Drama Classics – serie
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57 produkter
Servant of Two Masters
Häftad, 2012
87 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA classic Italian comedy that remains blisteringly hilarious and relevant, over two hundred and fifty years after it was written.Disguising herself as her dead brother, Beatrice travels to Venice to find Florindo, the man responsible …
Beggar's Opera
Häftad, 2006
67 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceJohn Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.Peachum the thief-catcher is horrified when he discovers his beloved daughter Polly has married Macheath the …
La Ronde
Häftad, 2007
74 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceArthur Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s.La Ronde is a play of ten scenes, each depicting a couple in a sexual liaison. There are ten characters altogether, each appearing in two …
Misanthrope
Av Molière
Häftad, 2005
82 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolière's most-admired comedy of manners, about a man whose quickness to criticise the flaws in others, and in himself, leads him into deep trouble.Alceste, the 'misanthrope', hates all mankind, and despairs of its hypocrisy and …
Miss Julie
Häftad, 1995
74 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceBored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce the footman, but gets far more than she bargained for...August Strindberg's classic naturalistic play Miss Julie was written in 1888, and first performed at Strindberg's …
Fuente Ovejuna
Av Lope de Vega
Häftad, 2009
84 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the Spanish Golden Age.When the people of the town of Fuente Ovejuna revolt against their tyrannical overlord and murder him, the authorities attempt to find out who is responsible, …
Ivanov
Häftad, 2010
77 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceSet in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.Anton Chekhov's play Ivanov was first …
Woman Killed with Kindness
Av Thomas Heywood, Trevor Griffiths
Häftad, 2011
75 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA startling domestic thriller from the seventeenth century, one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people.Thomas Heywood's play A Woman Killed with Kindness strips bare two women's lives, with forensic realism. It …
Beaux Stratagem
Av George Farquhar, Simon Trussler
Häftad, 1995
82 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceGeorge Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.A pair of London gentlemen, Archer and Aimwell, pose as a Lord and his servant in …
Oresteia
Av Aeschylus
Häftad, 2007
61 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceAeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).A fourth play, Proteus, originally formed part of a …
Life is a Dream
Häftad, 1998
67 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age.It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him. When he is released for a day as an experiment he proves the omens only too right, and, as …
Changeling
Av Thomas Middleton, William Rowley m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
82 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMiddleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century.Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance meeting in a church – but Beatrice has already been …
Jew of Malta
Av Christopher Marlowe, Peter Smith
Häftad, 1994
75 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceChristopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is a drama of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set on the island of Malta and taking place against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the …
Playboy of the Western World
Av J.M. Synge
Häftad, 1997
72 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceJ.M. Synge's extraordinary play about a young man on the run, and his unexpected elevation to folk hero.A stranger, Christy Mahon, arrives in a village bar in County Mayo in the West of Ireland, claiming to have killed his father. The …
Duchess of Malfi
Av John Webster
Häftad, 1996
257 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA macabre Jacobean tragedy, loosely based on true events.John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi begins as a love story, with a Duchess who marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers exact their …
Alchemist
Av Ben Jonson
Häftad, 1996
61 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceFace, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes …
Doctor Faustus
Häftad, 1996
209 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceThe classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.This edition of Christopher Marlowe's play contains two self-contained versions, known as the A-text and the B-text, allowing readers to compare the …
Recruiting Officer
Häftad, 1997
84 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA classic Restoration-era comedy about the sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, as they go about their task of recruiting soldiers in the town of Shrewsbury.George Farquhar's play The Recruiting …
Don Juan
Av Molière
Häftad, 1997
69 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.Set in Sicily, Moliere's play retells the famous myth of Don Juan, the womaniser with no morals and a scorn for religion. It …
School for Scandal
Häftad, 1998
84 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA classic comedy of manners, ridiculing affectation and pretentiousness.Joseph Surface is apparently a model citizen; his brother Charles is a dissolute wastrel. But when the schemings of the scandalmongers go awry, the reverse is shown …
Peer Gynt
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 1999
82 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceHenrik Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt.Ibsen's play, his last to be written in verse, follows the poet and braggart Peer Gynt as, fleeing disgrace, he swaggers and seduces …
Ideal Husband
Av Oscar Wilde
Häftad, 1999
74 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceThe Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband explores corruption and morality, bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.Ambitious government minister Sir Robert Chiltern seems assured of …
Oedipus
Av Sophocles
Häftad, 1999
74 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceThe story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.This …
Knight of the Burning Pestle
Av Francis Beaumont, Colin Counsell
Häftad, 2001
84 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceFrancis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a five-act satire on chivalric romances, generally considered the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English.The play's structure is that of a play within a play. The …
Wild Duck
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 2006
69 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.Henrik Ibsen's play …
Shoemakers' Holiday
Häftad, 2003
74 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting.Thomas Dekker's play The Shoemaker's Holiday was first staged in London in 1599.This edition of the play, in …
Miser
Av Molière
Häftad, 2004
74 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceMolière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children.Harpagon is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a …
Blood Wedding
Häftad, 2008
87 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceGarcía Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece.Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.
Man of Mode
Häftad, 2007
84 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceThe best comedy of manners written in England before Congreve, The Man of Mode was first staged in 1676 and contains all the classic ingredients of Restoration Comedy: adultery, intrigue, gossip - as well as the first and greatest of …
Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Av Thomas Middleton, Emma French
Häftad, 2007
69 kr
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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA delightfully lewd city comedy written in 1613 by the co-author of The Changeling.Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is an intricately plotted play about unscrupulous people in search of wealth, marriage, or sex - and …
