Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5 - A Space Fantasy by Kurt Vonnegut; Joel Schick; Jill Krementz (Photographer)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most haunting tragedies written in the Jacobean period, The Duchess of Malfi (1614) adapts the true story of a noble Italian widow who secretly marries her steward and has children with him. Her two brothers, enraged by this act of female self-determination, begin to spy on the happy family, ...Show more
The Tragedy of Mariam The Fair, Queen of Jewry with The Lady Falkland - Her Life by one of her Daughters by Elizabeth Cary; Barry Weller (Editor); Margaret W. Ferguson (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the desire ...Show more
Mourning Becomes Electra - A Trilogy by Eugene O'Neill
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
Epicoene or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: very good
'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy in any language'. Its title signals Jonson's ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Student Editions | Reading Level: very good
In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weig ...Show more
The Room and The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Pinter plays | Reading Level: good
The reissuing of all his plays marks the arrival of Harold Pinter at Faber. These two plays were first performed as a double bill in 1960, first at the Hampstead Theatre Club and then at the Royal Court. They immediately established themes that Pinter developed in his later work.
Right You Are (If you Think So)/All for the Best/Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Drama Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-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 th ...Show more
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
$5.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Plays and Screenplays Ser. | Reading Level: good
George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is a comedy about the deceptions and meaningless pursuits of England's ruling class. Though the play takes place on the the eve of World War I, the characters, too absorbed in their intrigues, are unaware that a war is about to begin. In this lesson, we will explor ...Show more
Wednesday to Come Trilogy by Renee
$16.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: near fine
Renee's three seminal New Zealand plays Wednesday to Come, Pass it On and Jeannie Once are published together for the first time. In Wednesday To Come Renee takes four women of four generations in a single family and looks at how they cope with the Great Depression of the 1930s. In Pass It On, Jeannie a ...Show more
The Steward of Christendom by Sebastian Barry
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Royal Court Writers | Reading Level: very good
The play that established Barry as one of Ireland's most powerful contemporary playwrights Thomas Dunne, ex-chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police looks back on his career built during the latter years of Queen Victoria's empire, from his home in Baltinglass in Dublin in 1932. Like King ...Show more