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.

'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

Stanislavski's 'system' or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. An Actor Prepares has stood the test of time as an inspirational guide for actors all over the world and was the original English language translation. A classic text for every actors library.

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.

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.

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.

Premiered at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum theatre, this translation presents both parts of Goethe's lifelong masterpiece.

Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John Falstaff. But when the kingdom is threatened by rebellious forces, the prince must abandon his reckless ways.

Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why?

Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night drinking session that erupts into a nightmare of revelations.

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.

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.

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley.

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

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

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.

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.

Classic drama for Key Stages 3 and 4

A phenomenon: a play that has changed thousands of lives and inspired a dynamic new women's movement With a foreword by Gloria Steinem

B format publication of this wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century.