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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 by Bertolt Brecht; Ralph Manheim (Editor); John Willett (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century (Observer) Brecht''s Lehrstucke or short ''didactic'' pieces written during the years 1929 to 1933, are some of his most experimental work. Rejecting conventional theatre, they are spare and highly formalised, drawing on traditional Japanese and C ...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
Capek Four Plays - R. U. R. - The Insect Play - The Makropulos Case - The White Plague by Karel Capek; Peter Majer (Translator); Cathy Porter (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surr ealistic humour and hard-edged social satire- a unique combination (Arthur Miller) This volume brings together fresh new translations of four of his most popular plays, more than ever relevant today. In R. U. R., the Robot - an idea ...Show more
Collected Plays - Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (II) by Noël Coward; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The fourth volume in the Coward Collection. Volume Four of Noel Coward''s plays contains a selection of Coward''s plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely th ...Show more
Collected Plays - Relative Values - Look after Lulu - Waiting in the Wings - Suite in Three Keys by Noël Coward; Bloomsbury Publishing Staff
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The fifth volume in the Coward Collection. Containing Coward''s best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece se ...Show more
Coward - Plays 3 - Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8. 30 (i); Still Life by Noël Coward
Category: No Category | Series: World Classics Ser.
'The third volume in the Coward Collection. The third volume of Coward''s plays contains some of his best work from the thirties- Design for Living - is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward''s, which he waited to write until she and he and I had arrived by ...Show more
Essays in Idleness by Kenko
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
This tale opens with the knight, Redcrosse, undertaking a quest in aid of his beloved, Una. In order to succeed, and be united with Una, Redcrosse must overcome his own human failings as well as the evil tricks of the magician Archimago.
Five Jacobean Tragedies by Thomas Middleton; John Webster; William Rowley
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
Haunted by the dance of death, these plays contain powerful critiques of existing inequalities. A common theme throughout is the powerful woman who is more than a match for the men who try to silence her.
Four Late Plays by William Shakespeare
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
The Shakespeare comedies collected in this text are frequently known as the romances. It is argued that they conclude in a spirit of hope as the main characters are reunited in an aura of reconciliation, wrongs are righted, and exiles returned to their homes.
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature Ser.
A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France. Within the text, Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty.