Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • A Lion Was Learning to Ski

    And Other Lines for a Laugh

    by Ranjit Bolt ...
    A Lion Was Learning to Ski. Humour, Limericks, Whimsical. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Losing It

    Written in rhyming couplets 'Losing It' is the story of Lucy, a luscious young virgin who goes to London to try losing her virginity. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Grouch

    A Modern Version of The Misanthrope

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    “How I deplore the bogus waysOf society these days -A sort of national contestTo find out who can a se-lick best!”In this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope Molière's angry hero Alceste becomes Alan - journalist, intellectual and free spirit-who finds himself adrift in a social whirl of false flattery and schmooze. In a world where nobody calls a spade a spade (or even knows what a spade is ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Lysistrata

    Series series Oberon Classics
    Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahead of his time in this, probably his greatest and most enduring comedy. ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Play on Shakespeare
    Ranjit Bolt updates Much Ado About Nothing with a merry new translation.In Much Ado About Nothing, a series of miscommunications and misunderstandings spiral out of control, leaving two sets of lovers to untangle their words and their hearts. Ranjit Bolt, an accomplished translator, takes on Shakespeare’s well-loved comedy to update much of the obscure language while maintaining the humor, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Art of Translation

    by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    “I try to follow the rule laid down by perhaps the greatest translator of all, John Dryden, who maintained that a translator should – and I paraphrase – make the version as entertaining as possible, while at the same time remaining as faithful as possible to the spirit of the original” – Ranjit Bolt.In this book, Ranjit Bolt takes what is essentially a practitioner's view of the art of literary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Corneille: Three Masterpieces

    The Liar; The Illusion; Le Cid

    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le CidPierre Corneille (1606–84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career. Triumphant in both comedy and tragedy, his plays remain at the core of the repertory.When the young Molière saw The Liar (Le Menteur), a delightful chronicle of a pathological liar’s adventures in love, he ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Real Don Juan

    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    Don Juan Tenorio is an important and influential Spanish classic which gives a softened, romanticised version of the infamous hero and ends, uniquely, in his repentance and salvation. First seen in 1844, it is Zorrilla's best-known play and is still performed every year in Spain on All Souls' Day. The play, in Ranjit Bolt's stunning rhyming verse translations, was given an extensive tour by the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Miser/The Idiot

    by Molière ...
    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    L'Avare (1666) is Molière's great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser's family and servants. First performed at the Festival Theatre, Chichester in 1995, it was revived at the Salisbury Playhouse in April 2001.Includes L'Etourdi (1653), the first, the fastest, and perhaps the funniest of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Hercules

    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Juno, wife of Jove (Jupiter) is jealous of Alcmene, mother of Hercules by Jove, and has been persecuting Hercules by imposing labours on him, through her intermediary, the tyrant Eurystheus.The final labour, which Hercules has just completed, was the bringing up of Cereberus, the three-headed watchdog of the Underworld, up to the world above. To do this, Hercules has achieved the astonishing feat, ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Goldoni: Two Plays

    The Venetian Twins; Mirandolina

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Translated by Ranjit Bolt ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy’s most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt’s vibrant translations.The Venetian Twins is a classic tale of mistaken identity and the ensuing confusion. The play was given its premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company in a production directed by Michael Bogdanov which enjoyed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Karen's Kittycat Club: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #4)

    Illustrated by Katy Farina ...
    Series Book 4 - Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix
    Karen wants to start her own club!Karen's best friend Hannie just got an adorable new kitten. Their neighbor Amanda has a cat, too, and Karen has grumpy old Boo-Boo. Now that they all have cats, Karen comes up with a great idea. She wants to start a Kittycat Club!What will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like her big sister Kristy... but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want to hire Karen and her ... Read more

    $6.99 USD