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Oxford University Press Inc The Complete Euripides Volume I Trojan Women and
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewthe poets in these volumes communicate a freshness and vitality ... The vivid and responsive re-creations are a clear first-choice recommendation for the general reader * James Morwood, Classical Review *Table of ContentsAndromache (Susan Stewart, Princeton University; Wesley D. Smith, University of Pennsylvania) ; Hecuba (Janet Lembke, poet and translator; Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ; Trojan Women (Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro) ; Rhesos (Richard Emil Braun, University of Alberta in Edmonton)
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Oxford University Press Inc The Complete Euripides Volume II Electra and
Book SynopsisBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. This volume collects Euripides'' Electra (translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford), an exciting story of vengeance that counterposes suspense and horror with comic realism; Orestes (John Peck and Frank Nisetich), the tragedy of a young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father; Iphigenia in Tauris (Richmond Lattimore), a delicately written and beautifully contrived Euripidean romance; and Iphigeneia at Aulis (W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr.), a compelling look at the devastating consequence of man''s inhumanity to man. This volume reprints the informative introductions and notes of the original editions, and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.Trade Reviewthe poets in these volumes communicate a freshness and vitality ... The vivid and responsive re-creations are a clear first-choice recommendation for the general reader * James Morwood, Classical Review *Table of ContentsElectra (Janet Lembke, poet and translator; Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ; Orestes (John Peck, poet; Frank Nisetich, University of Massachusetts, Boston) ; Iphigenia in Tauris (the late Richmond Lattimore, poet and translator) ; Iphigeneia at Aulis (W. S. Merwin, poet and translator; George E. Dimock, Jr., author)
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Oxford University Press The Complete Euripides
Book SynopsisThis volume collects for the first time four plays of Euripides in the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, each previously published individually: Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Cyclops.Table of ContentsEditors' Foreword ; Alcestis the Late William Arrowsmith, founder of the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series ; Introduction ; Alcestis ; Notes ; Medea, Michael Collier, University of Maryland; Georgia Machemer, Duke University ; Introduction ; Medea ; Notes ; Helen, Peter Burian ; Introduction ; Helen ; Notes ; Cyclops, Heather McHugh, University of Washington; David Konstan, Brown University ; Introduction ; Cyclops ; Notes ; Glossary ; For Further Reading
£19.04
OUP USA The Complete Euripides
Table of ContentsHippolytos ; Suppliant Women ; Ion ; The Children of Herakles
£15.41
OUP USA The Complete Sophocles
Book SynopsisThis volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny.Table of ContentsOEDIPUS THE KING ; Introduction ; Oedipus the King ; Notes ; OEDIPUS AT COLONUS ; Introduction ; Oedipus at Colonus ; Notes ; ANTIGONE ; Introduction ; Antigone ; Notes ; GLOSSARY ; FOR FURTHER READING
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Clarendon Press Clouds
Book SynopsisDuring the second half of the fifth century BC, oratory was an essential skill for a successful politician. This art of persuasive speaking was one of several subjects which sophists, lesser philosophers (with whom Socrates was often identified), offered at a price. Aristophanes'' Clouds, performed in its original version in 423 BC, is a witty and merciless satire at the expense of Socrates, which ridicules features ascribed by the man in the street to Socrates and sophistic teaching.Dover''s standard edition of the Clouds is now made available in paperback. In punctuating the text and writing the commentary, he has endeavoured to act as a modern ''producer'' of the play, in order to bring across the full effect of the drama to the reader. The full introduction, which covers all aspects of Aristophanes'' play, from the playwright himself to the manuscript tradition of the text, is followed by Dover''s text and apparatus criticus. This is supplemented by a detailed and lively commentaryTrade Review'a work of unusual excellence and an indispensable tool for all who are interested in understanding Aristophanes' Hermathena'a splendid book, easily the best edition of a play of Aristophanes yet to appear in this country' Classical Review'at last we have a major edition and a splendid commentary remarkable both for its learning and its conciseness' American Journal of PhilologyTable of ContentsAristophanes; the character of the play; Strepsiades and his family; the creditors; Socrates; right and wrong; the chorus; production; the two versions of the play; the history of the text.
£42.30
Clarendon Press Lysistrata
Book SynopsisIn addition to its many topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens, the Lysistrata is one of our best sources for the life of women in antiquity: unlike epic, tragedy, and oratory, Attic comedy draws its characters and plots from everyday life and provides a unique glimpse into the situation of everyday Athenians.Henderson''s standard edition of Aristophanes'' play provides much new evidence for those working on anthropological and sociological aspects of Athens, as well as those working in traditional philological fields. The text is brought fully up to date with the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship over the past sixty years. In particular, it is the first to report all the manuscripts, papyri, and testimonial sources of the text, offering a new account of its history and a detailed review of the transmission of the Aristophanic corpus as a whole. Henderson''s text and apparatus criticus is supplemented by a full Introduction giving details Trade Review`This is a very satisfying work, fully alert to matters linguistic, epigraphic, paratragic, and so forth, and provided with an extremely good index (the sub-headings ... will be very useful).' Greece and Rome`This is an excellent book (both in contents and layout), and a much needed one...Henderson has rendered a signal service in increasing understanding of this comic masterpiece.' Choice`well worthy of OUP's outstanding series ... this method of study would give a keen sixth-form or undergraduate student, with or without a knowledge of the language, a balanced and well-rounded knowledge of the play and its context ... An edition of Lysistrata which meets all criteria of scholarship has been long overdue and Henderson satisfies on all counts. The commentary is very detailed and painstakingly researched.' Peter Hartley, JACT ReviewH. offers attention to many aspects of language, vase paintings, structural features, and the significance and general comic use of metres...offers the first full report of all the MSS and testimonial sources...provides persuasive attributions of speeches. * The Journal of Hellenic Studies 113 *Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Introduction; Lysistrata and the events of 411; The character of the play; Dramatis personae; Production; The Spartan dialect; The history of the text; Notes on lyric analyses; Sigla; Hypotheses; Dramatis personae; Text; Commentary; Indexes
£32.49
Clarendon Press Hippolytos
Book SynopsisEuripides'' Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth''s tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wife. This edition of the play is intended for students and scholars alike. The detailed commentary deals with textual problems in full, but wherever possible the editor has sought to explain the text adopted before discussing the reasons for its adoption. It also includes a close analysis of the lyric metres, and discussion of the play''s subject-matter and dramatic context.The text is based on new collations of the medieval manuscripts (two of them hitherto uncollated) and on all known papyri. The Introduction contains a reappraisal, in the light of the evidence of the papyri, of the history of the text in antiquity, and advances a new account of the relationship between the medieval manuscripts. There is also a full discussion of the early history of the legend and of the two lost tragedies on the same theme.Trade Review`profoundly learned and supremely intelligent book ... a truly great achievement' Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Journal of Hellenic Studies`This book ... deserves the careful attention of everyone seriously interested in Greek literature.' Journal of Hellenic Studies'celebrated edition ... I can think of no better advertisement for this type of scholarship which may be unfashionable but still has so much to offer.' Greece & Rome, April 1993
£47.23
Clarendon Press Aristophanes Frogs
Book SynopsisA brilliant new commentary on one of the most famous comedies from ancient Greece, Aristophanes'' Frogs. Edited by one of the world''s leading scholars on Aristophanes, the book includes the complete Greek text, a comprehensive introduction, and a full and lively commentary covering just about every point of interest in this richly rewarding and entertaining play. It also offers help with translation. A must for all serious students of Aristophanes.Trade ReviewA brilliant introduction ... the commentary is full and fresh ... and includes help with translation, full metrical analyses, and plenty of visualization of the play in performance. Altogether a joy! * Greece and Rome *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Commentary
£32.99
Clarendon Press Frogs
Book SynopsisAmong extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. Sir Kenneth Dover''s edition, with a full introduction and extensive commentary, has been the most comprehensive edition available, drawing together the relevant scholarship that had accumulated on the subject. The general purpose and character of the abridged version remains the same: to provide a helpful guide on a difficult author for students who wish to translate the play, or need to interpret it for performance. In this edition, nothing relevant to the performance of the play on stage has been sacrificed although information on manuscripts and discussion of the history of the text have been pared to a minimum, and arguments on controversial points have been abbreviated. Where relevant, conclusions reached in the original edition have been changed in the light of work done by others since 1993. The inclusion of a vocabulary should reduce thTrade ReviewThe Commentary is admirably suited to being read alongside the text. The MSS are described in an Olympian treatment of the history of the text with a thoroughness not encountered before ... A commentary of characteristic brilliance. * A.M. Bowie, Queen's College, Oxford, The Classical Review, XLV, 2, '95 *
£44.64
Clarendon Press Choephori
Book SynopsisProduced in 458 BC, Aeschylus'' Choephori stands as the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon''s son Orestes avenges his father''s death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreiadae.This edition (first published in hardback in 1986) takes into account the large amount of recent research on the play and tackles the problems presented by an unusually corrupt text. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean ''Orestes'' tradition in literature (from Homer to Pindar) and art (representations on vases and reliefs), as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of staging the play, and the manuscript tradition. Much of the commentary looks at problems of style, dramatic technique, and interpretation of the play, and before Trade Review'Meticulous and profound scholarship, wide familiarity with relevant work, painstaking attention to detail: all these are to be seen in profusion ... this work of genuine scholarship can only be welcomed as an outstanding, and outstandingly produced, long-needed edition from the Clarendon Press.' J. H. C. Leach, Times Literary Supplement'[Garvie's] commentary is immensely thorough, open-minded and sober.' Greece and Rome'Particularly valuable is the treatment of the myth before Aeschylus ... the combination of literary and archaeological evidence fills a serious gap left by previous commentators, and will be useful also to those reading or teaching the other plays of the trilogy.' R. A. S. Seaford, JACT Bulletin'The need for a detailed, up-to-date commentary on the play was clear, and it is fully met by this solid and substantial work...a fine and valuable commentary.' Martin L. West GnomonTable of ContentsText. Commentary. Metrical appendix.
£34.49
Lior Vaskov The Day Our Paths Almost Missed
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Lulu.com Flesh
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Mayer Smith The Phoenix Queens Cursed Love
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Mayer Smith The Court of Endless Dusk
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Novels and Plays of Eduardo Manet
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Yale University Press Long Days Journey into Night
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The restoration of several previously missing lines of dialogue and stage direction likely make this the definitive edition of a 'play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood,' as O’Neill described it in dedicating it to his wife, Carlotta."—Boston GlobeWinner of the 1957 New York Drama Critics Circle Award given by the New York Drama Critics' CircleWinner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Drama"Long Day’s Journey Into Night has long since become a classic not only of the American stage, but of universal theater. And apart from its secure place in literature, the play is an invaluable key to its author’s creative evolution. It serves as the Rosetta Stone of O’Neill’s life and art."—Barbara Gelb"Only an artist of O’Neill’s extraordinary skill and perception can draw the curtain on the secrets of his own family to make you peer into your own. Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the most remarkable achievement of one of the world’s greatest dramatists."—Jose Quintero "Long Day's Journey is O'Neill's last, most realized play, a grand act of mercy upon his family and his own life."—Arthur Miller"The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us."—Harold Bloom, from the Foreword
£13.25
Yale University Press Ben Jonson The Complete Masques
£51.58
Pan Macmillan Valparaiso
Book SynopsisIn Valparaiso, a breathtaking play from Don DeLillo, a man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill, turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. Valparaiso is a funny, sharp and deeply satirical look at our information age. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unread. And everything melts repeatedly into something else, as if driven by the finger on the TV remote. This is also a play that makes obsessive poetry out of the language of routine airline announcements and the flow of endless information.Trade ReviewValparaiso is art at its finest. * Boston Globe *A play that crawls into the most carefully protected corners of one’s consciousness—gorgeous, frightening, stunningly poetic, wickedly funny, surprisingly voluptuous and poetic. * Chicago Sun-Times *
£9.99
Lulu.com Hanging Out in Paris and Hollywood The Turbulent Journey of a Filmmaker
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My First Picture Book Inc. Quitt Theodor Fontane German Edition
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My First Picture Book Inc. Effi Briest Theodor Fontane German Edition
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux O Starry Starry Night
Book SynopsisTwo masterful artistsGauguin and van Goghcome alive in a vibrant drama about friendship, art, and madness Two paintersPaul Gauguin and Vincent van Goghare living together in the sleepy town of Arles in 1888. Soon, Gauguin, frustrated by van Gogh''s refusal to acknowledge his increasingly troubled mind, will depart for Paris. In two years, van Gogh will be dead by his own hand. In the meantime, the friends discuss their craft; they frequent a local café that van Gogh will soon immortalize; they become acquainted with a young prostitute, Lotte, who becomes Gauguin''s lover; they argue; they paint. In Derek Walcott''s new historical play, O Starry Starry Night, two world-renowned artists come to life as they wrestle both with grand themesfriendship, loyalty, fameand with more mundane concerns, money primary among them. The scenes Walcott sketches summon several of van Gogh''s most famous paintings: Sunflowers, The Night Café, The Bedroom a
£14.40
Pan Macmillan South Africa Haitian Trilogy Plays Henri Christophe Drums and Colours and the Haytian Earth
£24.87
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Importance of Being Earnest
Book SynopsisThe full text of Oscar Wilde''s beloved comedy of manners, including exclusive commentary, selections from Wilde''s correspondence, and excerpts from the original four-act version.The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde''s legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays his decency and warmth. This edition contains substantial excerpts from the original four-act version which was never produced, as well as the full text of the final three-act version, selections from Wilde''s correspondence, and commentary by George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, St. John Hankin, and James Agate.“It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy and it has its philosophy; that we should treat all trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.” -Oscar Wilde
£6.95
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Happy Birthday Wanda June
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Penguin Random House LLC The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Euripides Plays Cyclops Hecuba Iphigenia in Aulis and Trojan Women Vol 2 Classical Dramatists Plays Two v2
Book SynopsisThis anthology includes four translations of the Athenian tragedian, Euripides. "Cyclops" is a satyr play, one of the oldest forms of drama, whilst "Hecuba", "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Women of Troy" centre on the Trojan War and the horrors of mental and physical contact.Table of ContentsCyclops; Hecuba; Iphigenia in Aulis; Trojan Women
£20.54
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Five Plays Enemies the Lower Depths Summerfolk Children of the Sun Methuen World Dramatists v 1
Book SynopsisModern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's playsTable of ContentsEnemies; The Lower Depths; Summerfolk; Children of the Sun
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Mahabharata A Play Based Upon the Indian Classic Epic Modern Plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Good Fun and Talent Methuen Modern Plays
Trade Review'It's the homely and subversive sense of humour as much as the format and cultural references that identifies the youthful playwright' Time Out London - Caroline McGinn
£16.59
Bloomsbury USA 3pl Wilde Complete Plays World Classics
Book SynopsisThis volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Kaspar Modern Plays
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Andorra Modern Plays
Book SynopsisReissue of this Methuen classic to tie in with a major new production
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Crime Passionnel
Book SynopsisHugo, a young Communist Party member, is assigned the task of working for a deviationist Party leader, and shooting him. But has he camouflaged a political assassination as a crime passionel? On his release from prison, he tries to explain to a former comrade exactly what his motives were.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Measures Taken and Other Lehrstucke
Book SynopsisBrecht's 'learning plays', designed as short training pieces for actors, derive from the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works.
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Heinemann Educational Books BRENTON PLAYS CHRISTIE IN LOVE THE CHURCHILL PLAY WEAPONS OF HAPPINESS EPSOM DOWNS SORE THROATS MAGNIFICENCEBY BRENTON HOWARDAUTHORPAPERBACK
Book SynopsisHoward Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatistsTable of ContentsChristie in Love; The Churchill Play; Weapons of Happiness; Epsom Downs; Sore Throats; Magnificence
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Collected Plays Vol 1 Hay Fever The Vortex Fallen Angels and Easy Virtue
Book SynopsisThe first volume in the Coward Collection, introduced by Sheridan Morley.Table of ContentsHay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Noel Coward Collected Plays THREE 3
Book SynopsisThe third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties.Table of ContentsDesign for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Collected Plays Volume 4 Blithe Spirit Present Laughter This Happy Breed Tonight at 830 II v4
Book SynopsisVolume Four of Noel Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties.Table of ContentsBlithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii)
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Rattigan
Book Synopsis"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian)Trade ReviewWinslow Boy:'Rattigan's defiant reiteration of the ancient legal mantra "let right be done", his attack on "the despotism of bureaucracy", his declaration that democracy will be the poorer if smaller injustices are ignored, his faith that the English will triumph over tyranny - all that packs a punch today, as it did when the play had its premiere in 1946.' Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 19.5.09 Winslow Boy: 'A paragon of well-made drama... What a fine piece of craftsmanship this play is. The overall plot is a cunningly laid series of twists and snares.' Patrick Marmion, Daily Mail, 22.5.09 'One of the finest dramatists of the last century, uniting superb technical skills with a deep understanding of both the human heart and the British habit of repressing emotion.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 22.5.09Table of ContentsFrench Without Tears; The Winslow Boy; The Browning Version; Harlequinade
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Theatre Diaries Letters and Essays
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Moliere Five Plays
Book SynopsisThis work brings together five of Moliere's finest and best known play Works such as "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe" have been skilfully translated into English rhyming coupletTable of ContentsThe School for Wives; Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Miser; The Hypochondriac
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC PG Wodehouse Four Plays The Plays the Thing Good Morning Bill Come On Jeeves Leave It to Psmith
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Terence Rattigan Plays 2 Deep Blue Sea Separate Tables In Praise of Love Before Dawn The Master Playwrights Plays Two v 2 World Classics
Book Synopsis"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian)Table of ContentsThe Deep Blue Sea; Separate Tables; In Praise of Love; Before Dawn
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Soyinka Plays 1
Book SynopsisSix masterful works by the Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright.Death and the King''s Horseman: ''A transfixing work of modern world drama'' - IndependentMadmen and Specialists: ''A luminous play, examining the way in which war exposes and clarifies human conduct'' - Observer Opera Wonyosi, adapted from Gay''s The Beggar''s Opera: ''Swaggering and scabrous, at once a verbal spree and a fierce assault on totalitarianism'' - Observer The volume also contains The Trials of Brother Jero and Jero''s Metamorphosis, classic comedies of modern Nigerian life based on the hilarious and manipulative transformations of a preacher, and Camwood on the Leaves, a haunting radio play, which evokes a divided community.Table of ContentsBrother Jero;Camwood on the Leaves;Death & the King's Horseman;Madmen & Specialists;Opera Wonyosi...
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Glengarry Glen Ross A Play in Two Acts Modern
Book SynopsisFirst staged in Britain in 1983, "Glengarry Glen Ross" is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Plays By Women Objections To Sex And Violence Roses Story Blood And Ice Pinball Vol 4 v4 Play Anthologies
Table of ContentsObjections to Sex and Violence; Rose's Story; Blood and Ice; Pinball
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