays

Say it with Flowers

02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Jane Thornton

£8.00 02 Jun 2010 Paperback Josef Weinberger Plays

Llwyth

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Dafydd James

£8.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Sherman Cymru

Selected Works

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Antonin Artaud

£12.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Oneworld Classics Ltd

Collects a wide scope of some of Antonin Artaud's most significant writings - ranging from poems to plays, scenarios, production plans, articles, letters and historical fiction - that reveal a complex and uncompromising philosophy which sought to liberate life from the fetters of civilization and its illusory ideals.

London Assurance

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Bean, Dion Boucicault

£8.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Collected Plays

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Neighbour, the Editing Process, Faith, Her Mother and Bartok,

By Meredith Oakes

£14.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Plays Six

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Howard Barker

£14.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Political Plays

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Arnold Wesker

£14.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Paris Calling

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

£14.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

In Person

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard France, Pam Gems, Jackie Skarvellis

£12.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Three Shrew Plays

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'The Taming of a Shrew'; 'Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew' and

By Barry Gaines, Margaret Maurer

£34.00 01 Jun 2010 Hardback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

A collection of three early modern English plays. It allows readers to explore the relationship between Shakespeare's Shrew and two closely related plays of the same genre, the earlier of which, the anonymous "The Taming of a Shrew", once enjoyed a level of popularity that likely surpassed that of Shakespeare's play.

Short and Sweet Skits for Student Actors

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

55 Sketches for Teens

By Maggie Scriven

£14.99 01 Jun 2010 Paperback Meriwether Publishing,U.S.

Includes short skits with casts of two to six players that cover a variety of topics and drama styles.

Reading the Cinematograph

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896-1912

By Andrew Shail

£18.00 01 Jun 2010 Paperback University of Exeter Press

The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.

Reading the Cinematograph

01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896-1912

By Andrew Shail

£55.00 01 Jun 2010 Hardback University of Exeter Press

The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films.

Brighton

30 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Jim Nolan

£16.95 30 May 2010 Hardback The Gallery Press

Brighton

30 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Jim Nolan

£10.95 30 May 2010 Paperback The Gallery Press

Typhus

29 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Jean-Paul Sartre

£13.00 29 May 2010 Hardback Seagull Books London Ltd

The Tempest

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£12.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Reproduces the text of the "Shakespeare First Folio" (1623) in modern type.

Yerma

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Federico Garcia Lorca

£3.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Intended for study or performance.

Drama Classics Compact Display Unit Stocked

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

£43.89 28 May 2010 Nick Hern Books

Drama Classics Standard Display Unit Stocked

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

£131.67 28 May 2010 Nick Hern Books

Great Expectations

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles Dickens, Jo Clifford

£8.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Ghosts

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Henrik Ibsen, Richard Eyre

£8.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Spring Awakening

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Frank Wedekind

£3.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

A once-banned and controversial German play from 1891 that focuses on a group of clasmates. It explores teenage sexuality.

Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Nick Flynn

£8.99 28 May 2010 Paperback North Point Press

The Little Flower of East Orange

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Adly Guirgis

£10.99 28 May 2010 Paperback North Point Press

The Tamer Tamed

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By John Fletcher

£9.99 28 May 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

Offers fresh insight into the critical interpretation of Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew". This title builds on foundations (the relationship with the play and gender relations) and suggests different areas of interest (popular associations of the shrew, the question of reputation, and a re-examination of the play's structure).

12 Classic One-Act Plays

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Mary Carolyn Waldrep

£3.50 28 May 2010 Paperback Dover Publications Inc.

Marie Laveau and Steel

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Derek Walcott

£10.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Performance and the Contemporary City

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An Interdisciplinary Reader

By Whybrow, Nicolas

£19.99 28 May 2010 Paperback Palgrave Macmillan

Whybrow's interdisciplinary collection of urban writings demonstrates how performance is 'at work' in the city. His selection highlights both diversity and the potential for interaction, drawing attention to the possible identities produced by the multi-faceted nature of the modern metropolis.

Performance and the Contemporary City

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An Interdisciplinary Reader

By Whybrow, Nicolas

£55.00 28 May 2010 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

The English Renaissance in Popular Culture

28 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An Age for All Time

By Gregory M. Colon Semenza

£52.50 28 May 2010 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music.

Marx in Soho

27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Play on History

By Howard Zinn

£9.99 27 May 2010 Audio Cd Haymarket Books

The Late Middle Classes

27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Simon Gray

£8.99 27 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Simon Gray's funny, melancholic and captivating play about a young boy trapped between two types of oppressive love reveals the frustration, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England.

The Tamer Tamed

27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By John Fletcher

£45.00 27 May 2010 Hardback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to The Taming of the Shrew. This brand new New Mermaid edition offers unique and fresh insight into the critical interpretation of the play, stage history and recent productions.

The Man

27 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By James Graham

£9.99 27 May 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

Fit

25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Rikki Beadle-Blair

£8.99 25 May 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

All My Sons

24 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Arthur Miller

£8.00 24 May 2010 Paperback Josef Weinberger Plays

Naked Soldiers

21 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark Norfolk

£8.99 21 May 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Ingredient X

20 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Nick Grosso

£9.99 20 May 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

A programme text edition of Nick Grosso's tough piercing new comedy exploring the dynamics of addiction, from The X Factor to Class A drugs.

Yes Prime Minister

20 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Play

By Jonathan Lynn, Anthony Jay

£9.99 20 May 2010 Paperback Faber and Faber

"Yes, Minister", and the equally successful sequel "Yes, Prime Minister" captured a niche in the political consciousness of the nation. In this play, Prime Minister Jim Hacker remains in power with his coterie of close advisors including Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, but for how long?

Victor Pemberton's Dark

17 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Victor Pemberton

£12.99 17 May 2010 Audio Cd Fantom Films Limited

Victor Pemberton's The Slide (And Other Radio Dramas)

17 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Victor Pemberton

£19.99 17 May 2010 Paperback Fantom Films Limited

About the Theater

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Stanley Kauffmann

£15.95 15 May 2010 Paperback Sheep Meadow Press,U.S.

The Book of "Twelfth Night, or What Your Will"

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Musings on Shakespeare's Most Wonderful Play

By Wayne Myers

£8.99 15 May 2010 Paperback Wheatmark Inc

"Brave New World"

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Harold Bloom

£39.95 15 May 2010 Hardback Chelsea House Publishers

Features critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism; notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index; and, an introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

August Wilson

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle

By Alan Nadel

£26.95 15 May 2010 Paperback University of Iowa Press

Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century, completed an ambitious cycle of ten plays, each set in a different decade of the twentieth century. This title examines from myriad perspectives the way his final works give shape and focus to his complete dramatic opus.

Best American Short Plays

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Barbara Parisi

£15.95 15 May 2010 Paperback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

Best American Short Plays

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Barbara Parisi

£27.50 15 May 2010 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

The Best American Short Plays

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Glenn Young

£27.50 15 May 2010 Hardback Applause Theatre Book Publishers,U.S.

King Lear

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£9.50 15 May 2010 Paperback Broadview Press Ltd

Shakespeare's Sonnets

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Revised

By William Shakespeare

£65.00 15 May 2010 Hardback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

A revised edition of this acclaimed and best-selling edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Updated throughout to take account of recent scholarship since its first publication in 1997.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Duncan Jones, Katherine

£9.99 15 May 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

A revised edition of this acclaimed and best-selling edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and updated throughout to take account of recent scholarship since its first publication in 1997.

Skydive

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Kevin Kerr

£15.50 15 May 2010 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

The Trespassers

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Morris Panych

£15.50 15 May 2010 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

Still Laughing

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Panych, Morris

£26.95 15 May 2010 Paperback Talon Books,Canada

Features three comedy classics including "The Government Inspector", "Hotel Peccadillo", and "The Amorous Adventures of Anatol".

The Ethos of Drama

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Rhetorical Theory and Dramatic Worth

By Robert L. King

£57.95 15 May 2010 Hardback The Catholic University of America Press

Dollhouse

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Play

By Rebecca Gilman

£16.50 15 May 2010 Paperback Northwestern University Press

Edward Albee

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Literary Companion

By Phyllis T. Dircks

£35.50 15 May 2010 Paperback McFarland & Co Inc

Covers the canon of playwright Edward Albee, perhaps best known as the author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" This title includes comprehensive entries that detail each of the plays and major characters, and all works are cross referenced with important themes. It also includes biographical information focusing on Albee's artistic beliefs.

Arcadia Restored

15 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Modern-spelling Edition of MS. Egerton 1994, Folios 212-23 in the British

By Akihiro Yamada

£110.50 15 May 2010 Hardback AMS Press

Richard III

14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Graphic Novel

By William Shakespeare

£9.99 14 May 2010 Paperback Classical Comics

The events that surrounded Richard III, and the way that they have been recorded through history, have made this most interesting of Monarchs out to be a very bad man indeed. This title features Shakespeare's play with reduced dialogue.

Richard III

14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Graphic Novel

By William Shakespeare

£9.99 14 May 2010 Paperback Classical Comics

Richard III

14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Graphic Novel

By William Shakespeare

£9.99 14 May 2010 Paperback Classical Comics

Sweet Bird of Youth

14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Tennessee Williams

£9.99 14 May 2010 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Camino Real

14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Tennessee Williams

£9.99 14 May 2010 Paperback New Directions Publishing Corporation

Biography

13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Game

By Max Frisch

£8.00 13 May 2010 Paperback Seagull Books London Ltd

Love the Sinner

13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Drew Pautz

£8.99 13 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Michael, a married man running a small business, accompanies a squabbling delegation of bishops to Africa as a lay volunteer. There an unsettling encounter with a hotel porter leads to a series of agonising moral dilemmas that compromise his faith, his work - and his marriage.

La Fianza Satisfecha

13 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Attributed to Lope De Vega: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes

By William M. Whitby, Robert Roland Anderson

£14.99 13 May 2010 Paperback Cambridge University Press

This 1971 text was the first critical edition of La fianza satisfecha, a play of disputed authorship dating from the Golden Age of Spanish literature.

The Flowering of an Idea

08 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A Play Presenting the Origin and Early Development of the Johns Hopkins

By Alan M. Chesney

£10.50 08 May 2010 Paperback Johns Hopkins University Press

How, exactly, did the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions come into existence? This title addresses this question by presenting in four scenes, 'an imaginary conversation in which an idea is born'.

A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky

07 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Simon Stephens, David Eldridge, Robert Holman

£9.99 07 May 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

On a farm in the North East of England a family gathers. Three of the UK's leading playwrights come together to create an epic play about the very end of time.

Salome

06 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Oscar Wilde

£8.99 06 May 2010 Paperback Nick Hern Books

Salome, stepdaughter of King Herod, agrees to perform the mysterious and erotic Dance of the Seven Veils - but demands in return the head of the King's most infamous prisoner, Jokanaan (John the Baptist).

Poems with Play Sketch

05 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Roger Downer

£3.99 05 May 2010 Paperback Roger H Downer

A collection of poetry and a short play

The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare

03 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By John Russell Brown

£28.99 03 May 2010 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

A collaborative book about plays in performance. It features thirty accounts that describe how some of theatre's most talented directors have brought Shakespeare's texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story to tell as it explores a new and revitalising approach to the most familiar works in the English language.

Typhus

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Jean-Paul Sartre

£13.00 01 May 2010 Hardback Seagull Books London Ltd

King David, Man of Blood

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Fraser Grace

£8.99 01 May 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

Monks, Bandits, Lovers and Immortals

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Eleven Early Chinese Plays

By Stephen H. West, Wilt L. Idema

£34.95 01 May 2010 Hardback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Monks, Bandits, Lovers and Immortals

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Eleven Early Chinese Plays

By Stephen H. West, Wilt L. Idema

£12.95 01 May 2010 Paperback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Three Shrew Plays

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

'The Taming of a Shrew'; 'Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew' and

By Barry Gaines, Margaret Maurer

£34.00 01 May 2010 Hardback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Three Shrew Plays

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Taming of a Shrew; Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew & Fletcher's

By Barry Gaines, Margaret Maurer

£11.95 01 May 2010 Paperback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

An annotated collection of three early modern English plays that allows readers to explore the relationship between Shakespeare's "Shrew" and two closely related plays of the same genre, the earlier of which, the anonymous "The Taming of a Shrew", once enjoyed a level of popularity that likely surpassed that of Shakespeare's play.

Short and Sweet Skits for Student Actors

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

55 Sketches for Teens

By Maggie Scriven

£14.99 01 May 2010 Paperback Meriwether Publishing,U.S.

Includes short skits with casts of two to six players that cover a variety of topics and drama styles.

The Henry Irving Shakespeare 8 Volume Paperback Set

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£180.00 01 May 2010 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item Cambridge University Press

This historic eight-volume edition conveys a sense of Shakespeare's plays in performance which has never been equalled.

The Staunton Shakespeare 3 Volume Paperback Set

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£95.00 01 May 2010 Audio-Visual / Multimedia Item Cambridge University Press

A three-volume annotated edition of Shakespeare's works by Howard Staunton, a highly regarded Shakespeare scholar.

The Swimming Club

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Hannie Rayson

£10.50 01 May 2010 Paperback Currency Press Pty Ltd

In 1983, when they were footloose and fancy-free, the members of the Swimming Club spent one glorious summer together working and loving on a Greek island. Now that they are middle-class, middle-aged, mid-career and mortgaged to the hilt, do they really want to carry all their burdens halfway round the world for a reunion?

Marie Laveau and Steel

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Derek Walcott

£10.99 01 May 2010 Paperback Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema

01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Ravi S. Vasudevan

£65.00 01 May 2010 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

What does it mean to say Indian movies are melodramatic? How do film audiences engage with socio-political issues? What role has cinema played in the emergence of new economic forms, consumer cultures and digital technologies in a globalizing India? Ravi Vasudevan addresses these questions in a wide-ranging analysis of Indian cinema.

Collected Works of Robert McLellan

30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Robert McLellan

£20.00 30 Apr 2010 Hardback Luath Press Ltd

The Fever Chart

30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Naomi Wallis

£8.99 30 Apr 2010 Paperback Oberon Books Ltd

The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations

30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£9.99 30 Apr 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

If you have ever been stuck trying to identify a Shakespearean quote then this is the book for you! With over 3,000 quotes from single lines to quite long extracts organized by topic and by play, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare.

"Death of a Salesman"

30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Arthur Miller

£8.99 30 Apr 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece about Willy Loman, the ageing travelling salesman haunted and driven by empty dreams of prosperity and success. This edition features an extensive commentary and notes making it perfect for students of literature and drama.

"A View from the Bridge"

30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Arthur Miller

£8.99 30 Apr 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

A View from the Bridge is the story of Eddie Carbone and his tragic betrayal of his community's moral code. This Student Edition, expertly edited by Professor Steve Marino, provides an extensive introduction, commentary and study aids making it ideal for students of literature and drama.

"The Crucible"

30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

By Arthur Miller

£8.99 30 Apr 2010 Paperback A & C Black Publishers Ltd

The Crucible is Miller's classic dramatisation of the witch-hunt and trials that besieged the Puritan community of Salem in 1692. This edition features an extensive introduction and notes by Susan Abbotson, making it perfect for students of literature and drama.