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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
"A DOLL'S HOUSE'' written in times before the morrow, This type of Classical work you will never find in the modern age.A DOLL'S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen is a book of Modern tragedy first published in 1879 DenmarkA true book of worth, a classic that lives in an era of timeless distinction. Early books emit ...Show more
A Streetcar Named Desire (Methuen Student Editions) by Tennessee Williams; Bess Rowen (Volume Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions Ser.
A revised student edition of Tennessee Williams's classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire. This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Visiting Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play's treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental in ...Show more
All My Sons by Arthur Miller; Claire Gleitman (Volume Editor); Susan Abbotson (Series edited by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Student Editions Ser.
'His drama is a piece of expert dramatic construction. Mr. Miller has woven his characters into a tangle of plot that springs naturally out of the circumstances of life today.' NEW YORK TIMESThree years on from the disappearance of his son, successful businessman Joe Keller has made a comfortable life f ...Show more
Antigone by Sophocles
Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions Ser.
In Antigone, Sophocles writes of the hardship befalling the daughter of Oedipus, the star of three previous tragedies by the master of the form. The story centers on her brother's death and her quest to obtain an honorable burial for him. Antigone breaks the King's law forbidding the burial of her broth ...Show more
Death of a Salesman (Play) by Arthur Claire; Miller Conceison
Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be - when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted, driven and yet held back by empty dreams of prosperity and success. Justly celebrated as one of the most famous dramatis ...Show more
Educating Rita: Methuen Student Edi by Willy Russell
Category: Gift | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Educating Rita, about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending.' Sunday TimesEducating Rita was premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, i ...Show more
Oleanna by David Mamet
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Methuen Student Editions Ser.
'Re-issue of Mamet''s ground-breaking and controversial play on the male-female power struggle. ''An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet''s hallmark and he has now employed it to skewer the dogmatic, puritanical streak which has become commonplace on and off the campus. With ...Show more
Our Country's Good - Based on the Novel 'the Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally by Timberlake Wertenbaker; Sophie Bush (Volume Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Australia 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 Olivier Play of the Year ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Fiction | Series: Methuen Student Editions Ser.
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 Crucible (Methuen Student ed.) by Arthur Soyica Diggs; Miller Colbert
Category: No Category | Series: Student Editions Ser.
Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!In a small tight-knit community, gossip and rumour spread like ...Show more
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams; Stephen Bottoms (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williams's elegiac master- piece brought a radical new lyricism to Broadway -- the tragedy, fragility, and tenderness of this "memory play" have made it one of America's most ...Show more
The House of Bernarda Alba / La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
Category: No Category | Series: Student Editions Ser.
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