Volpone and Other Plays by JONSON BEN
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in ...Show more
Why Bournemouth? and Other Plays, An Apple A Day, The Missing Links by John Antrobus
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
Leonardo's Last Supper and Noonday Demons by Peter Barnes
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Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
The Lunatic, The Secret Sportsman and The Woman Next Door & Vibrations Playscript 30 by Stanley Eveling
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Category: Drama | Series: Playscripts Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Family Reunion by T. S. Eliot
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Faber Paper-Covered Editions Ser. | Reading Level: good
A modern verse play dealing with the problem of man's guilt and his need for expiation through his acceptance of responsibility for the sin of humanity. What poets and playwrights have been fumbling at in their desire to put poetry into drama and drama into poetry has here been realized.... This is the ...Show more
Bingo - Scenes of Money and Death by Edward Bond
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Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
The Fool and We Come to the River by Edward Bond
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Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
That Summer by David Edgar
$5.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: A\Methuen Modern Play Ser. | Reading Level: good
The Recruiting Officer and Other Plays - The Constant Couple; the Twin Rivals; the Recruiting Officer; the Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar; William Myers (Editor)
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Category: Drama | Series: The\World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
George Farquhar (1678-1707) wrote some of the most exhilarating comedies in English, recording with great frankness the brutality and disorder of his age as well as its wit and vivacity. This modern spelling edition of four of the least formal and most actable Restoration comedies discloses the brutal, ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
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Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, is a vicious satire on the bourgeois capitalist society of the Weimar Republic, but set in a mock-Victorian Soho. It focuses on the feud between Macheaf - an amo ...Show more
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
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Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his tragic and untimely death. 'I have high hopes of dying ...Show more