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Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Play) by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
This is an annotated student edition of one of Brecht's most famous plays and a classic of modern literature/theatre. Described by Brecht as "a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all", Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small ...Show more
Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Student Editions
Williams' play about drifter Chance Wayne who returns to his hometown with a faded movie star hoping to find the girl of his youth is a classic study of the dream of recapturing youth and finding fame. This edition features an extensive critical commentary and questions aimed at students of the play. ...Show more
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Young Adult | 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: Performing Arts Drama Plays | 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 Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams; Daniel Ciba (Volume Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Student Editions Ser.
This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and considers the play through the lens of Queer Identity. The introduction includes discussion of very recent revivals and adaptations of the play across ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Lucie; Wilde Sutherland
Category: Classics | Series: Student Editions Ser.
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Student Editions
'There's more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonagh's chosen weapons are laughter and gore Pushing theatre to its limits, McDonagh is making a serious point a work as subversive as those Synge and O'Casey plays that sparked Dublin riots in the last century' Guardian 'A brave satire Swiftia ...Show more
The Threepenny Opera: Methuen Student Edition by Bertolt Brecht
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Student Editions
This Student Edition of Brecht's satire on the capitalist society of the Weimar Republic 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 and phrases ...Show more
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Student Editions
A revised student edition of a classic modern play, Top Girls is seen as a benchmark for ushering in a new generation of playwrights after it was premiered by the Royal Court in 1982. Marlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' emplo ...Show more
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Category: Film & Tv | 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
Twelve Angry Men: Methuen Student Editions by Reginald Rose
Category: Poetry | Series: Student Editions
The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers. In New York, 1954, a man is dead and the life of another is at stake. A 'guilty' verdict seems a foregone co ...Show more