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Sejanus: His Fall
Ben Jonson
The Emperor Tiberius raises a statue to honour Sejanus,
unaware that his right-hand man is ruthlessly working his way to
the top, destroying everyone
in his path. No one can stop him, but his fall is inevitable. Large cast.
Softcover, 97 pp. $22.95.
Restoration Comedy
Trevor R. Griffiths & Simon Trussler
Three of the most popular comedies from the Restoration, all dealing with
the place of women in society: The Country Wife by William
Wycherley;
The Rover by Aphra Ben and The Way of the World by
William Congreve. Softcover, 361 pp. $14.95.
The Noel Coward Audio Collection
Noel Coward
From moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familar Coward targets
and personal reminiscences, this delightful collection is a perfect blend of
vintage Noel Coward sure to be enjoyed by faithful fans and new listeners alike.
This collection includes two short stories, Cheap Excursion and The
Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe, and various poems. And from the Caedmon
Treasury, Coward himself and Margaret Leighton perform Coward's adaption of his Brief
Encounter, scenes from Blithe Spirit and Present
Laughter, the interlude from Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart,
concluding with the duo reading more from Coward's Collected Verse.
Audio CD. $42.50.
Four Restoration Libertine Plays
Michael Cordner
The Libertine by Thomas Shadwell; The Man of Mode by Sir George Etherege;
A Fond Husband by Thomas Durfey; Friendship in Fashion by Thomas
Otway. Softcover, 414 pp. $22.95.
The Complete Poems & Plays
T. S. Eliot
Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures
of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays,
published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work
for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations
to Four Quartets, and includes such literary landmarks as The
Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and Murder
in the Cathedral. Softcover, 608 pp. $29.00.
Three Revenge Tragedies
Gamini Salgado
Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth
century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability
and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the
dramatists of the age, whose plays explore the ways in which social
decadence and the abuse of power resentment and lead inexorably to
violence and bloody retribution. This collection brings together three
archtypal plays of the era: The Revenger's Tragedy, The White
Devil,
and The Changeling. Softcover, 364 pp. $22.50.
Volpone and Other Plays
Ben Jonson
The three plays in this collection -- Volpone, The Alchemist,
and Bartholomew -- depict the faults, errors, and foibles of
ordinary people with exhuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations.
In addition to a detailed introduction, this volume also includes a
bibliography, notes and a preliminary preface to each play. Softcover,
489 pp. $18.00.
The Best of Oscar Wilde
Selected Plays and Writings
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing
the hypocrises of fashionable society are on display in this collection
of his finest plays. Included
are: The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman
of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, and a selection
of Wilde's literary criticism. Softcover, 387 pp. $8.99.
The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays
Oscar Wilde
This collection includes Oscar Wilde's most famous comedies, The
Importance
of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance,
and An Ideal Husband, as well as his poetic tragedy Salome, all
of which were written between 1891 and 1895, Wilde's most creative period. Softcover,
384 pp. $10.95.
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama
Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds
Ten non-Shakespearean Renaissance plays and a masque have been brought together for
the first time in what is a major text for students of English drama of the late
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Each play is prefaced by an introductory
headnote discussing the thematic focus of the play and its textual history, and is
cross-referenced to other plays of the period that relate thematically and generically.
Softcover, 457 pp. $41.95.
Man and Superman & Three Other Plays
George Bernard Shaw
Included in this volume are Candida, Shaw's first real success on the
stage, Mrs. Warren's Profession, which poked fun at the Victorian attitude
toward
prostitution, The Devil's Disciple, a play set in the American Revolution,
as well as Man and Superman, a hilarious cocktail of farce, Nietzchean
philosophy,
and Mozart's Don Giovanni. Acclaimed as a "second Shakespeare," Irish-born
Shaw revolutionized the British theatre with ideas and issues enlivened by fascinating
characters, a brilliant command of language and dazzling wit. Softcover, 535
pp.
$11.95.
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw dismissed Pygmalion as a popular potboiler. To thwart productions that hinted
that Higgins and Eliza would marry he wrote a short story epilogue with a bittersweet
ending (included in this edition). Nevertheless, Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney
flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is not only a delightful fantasy but also
has much to say about social class, money, spiritual freedom and women's independence.
It's combination of ideas and social comment, together with its rich comic characterization,
make it one of the most enduring and entertaining of English comedies. Stratford
will be mounting My Fair Lady during its 2002 season; be ahead of the game, read
the original play now. $11.99.
Tom Stoppard
Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
A brilliant masterpiece. A play of ideas,
theatricality and sophisticated entertainment. The action moves
back and forth in time and explores the nature of truth and time
and the disruptive influence of sex
on our orbits of life. $13.99.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead
Tom Stoppard
An original and engaging play which takes
place in and around the action of Hamlet. The play that made Tom Stoppard's
reputation. It's wit and verbal verve have made it a contemporary classic. $15.99.
The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard
An intelligent play about love. Max is married
to Charlotte; Annie is married to Henry. But Charlotte and Henry have fallen in love.
But is it the real thing? $13.99.
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