Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv: A Guide for Second Language and World Language Teachers Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor (Author) Kathleen R. McGovern (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Routledge
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Mar 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 222pp h254mm x w178mm 454g 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Tables, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white ISBN13: 9780367862961 ISBN13: 978-0-367-86296-1 ISBN10: 0367862964 EAN: 9780367862961 x Description: This engaging and complete resource has everything you need to bring drama and theatre techniques into the ESL, EFL, or World Language Classroom. Are your students reluctant to speak out in class? Do they lack confidence in their language skills? The dynamic drama games in this book are the perfect catalyst to transform your students into engaged learners, and help them build confidence and language skills. The interactive theatre games and techniques are specifically designed for use in Second, Foreign, and World Language classrooms to empower students through meaningful, agentive language learning. With over 80 activities and games, and hundreds of extensions that can be catered to every level, this book provides teachers with clear, step-by-step instructions to teaching dramatic activities with L2 learners of all levels and backgrounds. The games and strategies in this book will enliven classrooms with communication that is creative, memorable, inspiring, and fun. Grounded in cutting-edge research, this book explains why teaching language through drama is effective and inspiring for teachers and students alike, directing readers to a wide array of resources and approaches to teaching language through theatre. You'll also find guidance on leading drama games with language learners in a variety of online platforms, lesson planning models, and an example lesson plan for easy implementation in physical or virtual classroom spaces. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
James and the Giant Peach: The Play Richard George (Adapted by) Roald Dahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 84g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141374291 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137429-1 ISBN10: 0141374292 EAN: 9780141374291 x Description: Join James as he escapes from his horrible aunts and sets off inside the peach on his wonderful adventures. This dramatization of Roald Dahl's hugely popular book can be staged in school, acted out at home or simply read together by a group of friends. With suggestions for staging, props and lighting.Roald Dahl died in 1990 but his books continue to be worldwide bestsellers.Richard George was an American elementary school teacher when he adapted James and the Giant Peach as a school play. Roald Dahl loved it and wrote an introduction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Play Richard George (Adapted by) Roald Dahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 84g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141374260 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137426-0 ISBN10: 0141374268 EAN: 9780141374260 x Description: Roald Dahl's much-loved story, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about how Charlie Bucket wins a ticket to visit Willy Wonka's amazing chocolate factory is turned into a play for children to act. With tips about scenery, props and lighting, the play is easy to stage and there are lots of parts for everyone.Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, died in 1990 but his books continue to be bestsellers.Richard George was an elementary school teacher in New York when he wrote this stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's bestselling story - and Roald Dahl himself recommended that it should be published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Danny the Champion of the World: The Plays Roald Dahl (Author) David Wood (Adapted by) Quentin Blake (Illustrated by) Quentin Blake (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 133g Some line diagrams B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141374277 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137427-7 ISBN10: 0141374276 EAN: 9780141374277 x Description: DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD by Roald Dahl - brilliantly adapted into a stage play for children to perform in schools. Could you be Danny, or his dad, or even red-faced Mr Victor Hazell? Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father a boy could wish for. Now you can join in their daring and devilish plots with these fun-to-perform plays adapted by David Wood.David Wood is very well known in children's theatre (most recently for Goodnight Mister Tom).Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and worldwide book sales are over 100 million! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fantastic Mr Fox: The Play Sally Reid (Adapted by) Roald Dahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 80pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 72g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141374284 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137428-4 ISBN10: 0141374284 EAN: 9780141374284 x Description: FANTASTIC MR FOX by Roald Dahl - a short dramatization by Sally Reid - perfect for schools - of Dahl's immensely popular story for younger readers in which clever Mr Fox outwits the three nasty farmers: Boggis. Bunce and Bean. An excellent adaptation by Sally Reid, with staging advice on props, lighting and scenery at the end of the book.Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and worldwide booksales are over 100 million! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The BFG: The Plays Roald Dahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 109g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141374307 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137430-7 ISBN10: 0141374306 EAN: 9780141374307 x Description: Everybody loves the BFG. Now children can bring him to life!Children will have a phizzwizardly good time - and their friends won't believe their gogglers!David Wood has created seven short plays to read and perform. With notes on simple staging, props and costumes, the plays can be produced with the minimum of experience and resources.Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and worldwide booksales are over 100 million! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Twits: The Plays David Wood (Adapted by) Roald Dahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 109g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141374314 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137431-4 ISBN10: 0141374314 EAN: 9780141374314 x Description: Which one of your classmates is most like horrible Mr Twit by Roald Dahl?Children will have a splendiferous time - and their friends won't believe their gogglers!Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and worldwide booksales are over 100 million!
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The Witches: The Plays David Wood (Adapted by) Roald Dahl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 109g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141374321 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137432-1 ISBN10: 0141374322 EAN: 9780141374321 x Description: THE WITCHES by Roald Dahl adapted for school plays. Dare you take on the role of the Grand High Witch?Children will have a splendiferous time - and their friends won't believe their gogglers!Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and worldwide booksales are over 100 million! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Room on the Broom Play Julia Donaldson (Author) Axel Scheffler (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h238mm x w192mm x s6mm 128g ISBN13: 9781509882632 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-8263-2 ISBN10: 1509882634 EAN: 9781509882632 x Description: Now everyone can join the witch and her cat for a magical adventure with this fun and accessible playscript, adapted by the author from the bestselling picture book Room on the Broom.The Room on the Broom Play has been designed with rehearsals and performance in mind, with a clear layout and colour-coding for each character, perfect for helping children to follow their lines and join in the action!The book also contains a hints and tips section, which includes helpful advice on staging the play and ideas for props. There are also ideas for themed Room on the Broom activities.With Axel Scheffler's bright and characterful illustrations and Julia Donaldson's hilarious and witty rhyming playscript, this wonderful, dramatic way to share the classic story is sure to delight teachers, parents and children everywhere. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The What the Ladybird Heard Play Julia Donaldson (Author) Lydia Monks (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
11 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h238mm x w192mm x s5mm 142g ISBN13: 9781509824779 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-2477-9 ISBN10: 1509824774 EAN: 9781509824779 x Description: What the Ladybird Heard, bestselling picture book from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, has been adapted by author Julia Donaldson into a fun and accessible play script that children will love performing at school or at home.The What the Ladybird Heard Play has been designed with
rehearsals and performance in mind, with a clear layout and colour-coding for each character, perfect for helping children to follow their lines and join the cast!The book also contains a hints and tips section, which includes helpful advice on staging the play and ideas for props. There are also ideas for themed What the Ladybird Heard activities, as well as mask templates for the key characters! With Lydia Monks' bright and distinctive illustrations and Julia Donaldson's hilarious and witty rhyming text, this wonderful, dramatic way to share the classic story is sure to delight teachers, parents and children everywhere. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Play Time: Plays for all ages Julia Donaldson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Unabridged edition
Imprint:
Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
14 Mar 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback EU Toy Safety Directive - No warning, EU Toy Safety Directive - Carries minimum age warning Not suitable for children under 5 years of age 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s15mm 168g ISBN13: 9781447231592 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-3159-2 ISBN10: 1447231597 EAN: 9781447231592 x Description: Play Time: Plays for all ages includes eleven fun-to-act short plays for all children to enjoy, especially those in primary school (Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2). Each play comes complete with helpful guidance on target age, running time and cast. Ranging from adaptations of traditional tales (e.g., the legend of Persephone and The Three Billy Goats Gruff) to original and contemporary short plays, Julia Donaldson has produced an entertaining, simple, satisfying collection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sock Puppet Theatre Presents Goldilocks and the Three Bears: A Make & Play Production Christopher L. Harbo (Author) Series:
Sock Puppet Theatre
Edition:
Imprint:
Raintree
Publisher:
Capstone Global Library Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h254mm x w203mm ISBN13: 9781474741521 ISBN13: 978-1-4747-4152-1 ISBN10: 1474741525 EAN: 9781474741521 x Description: Hear ye! Hear ye! Sock Puppet Theatre presents "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"! Now it's a snap to make simple, adorable puppets, key props and the perfect stage for bringing this classic fairy tale to life. But that's not all! As an added bonus, this book also includes a fun starter script, helpful acting and performance tips and clever suggestions for making your play truly unique. With Sock Puppet Theatre, you hold in your hands everything needed to get your puppeteer career started on the right foot! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sock Puppet Theatre Presents Little Red Riding Hood: A Make & Play Production Christopher L. Harbo (Author) Series:
Sock Puppet Theatre
Edition:
Imprint:
Raintree
Publisher:
Capstone Global Library Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h254mm x w203mm ISBN13: 9781474741514 ISBN13: 978-1-4747-4151-4 ISBN10: 1474741517 EAN: 9781474741514 x Description: Hear ye! Hear ye! Sock Puppet Theatre presents "Little Red Riding Hood"! Now it's a snap to make simple, adorable puppets, key props and the perfect stage for bringing this classic fairy tale to life. But that's not all! As an added bonus, this book also includes a fun starter script, helpful acting and performance tips and clever suggestions for making your play truly unique. With Sock Puppet Theatre, you hold in your hands everything needed to get your puppeteer career started on the right foot! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sock Puppet Theatre Presents The Three Billy Goats Gruff: A Make & Play Production Christopher L. Harbo (Author) Series:
Sock Puppet Theatre
Edition:
Imprint:
Raintree
Publisher:
Capstone Global Library Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h254mm x w203mm ISBN13: 9781474741538 ISBN13: 978-1-4747-4153-8 ISBN10: 1474741533 EAN: 9781474741538 x Description: Hear ye! Hear ye! Sock Puppet Theatre presents "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"! Now it's a snap to make simple, adorable puppets, key props and the perfect stage for bringing this classic fairy tale to life. But that's not all! As an added bonus, this book also includes a fun starter script, helpful acting and performance tips and clever suggestions for making your play truly unique. With Sock Puppet Theatre, you hold in your hands everything needed to get your puppeteer career started on the right foot! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sock Puppet Theatre Presents The Three Little Pigs: A Make & Play Production Christopher L. Harbo (Author) Series:
Sock Puppet Theatre
Edition:
Imprint:
Raintree
Publisher:
Capstone Global Library Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h254mm x w203mm ISBN13: 9781474741545 ISBN13: 978-1-4747-4154-5 ISBN10: 1474741541 EAN: 9781474741545 x Description: Hear ye! Hear ye! Sock Puppet Theatre presents "The Three Little Pigs"! Now it's a snap to make simple, adorable puppets, key props and the perfect stage for bringing this classic fairy tale to life. But that's not all! As an added bonus, this book also includes a fun starter script, helpful acting and performance tips and clever suggestions for making your play truly unique. With Sock Puppet Theatre, you hold in your hands everything needed to get your puppeteer career started on the right foot!
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Bombs and Blackberries: A World War Two Play Julia Donaldson (Author) Thomas Docherty (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Children's Books
Publisher:
Hachette Children's Group
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 48pp h278mm x w217mm x s14mm 448g ISBN13: 9781444938791 ISBN13: 978-1-4449-3879-1 ISBN10: 1444938797 EAN: 9781444938791 x Description: A short illustrated play set in World War Two, perfect for class reading as well as performance, written by Julia Donaldson, author of the modern classic The Gruffalo. Perfect for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day in 2019.World War Two has been declared and the Chivers children are sent to the safety of the countryside. They are delighted to be brought back home when it looks like the Germans aren't going to invade after all. But the airraid siren goes off and this time it's frighteningly real.This dramatic and touching play brings Manchester during the Second World War and its people to life, and provides a variety of opportunities for school classes to explore both historical and literacy topics in an involving and creative setting. Also includes helpful tips on staging and costume.'This touching play brings to life the Second World War in a very accessible way for junior children' Books for KeepsJulia Donaldson (Author)Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's best-loved picture books, and was the 2011-2013 UK Children's Laureate. Her books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man, What the Ladybird Heard and the modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child which have sold 17 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 70 languages. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems, plays and songs and her brilliant live children's shows are always in demand. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh. Thomas Docherty (Illustrator)Thomas Docherty is an acclaimed author and illustrator of children's books including Little Boat, Big Scary Monster and The Driftwood Ball. He also illustrated The Snatchabook, written by his wife Helen, which has been shortlisted for several awards in the UK and US and been translated into 17 languages. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chariots and Champions: A Roman Play Julia Donaldson (Author) Thomas Docherty (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hodder Children's Books
Publisher:
Hachette Children's Group
Pub Date:
12 Nov 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback (Text (eye-readable)) 48pp h268mm x w210mm x s8mm 240g ISBN13: 9781444941326 ISBN13: 978-1-4449-4132-6 ISBN10: 1444941321 EAN: 9781444941326 x Description: A short, illustrated play set in ancient Rome, perfect for class reading as well as performance, written by Julia Donaldson, author of the modern classic, The Gruffalo.Arthur Godbold discovers a bronze head of the Roman Emperor Claudius. As he tries to figure out how the head ended up in a Suffolk river, the dramatic story of the Roman invasion of Britain unfolds in front of his very own eyes.Emperor Claudius, British Queen Boudicca, ordinary Roman soldiers and British slave girls all appear in this exciting play, providing a variety of opportunities for KS2 classes to explore both historical and literary topics in an involving and creative setting. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The What the Ladybird Heard Next Play Julia Donaldson (Author) Lydia Monks (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Macmillan Children's Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
10 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 32pp h240mm x w192mm x s4mm 137g ISBN13: 9781509824786 ISBN13: 978-1-5098-2478-6 ISBN10: 1509824782 EAN: 9781509824786 x Description: The little ladybird is back, and now What the Ladybird Heard Next, bestselling picture book from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, has been adapted by author Julia Donaldson into a fun and accessible play script that children will love performing at school or at home. The What the Ladybird Heard Next Play has been designed with rehearsals and performance in mind, with a clear layout and colour-coding for each character, perfect for helping children to follow their lines and join the cast! The book also contains a hints and tips section, which includes helpful advice on staging the play and ideas for props. There are also ideas for themed What the Ladybird Heard Next activities, like making ladybird biscuits for your audience, and making a swarm of finger-puppet bees. With Lydia Monks' bright and distinctive illustrations and Julia Donaldson's hilarious and witty rhyming play script, this wonderful, dramatic way to share the classic story is sure to delight teachers, parents and children everywhere. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Putting on a Play: Gunpowder Plot Tony Bradman (Author) Tom Bradman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Wayland
Publisher:
Hachette Children's Group
Pub Date:
10 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Unspecified
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback (Text (eye-readable)) 32pp h190mm x w179mm x s4mm 108g Illustrations ISBN13: 9780750297547 ISBN13: 978-0-7502-9754-7 ISBN10: 0750297549 EAN: 9780750297547 x Description: A great tool for children to use to stage their own play! Set in London in 1605, it has parts for a group of children and extras with notes on staging, costumes and props. It is great for reading for fun or performing as a group. When Cecil the spymaster and his assistant, Jack, learn of a new plot to kill the king, they are determined to catch the plotters in the act. The trouble is, where do they begin their search? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beauty and the Beast Jacqueline Wilson (Author) Series:
Curtain Up
Edition:
Imprint:
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
31 Oct 1996
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 48pp h305mm x w225mm 230g Paperback ISBN13: 9780713643909 ISBN13: 978-0-7136-4390-9 ISBN10: 0713643900 EAN: 9780713643909 x Description: Each book in this series combines an original play and a set of individual Production Notes". The playscripts may be photocopied and distributed for classroom use. The "Production Notes" give practical help with casting, costumes, scenery and staging of the play itself. This play is based upon the traditional fairy story, where the Beast of the title turns out to be a gigantic slug with a slime problem. The running time of the play is
approximately 45 minutes." _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Goat: Or, Who is Sylvia? Edward Albee (Author) Series:
Modern Plays
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
08 Jan 2004
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 80pp h198mm x w129mm 74g ISBN13: 9780413773852 ISBN13: 978-0-413-77385-2 ISBN10: 041377385X x Description: On his 50th birthday, Martin, a world-famous architect prepares for a recorded interview by an old friend in the TV business; but in the course of the conversation a secret emerges that threatens to turn celebration to tragedy. The Goat is hugely enjoyable parable that plumbs the deepest questions of social constraints on the individual expression of love."My plays are an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy keen" - Edward Albee Winner of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2002 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2001 (03 Jul 2008)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s129mm 106g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780099285694 ISBN13: 978-0-09-928569-4 ISBN10: 009928569X EAN: 9780099285694 x Description: Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose J. M. Barrie (Author) Peter Hollindale (Senior Lecturer in English and Educational Studies, Senior Lecturer in English and Educational Studies, University of York) (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
17 Apr 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h197mm x w128mm x s27mm 282g ISBN13: 9780199537839 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953783-9 ISBN10: 0199537836 EAN: 9780199537839 x
Description: For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire, much of it now newly topical. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to the politics of class and gender, while Mary Rose is one of the best ghost stories written for the stage. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner, of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are supplemented with a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling Richard Beadle (University Lecturer in English and Fellow, University Lecturer in English and Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge) (Edited by) Pamela M. King (Head of Department of English, Head of Department of English, St Martins College, Lancaster) (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
25 Jun 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h196mm x w128mm x s19mm 239g ISBN13: 9780199552535 ISBN13: 978-0-19-955253-5 ISBN10: 0199552533 EAN: 9780199552535 x Description: This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and bestknown of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of the cycle was governed by subject matter of enduring spiritual significance, both to its contemporary audience and in later literary and artistic tradition, and the selection reflects these concerns. Included are plays on the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Incarnation, Passion, and Resurrection of Christ, and the Last Judgement. The Passion sequence has been expanded by six of the eight plays generally attributed to the great poetic dramatist known as the York Realist: the authentic text of these plays is not otherwise available in paperback. As well as providing detailed annotation, this edition offers an introduction which examines the history of the cycle and discusses the immensely popular modern productions in York and elsewhere. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Shorter Plays Samuel Beckett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
05 Jan 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w130mm x s23mm 292g ISBN13: 9780571229147 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22914-7 ISBN10: 057122914X EAN: 9780571229147 x Description: Ths volume contains all of Beckett's less-than-full-length works (or 'Dramaticules') for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in chronological order of composition, these shorter plays demonstrate the laconic means and compassionate ends of Beckett's dramatic vision. Contents: All That Fall, Act Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for Theatre, Embers, Roughs for Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune (adapted from Pinget), Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio, ...but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.
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"Mother Courage and Her Children" Bertolt Brecht (Author) John Willett (Translated by) Hugh Rorrison (Edited by) Series:
Student Editions
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
09 Jun 1983
Publishing Status:
Active
Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 135g 4 b&w photographs ISBN13: 9780413492708 ISBN13: 978-0-413-49270-8 ISBN10: 0413492702 x Description: This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. As the action of the play progresses between the years 1624 and 1646 she loses her children to the war but remains indomitable, refusing to part with her livelihood - the wagon. The play is one of the most celebrated examples of Epic Theatre and of Brecht's use of alienation effect to focus attention on the issues of the play above the individual characters. It remains regarded as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century and one of the great anti-war plays of all time. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble. This volume contains expert notes on the author's life and work, historical and political background to the play, photographs from stage productions and a glossary of difficult words and phrases. The play is translated by Brecht scholar John Willett who did more than anyone else to make Brecht's work available in the English language. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mort - Playtext Stephen Briggs (Author) Terry Pratchett (Author) Series:
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Corgi Books
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Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 May 1996
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w127mm x s13mm 136g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552144292 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14429-2 ISBN10: 0552144290 EAN: 9780552144292 x Description: Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.But when Mort is left in charge for an evening, he allows his heart to rule his head and soon the whole of causality and the future of the Discworld itself, are at risk. Along the way, Mort encounters not only Death's adopted daughter, Ysabell - who has been 16 for 35 years - and his mysterious manservant Albert - whose cooking can harden an artery at ten paces but also an incompetent wizard with a talking doorknocker and a beautiful, but rather bad-tempered and dead, princess. He also, of course, meets Death.On Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Death really is a 7 foot skeleton in a black hooded robe and wielding a scythe. He is also fond of cats, enjoys a good curry, and rides around the skies on a magnificent white horse called Binky. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wyrd Sisters - Playtext Stephen Briggs (Author) Terry Pratchett (Author) Series:
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Corgi Books
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Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 May 1996
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w127mm x s12mm 126g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552144308 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14430-8 ISBN10: 0552144304 EAN: 9780552144308 x Description: Terry Pratchett takes Shakespeare's Macbeth and then turns it up 'till the knob comes off. It's all there - a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of the murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, a land in peril. And who stands between the Kingdom and destruction? Three witches. Granny Weatherwax (intolerant, self-opinionated, powerful), Nanny Ogg (down-to-earth, vulgar) and Magrat Garlick (naive, fond of occult jewellery and bunnies).Stephen Briggs has been involved in amateur dramatics for over 25 years and he assures us that the play can be staged without needing the budget of Industrial Light and Magic. Not only that, but the cast should still be able to be in the pub by 10 o'clock!Oh, and a world of advice omitted from the play text:LEARN THE WORDSHavelock, Lord Vetinari _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anton Chekhov: The Major Plays Anton Chekhov (Author) Series:
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Signet Classics
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Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
05 Dec 2006
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 406pp h172mm x w105mm 210g ISBN13: 9780451530370 ISBN13: 978-0-451-53037-0 ISBN10: 0451530373 EAN: 9780451530370 This Product Replaces: 9780451527769 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Five Plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov (Author) Ronald Hingley (Translated by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
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Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
10 Jul 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h196mm x w129mm x s24mm 248g ISBN13: 9780199536696 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953669-6 ISBN10: 0199536694 EAN: 9780199536696 x Description: This volume contains English translations of: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, with a new Introduction by Ronald Hingley. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: Top Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping & F***ing; The Beauty Queen of Leenane Caryl Churchill (Author) Mark Ravenhill (Author) Martin McDonagh (Playwright, UK) (Author) Sarah Kane (Author) Terry Johnson (Author) Series:
Play Anthologies
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2001
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 362g Paperback ISBN13: 9780413764904 ISBN13: 978-0-413-76490-4 ISBN10: 0413764907 EAN: 9780413764904 x Description: With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria 'One of the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have seen in years' (The Sunday Times) Blasted 'Her dialogue is both sparse and stunning. They will call her mad, but then they said that about Strindberg' (Mail on Sunday) Shopping and F***ing 'A real coup de theatre' (Evening Standard) The Beauty Queen of Leenane 'The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist ...a born storyteller' (New York Times)The result is a collection of "must reads" that's excellent value for students and theatre fans alike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collected Grimm Tales Carol Ann Duffy (Author) Tim Supple (Author) Series:
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Main
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Faber & Faber
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Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2003
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h200mm x w130mm x s20mm 214g ISBN13: 9780571221424 ISBN13: 978-0-571-22142-4 ISBN10: 0571221424 EAN: 9780571221424 This Product Replaces: 9780571194438 x Description: This volume contains Carol Ann Duffy's adaptation plus the dramatization by Tim Supple and the Young Vic Company. The plays were produced by the Young Vic, London, in 1994 and 1997. 'Great theatre is as fleeting as it is thrilling. It exists in the spaces between actors and audience and is as elusive and silvery as the paths that wind through dark woods of fairy tales. The great thing about Carol Ann Duffy's re-telling of these Grimm tales is the generous energy with which it enfolds each in its own style. Duffy and director Tim Supple go the whole journey with the brothers Grimm into the bright, warped world of a child's imagination.' Guardian 'While a copy of this book would earn its place in the secondary school library, a set, for English or Drama departments, would provide a wealth of stimulating opportunities. Highly recommended.' School Librarian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heracles and Other Plays Euripides (Author) Robin Waterfield (Translated by) Edith Hall (Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham) (Introduction by) The late James Morwood (Grocyn Lecturer in Classics and Fellow, Grocyn Lecturer in Classics and Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford University) (Notes by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
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Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
11 Sep 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h195mm x w127mm x s12mm 171g map ISBN13: 9780199555093 ISBN13: 978-0-19-955509-3 ISBN10: 0199555095 EAN: 9780199555093 x Description: Alcestis
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Heracles *
Children of Heracles
* Cyclops
Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humour that characterized the genre. There is death in Alcestis, which explores the marital relationship of Alcestis and Admetus with pathos and grim humour, but whose status as tragedy is subverted by a happy ending. The blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering; its demand for a more humanistic ethics in the face of divine indifference and callousness makes it one of Euripides' more popular and profound plays. Children of Heracles is a rich and complex work, famous for its dialogues and monologues, in which the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them are movingly explored. In Cyclops Euripides takes the familiar story of Odysseus' escape from the Cyclops Polyphemus and turns it to hilarious comic effect. Euripides' other plays are all available in Oxford World's Classics. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Medea and Other Plays Euripides (Author) James Morwood (Grocyn Lecturer, Grocyn Lecturer, Wadham College, Oxford) (Translated by) Edith Hall (Introduction by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
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Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
13 Nov 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 272pp h197mm x w128mm x s15mm 203g 1 map ISBN13: 9780199537969 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953796-9 ISBN10: 0199537968 EAN: 9780199537969 x Description: `the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to female characters, whether heroines of virtue or vice. In the ethically shocking Medea, the first known child-killing mother in Greek myth to perform the deed in cold blood manipulates her world in order to wreak vengeance on her treacherous husband. Hippolytus sees Phaedra's confession of her passion for her stepson herald disaster, while Electra's heroine helps her brother murder their mother in an act that mingles justice and sin. Lastly, lighter in tone, the satyr drama, Helen, is an exploration of the impossibility of certitude as brilliantly paradoxical as the three famous tragedies.
This new translation does full justice to Euripides's range of tone and gift for narrative. A lucid introduction provides substantial analysis of each play, complete with vital explanations of the traditions and background to Euripides's world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orestes and Other Plays Euripides (Author) Robin Waterfield (freelance author and translator) (Translated by) James Morwood (Grocyn Lecturer, Wadham College, Oxford) (Notes by) Edith Hall (Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford) (Introduction by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
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Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2009
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h195mm x w127mm x s16mm 217g 1 map ISBN13: 9780199552436 ISBN13: 978-0-19-955243-6 ISBN10: 0199552436 EAN: 9780199552436 x Description: Ion Orestes The Phoenician Women The Suppliant Women In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and expediency with justice, and the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency. Ion is a vivid portrait of the role of chance in human life and an exploration of family relationships, which combines a sympathetic portrait of a rape victim with remarks on Athenian xenophobia. In Orestes, the most popular of the tragedian's plays in the ancient world, Euripides explores the emotional consequences of Orestes' murder of his mother on the individuals concerned, and makes the tale resonate with advice to Athens about the threat to democracy posed by political pressure groups. The Suppliant Women is a commentary on the politics of empire, as the Athenian king Theseus decides to use force of arms rather than persuasion against Thebes. The Phoenician Women transforms the terrible conflict between Oedipus' sons into one of the most savage indictments of civil war in Western literature by highlighting the personal tragedy it brings. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Four Major Plays Federico Garcia Lorca (Author) Nicholas Round (Hughes Professor of Hispanic Studies, Hughes Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield) (Edited by) John Edmunds, Jr. (Translated by) Ann Maclaren (Notes by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
09 Oct 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h196mm x w128mm x s19mm 216g ISBN13: 9780199537518 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953751-8 ISBN10: 0199537518 EAN: 9780199537518
x Description: `I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s - unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The ill-fated lovers of Blood Wedding, the desolate Yerma, the fading spinster Rosita, and Bernarda Alba's abused household of women all inhabit a familiar Andalusia. Their predicaments are starkly plotted, with a stagecraft rooted in classical theatrical tradition. In such figures Lorca addresses the cultural and political ferment of his time with a fiercely libertarian assault on 'old and wrong moralities', fusing the personal and the political through his virtuoso mastery of images. Yet all that mastery can barely keep at bay the anguished contradictions of these doomed human lives. Hence the authentic sense of danger - the duende, to use his own word of Lorca's theatre, finely conveyed here in John Edmunds's fluent and rhythmic new translations that lend themselves admirably to performance. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fo Plays: 2: Can't Pay? Won't Pay!; Elizabeth; The Open Couple; An Ordinary Day Dario Fo (Author) Bill Colvill (Adapted by) Robert Walker (Adapted by) Gillian Hanna (Translated by) Joe Farrell (Translated by) Lino Pertile (Translated by) Stuart Hood (Translated by) Series:
Contemporary Dramatists Edition:
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Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
14 Mar 1994
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 318g Paperback ISBN13: 9780413680204 ISBN13: 978-0-413-68020-4 ISBN10: 0413680207 EAN: 9780413680204 x Description: Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar...Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed" (Michael Coveney, Financial Times); Elizabeth "It portrays our last Tudor monarch in Fo's characteristically rollicking vein...A triumph for Gillian Hanna as translator" (Marin Hoyle, Financial Times); The Open Couple and An Ordinary Day, written with Franca Rame, deal wittily with the fate of women in a society in which both the social system in which they live and its dominant ideology are shaped by men. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fo Plays: 1: Mistero Buffo; Accidental Death...; Trumpets and Raspberries; Virtuous Burglar; One Was Nude... Dario Fo (Author) Stuart Hood (Edited by) A-M Giugni (Translated by) Ed Emery (Translated by) Joe Farrell (Translated by) R C McAvoy (Translated by) Series:
Contemporary Dramatists Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
09 Mar 1992
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 328g Paperback ISBN13: 9780413154200 ISBN13: 978-0-413-15420-0 ISBN10: 0413154203 EAN: 9780413154200 x Description: Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, is based on research into mediaeval mystery plays; The Accidental Death of an Anarchist concerns the "accidental" (or not) death of an anarchist railwork who "fell" (or was pushed) to his death from a police headquarters window in 1969;
Trumpets and Raspberries is "A deeply subversive farce" (The Guardian) in which the boss of Italy's biggest car manufacturer FIAT, is mistaken for a left wing terrorist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales, Marriage, The Government Inspector Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Author) Christopher English (Translated by) Richard Peace (Professor Emeritus of Russian, Professor Emeritus of Russian, University of Bristol) (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
09 Oct 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h196mm x w131mm x s20mm 282g 2 maps ISBN13: 9780199555062 ISBN13: 978-0-19-955506-2 ISBN10: 0199555060 EAN: 9780199555062 x Description: In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions - `nothing is what it seems!' warns Gogol. St Petersburg is also the setting for Marriage, Gogol's satire on courtship and cowardice. Finally, for The Government Inspector, indisputably Russia's greatest comedy, we move to the provinces although even here St Petersburg's preoccupation with status and appearances makes its presence felt. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Servant to Two Masters Joseph Farrell (Edited by) Carlo Goldoni (Author) Lee Hall (Author) Series:
Student Editions
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Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 176pp h198mm x w129mm 150g N/A Paperback ISBN13: 9781408131053 ISBN13: 978-1-4081-3105-3 ISBN10: 1408131056 EAN: 9781408131053 x Description: This Student Edition of Goldoni's classic 18th century play, A Servant to Two Masters, features expert and helpful annotation, ideal for anyone studying or performing the play. Editor Joseph Farrell's accessible Introduction includes a plot synopsis, a commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance history.
The play revolves around the wily, greedy servant Truffaldino, who in trying to fill both his purse and his stomach, attempts to serve two masters simultaneously. Meanwhile, his mistress disguises herself as her dead brother to claim the dowry from his bewildered, bereft fiancee. The plot is full of mishaps and mix-ups, confusions, disguises and mistaken identity, before the murder and entangled romances can be resolved. Lee Hall's contemporary, faithful version is fast-paced, funny and idiomatic. Updating the comedy for the reader and audience, this version is thoroughly accessible, whilst also portraying the plot's tricks and absurdities with comic flair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ostrich Boys: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE Paul Bunyan (Edited by) Keith Gray (Author) Ruth Moore (Edited by) Carl Miller (Author) Series:
Critical Scripts
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Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
25 Mar 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm 112g 3 b&w photos Paperback ISBN13: 9781408130827 ISBN13: 978-1-4081-3082-7 ISBN10: 1408130823 EAN: 9781408130827 x Description: Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010, Keith Gray's hit novel features a group of three friends who embark on a remarkable journey from Cleethorpes to Scotland with a stolen urn containing the ashes of their best friend... Now adapted for the stage by Birmingham Rep for a production by their Youth Theatre in 2011, Ostrich Boys is ideal for KS3 and KS4 English and will appeal strongly to boys as well as girls. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:
meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Europe' & 'The Architect' David Greig (Author) (Author) Series:
Modern Plays
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Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
02 Dec 1996
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w126mm 300g Paperback ISBN13: 9780413708809 ISBN13: 978-0-413-70880-9 ISBN10: 0413708802 EAN: 9780413708809 x Description: "The most important playwright to have emerged north of the border in years." (Scotsman) Europe is set in a railway station at an unnamed border town where old and new Europeans weave a tale of love, loss and longing. "Fierce, compassionate, mightily ambitious drama...There is the sharp, analytic intelligence, the crackling inventiveness of a real writer buzzing about this gripping play." (The Scotsman) The Architect charts the rise and fall of Leo Black, once an idealistic and idolised designer, whose magnificent visions are now crumbling, along with his family, in the light of grubby reality. "Provides convincing evidence of David Greig's confident transition from a dramatist of promise to one of stature." (Indpendent) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rosmersholm Henrik Ibsen (Author) Duncan Macmillan (Adapted by) Series:
Oberon Modern Plays
Edition:
Imprint:
Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
22 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w130mm x s8mm 144g Paperback ISBN13: 9781786827517 ISBN13: 978-1-78682-751-7 ISBN10: 1786827514 EAN: 9781786827517 x Description: Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good measure. Rosmersholm is positioned against the backdrop of a looming election, an atmosphere of uncertainty and a bloodthirsty press. In the grand house of an influential dynasty, John Rosmer holds the future in his hands. As he wanders the line between idealism and a painful past, he finds himself ever more torn. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Four Major Plays Vol.1: Centennial Edition Henrik Ibsen (Author) Rolf Fjelde (Author) Joan Templeton (Author) Series:
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Signet Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Putnam Inc
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2006
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Published in: United States Paperback / softback 400pp h175mm x w105mm 195g ISBN13: 9780451530226 ISBN13: 978-0-451-53022-6 ISBN10: 0451530225 EAN: 9780451530226 This Product Replaces: 9780451524065 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Five Plays Ben Jonson (Author) G. A. Wilkes (Challis Professor of English Literature, Challis Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney) (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
30 Jul 2009
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 624pp h196mm x w130mm x s34mm 452g ISBN13: 9780199555772 ISBN13: 978-0-19-955577-2 ISBN10: 019955577X EAN: 9780199555772 x Description: The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of Herford and Simpson's edition (OUP 1925-52), with full annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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DNA Dennis Kelly (Author) (Author) Dr Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths University, UK) (Edited by) Series:
Student Editions
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
17 Jun 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm Paperback ISBN13: 9781350188044 ISBN13: 978-1-350-18804-4 ISBN10: 1350188042 EAN: 9781350188044 x Description: Dennis Kelly's play DNA centres on friendship, morality and responsibility in odd circumstances. When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they've done. The play began life as a National Theatre Connections commission in 2008 and has subsequently been produced, studied and toured around the world. DNA is published for the first time in the Methuen Drama Student Edition series with commentary and notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which look at the play's context, themes, dramatic form, staging possibilities and production history, plus offers suggestions for further reading. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Christmas Carol Richard Kidd (Author) Conor McReynolds (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2013
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 88pp h215mm x w169mm x s5mm 148g ISBN13: 9780198390404 ISBN13: 978-0-19-839040-4 ISBN10: 0198390408 EAN: 9780198390404 x Description: An engaging classroom playscript. Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumbling, cold-hearted, shrivelled old miser who deplores the warmth and merriment of Christmas. One freezing, candlelit Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the chain-bound ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who seeks to warn him of the error of his ways. Over the course of the night, a series of spirits arrive, but can they teach Scrooge the true meaning of Christmas before it's too late? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-Texts; The Jew of Malta; Edward II Christopher Marlowe (Author) David Bevington (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Chicago) (Edited by) Eric Rasmussen (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno) (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
10 Jul 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 544pp h197mm x w129mm x s37mm 395g ISBN13: 9780199537068 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953706-8 ISBN10: 0199537062 EAN: 9780199537068 x Description: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contempories. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two. Under the General Editorship of Dr Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Women Beware Women, and Other Plays Thomas Middleton (Author) Richard Dutton (Professor of English, Professor of English, Lancaster University) (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2009
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 379g ISBN13: 9780199538928 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953892-8 ISBN10: 0199538921 EAN: 9780199538928 x Description: This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare - studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; "A Game at Chess" was the single most popular play of the whole Shakespearean era, a satirical expose of Jesuit plotting and Anglo-Spanish politics which played tp pacifist houses at the Globe until King James and his ministers banned it. The best-value collection available with the most officially up-to-date introduction; all the play texts are newly edited with richly informative annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"All My Sons" Arthur Miller (Author) Toby Zinman (Edited by) Series:
Student Editions
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm ISBN13: 9781408108383 ISBN13: 978-1-4081-0838-3 ISBN10: 1408108380 x Description: This Student Edition of All My Sons is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's play. It features an extensive introduction by Toby Zinman which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot and commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and production history of the play. Together with over twenty questions for further study and detailed notes on words and phrases from the text, this is the definitive edition of the play. As Miller's first successful play on Broadway, All My Sons launched his career and established Miller as America's social critic. A devastating indictment of war-profiteering, the play exposes the awful price paid by selfinterest and greed fostered by capitalism. Set in 1947 in the Keller family's home in the mid-west, a shattered apple tree stands as a reminder of the pilot-son, lost during the war. Joe Keller has evaded justice for his part in the deaths of pilots caused by faulty engine parts manufactured in his factory, but the family is unable to put the past behind them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"The Crucible" Arthur Miller (Author) Susan C. W. Abbotson (Edited by) Series:
Student Editions
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Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm ISBN13: 9781408108390 ISBN13: 978-1-4081-0839-0 ISBN10: 1408108399 x Description: This Student Edition of The Crucible is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled guide to Miller's classic play. It features an extensive introduction by Susan C. W. Abbotson which includes: a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot and commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and production history of the play. Together with over twenty questions for further study, detailed notes on words and phrases from the text and the additional scene 2 of the second Act, this is the definitive edition of the play. In a small tightknit community gossip and rumour spread like wildfire inflaming personal grievances until no-one is safe from accusation and vengeance. The Crucible is Miller's classic dramatisation of the witch-hunt and trials that besieged the Puritan community of Salem in 1692. Seen as a chilling parallel to the McCarthyism and repressive culture of fear that gripped America in the 1950s, the play's timeless relevance and appeal remains as strong as when the play opened on Broadway in 1953. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller (Author) Enoch Brater (Edited by) Series:
Student Editions
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2010
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm ISBN13: 9781408108413 ISBN13: 978-1-4081-0841-3 ISBN10: 1408108410 x Description: Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, the play remains a classic work of literature and drama that is studied and performed around the world. This critical edition offers a wealth of authoritative and helpful commentary by one of the leading international Miller scholars. Prepared in consultation with the author's estate, it is the definitive edition of the work. Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted and driven by empty dreams of prosperity and success. Justly
celebrated as one of the most famous dramatisations of the failure of the American Dream, the play's moral and political purpose is perfectly counterbalanced by a powerful and moving human drama of a man trying to make his way in the world and of the human flaws that lead to the shattering of his family and of their idol. This Student Edition features an extensive introduction by Enoch Brater which makes it the perfect edition for students of literature and drama. It includes a chronology of Miller's life and times; a summary of the plot, commentary on the characters, themes, language and context, a production history of the play and questions for further study. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Memory of Two Mondays Joshua Polster (Edited by) Arthur Miller (Author) Series:
Student Editions
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 154g N/A Paperback ISBN13: 9781408123164 ISBN13: 978-1-4081-2316-4 ISBN10: 1408123169 EAN: 9781408123164 x Description: This Student Edition of A Memory of Two Mondays is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled and comprehensive guide to Miller's play. It features an extensive introduction by Joshua Polster which includes a chronology of Miller's life and times, a summary of the plot and commentary on the characters, themes, language, context and production history of the play. Together with over twenty questions for further study and detailed notes on words and phrases from the text, this is the definitive edition of the play.
The one-act play A Memory of Two Mondays (1955) is one of Miller's most overtly autobiographical works. It chronicles the playwright at the age of eighteen during the early 1930s when he briefly worked at an auto parts warehouse in New York to save enough money to attend college. More than just autobiographical, the play captures the sociopolitical climate of the Great Depression. It deeply resonates and brings to the surface the cultural concerns and anxieties of the period. The setting, characters, theme, style, structure and language all exemplify the social and economic tensions of the country when it was at its lowest point in the Depression, and when the country, as Miller saw it, needed a sense of hope, endurance, and solidarity. At the same time, the play speaks to the 1950s, when the country was being torn apart by McCarthyism. A Memory of Two Mondays responded to a culture caught in the grip of a Communist hysteria that turned people against each other. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don Juan and Other Plays Moliere (Author) George Graveley (Translated by) Ian Maclean (Translated by) Ian Maclean (Edited by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
12 Jun 2008
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h195mm x w128mm x s25mm 306g ISBN13: 9780199540228 ISBN13: 978-0-19-954022-8 ISBN10: 0199540225 EAN: 9780199540228 x Description: Contains: Don Juan, Precious Provincials, The Reluctant Doctor, George Dandin, The Miser, The Would-be Gentleman, Scapin the Schemer Since the second half of the seventeenth century, when Moli`re composed and performed his comedies, scarcely a decade has passed in which they have not been revived, imitated, or adapted; their appeal to twenty-first century audiences remains as great as to their initial public. This selection of seven of Moli`re's prose plays shows his versatility and indicates the reason for his enduring popularity. Whether he writes in a strictly defined
historical context (as in Precious Provincials or The Would-be Gentleman) or whether he sets his plays in an almost mythical world (as in Don Juan); whether his plays are exuberant celebrations of light heartedness, ingenuity, and wit (The Reluctant Doctor and Scapin the Schemer) or whether they come closer in spirit to black humour (The Miser and George Dandin), they remain as fresh and vivid as ever. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Entertaining Mr Sloane Joe Orton (Author) Series:
Modern Classics
Edition:
New Edition - New Edition
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 102g Paperback ISBN13: 9780413413406 ISBN13: 978-0-413-41340-6 ISBN10: 0413413403 EAN: 9780413413406 x Description: Entertaining Mr Sloane was first staged in 1964. Despite its success in performance, and being hailed by Sir Terence Rattigan as 'the best first play' he'd seen in 'thirty odd years', it was not until the London production of Loot in 1966 - less than a year before Joe Orton's untimely death - that theatre audiences and critics began to more fully appreciate the originality of Orton's elegant, alarming and hilarious writing. Introduced by John Lahr, the author of Orton's biography Prick up Your Ears, Entertaining Mr Sloane is now established as an essential part of the repertoire of the modern theatre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) Oscar Wilde (Author) Series:
Collins Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
William Collins
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Unsewn / adhesive bound 384pp h178mm x w111mm x s24mm 210g ISBN13: 9780007902224 ISBN13: 978-0-00-790222-4 ISBN10: 0007902220 EAN: 9780007902224 x Description: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.' Including some of Oscar Wilde's most well-known and infamous plays, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest, this collection of the infamous writer's works displays his brilliant, quick wit to its full glory. Wilde's pithy social comedies dissect the morals and idiosyncrasies of society in the 1890s and offer a view of the sexual politics of the time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Guards! Guards!: The Play Stephen Briggs (Adapted by) Terry Pratchett (Author) Series:
Discworld Novels
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 1997
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w127mm x s13mm 146g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780552144315 ISBN13: 978-0-552-14431-5 ISBN10: 0552144312 EAN: 9780552144315 x Description: Terry Pratchett's infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society of malcontented tradesmen.Defending Ank-Morpork against this threat is the entire, underpaid, undervalued City Night Watch - a drunken and worldweary Captain, a cowardly and overweight Sergeant, a small opportunistic Corporal of dubious parentage...and their newest recruit, Lance Constable Carrot, who is upright, literal, law-abiding and keen. Aiding them in their fight for truth, justice and the Ankh-Morporkian way are a small swamp dragon and the Librarian of Unseen University (who just happens to be an orang-utan). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Four French Plays: Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache, Phaedra Jean Racine (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Jul 2013
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 247g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141392080 ISBN13: 978-0-14-139208-0 ISBN10: 0141392088 EAN: 9780141392080 x Description: This new Penguin volume includes the 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille's Cinna (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Moliere's The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector's widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son.John Edmunds' translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was subsequently praised by Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published.Often hailed as the father of French tragedy, PIERRE CORNEILLE made his name with the tragicomedy Le Cid in 1637. His best-known works include the tragedies Horace (1640) and Cinna (1641). MOLIERE founded the 'Illustre Theatre' troupe and wrote numerous comedies, including Tartuffe (1664), which was banned, Le Misanthrope (1666) and L'Avare (1668). JEAN RACINE became known as one of the period's leading playwrights, with such tragedies as Andromaque (1667), Britannicus (1669) and Phedre (1677). After a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV national newsreader, JOHN EDMUNDS became the founder-director of Aberystwyth university's department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. JOSEPH HARRIS is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
pool (no water)' and 'Citizenship' Mark Ravenhill (Author) Series:
Modern Plays
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
22 Sep 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 98g Paperback ISBN13: 9780713683981 ISBN13: 978-0-7136-8398-1 ISBN10: 0713683988 EAN: 9780713683981 x Description: A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together. However, celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers an horrific accident. As the victim lies in a coma, an almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be their next work of art? The group is ecstatic in its new found project until things slip out of their control and, to the surprise of all, the patient awakes...pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success. Citizenship is a bittersweet comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. It was developed as part of the National Theatre Shell Connections 2005 Programme _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Day Out: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE Mark Gunton (Edited by) Willy Russell (Playwright, UK) (Author) Series:
Critical Scripts
Edition:
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
25 Mar 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 160pp h198mm x w129mm 160g 3 b&w photos Paperback ISBN13: 9781408134856 ISBN13: 978-1-4081-3485-6 ISBN10: 1408134853 EAN: 9781408134856 x Description: This revised version of Willy Russell's much loved play won rave reviews when it opened in Liverpool in 2009. Slightly updated and featuring more songs, it retains all the humour and appeal of the original.
This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:
meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010) features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.
Mrs Kay's Progress Class are off to Alton Towers - until Mr Briggs gets on board. The destination might have changed in this new version of Willy Russell's classic play, but mixing humour, lively songs and the poignancy of the original, this drama of a class day out to remember is ideal for Year 9 and above. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Plays Unpleasant George Bernard Shaw (Author) Dan Laurence (Edited by) David Edgar (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Sep 2000 (26 May 2005)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780140437935 ISBN13: 978-0-14-043793-5 ISBN10: 0140437932 EAN: 9780140437935 x Description: With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancee comes from her father's income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven - who is not inclined to give him up so easily. And in Mrs Warren's Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother's immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw (Author) Nicholas Grene (Introduction by) Series:
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Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2003 (30 Jan 2003)
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 112g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141439501 ISBN13: 978-0-14-143950-1 ISBN10: 0141439505 EAN: 9780141439501 x Description: 'Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf . . . you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba'Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.With an Introduction by NICHOLAS GRENE _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tom Stoppard Plays 3: Separate Peace; Teeth; Another Moon Called Earth; Neutral Ground; Professional Foul; Squaring the Circle. Tom Stoppard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Faber & Faber
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Pub Date:
02 Feb 1998
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h170mm x w130mm x s8mm 250g ISBN13: 9780571194285 ISBN13: 978-0-571-19428-5 ISBN10: 0571194281 EAN: 9780571194285
x Description: This third collection of plays by Tom Stoppard contains his television plays, written between 1965 and 1984. They show that Stoppard's writing for the small screen is comparable to his more celebrated stage work, as the masterly Professional Foul demonstrates. In his introduction the author briefly describes how the individual pieces came to be written and the circumstances of their original production. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Miss Julie and Other Plays Johan August Strindberg (Author) Michael Robinson (Professor of Scandinavian Studies, Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of East Anglia) (Edited and translated by) Series:
Oxford World's Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Oxford University Press
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pub Date:
13 Nov 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h196mm x w128mm x s21mm 273g ISBN13: 9780199538041 ISBN13: 978-0-19-953804-1 ISBN10: 0199538042 EAN: 9780199538041 x Description: The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests and this edition embraces his crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898. Michael Robinson's highly performable translations are based on the authoritative texts of the new edition of Strindberg's collected works in Sweden and include the Preface to Miss Julie, Strindberg's manifesto of theatrical naturalism. Introduction Textual Note Bibliography Chronology Explanatory Notes ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Plays of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde (Author) Anne Varty (Royal Holloway, University of London) (Introduction and notes by) Dr Keith Carabine (University of Kent at Canterbury) (Series edited by) Series:
Wordsworth Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publisher:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Paper FSC certified - mixed sources 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 298g ISBN13: 9781840224184 ISBN13: 978-1-84022-418-4 ISBN10: 1840224185 EAN: 9781840224184 x Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his undisputed masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. This volume includes all Wilde's plays from his early tragedy Vera to the controversial Salome and the little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy. The edition affords a rare chance to see Wilde's best known work in the context of his entire dramatic output, and to appreciate plays which have hitherto received scant critical attention. Wilde's plays have never failed to delight audiences and are a lasting testimony to their author's supreme wit and theatrical genius.
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Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde (Author) Ian Small (Edited by) Ian Small (Volume editor) Series:
New Mermaids
Edition:
2nd edition
Imprint:
Methuen Drama
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Pub Date:
20 Dec 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 148g c 5 photographs/line drawings Paperback ISBN13: 9780713666670 ISBN13: 978-0-7136-6667-0 ISBN10: 0713666676 EAN: 9780713666670 x Description: 'My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's' Lady Windermere has a happy marriage - or, at least, that's what she believes until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess of Berwick, arrives with her daughter to voice her suspicions about an affair Lord Windermere appears to be having. It's not just the Duchess who has evidence, however. Windermere's private bank book shows that he's been giving large sums of money to a 'Mrs Erlynne' - on frequent occasions - and he himself even admits to seeing much of the woman. To add insult to injury, Windermere insists that Mrs Erlynne is invited to the ball that is being held for Lady Windermere's birthday. Employing the witty dialogue, social satire and outrageous paradox for which he is still remembered, Wilde's play shows us the destructiveness of gossip and superficial judgement, examines the ambiguous sexual morality and gender politics at the heart of the British ruling class, while simultaneously challenging our perceptions of what constitutes a 'good woman'. This student edition contains a fully annotated version of the playtext. The introduction includes an account of Wilde's life and a detailed analysis of Lady Windermere's Fan as well as its stage history. Ian Small is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of a number of critical studies on Wilde and has edited several of Wilde's works, including a scholarly edition of Wilde's second society comedy, A Woman of No Importance, also published in the New Mermaids series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays: Humorous Takes on Favorite Tales That Boost Reading Skills, Build Fluency & Keep Your Class Chuckling with Lots of Read-Aloud Fun! Justin McCory Martin (Author) Justin Martin (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Publisher:
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Canada Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 64pp h272mm x w214mm x s6mm 154g ISBN13: 9780439153898 ISBN13: 978-0-439-15389-8 ISBN10: 0439153891 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
25 Fun Phonics Plays for Beginning Readers: Engaging, Reproducible Plays That Target and Teach Key Phonics Skills--And Get Kids Eager to Read! Pamela Chanko (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Scholastic US
Publisher:
Scholastic US
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 64pp h275mm x w216mm x s4mm 168g ISBN13: 9780545103398 ISBN13: 978-0-545-10339-8 ISBN10: 0545103398
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From games to plays: From Games to Plays Jane Elizabeth Read (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
ELI s.r.l.
Publisher:
ELI s.r.l.
Pub Date:
06 Apr 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Italy Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9788853610270 ISBN13: 978-88-536-1027-0 ISBN10: 8853610271 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Get on Stage - 21 Sketches & Plays for Young Learners and Teens Herbert et al Puchta (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Helbling Languages GmbH
Publisher:
Helbling Languages GmbH
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Austria Board book 224pp ISBN13: 9783852722481 ISBN13: 978-3-85272-248-1 ISBN10: 3852722489 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Let's Act!: Let's Act! Series:
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ELI s.r.l.
Publisher:
ELI s.r.l.
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Italy Paperback / softback ISBN13: 9788853600196 ISBN13: 978-88-536-0019-6 ISBN10: 8853600195 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Idioms for Aliens: A Grammar Revue of Plays and Verse Ed Butts (Author) Edward Butts (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Maupin House Publishing Publisher:
Maupin House Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2003
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Publishing Status:
Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) 119pp h228mm x w154mm x s8mm 209g Illustrations, unspecified ISBN13: 9780929895734 ISBN13: 978-0-929895-73-4 ISBN10: 0929895738 EAN: 9780929895734 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________