The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
$160.00 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: New Oxford Shakespeare
The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare-an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship. In one attr ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: near fine
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soo ...Show more
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes; The Persians by Aeschylus
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The S ...Show more
A History of the Theatre by Glynne Wickham
$49.95 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Performing Arts Ser. | Reading Level: good
In this masterly survey, Glynne Wickham outlines the development of drama throughout the world over the last 3,000 years, from its origins in primitive dance rituals all the way to the very end of the twentieth century. Highly readable, incisive and deeply imbued with a personal viewpoint that stresses ...Show more
The Bérenger Plays by Eugène Ionesco; Donald Watson (Translator); Derek Prouse (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Drama
This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco's everyman protagonist Jean Bérenger. In 'The Killer', he comes across a "radiant city", an ideal civilization which is unfortunately being terrorized by a killer, whom he decides to track down and dissuade from committing any further c ...Show more
The Seer by Ali Smith
$24.95 AUD
Category: Drama
Neil and Iona are a comfortable but complacent couple in their early thirties with well-paid professional jobs in a Scottish metropolis. They dress both themselves and their home immaculately; their lives are ordered to the point of sterility. Into their lives burst Kirsty, Iona's anarchic sister, who m ...Show more
A Taste of Honey - 60 Years of Modern Plays by Shelagh Delaney
$26.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser.
It's chaotic -- a bit of love, a bit of lust and there you are. We don't ask for life, we have it thrust upon us. Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman, feist ...Show more
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of A View from the Bridge is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's play. It features an extensive introduction by Steve Marino which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot and commentary on the chara ...Show more