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  • - The Spanish Tragedy; Doctor Faustus; Sejanus His Fall; Women Beware Women; The White Devil; 'Tis Pity She's A Whore
     
    221,-

    This anthology contains scholarly and annotated editions of six major Elizabethan and Jacobean plays: The Spanish Tragedy Doctor Faustus Sejanus Women Beware Women The White Devil 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

  • av John Webster
    165 - 224,-

    John Webster's revenge tragedy, The White Devil is a story of adultery, corruption and murder and explores how a corrupt person can depict themselves as good or 'white'. In this revised edition students will find a wealth of information to support their studies and the very latest critical interpretations and stage history.

  • av John Dryden
    170,-

    Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

  • av George Farquhar
    170,-

    Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

  • av Christopher Marlowe
    156,-

    Christopher Marlowe's story of a Scythian shepherd who through using his brutality, lust for power and also his charm becomes a mighty conqueror and the King of Persia.

  • av Philip Massinger
    170,-

    Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

  • av George Farquhar
    183 - 194,-

    Revisions to this edition of The Recruiting Officer" include new notes based on recent scholarly material and the editor's further study of the text, and an up-to-date reading list."

  • av Bernard Shaw
    152,-

    Pygmalion is one of Shaw's most accessible and entertaining plays; its characters-Professor Higgins and his pupil Eliza Doolittle have become household names. An authoritative student guide with a wealth of information to support exams and essays, written by leading Shaw scholar and advisor to the Shaw Estate, Len Connolly.

  • av Ben Jonson
    151,-

    Volpone is part of the New Mermaid series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

  • - Revised edition
    av Aphra Behn
    156,-

    Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England, and The Rover, her most popular play, is set in Naples during the misrule of carnival time. The Rover explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses of sexual passion.

  • av Elizabeth Cary
    156 - 1 203,-

    The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. This edition includes the complete play script with notes beneath the text, as well as an extensive introduction, including biographical notes, textual details, and information about the staging of the play.

  • - New Edition
    av George Etherege
    169,-

    The most perfectly poised of Restoration comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of its central character. Its seemingly casual construction and breaches of comic decorum mask an artistic control designed to upset the complacency of our moral, social and aesthetic assumptions, luring us into sympathy for a character whose dangerous 'wildness' we should deplore.The modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes, while the introduction unpacks the complexity of the Restoration's political and theatrical context, analyses the play's performance history and demonstrates Etherege's linguistic artistry.

  • - The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore and The White Devil
    av Thomas Kyd
    193,-

    A collection of the four major tragedies from the early modern period ideal for students, with on page commentary notes to deepen understanding and a comprehensive introduction giving valuable contextual and critical information.

  • av Oliver Goldsmith
    156,-

    This drama text is one of a series of important English plays. It includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of date and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of She Stoops to Conquer"."

  • av Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    156,-

    In The School for Scandal, Sheridan's artificial world of heightened wit and heightened folly delights its audience, but at times it engages them with moments of human pain and happiness, before delivering them back to its comedy.

  • av Ben Jonson
    170,-

    This text is part of the New Mermaids series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

  • av Sir John Vanbrugh
    169,-

    Vanbrugh's treatment of the woman's role contributes to the current and continuing interest in such social issues. The book includes a commentary and critical introduction which sets the play in its historical, social and theatrical context.

  • av Francis Beaumont
    170,-

    A grocer and his wife dissatisfied by a play's progress invade the stage and commandeer the play to suit their tastes. A chaotic play within a play erupts, as each group attempts to carry on despite the unscripted interventions. Written in 1607, this is a comedy from a successor of Shakespeare.

  • av John Dryden
    170,-

    In this play, the author deploys verbal and theatrical wit in his combination of two plots - a complex exploration of of the language of social exchange and personal feeling between typically well-born men and women of late-17th-century England.

  • av Oscar Wilde
    156 - 578,-

    A student edition of Wilde's classic comedy, with full introduction, commentary and questions for study.

  • av Thomas Heywood
    171 - 224,-

    Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

  • - Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus
    av Christopher Marlowe
    151,-

    A collection of the four major plays by Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus, with a new introduction by Brian Gibbons. All of these plays are widely studied at both A and undergraduate level.

  • av Bernard Shaw
    156,-

    One of Bernard Shaw's greatest plays, Mrs Warren's Profession raises issues about class struggle, generational differences, the past, and female hardship through the exploration of a mother and daughter relationship put under enormous strain.

  • av John Ford
    152 - 1 276,-

    Ford's tragedy, originally printed in 1633, was the first major English play to take as its theme fulfilled incest between brother and sister.

  • av William Congreve
    151,-

    One of Congreve's comedies, which features Mirabell who is in love with Millamant, a niece of Lady Wishfort. He pretends to favour the aunt to conceal his attraction to the niece.

  • - Second Edition, Revised
    av Oscar Wilde
    151 - 578,-

    An Ideal Husband is a comic drama of political and personal deceit. This student edition contains a fully-annotated play text with a new Introduction examining its central themes of power and corruption and the growing role of women in public life.

  • av Christopher Marlowe
    152,-

    Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of accepted codes of behaviour affects even those at the highest level of society. Kept off the stage for almost three hundred years because of its dramatization of explicit homosexual relationships, it has become increasingly popular with modern day readers and performed on stage and film to great acclaim. This student edition contains a completely new introduction by Stephen Guy-Bray, and offers students a useful and lively overview of recent criticism, an updated performance history paying greater attention to Derek Jarman's film, a background on the author and themes, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext.

  • av Thomas Middleton & William Rowley
    152,-

    Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.

  • av Christopher Marlowe
    169 - 218,-

    Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.

  • av William Wycherley
    152,-

    On his return to London, Hardeep begins broadcasting his newly-invented celicate status, in a bid to attract women keen to re-ignite his passion. With his deception more than successful his endeavours turn to naive country wife Preethi, virgin bride of his rival Alok, in a bid to settle unfinished business between the two former friends.

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