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Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson; Suzanne Gossett (Editor)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Revels Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The annual fair for St Bartholomew's Day is a bawdy celebration peopled by tricksters, thieves, prostitutes, pedlars and entertainers. Also drawn to the festivities are a group of ordinary citizens who find their respectable lives turned up ...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
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions | Reading Level: good
It is Australia and the year is 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal...Winner of the Laurence Oli ...Show more
Plays on Women - A Chaste Maid in Cheapside -The Roaring Girl - Arden of Faversham - A Woman Killed with Kindness by Kathleen McLuskie (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Revels Student Editions MUP Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Based on the original and authoritative Revels texts, Plays on women brings together four plays which dramatise the lives of women in Shakespeare's England The only available anthology focusing on women and including the four plays most often discussed.
Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions | Reading Level: near fine
Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play. ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: good
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict over possession of a child features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words an ...Show more
The House of Bernarda Alba / La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: good
Lorca's tragic tale of the destruction of Bernarda Alba's family following the death of her husband. This edition is edited with commentary and student notes
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
$5.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: good
Wilde's "trivial play for serious people" is a sparkling comedy of manners. This hilariously absurd satire pits sincerity against style, and barbed witticisms against ostentatious elegance. Wilde's brilliantly constructed plot and famous dialogue enrich the appeal of hiscelebrated characters, as he turn ...Show more
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Student Editions | Reading Level: good
A play which looks at the political costs of women rising to the top. This volume is published in the Methuen Student Edition series and as well as the text of the play there is a chronology of the playwright's life and work, and an introduction giving the theatrical and social content of the play.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Student Editions | Reading Level: good
Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress living in Jamaica, who meets and marries a young Englishman, Mr Rochester. Taken from the vibrant, sensual Caribbean landscape to England, Antoinette finds herself the centre of disturbing rumours which gradually posion her husband's mind against her.
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