Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn
$12.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his des ...Show more
Six Yuan Plays by Liu Jung-En (Translator, Introduction by)
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the straight-jacket of Confucianism, the Chinese made ...Show more
The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats by Jack B. Yeats
$25.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
Edited, with an introduction by Robin Skelton
The Frolicks or The Lawyer Cheated, 1671 by Elizabeth Polwhele; Judith Milhous (Editor); Robert D. Hume (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and reality seem to exchange places. The ...Show more
Wonderlands by Katherine Thomson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
In 1931, during a wild afternoon's ride, Alice, a white station owner makes a tentative pact with her Aboriginal head stockman, Jim, to hand her land back to him and his people. An unfortunate accident prevents it from happening, and noone learns of their mutual understanding; and Alice and her pioneeri ...Show more
Run Rabbit Run by Alana Valentine
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good10
Describes the battle to overturn the decision to exclude the South Sydney Rabbitohs from the NRL. Based on interviews with both public faces of the campaign and grassroots supporters, this title tells a story of passion and politics that goes beyond football.
English Mystery Plays - A Selection by Peter Happe
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
A collection of plays that features Crucifixion and Resurrection.
Arden of Faversham by Martin White (Editor, Volume Editor); Tom Lockwood
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of f ...Show more