Plays, playscripts, drama
Editorial Edaf, S.L. Fausto Faust
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Editorial Edaf, S.A. El mdico a palos Las mujeres sabihondas El
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£14.44
Editorial Edaf, S.L. Tragedias
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£16.40
Editorial Edaf S.A. Tartufo
Book SynopsisEste tomo reúne tres de sus obras más significativas, que reflejan otros tantos tipos humanos, en los que importa más el carácter que la trama y lo universal de sus rasgos, sobre lo particular de la época, y donde la sátira moral y la social se unifican en estos personajes, elegidos reiteradamente por intérpretes de todo el mundo.
£14.42
Tusquets Editores Eleutheria
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£12.17
Editorial Edaf, S.L. El Mercader De Venecia Coriolano Clasicos
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£12.23
Editorial Trotta, S.A. Fushikaden
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£23.73
Alba Editorial Lecciones para el actor profesional
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£22.14
Ediciones Antgona, S.L. 100 m2 el inconveniente
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£13.77
Nordica Libros, Hamlet
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£28.01
Acantilado Sobre el teatro
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£19.83
Editorial Castalia, S.A. Tres sombreros de copa. Maribel y la extraña
Book SynopsisPara Mihura, el humor es una posición ante la vida y el objeto del mismo es la propia existencia, considerada como un absurdo. En Tres sombreros de copa, considerada como una de las obras maestras del teatro humorístico, la fuerza dramática radica en la oposición de dos mundos irreconciliables: el de la burguesía provinciana esclavizada por mil convenciones, y el de un grupo de automarginados de esa sociedd quebuscan la libertad y rechazan la moral hipócrita. También en Maribel y la extraña familia pretende el autor mostrar la falsedad y la hipocresía de algunas costumbres sociales, centrándose, en este caso, en el tema del conflicto de la pareja. Como en toda su obra, el enredo, la mentira y las falsas apariencias producen una divertida comedia de intriga.
£16.52
Editorial Castalia, S.A. Yerma
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Editorial Castalia, S.A. El perro del hortelano
Book SynopsisA sitcom that revolves around love, jealousy, and honor, presents us with the inner struggle that Countess Diana lives between the love she feels for her secretary Teodoro and the social conventions that prevent her from marrying him. But Diana also does not allow Teodoro, a man who belongs to a lower social class, to marry his girlfriend, the maid Marcela.
£10.15
Editorial Castalia, S.A. La Celestina
Book SynopsisSu loca pasión por Melibea, lleva a Calisto a romper todas las barreras morales y sociales y a aliarse con una vieja alcahueta. El destino de Calisto y Melibea, engarzado con habilidad insospechada por Celestina, culmina fatalmente con la muerte de ambos. Desde el momento en que entra en escena, Celestina irrumpe no sólo en toda la obra, sino en toda la literatura, hasta convertirse en un personaje literario de fama universal. Reflejo de una sociedad conflictiva –la española del siglo xv– e intensa expresión de las más grandes pasiones humanas, Celestina resume y liquida la tradición medieval y abre las puertas a tiempos nuevos. En esta edición Soledad Puértolas ha trabajado el texto para versionarlo y acercarlo al español de nuestros días, de forma que todos los lectores, de cualquier edad y condición, puedan disfrutar con una de las grandes obras de la literatura española de todos los tiempos.
£10.95
Editorial Castalia, S.A. Escuadra hacia la muerte
Book SynopsisEl teatro de Alfonso Sastre es un teatro de investigación y revelación y nunca de propaganda; un teatro rico en experiencias humanas y en sutileza poética… porque Sastre comprendió desde un principio que la fuerza dramática se consigue no por el dogma, sino por la revelación social y existencial, no dando soluciones panfletarias a problemas complejos, sino preguntándose acerca de dichos problemas. Escuadra hacia la muerte es, probablemente, su obra más emblemática. En una hipotética tercera guerra mundial, un escuadrón de cinco hombres son enviados de avanzadilla para informar de los ataques enemigos…. Es la historia de un grupo de hombres enfrentados con el poder que Sastre convierte en una elocuente denuncia antimilitarista y donde los más esenciales conceptos humanos, como el miedo, la lealtad, la vida o la muerte, se unen para formar un mosaico de trágicas consecuencias. Por su parte, La mordaza, obra estrenada un año después, en 1954, trata encubiertamente el tema de la dictadura, la represión y la censura. El déspota Isaías Krappo asesina a quien fue víctima suya durante una guerra civil y, aunque su familia lo sabe, sólo su nuera rompe la mordaza del silencio, compuesta de miedo, respeto y fidelidad familiar. Isaías muere en prisión y eso alivia a sus hijos.
£17.59
Castalia Ediciones Luces de bohemia
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£15.47
Linkgua Villana de Getafe
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£21.82
Linkgua Moza del Cántaro
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£17.41
Mimesis International We Women of Tehran
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£999.99
Peeters Publishers Robert Rypon, Selected Sermons. Volume 1: Feast
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are considered the golden age of preaching in medieval England. The Latin sermons edited and translated in this volume, preached by Robert Rypon (c. 1350–1421/22) and collected in a single manuscript, are both representative and exceptional instances of the preaching during this period. Rypon was an English Benedictine monk educated at Oxford and a member of Durham priory, where he served a number of important roles. He preached regularly not only to his monastic community but to lay and clerical audiences at Durham cathedral and in parishes around Durham and Northumbria. Many of his analogies, metaphors, and exempla are original or distinctive in their development, but he applies all of them to traditional homiletic concerns, such as the seven deadly sins, the acts of mercy, the theological virtues, the Ten Commandments, prayer, and penance. He also artfully employs the complex scholastic sermon form popular with preachers trained at the universities. His sermons open a window onto the world of preaching and the religious culture of late medieval England. This volume includes a selection of sermons preached on various Sundays and other feast days during the liturgical year, along with seven sermons preached on saints’ days, which include the feasts for John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and Oswald, the seventh-century king of Northumbria. The second volume will include a selection of sermons preached during Lent.
£79.04
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Decadencia a La Griega Gran Teatro
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£23.87
Losada La Improvisacion del Alma Spanish Edition
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£20.39
The Chinese University Press Teahouse
Book SynopsisThis is one of the famous dramas by Lao She. The drama is set in a typical, old Beijing teahouse and follows the lives of the owner and his customers through three stages in modern Chinese history. The play spans fifty years and has a cast of over sixty characters drawn from all levels of society. Brought together in Yutai Teahouse, they reflect the changes that were taking place in Chinese society. The strength and appeal of the play lie in part in Lao She's masterful recreation of the characters and language of the streets of old Beijing, but the center of its strength is Lao She's vision, his unerring choice of significant detail, and his familiarity with the old society he is describing, with its strengths, weaknesses, and ironies. It is this which carries Teahouse beyond the borders of social criticism and makes it a complex and living work of art. Written in 1957, Teahouse bids an inspired, lingering farewell to old Beijing and the old society, despite their evils and ills, and extends a passionate welcome to the new society with its promise of freedom and equality of the people. Standing as it does between old and new China, and deeply rooted in both, Teahouse shimmers with a fine sense of ambivalence. True to its writer, to China, and to its time, it is a masterpiece of modern theater.
£13.46
Editorial Terracota Bases del Psicodrama
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£14.24
Perfection Learning ShakespeareIence
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£21.75
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Briefcase Warriors Stories for the Stage
Book SynopsisIn this collection of six thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes accessible to young adults to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons PreColumbian Literatures of Mexico
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£22.61
John Wiley & Sons The Satyrica of Petronius An Intermediate Reader
Book SynopsisA comic masterpiece of classical antiquity, the Satyrica (or Satyricon) of Petronius is a tantalizing work of fiction - part poetry, part prose, hilariously vulgar, exquisitely elegant, its original form and length as much a matter of speculation as the identity of its author.
£19.76
Northwestern University Press Hir
Book SynopsisDischarged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about gender, families, the middle class - and cleaning - in hilarious and ultimately tragic disarray.Trade Review[A] brave deconstruction of a family drama that slides from bizarre farce to Greek tragedy with audacious velocity."" —San Jose Mercury News""Hir challenges expectations on every level except that of providing engrossing entertainment, which it does to a remarkable degree."" —San Francisco Chronicle
£13.46
University of Minnesota Press Key Change
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceJeanine Tesori [book page vii]IntroductionElissa Adams [book page ix]Tale of a West Texas Marsupial Girl[book page 1]Lisa D’AmourMusic by Sxip ShireyMadeline and the GypsiesBarry KornhauserMusic by Michael KoernerBased on the book by Ludwig BemelmansBuccaneers!Liz Duffy AdamsMusic by Ellen MaddowA Year with Frog and ToadWillie RealeMusic by Robert RealeBased on the books by Arnold LobelContributors
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Liverpool University Press Euripides Selected Fragmentary Plays Vol II
Book SynopsisThe fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are of very great interest in themselves, apart from the significant aid they give to the fuller appreciation of the surviving complete plays.Trade Review'The eagerly-awaited Volume II...is now out and fully up to expectation... What a joy these two volumes are, bringing to life and making accessible these (almost) lost plays!' Jenny March, CA News'Should be welcomed by all students of classical Greek drama.' Vesa Vahtikari, Arctos'This edition is a marvellous contribution to Euripidean scholarship. It is hard to see how it could have been improved.' Matthew Wright, Journal of Hellenic Studies'The benefits I have drawn from this volume are very great.' Marsh McCall, PhoenixTable of Contents General editors foreword Preface Form and content of this edition Philoctetes (431 B.C.) Alexandros (415 B.C.) Oedipus(after 415 B.C.) Andromeda (412 B.C.) Hypsipyle (411-407 B.C.) Antiope (411-407 B.C.) Archelaus (413-406 B.C.) Addenda and Corrigenda to vol. I Index to volumes I II
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Liverpool University Press The Motherinlaw Classical Texts Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisAt the first two presentations of this play in 165 and 160 BC, the prospect of rival attractions drove the actors prematurely off the stage, and it was only in September 160 that it was finally performed in full.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: The life and career of Terence The Mother-in-Law Summary of the plot Terentian technique in the play Terence and the Greek original The Mother-in-Law and the Epitrepontes of Menander Metre: The Metres of Terence. The Metrical Patten of The Mother-in-Law The text Abbreviations used in the Apparatus criticus Text and translation Commentary on the translation Appendix I: The Odium-Morbus theme Appendix II: The timescale of the pregnancy Short Bibliography.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Plays of Aristide Tarnagda
Book SynopsisAristide Tarnagda is a Burkinabè actor, playwright, and director who has led the Récréâtrales Festival since 2016. He is the author of over twenty plays which have been performed throughout Africa and around the world.Heather Jeanne Denyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theatre at California State University, Fullerton, is a dramaturg, translator, and scholar of African theatre, gender studies, and puppetry. Anna G. R. Miller, Ph.D., is a translator, teacher, and scholar specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone literature.
£18.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Kenrex
Book SynopsisJack Holden is an actor and writer from London. His West End credits include the National Theatre's War Horse and the Almeida Theatre's Ink. He has also performed at the RSC, Bristol Old Vic and toured extensively around the UK. Cruise was his West End debut as a playwright.Ed Stambollouian trained at the University of Manchester, and went on to an MA in Theatre Directing at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He spent a year as Associate Director to Jamie Lloyd on the West End Trafalgar Transformed Season: The Pride, The Hothouse and Macbeth. Alongside the season Ed directed two short Pinter plays starring Andrew Scott, Joanna Lumley and Alun Armstrong. Ed then went on to direct Night School as part of the West End's prestigious Pinter at the Pinter Season. Ed also directs comedy; most recently two award-winning shows by stand-up Joe Lycett, the Invisible Dot's Birthday Gala at the Hammersmith Apollo and the World Tour of YouTube sensations Dan & Phil (which played sold out shows at the London Palladium, the Dolby Theatre in LA and on Broadway).
£13.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Glorious French Revolution
Book SynopsisThis devised show from award-winning duo YESYESNONO dives straight into the history of the French Revolution in the late 18th century, using comparisons to critique extreme wealth inequality found globally today.
£10.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre
Book SynopsisProf. Richard Emmert is Professor Emeritus, Musashino University, Tokyo, Japan.Dr Ashley Thorpe is Reader in Theatre, Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
£23.74
Gale, a Cengage Company Zehme B Carson the Magnificent
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£40.56
University of Toronto Press Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical
Book SynopsisThrough an interdisciplinary examination of sixteenth-century theatre, Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces studies the performative aspects of the early modern stage, paying special attention to the overlooked complexities of audience experience. Examining the period’s philosophical and aesthetic ideas about space, place, and setting, the book shows how artists consciously moved away from traditional representations of real spaces on stage, instead providing their audiences with more imaginative and collaborative engagements that were untethered by strict definitions of naturalism. In this way, the book breaks with traditional interpretations of early modern staging techniques, arguing that the goal of artists in this period was not to cater to a single privileged viewer through the creation of a naturalistically unified stage but instead to offer up a complex multimedia experience that would captivate a diverse assembly of theatre-goers.Trade Review"Berzal de Dios offers excellent comparative discussions on the illustrations that work well to demonstrate the book’s overall thesis – when it comes to the stage, spectators engage with a play of asemblances and recognizable buildings, not a mimetic ideal. Berzal de Dios’s emphasis on disunity in scenography reminds us that a city that appears on stage is not always a representation of the truth. Urban spaces condensed on the stage might imply an idealized locale, but we need to be looking at the stage with a different point of view. Berzal de Dios’s study reminds us that built environments on the Cinquecento stage were ephemeral, made for plural audiences, and meant to celebrate irregular viewpoints." -- Kyna Hamill, Boston University * Renaissance Quarterly, Summer 2020 *"Javier Berzal de Dios’s excellent Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces persuasively rebuts received narratives regarding Italian Renaissance theatre architecture and design, offering a more complex, nuanced picture that includes the heterogeneous, sometimes messy experiences of actual spectators." -- Robert Henke * Theatre Journal, Vol. 73 No. 1 *Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction: Striking the Stage 1. Magic and Mimesis: La Calandria and the Idea of Rome 2. The Artificial City on Stage 3. Palladio, Scamozzi, and the Built Theatre as Enclosure 4. The Medici Theatres, Political Aspirations, and Cognitive Autonomy Notes Index
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Arte Publico Press,U.S. Early Works: Actos, Bernabe AND Pensamiento
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Overlook Press The Collected Plays of Edward Albee 195865
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Liverpool University Press Terence: The Girl from Andros
Book SynopsisThe Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist. It is based on two plays (both now lost) by the Greek playwright Menander and was first put on in Rome in 166 BCE. The main focus of interest is the plotting and counter-plotting of a devious master and his equally devious slave, but there are also two boys both in danger of losing the girls they love, and a girl in search of the family from which she has long been separated – typical ingredients of a Latin comedy.The play is a theatrical tour de force with many comic highlights and is enlivened by a succession of metatheatrical remarks; but it also provokes thought on various aspects of human relationships in a male-dominated, slave-owning society that jealously guards its rights of citizenship. It was the first ancient Latin comedy to be performed in the Renaissance and influenced a number of plays in succeeding centuries, most notably Richard Steele’s The Conscious Lovers (1722); it was also the inspiration for Thornton Wilder’s novel The Woman of Andros (1930). This volume includes the first detailed commentary on the play in any language for nearly sixty years.Trade ReviewReviews ‘Dr Brown's book fills a real need, with a right-to-the-point introduction and commentary. His translation stays close to the Latin, but that does not keep it from being brilliant by moments'.Professor Benjamin Victor, University of Montreal'I am very happy to say that this Andria is an exemplary edition, invaluable for scholars, students and the Latin-inclined general reader alike. A fine work for us to remember Peter by.' Keith Maclennan, Classics for All'In preparing this last of his many contributions to the study of Terence, Brown was thus able to draw upon the full range of his knowledge, experience, and interests, and the result has all the virtues we might expect of him: clear and accurate discussion of the Latin text, a keen eye for details and nuances of interpretation, scrupulously evenhanded reporting and cogent analysis of past scholarly views, and a precise English rendering of the Latin original.' Sander Goldberg, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionText and TranslationCommentaryBibliographyIndex
£109.50
Nick Hern Books King Arthur
Book SynopsisA hilarious retelling of the Arthurian legends from physical theatre masters Le Navet Bete.
£10.44
Theatre Communications Group My Fathers Fable
Book SynopsisPeace didn''t know what she needed when her father died. Then she found Bolu, her halfbrother from Nigeria, whom she didn''t know existed. Filled with grief and a thousand questions, Peace ignores her mother''s concerns, and invites Bolu to England. His arrival feels like something clicking into place.But questions about this stranger''s intentions and his mysterious past hang heavy in the air. Desperate to keep her fractured family ? and herself ? together, Peace must face the fact that the answers she desperately seeks might just lead to everything falling apart.Faith Omole''s playMy Father''s Fableis a gripping story of grief, belonging, and a family on the edge. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Rebekah Murrell.
£10.44
Nick Hern Books Statues
Book SynopsisA witty, honest, and deeply moving play exploring the impact of loss, and what you can gain from it. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.
£11.39
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Literature and Medievalism in Early Modern
Book SynopsisDirects scholarly focus towards a deeper appreciation of medievalist trends in the Elizabethan literary landscape and challenges traditional narratives of 'modernity'.Themes and motifs from the Middle Ages are found across the drama, poetry, prose fiction, polemic, and satire of the later Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, but their impact and influence on this literary landscape have rarely been considered. This study offers a nuanced examination of this intricate interplay between pre-Reformation culture and its post-Reformation reception in England. Each chapter explores a particular genre or aspect of medievalism at play in this writing: civic medievalism; literary adaptation and satire in ecclesiastical polemic; multiple uses of temporality in post-Marprelatian prose fiction; the poetics of memorialisation and voice in medievalist complaint poetry; and the construction of Reformation history and confessional difference on the stage in the early Jacobean period. Moving beyond canonical writers such as Shakespeare and Spenser, the book deals in detail with the drama of Thomas Heywood and Thomas Dekker (alongside unattributed plays); the prose fiction of Robert Greene, Thomas Deloney, Henry Chettle and anonymous others; the historical verse of Samuel Daniel and Michael Drayton, and the polemical writing of Samuel Harsnett, Job Throckmorton and Matthew Sutcliffe. Through a meticulous analysis of these writers and their works, it shows how medieval texts were creatively deployed and adapted in new literary forms, fashioning the emergence of early forms of medievalism, and challenging conventional notions of temporal and cultural divides.
£58.50
Arlen House Duilleoga Tae: Dráma Trí Ghníomh
Book SynopsisAn Irish language textSet in the early 1920s in County Kerry during the Civil War, this play tells the story of the Dillon family, who give refuge to Republican soldiers. Things get more complicated when a Free State soldier comes to them for refuge and the daughters fall in love with him.
£15.26
