Written in response to "Measure for Measure", and with not one but two heroines disguising themselves as boys, this is a tale of sex and politics in Jacobean London seen through the eyes of a malcontented Italian duke.
These surreal compositions have been considered as forerunners to the theatre of the absurd of the 1950s, as exemplified by Beckett, Ionesco and Adamov. This volume also contains the accompanying illustrations by Picasso himself.
The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Each of the four plays here defines the problems of the revenge genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy.
This book is a study of Gertrude Stein's diverse and idiosyncratic oeuvre, ranging from established works such as `The Autobiography of Alice B. Above all, Nicola Shaughnessy shows how Stein's work benefits from being situated in an interdisciplinary artistic context with influences from art, theatre and music as well as literature.
First staged in Britain in 1983, 'Glengarry Glen Ross' is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film, starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992. This Student Edition contains a full introduction, commentary and questions for study.
A debut work produced at the Royal Court Theatre in February 2007 as part of its Young Writers Festival and published as a programme text. Gone Too Far! is a comic and astute play about identity, history and culture. It was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2008.
Repackaged and reissued, this is Brecht's classic parable, set in an unjust society where good can only survive by means of evil. It is accompanied by Brecht's own notes and extensive commentary from John Willett and Ralph Manheim.