The Butler Did It

from the back cover: How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and far away? How can you persuade your girlfriend or boyfriend to marry you? The characters in these six original short plays are looking for answers to these questions. While …

The Oxford Shakespeare : Pericles

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9780199536832

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Oxford World's Classics

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822.3 SHA P

Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : Oxford Classics Playscripts

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9780198310716

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Oxford Classics Playscripts

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822 STE T

Hedda Gabler

This dark psychological drama was first produced in Norway in 1890 and depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine: the infamous Hedda Gabler. Readers will discover a masterly exploration of the nature of evil, along with the potential for tragedy that lies in human frailty. A true masterpiece.

Master Harold And The Boys

Seventeen year-old Hally spends time with two middle-aged African servants, Sam and Willie, whom he has known all his life. On a rainy afternoon, Sam and Willie are practicing ballroom steps in preparation for a major competition. Sam is quickly characterized as being the more worldly of the two. When Willie, in broken English, describes his ballroom partner (his girlfriend) as lacking enthusia…

Inherit the Wind

One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award Winner Doug Hughes The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial w…

Long Day's Journey into Night

“By common consent, Long Day’s Journey into Night is Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece. . . . The helplessness of family love to sustain, let alone heal, the wounds of marriage, of parenthood, and of sonship, have never been so remorselessly and so pathetically portrayed, and with a force of gesture too painful ever to be forgotten by any of us.” “Only an artist of O’Neill’s extra…

The Theban Plays

The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate. King Oedipus tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he doesn't realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment on himself. It is a devastating portrayl of a ruler brought down by his own oath. Oedipus at Colonus provides a fit…

The Miracle Worker

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9781416590842

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792 GIB T

Three Plays : Desire Under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra

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9780679763963

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792 ONE T