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Equusby Peter Shaffer
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 9.99An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence. more...
'Tis Pity She's A Whoreby Simon Barker; John Ford
Routledge 1997; US$ 34.95Simon Barker guides the reader through the full range of previous interpretations of the play. This text in particular has provided a major focus for scholarship as well as being the subject of a number of major theatrical productions. more...
English Stage Comedy 1490-1990by Alexander Leggatt
Routledge 1998; US$ 39.95A unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. It shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life. more...
Massingerby Martin Garrett
Routledge 1991; US$ 175.00Looks at the critical reception to this Jacobean playwright from the early 17th to the late 19th century. Includes extensive selections from Pepys, Goldsmith, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Lamb and Swinburne, with briefer comments from Scott, Byron and Keats. more...
Women in Dramatic Place and Timeby Geraldine Cousin
Routledge 1996; US$ 45.95This offers exciting insights into the diversity and excellence of contemporary plays by women. Presents detailed analysis of a wide range of plays by women dramatist from the last two decades, including the work of Caryl Churchill. more...
Post-Colonial Dramaby Helen Gilbert; Joanne Tompkins
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95The first full-length study to address the ways in which performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism. Brings to bear the latest theoretical approaches from post-colonial and performance studies. more...
Playboy of the Western Worldby J.M Synge
Routledge 1979; US$ 23.95Two plays by one of the leading figures in the brilliant revival of Irish drama in the early years of this century.Set book for AEB, 1995. more...
Gender and Modern Irish Dramaby Susan Cannon Harris
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 33.55Gender and Modern Irish Drama argues that the representations of sacrificial violence central to the work of the Abbey playwrights are intimately linked with constructions of gender and sexuality. Susan Cannon Harris goes beyond an examination of the relationship between Irish national drama and Irish nationalist politics to the larger question of the way national identity and gender identity are constructed through each other. Radically redefining the context in which the Abbey plays were performed, Harris documents the material and discursive forces that produced Irish conceptions of gender. She looks at cultural ... more...
Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Genderby Michelene Wandor
Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95In this extensively revised and updated edition of Michelene Wandor's classic work Look Back in Gender, Wandor takes another provocative look at a selection of key British plays from the last fifty years. more...
Death, The One and the Art of Theatreby Howard Barker
Routledge 2004; US$ 32.95This is the latest collection of Barker's revelatory philosophical musings on theatre. It is an array of speculations, deductions and prose poems, which cast a unique light on the nature of theatre. more...