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1	A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts more books like this by Robert Bolt (Preface by) add to wishlist Robert Bolt's classic play about Thomas More, the Catholic saint beheaded by Henry VIII at the birth of the Church of England, is now in trade paperback for the first time. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.01! \| first editions
2	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead. more books like this by Tom Stoppard add to wishlist Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is the fabulously inventive tale of "Hamlet" as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play. In Tom Stoppard's best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to ... see all copies from £1.71! new only from £5.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Arcadia more books like this by Tom Stoppard add to wishlist Tom Stoppard's play primarily concerns Thomasina Croom, a brilliant 13-year-old who is searching for the proof to Fermat's theorem, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the rudiments of what we now know as chaos theory. All the while, her mother is pursuing Lord Byron, a guest at their estate, while her tutor is pursuing the wife of another ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Copenhagen more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Sophocles: Antigone more books like this by Sophocles, Dr. Andrew Brown, Jr., LLB (Editor) add to wishlist Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest and most famous of all works of Greek literature, and it is often the play that is read first, whether in Greek or in translation, by those who are beginning to study Greek tragedy. But it is by no means an easy play, and the reader requires careful guidance if he is to appreciate its subtleties and come ... see all copies from £3.61! new only from £4.22! \| signed copies
6	The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist Shakespeare's classic tragedy of love, madness, and revenge, first enacted in London in 1602. Young Prince Hamlet, in mourning for his dead father, receives an apparition of his father's ghost telling him that he was murdered by his own brother Claudius, who then assumed the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. Intent on revenge, Hamlet ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Master Harold&the Boys more books like this by Athol Fugard add to wishlist Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.13! \| first editions
8	Doctor Faustus more books like this by Professor Christopher Marlowe add to wishlist "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" Dr. Faustus famously asks of Helen of Troy when he conjures her at the suggestion of his students in this major work, written in 1588. A master scholar, Faust, dissatisfied by the limitations of book learning, seeks higher knowledge through black magic, which leads to a private audience with ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
9	The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays more books like this by Oscar Wilde add to wishlist Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.12! \| first editions
10	Equus more books like this by Peter Shaffer add to wishlist Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? While treating the boy, a psychiatrist discovers his own life is paradoxically in the witness box. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.60! \| first editions
11 view cover	Sonnets more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist This new edition focuses on Shakespeare's Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic, and other groupings. The volume also addresses the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the poems. To what extent are The Sonnets autobiographical? What is the nature of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Pillowman: A Play more books like this by Martin McDonagh add to wishlist A writer of short stories is in police custody. He doesn't know why he is being held but assumes it must be something to do with the fact that many of his stories involve children being killed and tortured. As the play unfolds, the police tell him that someone is enacting his stories. see all copies from £4.05! new only from £5.30!
13 view cover	The History Boys: A Play more books like this by Alan Bennett add to wishlist An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke ... see all copies from £3.19! new only from £4.83! \| first editions
14 view cover	Everyman more books like this by Professor James Jennings, Simon Trussler (Editor) add to wishlist The most durable of medieval morality plays, along with 3 other classics: "The Second Shepherd's Play, Noah's Flood" and "Hickscorner." All from standard texts. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play more books like this by Brian Friel add to wishlist A new play from Brian Friel whose previous works include "Philadelphia, Here I Come". Set over two days in a house just outside the Irish village of Ballybeg, the play tells the story of the five Mundy sisters, their brother Jack who is a priest and the illegitimate son of the younger sister. see all copies from £2.50! new only from £4.09! \| first editions
16 view cover	Death and the Kings Horseman more books like this by Wole Soyinka add to wishlist In the traditional Nigerian village where this play is set, custom demands that the King's chief horseman accompany his ruler into the afterlife by committing suicide when the King dies. When the King in this play dies, his horseman is relieved when he is barred from his traditional role by the colonial powers that have taken control of his ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Translations: A Play more books like this by Brian Friel add to wishlist August 1833 - the first Royal Ordnance Survey is translating the local Gaelic place names of the townland of Baile Beag in County Donegal into English, with far reaching personal and cultural effects for the small group involved. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.27! \| first editions
18 view cover	Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes more books like this by Bernard Shaw, Ayot St Lawrence (Preface by), Joley Wood (Introduction by) add to wishlist This is one of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With "Saint Joan" (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution. see all copies from £1.97! new only from £4.50! \| first editions
19 view cover	Cloud 9 more books like this by Caryl Churchill add to wishlist "Cloud Nine" is about relationships - between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria and sex. see all copies from £5.05! new only from £5.05! \| first editions
20 view cover	Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More more books like this by Charles Boyce add to wishlist Shakespeare A-to-Z comprises almost 3,000 al phabetical entries making this volume the most comprehensive resource on Shakespeare and his world. ' see all copies from £5.61! new only from £13.25! \| signed copies
21 view cover	Homecoming more books like this by Harold Pinter add to wishlist When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit London and his family, he finds himself prey to old conflicts. But now it is Ruth who becomes the focus of the family's struggle for supremacy. The playwright's other works include "The Birthday Party" and "Old Times". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays more books like this by A C Cawley (Editor) add to wishlist This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes marginal glosses and footnotes to explain difficult words and phraseology. Concentrating mainly on "Corpus Christi" pageants, this is a selection of medieval miracle plays. There is also a translation of the Cornish "Death of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.05! \| first editions
23 view cover	A Doll's House: A New Version by Frank McGuinness more books like this by Henrik Johan Ibsen, Frank McGuinness add to wishlist The text of Ibsen's play, written in 1879 and translated into English by the playwright, Frank McGuinness. Nora confronts her husband, Torvald, with her own brutal realization that by marrying she has moved from her father's doll's house into yet another situation of economic dependency. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
24 view cover	My Children! My Africa! more books like this by Athol Fugard add to wishlist In a South African country town an inter-school debate is taking place, and its stars are a boy from the black school and a girl from the white school. First performed in Johannesburg in June 1989, this play presents Fugard's bleak view of the present, tempered by a sanguine faith in the future. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.38! \| first editions
25 view cover	Top Girls more books like this by Caryl Churchill add to wishlist Marlene hosts a dinner part in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904), the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258), the mediaeval Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.37! \| first editions

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