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  • Chekhov: Shorts

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    This collection features Chekhov's best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as 'vaudevilles' and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great full-length plays. 'I don't much care for theatre,' he wrote at the time, 'but I do enjoy vaudevilles.'The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding are all ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summerfolk

    Full Text and Introduction

    by Maxim Gorky ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMaxim Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, written in 1904, the year Chekhov died.Summerfolk is a play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. It is set in a world of 'false hopes and unfulfilled promises', where ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wild Duck

    Full Text and Introduction

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceShould the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.Henrik Ibsen's play The Wild Duck, considered a masterpiece of modern tragicomedy, was premiered in January 1885 at Den ... Read more

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  • The Dance of Death

    Full Text and Introduction

    by August Strindberg ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceStrindberg's chilling anatomy of a marriage, in which the two partners duel with each other until one is utterly defeated.Edgar and Alice, embittered husband and wife, live on an army base on a Swedish island. Alice calls it 'Little Hell', and it's about to get worse.Written in 1900 and consisting of two full-length plays, August ... Read more

    $8.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chekhov on Theatre

    by Anton Chekhov, Peter Urban, Jutta Hercher ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series series ... On Theatre
    A unique collection of everything that Chekhov wrote about the theatre.Chekhov started writing about theatre in newspaper articles and in his own letters even before he began writing plays. Later, he wrote in detail about his own plays to his lifelong friend and mentor Alexei Suvorin, his wife and leading actress, Olga Knipper, and to the two directors of the Moscow Art Theatre, Stanislavsky and ... Read more

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  • The Misanthrope

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Molière ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolière's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him into deep trouble.Alceste, the 'misanthrope', hates all mankind, and despairs of its hypocrisy and falseness. He believes that the world could be perfected if people were more honest with each other.But when ... Read more

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  • The Cherry Orchard

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceChekhov's classic tragicomedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.Aristocratic landowner Ranevskaya can no longer afford to keep her childhood home with its beautiful but barren cherry orchard. She rejects the compromise offered by Lopakhin, a local businessman, to cut down the orchard and sell the land for holiday homes. ... Read more

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  • An Enemy of the People

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceAn idealistic doctor, Stockmann, discovers that the waters from which his native spa town draws its wealth are dangerously contaminated. As the citizens realise the financial implications, Stockmann comes under increasing pressure to keep silent.Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People was published in 1882 and first performed in ... Read more

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  • Ivanov

    Full Text and Introduction

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classics
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceSet in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.Anton Chekhov's play Ivanov was first performed in 1887 at the Korsh Theatre in Moscow.This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama ... Read more

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  • Ibsen: Three Plays

    Full Texts and Introductions (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Henrik Ibsen ...
    Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series series NHB Classic Plays
    'I'm going to find out – which of us is right, society or me.'Henrik Ibsen's three great 'problem plays', A Doll's House, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler, challenged the conventions of nineteenth-century society and sparked a revolution in European theatre. Their female protagonists, Nora Helmer, Helene Alving and Hedda Gabler, continue to exert their power over modern audiences.This volume brings ... Read more

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  • The Seagull

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceChekhov's early tragedy, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.Arkadina, a famous actress, and her lover, a famous novelist, are spending the summer on her country estate, but their glamorous presence proves fatally disruptive to the lives of all those present, especially her son, Konstantin and Nina, the girl he loves.Anton ... Read more

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  • The Servant of Two Masters

    Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Translated by Stephen Mulrine ...
    Series Book 0 - NHB Drama Classi
    Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written.Disguising herself as her dead brother, Beatrice travels to Venice to find Florindo, the man responsible for his death. However, her servant, Truffaldino, enters into the pay of Florindo, and struggles to ... Read more

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