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180 produkter
Coward Plays: 1
Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 1979
430 kr
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This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley, Coward's first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of bad manners, concerns a weekend with friends of the …
Chekhov Plays
The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard
Häftad, 1988
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
300 kr
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This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The …
Ubu Plays
Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained; Writings on the Theatre
Av Alfred Jarry
Häftad, 1993
414 kr
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A re-issue of three plays that ushered in the great age of absurdist theatre There was a riot at the first performance of Ubu Roi on 10 December 1896, when Firmin Gemier, playing Ubu, strode to the footlights and roared: "Merde!" at the audience, and theatre would never be the same again. Ubu …
Anouilh Plays: 1
Antigone; Leocadia; The Waltz of the Toreasors; The Lark; Poor Bitos
Av Jean Anouilh
Häftad, 1987
398 kr
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A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is …
Buchner: Complete Plays
Danton's Death; Leonce and Lena; Woyzeck; The Hessian Courier; Lenz; On Cranial Nerves; Selected Letters
Häftad, 1987
414 kr
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The complete collection of Buchner's plays in one volume Buchner was acknowledged by figures as divergent as Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht to be the forefather of modern theatre. On his death at the age of 23, he left behind some outstanding dramatic works: his historical drama, Danton's Death, …
Ibsen Plays: 6
Peer Gynt; The Pretenders
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 1987
284 kr
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"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) This volume contains Ibsen's famous early epic, Peer Gynt, and …
Lorca Plays: 1
Blood Wedding; Yerma; Dona Rosita the Spinster
Häftad, 1987
430 kr
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These three tragedies were written at the height if Lorca's powers and display his innovative mix of Spanish popular tradition and modern dramatic technique. Blood Wedding tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage; Dona Rosita the Spinster follows …
Behn Five Plays
Häftad, 1990
398 kr
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Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day The Widow Ranter is a tragi-comedy, The False Count concerns the marriage of a young woman to a much older man whilst The Lucky Chance ran into instant criticism for immorality. The Rover is her most famous comedy and …
Gorky Plays: 1
Enemies; The Lower Depths; Summerfolk; Children of the Sun
Av Maxim Gorky
Häftad, 1988
398 kr
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Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays This volume includes Gorky's major works for the theatre. The Lower Depths, first staged by the Moscow Art theatre in 1902, portrays a cast of down and outs living in the underbelly of Russian society; Summerfolk depicts a society …
Marivaux Plays
Double Inconstancy;False Servant;Game of Love & Chance;Careless Vows;Feigned Inconstancy;1-act plays
Häftad, 1988
398 kr
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Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival One of the most original of French eighteenth century dramatists, Marivaux wrote over thirty comedies of love and intrigue. This, the only major single-volume selection of Marivaux's plays in English, brings …
Wilde Complete Plays
Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane
Av Oscar Wilde
Häftad, 1988
398 kr
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This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form Wilde's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest is printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays', Lady …
Orton Complete Plays
Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...
Av Joe Orton
Häftad, 1976
430 kr
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I suppose I'm a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny' Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from his first play in 1964, The Ruffian on the Stair, up to his violent death in 1967 at the age of 34. It …
Behan Complete Plays
Häftad, 1978
398 kr
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This volume contains everything Brendan Behan wrote in dramatic form in English Contains the three famous full-length plays: The Quare Fellow, set in an Irish prison ("In Brendan Behan's tremendous new play language is out on a spree, ribald, dauntless and spoiling for a fight ...with superb …
Coward Plays: 2
Private Lives; Bitter-Sweet; The Marquise; Post-Mortem
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 1979
414 kr
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The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee have ensured …
Coward Plays: 3
Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 1979
398 kr
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The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living - is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he waited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time …
Coward Plays: 4
Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii)
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 1979
398 kr
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Volume Four of Noel Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs were bringing it to …
Ibsen Plays: 1
Ghosts; The Wild Duck; The Master Builder
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 1980
284 kr
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The plays in this volume range from the once shockingly realistic Ghosts (1881), 'the play that launched a thousand ships of critical fury'; through The Wild Duck (1884) with its innovatory symbolism and its touching portrait of a fourteen-year-old girl held in thrall by her feckless father …
Ibsen Plays: 2
A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler
Av Henrik Ibsen
Häftad, 1980
300 kr
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This volume contains Ibsen's two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women: A Doll's House (1879), his first international success, which 'exploded like a bomb into contemporary life', and Hedda Gabler (1890), now one of his most popular plays, but greeted at first …
Ibsen Plays: 3
Rosmersholm; Little Eyolf and Lady from the Sea
Av Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer
Häftad, 1980
284 kr
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"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) Includes three of Henrik Ibsen's most important works from his …
Ibsen Plays: 4
John Gabriel Borkman; Pillars of Society; When We Dead Awaken
Av Henrik Ibsen, Michael Meyer
Häftad, 1980
284 kr
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"Meyer's translations of Ibsen are a major fact in one's general sense of post-war drama. Their vital pace, their unforced insistence on the poetic centre of Ibsen's genius, have beaten academic versions from the field" (George Steiner) The plays shine freshly from the pages ...This will be our …
Synge: Complete Plays
In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows
Häftad, 1981
414 kr
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A re-issue of the collected plays by one of Ireland's most celebrated writers In The Shadow of the Glen an old man tests his wife's commitment by feigning death; Riders to the Sea is inspired by Synge's stay on the Aran Islands and shadows the death of a way of life as a mother sees her sons die …
Rattigan Plays: 1
French Without Tears; The Winslow Boy; The Browning Version; Harlequinade
Häftad, 1982
414 kr
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"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian) Constantly revived on stage, radio and television, Rattigan's plays demonstrate their continuing power to hold and move audiences. This volume contains his best work from the …
Strindberg Plays: 2
Dream Play; Dance of Death; The Stronger
Häftad, 1982
300 kr
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The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays This volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (1901), which he described as 'my most beloved play, …
Moliere Five Plays
The School for Wives; Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Miser; The Hypochondriac
Av Molière
Häftad, 1982
414 kr
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This volume brings together five of Moliere's finest and best-known plays. The three verse plays, The Misanthrope, Tartuffe and The School for Wives, have been skilfully turned into sparkling English couplets by Richard Wilbur's 'brilliant rhymed translation' Sunday Telegraph; while the playwright …
Coward Plays: 5
Relative Values; Look After Lulu; Waiting in the Wings; Suite in Three Keys
Av Noël Coward
Häftad, 1983
414 kr
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Containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life, this volume includes Relative Values, which ran for over a year in 1951-2, Look After Lulu (1959), his perennially popular Feydeau adaptation, Waiting in the Wings (1960), a bravura piece set in a home for retired actresses, and …
Strindberg Plays: 1
The Father; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata
Häftad, 1983
349 kr
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This volume contains three of Strindberg's most famous plays, spanning twenty years of prodigious creativity and recurrent personal crises: The Father, which displays Strindberg's suspicion of women at its most implacable, 'powerful and profound' (Guy de Maupassant); Miss Julie (1888), which he …
Galsworthy Five Plays
Strife; Justice; The Eldest Son; The Skin Game; Loyalties
Häftad, 1999
414 kr
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John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues he raise In Strife, Galsworthy deals with industrial …
Rattigan Plays: 2
The Deep Blue Sea; Separate Tables; In Praise of Love; Before Dawn
Häftad, 1985
414 kr
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"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian) This selection from the best of Rattigan's work from the '50s onwards includes two of his most popular plays, The Deep Blue Sea which movingly depicts the closing stages of a …
Pinero: Three Plays
The Magistrate; The Second Mrs Tanqueray; Trelawny of the 'Wells'
Häftad, 1985
414 kr
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Born within a year of both Shaw and Wilde, Pinero was one of the most popular - and prolific - playwrights of his age. This volume contains his three best - and still most often performed - plays, each written in a different mode: The Magistrate (1885), a splendid farce; The Second Mrs Tanqueray …
Pirandello Three Plays
The Rules of the Game; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Henry IV
Häftad, 1985
349 kr
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Three essential plays by one of Europe's foremost 20th century dramatists The Rules of the Game (1918) is based closely on the author's own unhappy marriage centred around Leone Gala and his wife who are separated, their only contract, a formal visiting procedure; Henry 1V, shows the effect of …
