The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Webster
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Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics
These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and issues of power, sex and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable a ...Show more
Brian Friel Plays 1 * by Friel Brian
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Category: Drama | Series: Faber Contemporary Classics
A collection of six plays by the Irish playwright, Brian Friel.
Three Plays: Rising Water, Signs of Life, Shrine by Tim Winton
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Category: Drama
Marked by Winton's signature ear for dialogue, these are three searing plays about survival, mourning, and the remarkable gift of redemption.Winton's first play, Rising Water, sees middle-aged fringe-dwellers Col, Baxter and Jackie living aboard neighbouring boats in a crowded marina. Each of them nurse ...Show more
The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama
Developed in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this Complete Works of William Shakespeare combines exemplary textual scholarship with beautiful design. Curated by expert editors Sir Jonathan Bate and Professor Eric Rasmussen, the text in this collection is based on the iconic 1623 First Fo ...Show more
Tales from Shakespeare: Illustrated Edition by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
'We are such stuff as dreams are made on…' While the language of William Shakespeare's plays can make them challenging for some readers, their plots are filled with fantastical, almost fairytale-like plot devices — misunderstandings involving identical twins, magical forests, ghosts and witches, and ...Show more
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, from the play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of "Waiting For Godot" at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to b ...Show more
Richard III by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama
A history play whose villainous usurper is one of William Shakespeare's most memorably cunning and sinister characters, Richard III is edited by E.A.J. Honigmann with an introduction by Michael Taylor in Penguin Shakespeare. 'Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York' ...Show more
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Timeless Classics) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Drama | Series: Drama Classics
Faust presents both parts of Goethe's lifelong masterpiece, premiered at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum theatre in Feb-April 2006.
The Female of the Species by Joanna Murray-Smith
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Category: Drama
Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970's Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work and numerous best-sellers followed. Now she has writer's block. Molly, an unannounced visitor and committed fan of Margot and her work, offers a potential solution - unti ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays
This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mot ...Show more