The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William
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Category: Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deepl ...Show more
The Merchant of Venice (The Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed A R Braunmuller)
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Category: Plays | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
The Peasant Prince - Based on the Book by Li Cunxin by Eva Di Cesare (Adapted by); Sandra Eldridge (Adapted by); Tim McGarry (Adapted by)
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Category: Plays
This extraordinary play for young people is an adaptation of Li Cunxins picture book The Peasant Prince - the true story of Maos Last Dancer. Adapted by Monkey Baa, Australias leading theatre company for young audiences, The Peasant Prince has toured nationally, performing to tens of thousands of young ...Show more
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. The Chairs depic ...Show more
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked. The cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brut ...Show more
The Last Days of Chez Nous and Two Friends: Text Classics by Helen Garner; Laura Jones (Afterword by)
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Category: Plays | Series: Text Classics Ser.
These screenplays showcase the range of one of Australia's greatest writers.The Last Days of Chez Nous was directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1991, andTwo Friends by Jane Campion in 1986. These funny, sharp observations of relationships and friendships are as intimate and engrossing as Helen Garner's ac ...Show more
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
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Category: Plays | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Serious Comedy / Castin: 7f. with doubling / Ints. Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating. The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambition. In a time warp, these ladies are also her ...Show more
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Deborah Dawkin (Translator); Erik Skuggevik (Translator)
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Category: Plays
A collection of four plays by the famed playwright, including Hedda Gabler, which features one of the most infamous women characters in theater A Penguin Classic One of the most renowned playwrights of all time, Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen was an influential figure in the development of realist ...Show more
Blackrock (Play) by Nick Enright
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Category: Plays | Series: Plays Ser.
This work forms part of the tenth-anniversary celebrations of the University of Glamorgan. It traces the institution's development from its beginnings as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines to its present-day status as a university and sets that history in the context of the university's e ...Show more
The Oxford Shakespeare: Othello - The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays
The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - Extensive introducti ...Show more
The 7 Stages of Grieving (25th Anniversary Edition) by ENOCH WESLEY MAILMAN DEBORAH
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Category: Plays
This one-woman show follows the journey of an Aboriginal 'Everywoman' as she tells poignant and humorous stories of grief and reconciliation. Appropriating western form whilst using traditional storytelling, it gives an emotional insight into Murri life. A contemporary Indigenous performance text from t ...Show more
Three Uneasy Pieces by Patrick White
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Category: Plays
Addresses the problem of growing old and the 'warts of the soul' which, if gouged out, ruin the flesh. Presenting a peeled potato, a dance in the kitchen and a visit to the aged mother of a childhood friend, this book considers our struggle, our efforts to achieve aesthetic perfection and suggests some ...Show more