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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: New Mermaids
One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women in public life, it is a play which engaged with i ...Show more
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Category: General Biography | Series: New Mermaids
"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead." Cheered by some and booed by others on opening night in 1894, Arms and the Man became the first success of Bernard Shaw's dramatic career that spanned six decades and brought him world-wide renown. In this perennially popular anti-ro ...Show more
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Category: Classic | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
'...make me immortal with a kiss' Doctor Faustus is a play about desire: for the best in life, for knowledge, power, material comfort, and influence. Faustus sells his soul to the devil hoping to learn the secrets of the universe, but is fobbed off with explanations which he knows to be inadequate. He i ...Show more
RECRUITING OFFICER PLAY 2ND EDITION by FARQUHAR GEORGE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text, with new annotations, in modern spelling. Tiffany Stern's comprehensive and engaging introduction discusses the author's career and gives a history of the play including its staging, critical interpretation, date ...Show more
Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Tiffany Stern (Volume Editor, Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restoration comedies) to counteract the sentimental mode. The Rivals (1775) was a qualified success: the suave you ...Show more
Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw; Jean Chothia (Editor)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
'What other judgment can I judge by but my own?' Charting the meteoric rise and fall of Joan of Arc and her mission to drive the English from France, Shaw's Saint Joan draws directly on the medieval records to cut through the sentiment that characterized previous literary treatments of her story. A ...Show more
Songs of a Sourdough by Robert Service
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
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The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: New Mermaids
'Cuckolds like lovers should themselves deceive' So concludes one of Wycherley's most revived and much discussed plays. It is a satirical comedy sharply focussed on the follies, vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London through its central characters: the desperate Pinchwife; his naive wife; the sex- ...Show more
The Rover - Revised Edition by Aphra Behn; Robyn Bolam (Editor, Volume Editor)
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women - from convent girls to courtesans - take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group of love-struck Englishmen in Naples, Aphra Behn's ...Show more
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford
Category: Film & Tv | Series: New Mermaids
Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earth nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet, she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audience know that the nastiest of them is having an affair with her domineering aunt. Like Juliet, ...Show more
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