A play that explores the life of an Eastern European woman forced into the sex trade in London.

The definitive edition of one of Dylan Thomas's most famous works.

Reissue of a classic Methuen Modern Play in a newly restored version with a new Introduction by Joan Littlewood

When a junior solicitor attends the funeral of the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House, he catches sight of a wasted woman dressed in black. He feels uneasy, but his unease is deepened when the locals show their reluctance to talk to her. From the author of GENTLEMEN AND LADIES, I'M THE KING OF THE CASTLE and STRANGE MEETING.

This volume contains the complete collection of Sarah Kane's plays, including Blasted ; Phaedra's Love ; Cleansed ; Crave ; 4.48 Psychosis ; and Skin .

Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.

Sixth edition.

The Relapse * The Provoked Wife * The Confederacy * A Journey to London * The Country House These five comedies on the theme of marital disharmony by the foremost Restoration playwright John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) are published in the Oxford English Drama series. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. There is a critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation, and an informative ..

A translation of the Theban plays of Sophocles. It presents the plays in the order in which they were composed: Antigone , Oedipus Tyrannos , and Oedipus at Colonus . It underscores the fact that the story of Oedipus is one to which Sophocles returned over the course of his lifetime.

Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The Insatiate Countess (1610), by William Barksted and Lewis Machin from a draft by John Marston, is a study in obsessive ...

An account of how, as the banks went bust, capitalism was replaced by a socialism that bailed out the rich alone.

Thomas Shadwell, The Libertine * George Etherege, The Man of Mode * Thomas Durfey, A Fond Husband * Thomas Otway, Friendship in Fashion These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the ...

Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovations of Korean dramatists during a time of rapid social and historical change. Stretching from 1962 to 2004, these seven works tackle major subjects, such as the close of the Choson dynasty and the aftermath of the Korean War, while delving into trenchant cultural issues, such as .

For fans and newcomers to Cowards work, this compendium represents the very best of Noel Coward in one entertaining volume - with extracts from his plays, and screenplays, songs, poems, and a entire short story. Brief extracts are also included from his autobiography, diaries and letters, caricature drawings, photographs, anecdotes and trivia.

Includes the plays The House of Bernarda Alba , Yerma , and Blood Wedding . These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality.

One of Brecht's most famous plays and a classic of modern literature/theatre

In the Oresteia - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, its spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.

* An anthology of the best plays by female dramatists from 1600 - 2000 in the UK. * Historical overview of women's playwriting and extensive chronology of plays by women in the UK. * Will become essential student source book for colleges, universities and libraries.