 | The Malcontent (New Mermaids)
Publication Date: January 29, 1999| Series: New Mermaids "This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone and moral seriousness in English comedy of the early 1600s. The play's vision of a fallen humanity driven by lust and ambition is created partly by its depiction of Machiavellian intrigue in the court of Genoa, and partly by the disaffected Malevole, the malcontent of the title, who is actually the deposed Duke Altofront...
 |  | Noel Coward: A Biography
Publication Date: May 22, 1998| ISBN-10: 0226345122 | ISBN-13: 978-0226345123To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker, Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. His biographer, Philip Hoare, given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, has produced the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and controversial figures."Philip Hoare's careful research and lucid presentation in his Noël Coward: A Bio...
|  | Alan Bennett: Plays 2 : Kafka's Dick, the Insurance Man, the Old Country, an Englishman Abroad, a Question of Attribution (Faber Contemporary Classics) (v. 2)
Publication Date: June 1998| Series: Faber Contemporary Classics A second collection of Alan Bennett plays, including "Kafka's Dick", "The Insurance Man", "The Old Country", "An Englishman Abroad", and "A Question of Attribution". ...
|  | She Stoops to Conquer: Or the Mistakes of the Night (Library Edition Audio CDs) (L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections)
Publication Date: October 25, 2010| Series: L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collections Love, lies, and dysfunctional families. Sound like your last family gathering? Try this one on for laughs. Two randy young gents, Charles and George, set out to woo the alluring and upper-crust Kate and Constance. But inexperienced Charles is shy and clumsy around upper-class ladies, so it s the barmaid who catches his eye. But is she really who she seems? Bawdy high-jinx, popped pretensions, and good dirty fun are the hallmarks of this romping frolic that s kept audiences laughing for over two centuries...
|  | Eclipsed (Salmon drama)
Publication Date: December 1995| ISBN-10: 1897648340 | ISBN-13: 978-1897648346Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed is a play with a stinger in its tail. Framed by a present-day prologue and epilogue, the two-act work is set mainly in 1963 in a convent laundry at St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women in Killmacha, Ireland. The Galway-based author is a former nun who worked in an institutional laundry when she was a novice. Eclipsed was inspired by the practice - which started in the time of the Famine,and lasted well into the 1960s and even longer - of making pregnant and unwed Irish mothers wor...
|  | Three Classical Tragedies
Release Date: January 1, 1988Titus Andronicus * Timon of Athens * CoriolanusEach Edition Includes:Comprehensive explanatory notes placed on pages facing the text of the playVivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography Titus AndronicusThis, Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, is also his bloodiest and most horr...
|  | Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England
Publication Date: August 11, 2011Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this 2009 book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama. Examining the complex and painful shift from late medieval religious culture to a society dominated by the ideas of the Reformers, Adrian Streete presents a fresh understanding of Reformed theology and the representation of early modern subjectivity. Through close analysis of major thinkers such as Augustine, William of Oc...
|  | Playhouse Creatures (Acting Edition)
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|  | The Steward of Christendom - Acting Edition
Publication Date: October 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0822216094 | ISBN-13: 978-0822216094This is the play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrights.Thomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932. Like King Lear, Dunne tries valiantly to break free of history and himself. The Steward of Christendom took London by storm when it premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in March 1995 with Donal McCa...
|  | The Letters of Noel Coward (Vintage)
Release Date: March 10, 2009| Series: Vintage Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from Coward provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, the talented and the powerful, including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, Somerset Maugham, and many more. Granted unlimited access to the Coward archive, Barry Day presents many ne...
|  | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Collector's Library Editions)
Publication Date: September 1, 2011This re-set edition of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare contains all the plays and poems; the plays are arranged in the chronological order of their composition, not gathered into comedies, histories and tragedies - the traditional method dating from the first folio.The text is taken from the Shakespeare Head Press edition edited by Arthur Henry Bullen, and this volume also contains John Aubrey's Brief Life of Shakespeare, a biography of Sir John Gilbert, an account of The Shakespeare Head Press edition, a glossary, and a bibliography.This vol...
|  | A Christmas CarolA Ghost Story of Christmas (Wilson) - Acting Edition
Publication Date: November 30, 2009This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...am here, or how I came. I have listened to the Chimes these many years. They have cheered me often." "And you have thanked them?" said the Bell. " A thousand times!" cried Trotty. "How?" "I am a poor man," faltered Trotty, " and could only thank them in words." "And always so?" inquired the Goblin of the Bell. "Have you never done us wrong in ...
|  | Eclipsed
Publication Date: August 31, 2008Eclipsed tells the poignant and sometimes humourous story of the penitent women consigned to Magdalene laundries in the 1960's and one nun's attempts to ease their plight. ...
|  | The Playboy of the Western World (Naxos Classic Drama)
Publication Date: July 1, 2008| Series: Naxos Classic Drama One of the best-known Irish playwrights, John Millington Synge premiered The Playboy of the Western World in 1907. It immediately provoked controversy, eventually resulting in the infamous Playboy riots. It has been recorded and adapted many times, but this timeless recording stars the Irish actors who made it a classic, including Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack. ...
|  | Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us
Publication Date: 1993Caroline Spurgeon's pioneer study of the imagery of Shakespeare's plays shows how much light can be thrown on Shakespeare's own mind and thought and on the themes and characters of the plays by a detailed examination of his imagery. At the same time she contrasts Shakespeare with other dramatists of his time, including Marlowe, Bacon, Ben Jonson and Dekker. ...
|  | The Merchant of Venice, A Longman Cultural Edition
Publication Date: August 10, 2004| ISBN-10: 0321164199 | ISBN-13: 978-0321164193| Edition: 1 From Longman's Cultural Editions Series, Lawrence Danson presents William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in several illuminating contexts—cultural, historical, and critical. Featuring illustrations, a table of dates and performance reviews; the text provides historical sources as well as numerous documents that reveal the cultural context in which The Merchant of Venice was written. ...
|  | Picasso's Women: Eight Monologues (Oberon Book)
Publication Date: August 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 1870259866 | ISBN-13: 978-1870259866Absorbing monologues in which women, used and often abused by Picasso, tell all--with the great painter emerging as a "libidinous dwarf with a penchant for strumpets and schoolgirls." ...
|  | The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: January 1, 2000| Series: Penguin Classics William Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This "Penguin Classics" edition of "Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint" is edited by John Kerrigan. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' The language of Shakespeare's sonnets has become inseparable from the language of love in English; but the force and tenderness of these poems is undiminished by age. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems fi...
|  | Ralph Koltai: Designer for the Stage
Publication Date: 2003| ISBN-10: 1854597841 | ISBN-13: 978-1854597847From his first designs for Covent Garden and the Ballet Rambert in the 1950s, through regular commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the West End in the 1980s and the world’s stages in the 1990s, Ralph Koltai is possibly the most wide-ranging and consistently prolific British stage designer. ...
| | The Castle of Perseverance (Middle English Texts)
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