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  • Measure For Measure

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to witness all that ensues.In the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition, with commentary and notes from A. R. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Throne of Blood

    by Robert N. Watson ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made.In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors, and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ben Jonson: Four Plays

    by Ben Jonson, Robert N. Watson ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    Bringing together four of the most popular and widely studied of Ben Jonson's plays, this anthology focuses on the city comedies for which Jonson is best known today: The Alchemist (edited by Elizabeth Cook), Volpone (edited by Robert N. Watson), Bartholmew Fair (edited by G.R. Hibbard) and Epicoene or The Silent Woman (edited by Roger Holdsworth).Today Jonson's works are widely considered to be ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Volpone

    Revised Edition

    by Ben Jonson ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full play text is accompanied by incisive commentary notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of Volpone's satire. The introduction provides a firm grounding in the play's social and literary contexts, demonstrates how careful close-reading can ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Every Man in His Humour

    by Ben Jonson ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    Like all of Jonson's city comedies, this play - here given in the 1616 Folio version, in which Jonson rewrote and set it in England, not Italy - is a kind of dramatised Do-It-Yourself kit on how to bluff one's way in Elizabethan London. Although Roman New Comedy, in which a crafty slave helps a wild youngster to marry the girl of his choice against his father's wishes, supplies Jonson with his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Look Back in Anger

    by John Osborne ...
    Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956.'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it up.' Alan Sillitoe'A story of youthful insecurity inflamed by lack of opportunity and the terrifying, destabilizing ... Read more

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  • Midsummer [a play with songs]

    by David Greig ...
    Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do.Midsummer is the story of a great lost weekend of bridge-burning, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Frames of Mind

    A Post-Jungian Look at Film, Television and Technology

    by Luke Hockley ...
    The eminent psychologist Carl Jung is best known for such indelible contributions to modern thought as the concept of the collective unconscious, but his wide-spread work can also be fruitfully employed to analyze popular culture. Frames of Mind offers an introduction to the world of Post-Jungian film and television studies, examining how Jung’s theories can heighten our understanding of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth

    by Professor David Ian Rabey ...
    Series series Critical Companions
    Jez Butterworth is the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful new British dramatist of the 21st century: his acclaimed play Jerusalem has had extended runs in the West End and on Broadway. This book is the first to examine Butterworth's writings for stage and film and to identify how and why his work appeals so widely and profoundly. It examines the way that he weaves suspenseful ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Guide

    by Jacqueline Bolton ...
    Series series GCSE Student Guides
    Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indispensable resources and tips for successful understanding and writing all in one place, preparing students to approach their exams with confidence.Key features include a critical commentary of the play with extensive, clearly labelled analyses on themes, characters and context. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Plays of Aeschylus

    by Professor A. F. Garvie ...
    Series series Classical World
    This excellent introduction to the six extant plays of Aeschylus is fully revised and updated, with additional further reading, ideal for the student unfamiliar with these earliest of Greek tragedies. Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians and lived from 525/524 to 465/455. He took part in the battle of Marathon in 490 and probably also in the battle of Salamis in 480, the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Plays: Companion Text to College Writing 11.3x

    by Nathan Taylor ...
    Reading plays evokes a wide array of reactions, from fear to excitement and joy. Without the guiding hand of a director, or the specific interpretation of actors, however, reading a theatrical play instead of viewing a performance offers its own challenges.The plays included in this text—A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare and Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand—are intended to ... Read more

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