Twelfth Night: Illustrated by Eric Ravilious by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
A stunning facsimile of the 1932 edition of Twelfth Night illustrated by Eric Ravilious. Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited print run and no ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Peter Holland)
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Category: Plays
King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
A moving tragedy of political intrigue and family strife, William Shakespeare's King Lear is edited by George Hunter, with an introduction by Kiernan Ryan in Penguin Shakespeare. 'How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!' The ageing King Lear, tired of office, decides to split ...Show more
Tales from Shakespeare by Mary Lamb
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Category: Plays
As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appealed to all generations. In "Tales of Shakespeare", they wished to bring their favourite plays to life for children too young to r ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children: Modern Plays by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Plays | Series: Methuen Modern Plays Ser.
Part of the "Methuen Modern Plays" series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print .
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A Southern family meet to celebrate 'Big Daddy' Pollit's birthday- Gooper with his wife and children, his brother Brick - an ageing, broken football star - and his wife Maggie. But as the party unfolds the facade of a happy family gathering is fractured by sexual frustration, repressed love, and greed i ...Show more
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. A magical escapist fantasy centered around the disruption of social order, The Tempest is one of Shak ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shake ...Show more
The Wife of Willesden by Zadie Smith
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Category: Plays
'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . . .' Zadie Smith's first time writing for the sta ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more