From a wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Ironically these qualities are brought to the fore by the realities of war.

Classic drama for Key Stages 3 and 4

'Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ...My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late nineteenth-century

This series of plays has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum. Tennesse Williams's story has two male and two female parts. There are classroom activities included.

This digital recording of one of Shaw's most popular stories features Anton Lesser as Professor Higgins, Geoffrey Palmer as Colonel Pickering, and Lucy Whybrow as Eliza Doolittle. It features extended narrations setting the background and concluding the drama.

Treating ancient plays as living drama.

This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characters from each century play out their respective dramas. The text explores topics such as the nature of truth and time.

Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler who listens only to his flatterers. As favour turns against him and Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land, Richard is grieved to see that the throne given to him by God might be taken from him by men.

Written around 1940, but not staged until 1956, this autobiographical work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright recreates his own family experience, in an attempt to understand himself and those to whom he was tied by fate and love. This is the complete text, with a critical introduction.

An active approach to Shakespeare in the classroom.

Written in French, and then translated into English, by Beckett, Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre, in 1957.

In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence.

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs.

This series of plays has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum. Robert Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More has 11 male and three female parts. Classroom activities are included.

A play that distils the author's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history. This new translation by Michael Hofmann was published to coincide with the national tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006.

A modern pastoral set in an imagined seaside town - the 'dismays and rainbows' of its inhabitants are played out within the cycle of one day. This title includes characters such as: Captain Cat, Mog Edwards and Miss Price, to name but a handful.

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. The social comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband, offer a .