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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
Blasted by Sarah Kane
Category: Plays | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play Blasted features expert and helpful annotation and is an accessible guide for anyone studying or performing the play. This includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characte ...Show more
Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions
In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service, Blue/Orange premiered at London's Cottesloe ...Show more
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams; Benjamin Hudson (Volume Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion- Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer ...Show more
Death of a Salesman (Methuen Student Edition) by MILLER, ARTHUR
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions
Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, the play remains a classic work of literature and drama that is studied and performed around the world. This critical edition offers a wealth of authoritative an ...Show more
Death of a Salesman (Play) by Arthur Claire; Miller Conceison
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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: Fiction | 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
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's classic dramatisation of the conflict between free enquiry and official ideology 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 n ...Show more
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Drama | Series: Methuen Student Editions
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
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: Performing Arts Drama 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
Pomona by Alistair McDowall; Chris Megson (Series edited by); Dan Rebellato (Volume Editor); Jenny Stevens (Series edited by); Matthew Nichols (Series edited by); Sara Freeman (Series edited by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow.Ollie's sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city.Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born. A ...Show more