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The Historical Register for the Year 1736 and Eurydice Hissed
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99The Historical Register for the Year 1736 and Eurydice Hissed are two of Henry Fielding's satirical dramas. A mixture of several plots, each play extensively satirizes British politicians. Fielding's writing for the theater was a major factor in bringing about the Licensing Act of 1737. Subjecting the social attitudes and political manipulations... more...
The Intriguing Chambermaid
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Your niece has behav'd like a Bodikins! I am in a Passion; and for her sake, I'll never make Love to any Woman again. I am resolved.The Intriguing Chambermaid is one of Henry Fielding's lesser-known dramatic works. Fielding's plays were successful on the stage. Like the others, this one is a satirical romantic comedy... more...
A Pair of Blue Eyes
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Hardy said of the landscape that inspired A Pair of Blue Eyes that "The ghostly birds, the pall-like sea, the frothy wind, the eternal soliloquy of the waters, the bloom of dark purple cast, that seems to exhale from the shoreward precipices, in themselves lend to the scene an atmosphere like the twilight of a night vision." It is the story... more...
The Wolves and the Lamb
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99The Wolves and the Lamb (1854) is a comedy in two acts by William Makepeace Thackeray. The play is set in familial surroundings and revolves around the lives of the wealthy widower and city merchant Horace Milliken and his family. Miss Prior, governess to Milliken's children, is also an important character. The play opens in Milliken's villa... more...
Redemption and Two Other Plays
ReadHowYouWant 2009; US$ 4.99Tolstoy's Redemption is the story of physical degeneration and spiritual regeneration of the main character, Fédya. The Power of Darkness is a tragedy about a group of peasants living in abject misery. Fruits of Culture also deals with the issues faced by the peasants in Russia. In all three plays, Tolstoy merges the personal and the political... more...
The Eleven Comedies
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Eleven Comedies: Knights, Acharnaians, Peace, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, The Thesmophoriazusae, The Ecclesiazusae, and Plutus. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete. These, as well as fragments of some of his other plays, provide us with the only real example we have of a genre of comic... more...
Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
Random House of Canada 2010; US$ 21.95With a Foreword by the Author ?Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other, reacting to each other, or leaving silences for others... more...
Bacchae
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 5.95[Woodruff?s translation] is clear, fluent, and vigorous, well thought out, readable and forceful. The rhythms are right, ever-present but not too insistent or obvious. It can be spoken instead of read and so is viable as an acting version; and it keeps the lines of the plot well focused. The Introduction offers a good survey of critical approaches.... more...
That Was Then
A&C Black 2002; US$ 11.70A brand new comedy for the Abbey Theatre by the writer of About Adam and Ordinary Decent Criminal. Irish builder and paid up Golden Circle member Noel and his wife May throw a dinner party for their dodgy but plausible English colleagues Julian and June in Dublin. The dinner party is unforgettable - for all the wrong reasons. Years later Julian and... more...
Confidence
A&C Black 1998; US$ 9.10Upton's a playful writer who likes nothing better than to upset expectations. Join the schemers and the dreamer on the English seafront, as another summer season begins. There's serious money to be made. Amongst the paint-peeling kiosks on the prom, Ella arrives like an erotic whilrwind, hell-bent on secruing the elusive jackpot and a ticket... more...









