Plays, playscripts, drama
Loeb Helen. Phoenician Women. Orestes Trans.
Book SynopsisEuripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments of his lost plays also survive.Trade ReviewKovacs’s translation is a tour de force… In general, the notes accompanying the translation, explaining such things as geographical and mythological names, are judiciously chosen, concise, and crystal clear… I have nothing but praise for [Kovacs’s] scholarship, and the lucidity of his writing, both as translator and commentator. [This volume] should be [the] standard translation for many years to come. -- John Davidson * Scholia Reviews *
£23.70
Random House USA Inc Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
Book SynopsisWith a Foreword by the Author“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other, reacting to each other, or leaving silences for others to fall into.” -- Carol ShieldsFrom one of Canada’s most beloved authors comes a collection of four works written for the stage, including her most popular and highly acclaimed play Thirteen Hands. The theatrical form allows Carol Shields’ strength as a master of dialogue to shine at its brightest, as she returns to themes she explores in her prose: love, family, friendship, and the hidden meanings and larger truths found beneath the surface of the minutiae of daily life. Thirteen Hands and Other Plays is an exhilarating introduction to Shields’ considerable achievements
£17.56
Random House USA Inc Romances Everymans Library Classics Contemporary
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare’s last four plays carry us across space and time—from classical antiquity to Roman Britain to pagan Sicily to a remote island—and they move as well into a wilder geography of the imagination, one dominated by the wondrous and fantastical, and by reconciliation and renewal. Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest are famously fraught with shipwrecks and adventures, magic and disguise, speaking statues and ethereal spirits, tragic deceptions and moving reunions, and they number among the most enduringly delightful of Shakespeare’s works. The texts of the plays, authoritatively edited by Sylvan Barnet, are supplemented here with textual notes, a bibliography, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and a substantial introduction in which acclaimed scholar Tony Tanner discusses each play individually and in the context of Shakespeare’s oeuvre.
£24.00
Random House USA Inc A Raisin in the Sun
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£18.04
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Palm at the End of the Mind Selected Poems
Book SynopsisThis selection of works by Wallace Stevens--the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet”--was first published in 1967. Edited by the poet's daughter Holly Stevens, it contains all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career, including some not printed in his earlier Collected Works. Included also is a short play by Stevens, Bowl, Cat and Broomstick.
£13.49
Random House USA Inc No Exit and Three Other Plays
Book SynopsisNOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre''s best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.
£13.60
Random House USA Inc Six Degrees of Separation A Play
Book SynopsisIn this soaring and deeply provacative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the msot important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart.Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie.
£11.32
Simon & Schuster Black Theatre USA Plays by African Americans 2
Book SynopsisThis collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996.This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selectionsTable of ContentsV.1 The early period, 1847-1938 -- v.2 The recent period, 1935-today.
£27.00
Scribner Book Company For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
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£12.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Rent
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£33.96
Princeton University Press The Divine Comedy I. Inferno Vol. I. Part 2
Book SynopsisProvides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates.Trade Review"The publication of the first part of Singleton's translation and commentary provides the most comprehensive annotated edition of the Inferno available in English. It is particularly valuable not only for the wealth of factual material but for the citing and translation of long passages from Dante's sources... An indispensable tool for all serious students of the Divine Comedy in English and a valuable possession for all Dantisti."--Renaissance Quarterly "Although we have had many translations of the Comedy since the eighteenth century, some of them notable re-creations, we have not really had a scholarly edition which aims at relative completeness of information about the language, ideas, and background of the poem. This Professor Singleton has provided."--Speculum
£46.75
Princeton University Press Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power
Book SynopsisRanging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-pTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE. POWER AND THEORY, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xvii*Chapter 1. Centralized Power and Christian Political Realism: Fifth Century and Sixteenth, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Libido Dominandi and Potentia Humilitatis: The Medieval Dramaturgy of Power, pg. 22*Chapter 3. Tudor Power and the New Fashion, pg. 41*Chapter 4. Deconstructive Comedy, pg. 61*Chapter 5. Inventing Secular History: The Henry VI Plays, pg. 82*Chapter 6. The Elizabethan Hal, pg. 104*Chapter 7. Power and Archaic Dramaturgy in All's Well That Ends Well, pg. 128*Chapter 8. Style, Goodness, and Power in Measure for Measure, pg. 151*Chapter 9. Tragedy: Noble Weakness, pg. 171*Chapter 10. Ruling Taste and the Late Plays, pg. 194*Afterword: Power and Art, pg. 222*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. 229*NOTES, pg. 231*WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED, pg. 267*INDEX, pg. 273
£35.70
Princeton University Press The Complete Works of W.H. Auden
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£87.20
Princeton University Press Javanese Shadow Plays Javanese Selves 5134
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£38.25
Princeton University Press Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power 3596
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE. POWER AND THEORY, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xvii*Chapter 1. Centralized Power and Christian Political Realism: Fifth Century and Sixteenth, pg. 3*Chapter 2. Libido Dominandi and Potentia Humilitatis: The Medieval Dramaturgy of Power, pg. 22*Chapter 3. Tudor Power and the New Fashion, pg. 41*Chapter 4. Deconstructive Comedy, pg. 61*Chapter 5. Inventing Secular History: The Henry VI Plays, pg. 82*Chapter 6. The Elizabethan Hal, pg. 104*Chapter 7. Power and Archaic Dramaturgy in All's Well That Ends Well, pg. 128*Chapter 8. Style, Goodness, and Power in Measure for Measure, pg. 151*Chapter 9. Tragedy: Noble Weakness, pg. 171*Chapter 10. Ruling Taste and the Late Plays, pg. 194*Afterword: Power and Art, pg. 222*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. 229*NOTES, pg. 231*WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED, pg. 267*INDEX, pg. 273
£85.00
Wordcrafts Press Oscar Wildes Dorian Gray a stage play in three acts
£10.99
University of Wales Press Electra
Book SynopsisA translation of Sophocles''s play Electra, from the Greek into Welsh. Electra tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for the murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War. Reprint; first published in January 1984.
£7.52
University of Wales Press Y Chwyldro Ffrengig ar Anterliwt
Book SynopsisGolygiad newydd o anterliwt Gymraeg sy'n dangos cefnogaeth gref i'r Chwyldro Ffrengig, ac na chafodd sylw er diwedd y ddeunawfed ganrif.Table of ContentsDulliau Golygu: Nodyn Hanes Bywyd a Marwolaeth Brenin a Brenhines Ffrainc: Testun Nodiadau ar yr Anterliwt Atodiad 1: Tonau'r anterliwt i. Tri Chant o Bunnau ii. Tempest of War iii. Betty Brown iv. Difyrrwch Gw}r y Gogledd v. God Save the King Baledi a Cherddi Huw Jones, Glanconwy 1. '[Cerdd] yn achos y rhyfel presennol' 2. '[Cerdd] yn rhoi hanes brwydr a fu rhwng Lloegr a Hisbaen, y 14 o Chwefror 1797, a'r modd y gorchfygwyd yr ysbaeniaid gan Syr John Jervis, Admiral Lloegr' 3. 'Carol Plygain' ar 'Difyrrwch Gw}r y Gogledd' 4. 'Carol Plygain' ar 'Terfyn y Dyn Byw' 5. Englyn 6. 'Carol Plygain' ar 'Hir Oes Dyn' 7. Englyn ymyl dalen Nodiadau ar y Baledi a'r Cerddi Atodiad 2: Tonau'r cerddi i. Charity Meistress (cerdd 1) ii. Duw Gadwo'r Brenin (yr hen ffordd) (cerdd 2) iii. Difyrrwch Gw}r y Gogledd (cerdd 3) iv. Hir Oes Dyn (cerdd 6) Geirfa: Nodyn Esboniadol Geirfa Llyfryddiaeth Ddethol
£8.24
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Witch
Book SynopsisThis play written in the early 1600s is an ironic comedy which offers contrast and comparison with Shakespeare's Macbeth" in its handling of witchcraft. It includes a biography of the writer, a critical introduction, discussion of dates and sources and is fully annotated."
£12.84
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Witch of Edmonton
Book SynopsisThis tragi-comedy took as foundation the news report of the execution for witchcraft of Elizabeth Sawyer, as related by Henry Goodcole. However, the superstructure of love, bigamy and pretension was given at least as much weight. Both plots echoed the social forces at work in Edmonton.
£12.84
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Malcontent
Book SynopsisW. David Kay is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Ben Jonson: A Literary Life and of essays on Erasmus, Jonson, and Shakespeare.
£10.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gammer Gurtons Needle
Book SynopsisThis play is one of the first English comedies, vigorous and farcical, dealing with the loss of a housewife's needle and its eventual rediscovery. It was perfomed in 1566 in the hall of Christ's College Cambridge. The introduction discusses the question of authorship by a "Mr S".
£9.99
