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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour & Professional Foul
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 14.57Every Good Boy Deserves Favour A dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes himself to be surrounded by an orchestra. As the dissident's son begs his father to free himself with a lie, Tom Stoppard's darkly funny and provocative... more...
David Hare Plays 3
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 24.78This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed . more...
Brian Friel Plays 2
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 24.78This second collection of Brian Friel's plays includes some of his most acclaimed work for the stage. The plays included are Dancing at Lughnasa , Fathers and Sons , Making History , Wonderful Tennessee and Molly Sweeney . The collection is introduced by Christopher Murray. more...
The Breath of Life
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 13.11'Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.' Gauguin's aphorism serves as the motto for this morality tale of two women, both in their sixties, whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understand. Madeline Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight. One day to her door comes Angela Beale, a woman she has met... more...
There Came a Gypsy Riding
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 13.11The McKenna family convenes at their remote West Ireland holiday home to mark the 21st birthday of their late son Gene. Eccentric cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday cake and conversation, and ready to expose a family secret. Even Margaret, the unstoppable mother, and Leo, the ever-calm father, can't hold things... more...
John Osborne Plays 2
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 24.78This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer , The Hotel in Amsterdam , West of Suez and Time Present . 'A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether of the Right or Left, he took no hostages, expecting from other people the same unyielding, unflinching commitment to their view of the truth which... more...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 4.99Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare?s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing... more...
Pygmalion
The Floating Press 1912; US$ 3.95In George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion a phonetician believes the power of speech is such that he can introduce a Cockney flower girl to polite society after careful language and etiquette training, and no one will discern her true roots. The professor and the flower girl grown close, but after her successful debut she rejects the professor and... more...
Caesar and Cleopatra
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter and act. ************. Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound''s Conversion and The Devil''s Disciple... more...
The Doctor's Dilemma
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every chapter and act. ************. The Doctor''s Dilemma is a play by G. Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. The thesis of the play, revolutionary for its time, was that medical doctors inevitably face a dilemma between... more...









