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Poetry Books
WW Norton & Co The Jew of Malta
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£15.20
WW Norton & Co In Memoriam
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£13.99
WW Norton & Co The Duchess of Malfi
Book SynopsisThe great English Renaissance tragedy—violent, powerful, unforgettable—in a freshly edited and annotated student edition.
£13.99
WW Norton & Co A Midsummer Nights Dream A Norton Critical
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies is based on the First Quarto text with variants from the First Folio.
£12.99
WW Norton & Co Keatss Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats—one of the most beloved poets of the English language—to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet.Table of ContentsThis Norton Critical Edition seeks to return Keats—one of the most beloved poets of the English language—to his cultural moment by tracking his emergence as a public poet. For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers extensive apparatus to help readers fully appreciate Keats’s poetry and legacy, including an introduction, headnotes, explanatory annotations, and a wealth of contextual documents. “Criticism” includes twelve important commentaries on Keats and his poetry, by Paul de Man, Marjorie Levinson, Grant F. Scott, Margaret Homans, Nicholas Roe, Stuart Sperry, Neil Fraistat, Jack Stillinger, James Chandler, Alan Bewell, and Jeffrey N. Cox.
£16.99
WW Norton & Co Edmund Spensers Poetry
Book SynopsisEdmund Spenser’s Poetry is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.
£18.99
WW Norton & Co Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisShakespeare’s tragedy of one of the most famous assassinations in the world at an epoch-changing time in history.
£15.52
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC What The Butler Saw
Book SynopsisJoe Orton's last play, What the Butler Saw, will live to be accepted as a comedy classic of English literature (Sunday Telegraph)
£13.10
Heinemann Educational Books Spring Awakening
Book SynopsisWedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced
£13.10
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Twelve Angry Men Modern Plays
Book SynopsisIn this play a man is dead, and the life of another is at stake. A guilty verdict seems a foregone conclusion, but Juror Number Nine confronts the ignorant prejudice of some of his fellow members, and a fierce conflict ensues.
£11.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Servant To Two Masters Modern Plays
Book SynopsisThis is a adaptation of Carlo Goldini's 18th century comedy about a wily servant who gets the best of his masters by hook and crook.
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Seagull
Book SynopsisTwo years after its disastrous opening in 1896, "The Seagull" was successfully revived at the Moscow Art Theatre. Checkhov's self-mocking description of the play was: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".
£12.71
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Monologues
Book SynopsisA collection of both serious and comic monologues from the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, this title features pieces from Caryl Churchill, Michael Frayn, Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane. It should be a useful resource for auditions, acting class and rehearsal
£17.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ELMINAS KITCHEN BY KWEIARMAH KWAME AUTHOR
Book SynopsisYou can''t just walk into dis bad man t''ing, you gotta learn the whole science of it. You step into that arena and you better be able to dance wid death til it mek you dizzy. The Yardies are burning up Hackney and Digger''s offer of protection for the diner smacks more of threat than promise. How can Deli save his truanting, thieving son when temptation looms so large on Murder Mile? Trade Review'Guns, drugs, crime, racism, the effects of single parenthood, the ease with which young black men reject education, the troubled relationship between black Britons and "back home", the frustrated desire to achieve ... Kwame Kwei-Armah's play covers an awful lot of bases. What makes Elmina's Kitchen remarkable, however, is his ability to address all these issues without hectoring. He takes us behind the headlines from Hackney's Murder Mile, bringing a human face to London's gang violence and showing how easy it is to make the wrong choice when struggling to survive.' Maddy Costa, The Guardian 'Elmina's Kitchen does just what the best contemporary theatre should. It urges people with half closed minds and averted eyes to confront the ignored and evaded problems of our time.' Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard 'This is an angry, provocative, vital play, one that demands change in society while recognising that there are no easy solutions, and is passionately political while understating that the best way to communicate with people is to keep them entertained. It is thrilling to see it at the National - and will be even more thrilling if it inspires other black playwrights to follow its lead.' Maddy Costa, The Guardian 'a scorching drama about the black experience in Britain's inner cities ... there's no mistaking its raw power, humanity and urgent concern.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph 'Set in London's contemporary East End, this is an assured, humourous, ultimately grim drama ... a revenge tragedy for our times, with violent retribution tied in with today's complicated black culture of "respect".' Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday
£13.93
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Oh What A Lovely War
Book SynopsisFully annotated student edition of a modern classic
£13.10
Taylor & Francis Ltd John Clare
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£280.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Lord Alfred Tennyson The Critical Heritage
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£400.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Arthur Hugh Clough
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£260.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Gerard Manley Hopkins The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S
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£300.00
Taylor & Francis William Shakespeares Hamlet
Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations of audiences and critics alike.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's remarkable play offers: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Series Editor's Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1: Contexts Part 2: Interpretations Part 3: Key Passages Part 4: Further Reading. Index
£24.51
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Major Victorian Poets Reconsiderations Routledge Revivals
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£166.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Shelley Routledge Revivals The Man and the Poet
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£166.25
Orion Publishing Co R S Thomas
Book SynopsisR. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark but passionate.Trade ReviewOne of the best half-dozen poets now writing in English -- Kingsley Amis
£9.25
The University of Michigan Press From the Valley of Bronze Camels
Book SynopsisJane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.Table of Contents May I Ask A Question? I Love You, A Sob Story (w/ music) Youthful Amours Figs & Fiddlesticks & Politics Javelina Stink. What I Dare Not Say About Poetry Tie Up Your Dinghy And Help Me Fantasia On Paul Klee In Tunisia
£16.95
Dover Publications Inc. Sonnets
Book SynopsisOver 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty''s evanescence, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality, and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms.
£5.02
Dover Publications Inc. Great Love Poems
Book SynopsisOver 150 familiar works by English and American poets: John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, many more. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
£6.23
Dover Publications Inc. Romeo and Juliet
Book SynopsisTragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families, and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare''s most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. This inexpensive edition includes the complete, unabridged text with explanatory footnotes. Ideal for classroom use, it is a wonderful addition to the home library of anyone wanting to savor one of literature''s most sublime paeans to young love.
£5.32
Dover Publications Inc. African American Poetry
Book SynopsisRich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 17531784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Other contributors include James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, many others. Indispensable for students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.
£5.60
Dover Publications Inc. The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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£11.24
Dover Publications Inc. Poems of Rupert Brooke
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£6.23
University of California Press The Iliad
Book SynopsisOne of the oldest extant works of Western literature, this book features an epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods.Trade Review"A fine translation, accurate and energetic." -- Thomas L. Cooksey Library Journal "Taken as a whole this is the best line-for-line translation of the poem I know." -- Colin Burrow London Review of Books "By "preserving the strangeness" of Homer, [Peter Green] gives the reader the fullest possible access to the ancient mind, into Homer's distant universe of wine-faced seas, god-like men and bronze skies." -- Kate Havard The Washington Free Beacon "Translating Homer into English is almost a genre of its own... Is there still a gap in the market? Peter Green's new translation shows that there is... his particular merit lies in achieving a clarity and fluidity that carries the reader (or indeed the declaimer) forward... a notable achievement." -- Richard Jenkyns TLS "Readers will learn a great deal about the Iliad from Green's detailed introduction and from comprehensive synopses of each book. A list summarizing the roles of main characters (Achilles to Zeus) and an index of names will benefit new readers as well as pros... Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- R. Cormier CHOICE "Green shows the wonderful things that can happen when Homeric rhythms are combined with a free-flowing and naturalistic English." ARGOTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction THE ILIAD Synopsis Glossary Select Bibliography
£22.50
University of California Press Technicians of the Sacred Third Edition
Book SynopsisHailed by Robert Creeley as both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poets, artists, musicians, and other readers, exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Juxtaposing primitive and archaic works of art from many cultures with each other and with avant-garde and experimental poetry, Jerome Rothenberg contends that literature extends beyond specific temporal and geographic boundaries, while acting as a retort to those who would call that larger humanity into question. A half-century since its original publication, this revised and expanded third edition provides readers with a wealth of newly gathered and translated texts from recently reinvigorated indigenous cultures, bringing the volume into the present and further extending the range and depth of what we recognize and read as poetry.Trade Review"If there is anyone out there struggling to write lyrics, get your hands on this book; immerse yourselves in it, live inside it for a while, free your mind, and you will emerge brimming with ideas." * Nick Cave *Table of ContentsTHE PRE-FACES Pre-Face (2017) Pre-Face (1984) Pre-Face (1967) THE TEXTS Origins & Namings Visions & Spels Death & Defeat The Book of Events (I) The Book of Events (II) Africa America Asia Europe & The Ancient Near East Oceania Survivals & Revivals THE STATEMENTS THE COMMENTARIES POST-FACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
£30.00
University of California Press Medea
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction A Note on This Translation Dramatis Personae Medea Notes Acknowledgments
£10.44
Cambridge University Press The Merry Wives of Windsor
This second edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor focuses at every point on a theatrical understanding of the play. It includes a response to some current arguments about the dating of the play and brings the stage history up to date, showing how recent productions convey the central character of Falstaff.
£12.29
Cambridge University Press Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Book SynopsisA collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.Table of ContentsCambridge literature; Introduction; The cast; The importance of being earnest; Resource notes; Glossary; Further reading.
£13.33
Cambridge University Press Euripides Hippolytus Cambridge Translations from
Book SynopsisTreating ancient plays as living drama.Table of ContentsPreface; Background to the story of Hippolytus; Suggestions for further reading; Map; Genealogical table; List of characters; Commentary and Translation; Synopsis of the play; Pronunciation of names; Introduction to Greek Theatre; Time line; Index.
£13.99
Penguin Putnam Inc The Rumi Prescription How an Ancient Mystic Poet
Book SynopsisA powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet.Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself - to gain wisdom and insight in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock. With the help of her father, who is a lifelong fan of Rumi's poetry, she immerses herself in this rich body of work, and discovers a 13th-century prescription for modern life. Addressing isolation, distraction, depression, fear, and other everyday challenges we face, the book offers a roadmap for living with intention and ease, and embracing love at every turn--despite our deeply divided and chaotic times. Most of all, it presents a vivid reminder that we already have the answers we seek, if we can just slow do
£16.14
Ebury Publishing The Nations Favourite Love Poems Poetry
Book SynopsisFrom the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, ''The Nation''s Favourite Love Poems'' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes: love. As well as traditional lovers'' favourites such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s ''How do I love thee?'' and Shakespeare''s ''Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?'' there are contemporary voices such as Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope and John Fuller, whose erudite yet salacious ''Valentine'' would melt the most fridgid heart. There are even poems for those more melancholic moments, Hardy''s haunting ''After a Journey'', for example, and Larkin''s poignant ''Love Songs in Age''. So, wherever you are in the tunnel of love, dip into this book of poetry and you will be reassured to discover that at one time or another a poet has been there before you.
£15.19
Faber & Faber Gaudete Faber Poetry
Book Synopsis''The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works] because he has such an acute sense of the suggestive power of specific visual images and the ability to evoke them in words.'' Oliver Lyne, Times Literary Supplement
£13.49
Faber & Faber Kid
Book SynopsisKid gives us one of the liveliest poetic voices to have emerged in the last ten years. Simon Armitage''s inspired ear for the demotic and his ability to deal with subjects that many poets turn their backs on have marked him as a poet of originality and force.
£10.44
Faber & Faber Book of Matches
Book Synopsis''A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.'' Independent on Sunday''The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything that poetry should be.'' Times Literary Supplement''The first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity . . . it is possible that he will attain the sort of proverbial status Larkin now occupies.'' Sean O''Brien, The Deregulated Muse
£999.99
Faber & Faber The Dead Sea Poems
Book SynopsisSimon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. The Dead Sea Poems, his fourth collection, culminates in a long visionary poem, ''Five Eleven Ninety Nine''. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched with a unique imaginative intensity.
£11.69
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.
£17.09
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.
£17.09
Faber & Faber The Blue Room freely adapted from Arthur
Book SynopsisSchnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as ''completely unprintable''. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film in 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has re-set these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day. Using as much imaginative freedom in his turn as Ophuls did fifty years ago, and with just two actors playing all of the parts, Hare has created a fascinating landscape of dream and longing which seems both eternal and bang-up-to-date.
£10.44
Faber & Faber Bennett A Lady in the Van
Book SynopsisAdapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up staying fifteen years. Funny, touching and unexpectedly spectacular, The Lady in the Van marked the return to the stage of one of our leading playwrights.The Lady in the Van with Maggie Smith opened at the Queen''s Theatre, London, in December 1999.
£10.44
Faber & Faber Celebration The Room Faber Plays
Book SynopsisA restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It''s a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter''s new play displays a vivid zest for life.In The Room, Harold Pinter''s first play, he reveals himself as already in full control of his unique ability to make dramatic poetry of the banalities of everyday speech and the precision with which it defines character.Harold Pinter''s latest play, Celebration, and his first play, The Room directed by the author himself, premièred as a double-bill at London''s Almeida Theatre in March 2000.
£10.44
Faber & Faber Euripides Alcestis
Book SynopsisAlcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes''s version goes beyond translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering.Although he started working on this piece in 1993, he did not finish until a few months before his death in 1998. It is the culmination of an extraordinarily productive period of work, which saw the publication of Tales from Ovid (1997), Birthday Letters (1998) and The Oresteia (1999).
£9.86
