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English Drama - Collections

  • National Theatre Connections 2013by Howard Brenton; Jim Cartwright

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99

    Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and current writers - National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre’s literary... more...

  • East is Eastby Ayub Khan-Din

    Nick Hern Books 2012; US$ 13.11

    The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford. The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are all caught between their Pakistani father's insistence on Asian traditions, their English mother's... more...

  • Modern Antiquesby Barrett Kalter

    Bucknell University Press 2011; US$ 79.99

    Modern Antiques argues that the reinvention of the past was fundamental to the development of modernity in England during the long eighteenth century. Bringing together the fields of literary criticism, historiography, material culture studies, and book history, Kalter offers new interpretations of Dryden, Gray, and Walpole, showing how these... more...

  • Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads epubby Roy Williams

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 12.99

    Saturday 7 October 2000. England v Germany, The King George v The Duke of York. Keegan resigns and Barry plays a blinder. Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose again. First produced at the National Theatre in 2002, Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads became a controversial classic exploring racial tension against the backdrop of an England... more...

  • National Theatre Connections 2011by Sam Adamson; Alia Bano; Helen Blakeman

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 19.49

    This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. The... more...

  • Producers' Choice: Six Plays for Young Performersby Megan Barker

    A&C Black 2010; US$ 19.49

    Producers' Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers showcases some of the best plays for young people produced by the UK's leading theatre companies. The plays are ideal for young performers aged 13-25 and offer a diverse range of challenges, styles and subjects. The volume will prove essential for teachers and students of Drama and for youth... more...

  • Three Shrew Playsby Barry Gaines; Margaret Maurer

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 14.95

    This annotated collection of three early modern English plays allows readers to explore the relationship between Shakespeare's Shrew and two closely related plays of the same genre, the earlier of which, the anonymous The Taming of a Shrew (whether inspired by Shakespeare's play or vice-versa), once enjoyed a level of popularity that likely surpassed... more...

  • Premodern Placesby David Wallace

    Wiley 2008; US$ 135.95

    This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many... more...

  • Restoration Comedyby David Womersley; Duncan Wu

    Wiley 2008; US$ 109.95

    The two plays presented in full in this volume – Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World – illustrate the evolution of Restoration comedy between 1675 and 1700. Includes full texts of Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World . Demonstrates how Restoration comedy evolved between... more...

  • The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stageby Lisa Hopkins

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95

    Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare as well as other early modern dramatists, Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars... more...