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  • av Christopher Marlowe
    185,-

    Christopher Marlowe's story of a Scythian shepherd who through using his brutality, lust for power and also his charm becomes a mighty conqueror and the King of Persia.

  • av John Webster
    199 - 305,-

    John Webster's revenge tragedy, The White Devil is a story of adultery, corruption and murder and explores how a corrupt person can depict themselves as good or 'white'. In this revised edition students will find a wealth of information to support their studies and the very latest critical interpretations and stage history.

  • av John Marston
    239,-

    A student edition of Marston's classic play

  • av Christopher Marlowe
    162,99 - 1 455

    'A farce of terribly serious, even savage comic humour' T.S Eliot The Jew of Malta was arguably the most popular play of the Elizabethan era. This new student edition is freshly revised to incorporate the latest stage history and critical interpretations of the play.

  • av John Webster
    147,99

  • av Richard Bean & Dion Boucicault
    239,-

    This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean.

  • av Bernard Shaw
    195,-

    Major Barbara is one of Shaw's most serious and important plays. The story of the contest between the arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his daughter, the Salvation Army Major Barbara , is a provocative discussion between money, power and moral purpose. This authoritative student edition will guide exams and essay writing.

  • av Oscar Wilde
    619,-

    Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

  • av Ben Jonson
    174,99

    The play script of Jonson's satirical farce, including an extensive introduction, with biographical notes and information about the staging of the play, as well as detailed notes beneath the text on each page.

  •  
    159,-

    This revised edition of Arden of Faversham contains a completely re-written Introduction that brings the text up to date with the latest performance history, criticism and research and fresh insight into the context in which the play was written.

  •  
    199

    The Revenger's Tragedy is a famous Elizabethan tragedy set in a dissolute Renaissance court in Italy, a maelstrom of vice and intrigue. In this new edition, students will find a wealth of information to support their studies: an extended introduction and numerous notes and explanations throughout.

  • av Bernard Shaw
    185,-

    Arms and the Man has proved to one of Shaw's most popular plays, challenging notions of romance, bravery, cowardice, patriotism, and loyalty. This is a fresh, up to date and accessibly written critical edition for literature and drama students.

  • av Bernard Shaw
    162,99

    This is a fresh, up to date and accessibly written critical edition for literature and drama students. An authoritative and academically rigorous edition, edited by leading Cambridge scholar, Jean Chothia, under the guidance of the advisor to the Shaw Estate and international Shaw expert, Len Connolly.

  • av Thomas Dekker & Mr. Jonathan Gil Harris
    619,-

    One of the most popular Elizabethan plays, The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the earliest examples of 'citizen comedy' plays set in London and dealing with the dominant concerns of metropolitan society - class mobility, sexual intrigue and the pursuit of wealth and status.

  • av Thomas Middleton
    185,-

    This text is part of the New Mermaid series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

  • av Thomas Kyd
    169 - 249

    Revenge plays became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. The Spanish Tragedy brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically contrasting romantic passion with violent deaths and clandestine politics.

  • av George Farquhar
    245

    Revisions to this edition of The Recruiting Officer" include new notes based on recent scholarly material and the editor's further study of the text, and an up-to-date reading list."

  • av Bernard Shaw
    162,99

    Pygmalion is one of Shaw's most accessible and entertaining plays; its characters-Professor Higgins and his pupil Eliza Doolittle have become household names. An authoritative student guide with a wealth of information to support exams and essays, written by leading Shaw scholar and advisor to the Shaw Estate, Len Connolly.

  • av Ben Jonson
    185,-

    Volpone is part of the New Mermaid series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

  • - Revised edition
    av Aphra Behn
    159,-

    Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England, and The Rover, her most popular play, is set in Naples during the misrule of carnival time. The Rover explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses of sexual passion.

  • av Elizabeth Cary
    169 - 299,-

    The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. This edition includes the complete play script with notes beneath the text, as well as an extensive introduction, including biographical notes, textual details, and information about the staging of the play.

  • - New Edition
    av George Etherege
    199,-

    The most perfectly poised of Restoration comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. Its seemingly casual construction and breaches of comic decorum mask an artistic control designed to upset the complacency of our moral, social and aesthetic assumptions, luring us into sympathy for a character whose dangerous 'wildness' we should deplore.The modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes, while the introduction unpacks the complexity of the Restoration's political and theatrical context, analyses the play's performance history and demonstrates Etherege's linguistic artistry.

  • av Oscar Wilde
    185,-

    This book provides commentary notes alongside the play text of Wilde's first successful society comedy of late Victorian society and is an account of the play's historical, social and theatrical context.

  • av Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    162,99

    In The School for Scandal, Sheridan's artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly delights its audience, but at times it engages them with moments of human pain and happiness, before delivering them back to its comedy.

  • av Oscar Wilde
    169 - 659

    A student edition of Wilde's classic comedy, with full introduction, commentary and questions for study.

  • av Bernard Shaw
    162,99

    One of Bernard Shaw's greatest plays, Mrs Warren's Profession raises issues about class struggle, generational differences, the past, and female hardship through the exploration of a mother and daughter relationship put under enormous strain.

  • av John Ford
    185 - 259,-

    Ford's tragedy, originally printed in 1633, was the first major English play to take as its theme fulfilled incest between brother and sister.

  • - Second Edition, Revised
    av Oscar Wilde
    619,-

    An Ideal Husband is a comic drama of political and personal deceit. This student edition contains a fully-annotated play text with a new Introduction examining its central themes of power and corruption and the growing role of women in public life.

  • av Christopher Marlowe
    174 - 255,-

    Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.

  • av William Wycherley
    162,99

    On his return to London, Hardeep begins broadcasting his newly-invented celicate status, in a bid to attract women keen to re-ignite his passion. With his deception more than successful his endeavours turn to naive country wife Preethi, virgin bride of his rival Alok, in a bid to settle unfinished business between the two former friends.

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