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Cambridge University Press The Works of John Webster Volume 4 Sir Thomas
Book SynopsisThis is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the complete works of John Webster. This final volume contains four plays that Webster wrote in collaboration: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho and The Fair Maid of the Inn.Trade Review'… [a] thoroughly useful and enjoyable volume.' José A. Pérez Díez, Early Theatre Review'There is not much to contest or fault in this thoroughly useful and enjoyable volume.' José A. Pérez Díez, Early Theatre'These are very fine pieces of scholarship that examine each play in minute detail and provide a wealth of information about the plays in the context of their original performances, the Webster canon, and the wider literary tradition.' Brian Vickers, Early Theatre'The logic of this final volume lies in its completion of the Webster edition through its focus on these collaborative plays. The set as a whole establishes the full canon of Webster's works, as is surely necessary … the expanded set is now comprehensive as a starting-point for all future work on the dramatist.' John Jowett, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies'The edition as a whole successfully replaces the pioneering but now seriously outdated edition of F. L. Lucas (1927). The hardback issue is an essential set for any institutional library that claims to cover the field of early modern English drama, and serious students of Webster will be grateful for the affordable paperback … The editors are … committed and adept explicators … Each play is edited fully and explicated seriously. Webster's contribution is described firmly, clearly, and without territorial flag-waving. As a result, he emerges as a more various and wide-ranging dramatist than is suggested by the narrower canon of his better-known works: a writer who embraces co-authorship and adapts readily to a range of generic requirements. In a way that the three-volume set was not, the expanded set is now comprehensive as a starting-point for all future work on the dramatist.' John Jowett, Cahiers ElisabethainsTable of ContentsSir Thomas Wyatt; Westward Ho; Northward Ho; The Fair Maid of the Inn.
£144.40
Random House USA Inc Broadsword Calling Danny Boy
Book SynopsisIn Zona, Geoff Dyer—‘one of our most original writers’ (New York)—devoted a whole book to Andrei Tarkovsky’s cult masterpiece, Stalker. Now, in this warm and funny tribute to one of his favorite movies, he revisits the action classic Where Eagles Dare. A thrilling Alpine adventure headlined by a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous. ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’ is Dyer’s hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood: it’s a scene-by-scene analysis—or should that be send-up?—taking us from the movie’s snowy, Teutonic opening credits to its vertigo-inducing climax.
£12.80
WENTWORTH PR Ditte
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Basics of Communication Research with
Book SynopsisCombining the time tested classical work of Earl Babbie with the insights of one of the most recognized and respected names in speech communication research, THE BASICS OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH is the book for the Communication research methods course. With the authors' collective experience teaching research methods and as active researchers themselves you will find this text to be the authoritative text for your course. The authors frame research as a way of knowing, and provide balanced treatment to both quantitative and qualitative research traditions in communication research and present it in a student friendly and engaging format. It provides in-depth treatment of the role of reasoning in the research enterprise and how this reasoning process plays itself out in planning and writing a research proposal and report.Trade ReviewPart One: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY ABOUT COMMUNICATION. 1. Human Inquiry and Scientific Inquiry about Communication. 2. Basic Building Blocks in Conducting Communication Research. 3. Paradigms of Knowing in Communication Research. 4. Logic Systems and Theory in Communication Research. 5. The Ethics of Communication Research. Part Two: QUANTITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 6. Conceptualization and Operationalization. 7. The Logic of Sampling. 8. Survey Research. 9. Experiments. 10. Quantitative Text Analysis. 11. The Basics of Quantitative Data Analysis. 12. Inferential Statistics in Quantitative Data Analysis. Part Three: QUALITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 13. Participant Observation. 14. Qualitative Interviewing. 15. Social Text Analysis. 16. Qualitative Data Analysis.Table of ContentsPart One: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY ABOUT COMMUNICATION. 1. Human Inquiry and Scientific Inquiry about Communication. 2. Basic Building Blocks in Conducting Communication Research. 3. Paradigms of Knowing in Communication Research. 4. Logic Systems and Theory in Communication Research. 5. The Ethics of Communication Research. Part Two: QUANTITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 6. Conceptualization and Operationalization. 7. The Logic of Sampling. 8. Survey Research. 9. Experiments. 10. Quantitative Text Analysis. 11. The Basics of Quantitative Data Analysis. 12. Inferential Statistics in Quantitative Data Analysis. Part Three: QUALITATIVE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH. 13. Participant Observation. 14. Qualitative Interviewing. 15. Social Text Analysis. 16. Qualitative Data Analysis.
£206.39
Transworld Publishers Ltd Mort The Play
Book SynopsisDeath comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.But when Mort is left in charge for an evening, he allows his heart to rule his head and soon the whole of causality and the future of the Discworld itself, are at risk. Along the way, Mort encounters not only Death''s adopted daughter, Ysabell - who has been 16 for 35 years - and his mysterious manservant Albert - whose cooking can harden an artery at ten paces - but also an incompetent wizard with a talking doorknocker and a beautiful, but rather bad-tempered and dead, princess. He also, of course, meets Death.On Terry Pratchett''s Discworld, Death really is a 7 foot skeleton in a black hooded robe and wielding a scythe. He is also fond of cats, enjoys a good curry, and rides around the skies on a magnificent white horse called Binky.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Guards Guards The Play
Book SynopsisTerry Pratchett''s infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of malcontented tradesmen.Defending Ank-Morpork against this threat is the entire, underpaid, undervalued City Night Watch - a drunken and world-weary Captain, a cowardly and overweight Sergeant, a small opportunistic Corporal of dubious parentage...and their newest recruit, Lance Constable Carrot, who is upright, literal, law-abiding and keen. Aiding them in their fight for truth, justice and the Ankh-Morporkian way are a small swamp dragon and the Librarian of Unseen University (who just happens to be an orang-utan).Trade Review'Alle Thee Dysk's a Stage'
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Men At Arms Playtext
Book SynopsisScarcely a year on from the events of Guards! Guards!, the Ankh-Morpork City Night Watch find their services are once more needed to tackle a threat to their city. A threat at least as deadly as a 60-foot dragon, but mechanical and heartless to boot. It kills without compunction. It is the first gun on the Discworld. The original Watch - Captain Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Carrot and Corporal Nobbs - are joined by some new recruits, selected to reflect the city''s ethnic make-up - Lance-Constable Cuddy (a dwarf), Detritus (a troll) and Angua (a w..., well, best to find out for yourself).
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Greek Drama Bantam Classics
Book SynopsisIn power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction explores the religious origins, modes of productions, structure, and conventions of the Greek theater, individual prefaces illuminate each play and clarify the author's place in the continuity of Greek drama.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories
Book SynopsisIf Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. 'Billy Budd, Sailor,' his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his 'quarrel with God.' It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in 'Bartelby the Scrivener,' his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic—and ultimately disastrous—extreme; and in 'Benito Cereno,' his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie 'The Encantados,' the beautiful, romantic 'The Piazza,' and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, 'The Bell-Tower.'
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Random House Publishing Group Four Comedies
Book SynopsisThe Taming of the ShrewRobust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills-and love-with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night''s DreamFairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world.The Merchant of VeniceThis dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature-Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best.Twelfth NightSet in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Henry VI Parts 13 Parts One Two and Three
Book SynopsisDisplaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare’s first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, violence, and stirring speeches excite audiences with action as well as character, and midway through the final play in this trilogy, a shocking, clever, inimitably evil new voice is heard—that of Richard of Gloucester, destined to become England’s most fearsome and hated ruler of all time, Richard III.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Hamlet
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the imaginations of modern audiences worldwide. Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece of the theater.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisIn this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc King Lear
Book SynopsisA king foolishly divides his kingdom between his scheming two oldest daughters and estranges himself from the daughter who loves him. So begins this profoundly moving and disturbing tragedy that, perhaps more than any other work in literature, challenges the notion of a coherent and just universe. The king and others pay dearly for their shortcomings-as madness, murder, and the anguish of insight and forgiveness that arrive too late combine to make this an all-embracing tragedy of evil and suffering.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Macbeth
Book SynopsisNo dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by his ambitious wife, Macbeth chooses to embrace the Weird Sisters’ prophecy and kill his king-and thus, seals his own doom. Fast-moving and bloody, this drama has the extraordinary energy that derives from a brilliant plot replete with treachery and murder, and from Shakespeare’s compelling portrait of the ultimate battle between a mind and its own guilt.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with
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Random House USA Inc Romeo and Juliet
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Cyrano De Bergerac
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Random House USA Inc Ten Plays by Euripides
Book SynopsisThe first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the 'pure and noble form' of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.
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Random House Publishing Group Pygmalion and Major Barbara
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Penguin Putnam Inc Seven Plays Buried Child Curse of the Starving
Book SynopsisBrilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.'One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today.'—The New Yorker'The greatest American playwright of his generation...the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, [he] is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society.'—New York Magazine'If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard.'—Time'Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage.'—Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of ‘Night, Mother.'One of our best and most challenging playwr
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BiblioLife Realidad
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Faber & Faber Look Back in Anger
Book SynopsisAnyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. 'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe 'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing force of love . . . Jimmy Porter could fill an opera house with his bellowing hunger for a bigger, better life and a loyal love to share it with.' New York Times 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it really is. To have done this at all would be a signal achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle. All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever seeing on the stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive leftishness, the automatic rejection of official attitudes, the surrealist sense of humour, the casual promiscuity, the sense of lacking a
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Faber & Faber Comedians
Book Synopsis''The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent''s man from London. Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk round. But the humour is a deadly serious business that also involves anger, pain and truth.'' Financial Times ''Trevor Griffiths has not shown his brilliance as a writer more clearly than in Comedians.'' Daily Telegraph
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Faber & Faber The Family Reunion Faber Papercovered Editions
Book SynopsisEliot''s haunting verse play, set in a country house in the north of England, was performed at the Westminster Theatre in London in March 1939, six months before the outbreak of war.''What is wonderful is the marvellous opening out of consciousness, the flowering of meaning, which makes the play an account of a spiritual experience. There are passages of great poetic beauty, and statements which are the fruits of a lifetime devoted to poetry.'' Listener
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Faber & Faber A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Book Synopsis''This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men...''Ronald Bryden, Observer (1967)''Joe Egg is unlike any play I''ve seen; concerns about whether it''s dated fade next to the claims that can now be made for it. It''s in the collisions between pious and rogue thoughts that the play''s energy lies. We don''t know what to feel. Which is why, once seen, Joe Egg won''t go away.''Robert Butler, Independent on Sunday (1993)
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Faber & Faber Every Good Boy Deserves Favour A Play for Actors
Book SynopsisEvery Good Boy Deserves FavourA dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident''s son begs his father to free himself with a lie, Tom Stoppard''s darkly funny and provocative play asks if denying the truth is a price worth paying for liberty.Every Good Boy premiered at the Festival Hall, London, in July 1977. It was revived at the National Theatre, London, in January 2009.Professional Foul''Professor Anderson, a somewhat devious academic, went to Prague to deliver a lecture on Ethical Facts in Ethical Fiction and to see a football match. Politics intruded when a former pupil of Anderson begged him to smuggle out a thesis arguing that the ethics of the State can only be the ethics of the individual writ large . . . Mr Stoppard''s BBC television debut was sheer de
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Faber & Faber Fool for Love
Book Synopsis''Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy . . . Like ancient classical drama, too, the action is at once brief and relentless. By the end of the 90-minute play you feel you have lived through a cataclysm . . . This is a tremendous play, bleak but savagely funny, apparently naturalistic yet also resonant and dreamlike.'' Daily TelegraphFool for Love is accompanied in this volume by The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing his Wife, a comic operetta by Sam Shepard and Catherine Stone, which takes an irreverent view of American heroes and heroics.
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Faber & Faber Dancing at Lughnasa A Play
Book SynopsisIt is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after 25 years.
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Faber & Faber Jumpers
Book SynopsisThe Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absurd gymnastic displays reflect a bewildering world where logic has confounded belief in moral absolutes. In this dark, exuberant comedy, Stoppard brilliantly parodies the philosophy lecture, the detective thriller, the comedy of manners and the Whitehall farce, to follow a philosopher''s doomed flight to prove the existence of God in the face of an indifferent universe.This is the definitive text of Tom Stoppard''s celebrated comedy.''A dazzling, hilarious and honestly benevolent work, which creates a dramatic structure from a forbidding diversity of materials.'' The Times
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Faber & Faber The Caretaker
Book SynopsisIt was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century drama.The obsessive caretaker, Davies, whose papers are in Sidcup, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick established the author''s individuality with an international audience.
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Faber & Faber No Mans Land Pinter Plays
Book Synopsis'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The TimesDo Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Foster. All four inhabit a no-man's-land between time present and a time remembered, between reality and imagination.No Man's Land was first presented at the National Theatre at the Old Vic, London, in 1975, revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, with Harold Pinter as Hirst and revived by the National Theatre, directed by Harold Pinter, in 2001.
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Faber & Faber A Slight Ache
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of early works by Harold Pinter. In the title play, everything in Flora''s garden is lovely, and would be for Edward too, if it were not for the slight ache in his eyes and the mysterious matchseller at the gate. This edition also includes A Night Out, The Dwarfs and several revue sketches.
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Faber & Faber Racing Demon A Play
Book SynopsisHow do you fight without hate?Racing Demon reveals the struggle of four clergymen to make sense of their mission. David Hare''s play opened at the National Theatre, London, in 1990 to universal acclaim, and won four awards as Play of the Year. Racing Demon was the first part of David Hare''s trilogy of plays about British institutions; Murmuring Judges and The Absence of War completed the trilogy.
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Faber & Faber The Madness Of George Iii Souvenir Theatre
Book SynopsisGeorge III''s behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power.Alan Bennett''s play explores the court of a mad king, and the fearful treatments he was forced to undergo. It is about the nature of kingship itself, showing how by subtle degrees the ruler''s delirium erodes his authority and status.The Madness of George III premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 1991.
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Faber & Faber Murmuring Judges
Book SynopsisA young lawyer''s involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare''s highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War, a play about the Labour Party, completed the trilogy.
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Faber & Faber Indian Ink
Book SynopsisFlora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist''s son visits Flora''s sister in London while her would-be biographer is following a cold trail in India.The alternation of place and period in Tom Stoppard''s play (based on his radio play In the Native State) makes for a rich and moving exploration of intimate lives set against one of the great shifts of history, the emergence of the Indian sub-continent from the grip of Empire.Indian Ink was first performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in February 1995.
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Faber & Faber Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1
Book SynopsisThe first volume of Alan Ayckbourn''s collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.
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Faber & Faber Frank McGuinness Plays 1 Factory Girls Observe
Book SynopsisThis first collection by Frank McGuinness contains plays from the 1980s, including his major work of that decade, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, a powerful and profoundly moving study of a group of Ulster Protestant volunteers in the Great War. The book also contains Carthaginians, set in a Derry graveyard in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday killings, Innocence, McGuinness''s vigorous drama based on the life of Caravaggio, The Factory Girls and Baglady.
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Faber & Faber Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays 1 New Anatomies The
Book SynopsisNew Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country''s Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field
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Faber & Faber Plays2 The Caretaker Night School The Dwarfs The
Book SynopsisThe second volume of Harold Pinter''s collected work includes The Caretaker.The CaretakerIt was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success. The obsessive caretaker, Davies, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick a landmark in twentieth-century drama.''The play remains a masterpiece.'' Daily TelegraphThe CollectionThis one-act play for television explores the sexual manoeuvres between two couples in the clothing trade.''Taps the adrenal flow of contemporary guilt and anxiety.'' TimeThe LoverRichard and Sarah conduct themselves with apparent respectability in the mornings, whilst living out a sequence of erotic rituals in the afternoons.''Beautifully written... the sexiest play I remember seeing on the television.'' Sunday TimesThe volume also includes Night School and The Dwarfs, plus five re
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Faber & Faber Alan Bennett Plays 1 Forty Years On Getting On
Book SynopsisA collection of four Alan Bennett plays, with an introduction by the author which describes the background to their writing and performance.
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Faber & Faber Christopher Hampton Plays 1 Total Eclipse The
Book SynopsisThis first collection of Hampton''s work includes The Philanthropist, which premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in 1970 and went on to become one of the Court''s longest-running West End transfers. The volume also contains Treats, Savages and Hampton''s deeply affecting drama about the relationship of the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, Total Eclipse.
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Faber & Faber David Hare Plays 2 Fanshen A Map of the World
Book SynopsisThis second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese Revolution with Brechtian subtlety, his screenplay for Saigon: Year of the Cat, The Secret Rapture, his biting portrait of a family in crisis, and the plays A Map of the World and The Bay at Nice. The collection is introduced by the author.
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Faber & Faber The Designated Mourner
Book SynopsisA daughter is tied to her brilliant father by a passionate bond. But then she is drawn towards an appealing man whose taste in cultural forms follows a disturbing path. The Designated Mourner is a harsh and poetic play about the pursuit of beauty in brutal times.The Designated Mourner premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 1996.
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Faber & Faber The Oresteia
Book SynopsisThe Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides. Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal house of Atreus, it follows a singularly harrowing course, from the bloodiest domestic discord to divine intervention and reconciliation. Ted Hughes's translation was written in his most pared-down and powerfully driven verse, at once equal to Aeschylus's tragic vision and speaking directly to modern audiences and readers. The plays were first performed at the National Theatre in 1999 under the direction of Katie Mitchell.
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Faber & Faber Blood Wedding
Book SynopsisLorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated him: desire, repression, ritual, and the constraints and commitments of the rural Spanish community in which the play is rooted.
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Faber & Faber The Wind in the Willows Play
Book Synopsis''Believe me, my young friend, there is absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In them or out of them, it doesn''t matter. Whether you get away or you don''t, whether you arrive at your destination or whether you never get anywhere at all, you''re always busy.''Ever since the publication of Kenneth Grahame''s novel in 1908, the characters of Ratty, Mole, Toad and Badger have delighted generations of readers. Now Alan Bennett has written an adaptation for the stage, a version which is both true to the original and yet carries that distinctive Bennett hallmark.Alan Bennett introduces this edition, writing about the history of the project and the staging of the production.''Bennett is even able to inject the odd sly joke for the adult without bewildering the tots... the result is a delightful evening, a treat for anyone.'' The Times
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Faber & Faber Sam Shepard Plays 2
Book SynopsisSam Shepard has been described by the New Yorker as ''one of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today''. Here are seven of his finest plays, including True West and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. Also included are Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues and Savage/Love.The volume is introduced by Richard Gilman, who provides a fascinating profile of the author and places the plays in the context of contemporary American drama.
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