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1	The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I more books like this by Sophocles, David Grene (Editor), Richmond Lattimore (Editor) add to wishlist Includes "Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone". see all copies from £2.04! new only from £7.08! \| first editions
2	Doll's House more books like this by H Ibsen add to wishlist The slamming of the front door at the end of A Doll's House shatters the romantic masquerade of the Helmers' marriage. In their stultifying and infantilised relationship, Nora and Torvald have deceived themselves and each other both consciously and subconsciously, until Nora acknowledges the need for individual freedom. A revised student edition ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| first editions
3	Glengarry Glen Ross more books like this by David Mamet add to wishlist First staged in Britain in 1983, Glengarry Glen Ross is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.76! \| first editions
4	Importance of Being Earnest more books like this by Oscar Wilde add to wishlist 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| first editions
5	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 £1.36! new only from £2.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Machinal more books like this by Sophie Treadwell add to wishlist see all copies from £4.93! new only from £7.22! \| first editions
7	Complete Works of William Shakespeare more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist This single-volume edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare includes commissioned introductions to each of the plays and poems by a team of academics, including John Jowett and Philip Hobsbaum, with a textual introduction by the Shakespearean scholar Alec Yearling explaining the significance of the Alexander edition. This volume also ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	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 £1.36! new only from £3.40! \| first editions
9	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 £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| first editions
10	The Mousetrap and Other Plays more books like this by Agatha Christie add to wishlist Brings together some of the Christie classics for stage and screen. "The Mousetrap", record-breaking play in London's West End, "Witness for the Prosecution" and "And Then There Were None" are just a few of the highlights in this collection of eight plays by Agatha Christie. see all copies from £4.38! new only from £4.38! \| first editions
11 view cover	Journey's end more books like this by R C Sherriff add to wishlist Set in the First World War, "Journey's End" concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed ...Laurence ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 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 £1.36! new only from £5.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 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 £1.36! new only from £4.37! \| first editions
14 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 £6.35! new only from £10.34! \| first editions
15 view cover	Moon for the Misbegotten more books like this by Eugene Gladstone O'Neill add to wishlist Josie, a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation lives in a dilapidated Connecticut farmhouse with her conniving father. Together, they're a formidable force as they scrape together a livelihood. But Josie's softer side is exposed through her love of Jim Tyrone, her father's drinking buddy - a third-rate actor whose dreams of ... see all copies from £1.85! new only from £1.85! \| first editions
16 view cover	Man and Superman more books like this by George Bernard Shaw add to wishlist Shaw began writing "Man and Superman" in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors from Conan Doyle to Kipling. In this powerful drama of ideas, Shaw ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Children's hour more books like this by Lillian Hellman add to wishlist see all copies from £3.86! new only from £4.39! \| first editions
18 view cover	The genius of the early English theater more books like this by Sylvan Barnet (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £5.13! new only from £36.79! \| first editions
19 view cover	Duchess of Malfi more books like this by John Webster add to wishlist The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled audiences for centuries. This new Arden edition offers readers a comprehensive, illustrated ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Oleanna more books like this by David Mamet add to wishlist "An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer the dogmatic, puritannical streak which has become commonplace on and off the campus. With Oleanna he continues an exploration of male-female conflicts begun with Sexual Perversity in Chicago in 1974. Oleanna cogently demonstrates ... see all copies from £3.72! new only from £6.39! \| first editions
21 view cover	The taming of the shrew : texts and contexts more books like this by Frances E. Dolan add to wishlist This edition of The Taming of the Shrew includes an intriguing collection of historical and cultural documents designed to give students a rich sense of the context of Shakespeare's work and times. Documents include a widely-known Renaissance homily on marriage, popular caricatures of shrewish wives and abusive husbands, and material from conduct ... see all copies from £5.89! new only from £11.71!
22 view cover	Modern Irish Drama more books like this by John P Harrington (Editor) add to wishlist "Modern Irish Drama" reprints the complete texts of twelve plays by the major Irish playwrights - W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M.Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel. The texts are annotated with explanatory notes on Anglo-Irish usage, place names, historical figures and literary allusions. The ... see all copies from £6.80! new only from £18.64! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Collected Plays of Neil Simon more books like this by Neil Simon add to wishlist A collection of the most popular plays of the award-winning Broadway playwright, edited by the playwright himself. This volume includes "Lost in Yonkers", "Rumors", "Jake's Women", "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", and "London Suite". see all copies from £6.45! new only from £10.72! \| first editions
24 view cover	Spanish Tragedy more books like this by Kyd add to wishlist The first fully-fledged example of revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murdered ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.67! \| first editions
25 view cover	Who Wrote Shakespeare? more books like this by John Michell add to wishlist The riddle of Shakespeare's authorship remains one of the great mysteries of the modern world. Was the famous writer and poet a fraud and a plagarist? Was Shakespeare the "upstart crow" described by Greene as strutting in borrowed feathers, or Johnson's "Poet-Ape" who patched together plays from other's work? Was his name merely a pseudonym for a ... see all copies from £8.14! new only from £24.59! \| first editions

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