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1599 - A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an...

Alan Bennett Plays 1.

Alan Bennett Plays 2.

This second volume of plays by Alan Bennett includes his two Kafka plays, one an hilarious comedy, the other a profound and searching dra...

Art, Truth and Politics: The Nobel Lecture

n 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what ...

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Harold Pinter is undoubtedly one of the world's major playwrights. In this tribute to him on his seventieth birthday, a number of people ...

Madame Melville

Set in 1966 in a soon-to-be-exploding Paris, Madame Melville is the intimate story of Carl, a fifteen-year-old American and his teacher, ...

The Madness of George III.

Misha s Party

Miss Julie - The Stronger

Mister Heracles

A brilliantly inventive rendering of Euripides' most harrowing tragedy. Euripides's Heracles is shocking and strange. It begins in defeat...

Moira Buffini Plays 1.

Gabriel ‘A richly themed, enthralling new play.’ The Times Silence (winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award) ‘Silence is a beaut. Buffi...

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories

The Works of Lord Byron III.

The Works of Lord Byron

Tennessee Williams:The Glass Menagerie

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. Written by established literature experts.

The Divine Comedy

Chekhov s The Seagull

Young girl lives on shore of lake since childhood - like you. Loves the lake - like the seagull. Is happy and free - like the seagull. Th...

The Cherry Orchard

Collected Plays

In this volume four of Ronald Harwood's most successful plays - 'A Family', 'The Dresser', 'J.J. Farr' and 'Another Time' - are collected...

Collected Shorter Plays

This volume contains all of Beckett’s less-than-full-length works (or ‘Dramaticules’) for the stage, radio and television. Arranged in ch...

Colquhoun and MacBryde

Fresh from artistic triumph in their native Glasgow come the two painters, Colquhoun and MacBryde, swaggering down to London's wartime Bo...

Columbus and Discovery of Japan

On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men, his voice rising in stirring peroration: 'Let us all be new men!...

Comedians

The Crafty Art of Playmaking

With over sixty plays written and premièred at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough before going on to play in the West End or the R...

The Glory of Living

Hampton on Hampton

Since the acclaimed London première of his first play in 1966, Christopher Hampton has established himself as one of Britain's most promi...

Hanif Kureishi Plays 1.

In 1981 Hanif Kureishi was voted Most Promising Playwright of the Year by the London Theatre Critics for his plays Borderline and Outskir...

The Lightning Play

North London at Halloween. Celebrity ghost writer Max Villiers and his wife Harriet, a talented shopper, host a party. As Max connects hi...

The Absence of War

The third part of a critically acclaimed trilogy of plays about British institutions, The Absence of War offers a meditation on the class...

Alan Bennett - In a Manner of Speaking

Alan Bennett first became famous when 'Beyond the Fringe' was performed in Edinburgh and London in the early 1960s. Afterwards the showie...

All That Fall

Mrs Rooney, old and unwieldy, is dragging herself towards the railway station on a Saturday lunchtime to meet her blind husband on his wa...

The American Pilot

A spy plane crash-lands in a remote valley in a distant country. The local villagers take in the wounded pilot and argue his fate. The Am...

Antony and Cleopatra - Actors on Shakespeare

Vanessa Redgrave, an iconoclastic actor equally adept in classic or modern roles for stage or screen, has played in and directed Antony a...

April De Angelis Plays 1.

The first collection of April De Angelis's plays selects work from her plays Ironmistress, Hush, Playhouse Creatures and The Positive Hou...

Arcadia

In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through t...

Arguments with England - A memoir

In the days when Australians called England 'home', Michael Blakemore, an eager young man en route to RADA, made the long sea voyage to 1...

Harold Pinter Plays 1.

This volume contains Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter's first plays - The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hotho...

Harold Pinter: Faber Critical Guide

Do you want to know why Harold Pinter is a figure of such influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking...

Harry and Me

Henry IV, Part I.

Simon Callow, best-selling author and acclaimed stage and screen actor, immerses himself in Henry IV, Part I and brings to life not only ...

Hinterland

Johnny Silvester, father of the nation, won the hearts and votes of Ireland. But that was in his heyday. Now, as this bright hinterland r...

The Home Place

The year is 1878. The widowed Christopher Gore, his son David and their housekeeper Margaret, the woman with whom they are both in love, ...

Lipstick on Your Collar

Lipstick on Your Collar was a six-part series from Dennis Potter, whose Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective are milestones in B...

Macbeth - Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter, one of the greatest actors of her generation, takes us with her on an all-encompassing search for the reality behind the ...

Make - Belive Town

A collection of provocative and entertaining essays and remembrances from one of America's major playwrights. 'There is an old and, proba...

Making History

The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies of Elizabeth...

Making Plays

In the process by which a new play migrates from the desk of the person who wrote it to the stage where it comes to life in front of an a...

The Mercy Seat

On September 12, 2001, Ben Harcourt finds himself in the downtown apartment of his lover, Amy Prescott. Over the course of the night, Ben...

Night of the Soul

2001. A large south-coast town. Invisible to all, the ghost of a young woman walks the corridors of a smart modern hotel. The night befor...

Nightingale and Chase

'Played this game. Inside, with the other girls. The 'he is going to meet you' game. The 'he is going to meet you with flowers' game. The...

Attempts on her Life

Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying prac...

Autobahn

'Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works. Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realize...

The Balkony

Set in a brothel designed for the fulfilment of any conceivable fantasy, it is peopled with characters driven by their most private compu...

Bash

Neil LaBute's Bash is a collection of three darkly brilliant one-act plays. In 'Medea Redux', a woman tells of her complex and ultimately...

Brian Friel: Faber Critical Guide

Is your enjoyment of Brian Friel's work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge? Are you studying his plays and looking for help...

Bryony Lavery Plays 1.

The Burial at Thebes

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation ...

Bush Theatre Plays

'When people ask, 'Where are the good new plays?' As good a reply as any is simply to say, 'Try the Bush'.' Financial Times Bush Theatre ...

By the Bog of Cats

Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish ...

Christopher Hampton Plays 1.

This first collection of Hampton's work includes The Philanthropist, which premièred at the Royal Court Theatre in 1970 and went on to be...