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Anouilh - Plays 2 - The Rehearsal; Becket; Eurydice; the Orchestra by Jean Anouilh; Ned Chaillet (Introduction by); Peter Meyer (Translator); Jeremy Sams (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century''s best-known French playwrights. This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal (''quintessential Anouilh'', Herald Tribune); Becket (''witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence'' Financial Times); The O ...Show more
Brecht Collected Plays: 5 by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Education | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
This fifth volume in the Collected Plays series brings together two of Brecht's plays, "The Life of Galileo" and "Mother Courage and her Children". "Galileo" examines the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology, through the story of the great astronomer and his persecution by the Inquisition ...Show more
Maugham Plays 1 - Sheppey; The Sacred Flame; The Circle; The Constant Wife; Our Betters by W. Somerset Maugham; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'One of the most admired and widely read authors of this century This first volume of Somerset Maugham''s collected plays includes Sheppey, his last and best comedy of a Cockney barber who determines to give his sweepstake winnings to the poor; The Sacred Flame gives an unusual note of noir-ish suspense ...Show more
Maugham Plays 2 by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: No Category | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'One of the most admired and widely read authors of this century. W. Somerset Maugham established his reputation as a master of the English social comedy in the tradition of Oscar Wilde with Lady Frederick in 1907. The three other plays in this selection provide equal proof of his powers as a dramatist. ...Show more
Moliere - Five Plays: The Misanthrope; Tartuffe; The School for Wives; The Miser; The Hypochondriac by Moliere
Category: Classics | Series: Methuen World Classics Ser.
'This volume brings together five of Moliere''s finest and best-known plays. The three verse plays, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The School for Wives, have been skilfully turned into sparkling English couplets by Richard Wilbur''s ''brilliant rhymed translation'' Sunday Telegraph; while the playwright ...Show more
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