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Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94The Revengers' Comedies A hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of contemporary middle-class England poisoned by the rise of economic ruthlessness and the collapse of... more...
Britannicus
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 13.11Impetuous Nero has lost all restraint: bored with being loved, he wants to be feared. Agrippina, widow of Emperor Claudius, has paved the way for her son Nero to succeed to the throne ahead of his step-brother Britannicus. But as his taste for power grows, Nero begins to slip from his mother's control. Britannicus's life is threatened and Rome moves... more...
Reasons To Be Pretty
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 13.11Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is devastated; he can't see what he's done wrong. Meanwhile, Greg's friend Kent alternates between boasting about how gorgeous his wife Carlyis and chasing after a hot new colleague. The final part of Neil LaBute's 'beauty trilogy'... more...
Midsummer [a play with songs]
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Bob's a failing car salesman on the fringes of the city's underworld. Helena's a high-powered divorce lawyer with a taste for other people's husbands. She's totally out of his league; he's not her type at all. They absolutely should not sleep together. Which is, of course, why they do. Midsummer is... more...
The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans. In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces Shakespeare?s life and works in context, providing crucial... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Camus
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00An accessible guide to Albert Camus, one of the iconic figures of modern French literature, first published in 2007. more...
Rebecca Lenkiewicz: Plays 1
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 21.86The Night Season ' The Night Season is unusual; no politics, no issues, no history - just a bold attempt to grapple with the messy nature of living. It's also delightfully, rudely funny.' Financial Times 'Look out for the name Rebecca Lenkiewicz. It's once in a blue moon that a writer gets her second-ever play staged at the National.... more...
The Emigrants or A Trip to the Ohio, a Theatrical Farce (1817)
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 159.95George Cumberlands unpublished and almost unrecorded farce of about 1817 called The Emigrants or A Trip to The Ohio amiably pokes fun at Yankees, Yorkshiremen, Irishmen, and Utopians, and it is a treasure-house of slang, such as Obstropelous. Its polymath author was a prolific artist, inventor, geologist, poet, political radical,... more...
Leaving
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 14.57Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. But does leaving office necessarily mean that he, his mistress and his extended family have to leave the state villa, which has been their home for years? While his former secretary, and the former secretary to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain... more...
Hecuba
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 13.11Children, lead this old woman outside. A slave like the rest of you, She once was your queen. Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Hecuba, its beloved queen, is widowed and enslaved. She mourns her great city and the death of her husband, but when fresh horrors emerge, her grief turns to rage and a lust for revenge. A savage indictment... more...









