Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S.)
by Matt Simpson
Nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, the small town of Milky Peaks is nominated for ‘Britain’s Best Town’. However, the award brings with it a dark, insidious right-wing agenda, threatening the heart and soul of the town. _x000D_ Can the community club together to save the identity of their beloved Milky Peaks?
In a fractured and divided city, two men, 'A' and 'B', meet to recreate the killings of a famous gay serial killer, for their own pleasure...and the right price. "Everything else is tumbling down Falling apart But not you and me You and me are going to hold tight You and me are just right" Sex/Crime is a darkly comic queer thriller: an exciting, challenging play that explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.
The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions) (New Mermaids)
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan's most successful play, often considered the apex of English comedy.
Hadrian VII (Picador Books) (Acting Edition S.)
by Frederick William Rolfe
Contrite priests suddenly bestow Holy Orders on a wretched failure who was expelled from the seminary for lack of a true vocation. He is soon in Rome with his bishop to elect a new Pope. The stymied conclave elects the dedicated new priest: Hadrian VII. The new Pope decides to sell Vatican art treasures to finance feeding the world's poor. He smokes on the throne and entertains old friends like his landlady and new ones like a seminarian who is having a hard go of it until an assassin puts an en...
The Moral Play of Wit and Science, and Early Poetical Miscellanies
by John Redford
The Wicked World (Dodo Press)
by William Schwenck Gilbert and W S Gilbert
Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' hea...
A dramatization of the Greek legend of Iphegenia, sacrificed by her father King Agamemnon to the goddess Artemis in order to free the becalmed Greek fleet in the port of Aulis. It is an eye witness account of Andreas, the soldier who guarded the royal tent that fateful day.
Shadow and Substance (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern)
by Jay Zysk
Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts. Regardless of one's specific religious identity, to speak of the Euc...
Babes in the Wood (Acting Edition S.)
by John Crocker and Eric Gilder
This is a full length pantomime, entirely traditional with lots of humour and with its own original and delightful score by Eric Gilder which is available separately. The large number of both amateur and professional groups who present Crocker and Gilder pantomimes regularly every year is unmistakable proof of their success. Vocal score on sale.-Large flexible cast
Picture the young George Bernard Shaw spending long days in the Reading Room of the British Museum, pursuing a self-taught education, all the while longing for the green landscapes of his native Ireland. It is no coincidence that gardens and libraries often set the scene for Shaw's plays, yet scholars have seldom drawn attention to the fact until now. Exposing the subtle interplay of these two settings as a key pattern throughout Shaw's dramas, Shaw's Settings fills the need for a systematic st...
It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through Tom Stoppard's play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's early manhood where High Victorianism in art, literature and morality is being challenged by the Aesthetic movement and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst on to the London scene... The Invention of Love premiered at the National Theatre, L...
Tollerators and Con-Tollerators, A Comedy (Scottish Poetry Reprints, #9)
by Archibald Pitcairne