King Lear by William Shakespeare

$8.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The New Penguin Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

Part of "The New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this text looks at "King Lear" with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

$7.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: The New Penguin Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good

Part of the "New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this book offers a complete edition of "Much Ado About Nothing". It has been prepared from the original texts and is accompanied by an introduction, a list of further reading, a full commentary, and a short account of the textual problems of the play.

Aristophanes - Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds by Aristophanes

$10.00 NZD

Category: Greek Literature | Reading Level: good-very good

Sophocles - Electra and Other Plays - Philoctetes/Women of trachis/Electra/Ajax by Sophocles

$7.00 NZD

Category: Greek Literature | Reading Level: good

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

$12.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: near fine

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 Folio text - on-page commentary and notes explain mea ning, staging, language and allusions - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, and critical and theatrical history - includes full text of Plautus' Menaechmi and extracts from Gesta Grayorum and the Geneva Bible - illustrated with production photographs and related art - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement ...Show more

The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

$10.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Series: Modern Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Ellida, claustrophobic and restless, swims in the sea every day. She loves her husband Dr Wangel but, ten years ago, promised herself to another man. On a late summer's day he comes to claim her. Henrik Ibsen's elusive masterpiece The Lady from the Sea, in a translation by Stephen Unwin, premiered at t he Rose Theatre, Kingston, in February 2012. ...Show more

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter

$6.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: good-very good

The Complete Works of W. H. Auden - Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 by W. H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood; Edward Mendelson (Editor)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Series: Princeton Legacy Library | Reading Level: very good

This volume contains Auden and Christopher Isherwood's dramatic extravaganzas The Dog Beneath the Skin, the Ascent of F 6, and On the Frontier. It also includes the two versions of Paid on Both Sides--which are so different as to constitute two works--and Auden's satiric revue The Dance of Death. Two pl ays appear in print for the first time, Auden and Isherwood's The Enemies of a Bishop and Auden's The Chase. Also included are Auden's prose and verse written for doucmentary films, a cabaret sketch, and an unpublished radio script. Many of the texts include poems by the young Auden that have never been published before. The extensive historical and textual notes trace the complex history of the production and revision of these plays, including full texts and rewritten scenes.During the years when these works were created, Auden moved from a "poetry of isolation" to more expansive and public writing. After he left Oxford at age twenty-one, during the summer of 1928, he wrote the tragicomic charade Paid on Both Sides. During the next ten years, until he left England for America, he created the increasingly ambitious works for stage, film, and broadcast that appear in this volume. The most important of these plays were written in collaboration with Isherwood. As the world political situation worsened, Isherwood and Auden's style combined the energy of popular entertainment with the urgency of sacramental ritual.Edard Mendelson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Early Auden (Viking). He is the editor of two volumes of Aduen's poetry, Collected Poems (Random House) and The English Auden (Random House). Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ...Show more

Plautus - Four Comedies - The Braggart Soldier; the Brothers Menaechmus; the Haunted House; the Pot of Gold by Plautus

$10.00 NZD

Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good

The first professional playwright in history, Plautus was the creator of racy, raucous, hilarious plays that will make modern audiences laugh as much as the first Romans did. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, makin g these the most readable and actable versions available. His introduction considers Plautus's place in ancient comedy, examines his continuing influence, and celebrates his power to entertain. ...Show more

Plays Unpleasant - Widowers' Houses/The Philanderer/Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

$12.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good

Includes the plays "Widowers' Houses", "The Philanderer", and "Mrs Warren's Profession".

Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shak espeare's most frequently performed plays. This edition features illustrations by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and a new introduction from Professor Tiffany Stern. Whilst Beatrice and Benedick both despise love, exchanging insults and banter rather than vows, for Hero and Claudio it is love at first sight. But as their marriage preparations begin so do Don John's dirty tricks, resulting in humiliation, rejection and disguise. Through masqued layers of deception and tight prosaic wit Shakespeare weaves together a comedy full of tragedy and romance in which nothing is as it seems. ...Show more

The Misanthrope & Tartuffe by Moliere

$10.00 NZD

Category: Drama | Reading Level: good