Drama

The Divine Comedy

by Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious...

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

by Cairns Craig & Randall Stevens

Edited and introduced by Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson. Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen...

Arts of Perception: The Epistemological Mentality of the Spanish Baroque, 1580-1720

by Jeremy Robbins

Arts of Perception offers a new account of a key period in Spanish history and culture and a fundamental reassessment of its major writers and intellectuals, including Gracián, Quevedo, Calderón, Saavedra...

The Return

by Reg Cribb

A career thug and his junior partner in crime take a late night train from Perth to Fremantle, menacing passengers along the way. For an hour they own the train.

Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays

by Thomas C. Crochunis

This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era. Contributors offer:

*contextual material for those new to Baillie's work

*examinations...

Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater

by R. Keller Kimbrough

As works of Buddhist fiction, these texts relate the histories and miracles of particular buddhas, bodhisattvas, and local deities. Many of their protagonists have become recognizable cultural icons through...

Kate Tempest

by Kate Tempest

I'm making a decision. I'm changing things. This is it.

Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it's time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things....

Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh: Reading with and Beyond Aristotle

by Mae J. Smethurst

By looking at 15^th/16^th realistic noh and Greek tragedies through the lens of Aristotle and of each other, this comparison reveals a previously unnoticed relationship between the structure of the tragedies and...

The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage

by Lisa Hopkins

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship....

Educating Rita

by Willy Russell

Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical,...

Ravenhill Plays: 1: Shopping and F***ing; Faust is Dead; Handbag; Some Explicit Polaroids

by Mark Ravenhill

"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out

"There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ... He...

Ravenhill Plays: 2: Mother Clap’s Molly House; The Cut; Citizenship; Pool (no water); Product

by Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times....

Stags And Hens

by Willy Russell

'Stags and Hens takes place in the Gents and Ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda have decided, unbeknownst to each other, to hold their stag and hen parties . . . a bleakly funny and...

Saved

by Edward Bond

Described by Edward Bond as 'almost irresponsibly optimistic', Saved is a play set in London in the sixties and reflects a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation...

The Classical Moment: Views from Seven Literatures

by Gail Holst-Warhaft & David R. McCann

The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starting point,...

Performing New Lives: Prison Theatre

by Jonathan Shailor, Sharon Lajoie & Amy Dowling

Performing New Lives draws together some of the most original and innovative programs in contemporary prison theatre. Leading prison theatre directors and practitioners discuss the prison theatre experience...

Simon Stephens

by Simon Stephens

I see you in the morning, on the first morning I stayed over at your house. Waking up. Watching you lying asleep next to me. You looked, you looked. It was like. I think about that more than you probably think...

The Theater of Tony Kushner

by James Fisher

The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.

Theatre for Children: A Guide to Writing, Adapting, Directing, and Acting

by David Wood & Janet Grant

David Wood has been called by The London Times the national children's dramatist. Presenting theatre for children as a seperate art form, Mr. Wood analyzes the skills involved in entertaining and involving audiences...

Man From The USSR & Other Plays: And Other Plays

by Vladimir Nabokov

Four plays and two essays on drama, written during Nabokov's émigré years before his writings in English earned him worldwide fame. Translated and with Introductions by Dmitri Nabokov.