This play opened at the Hampstead Theatre in the summer of 1996 and became an instant hit. Three sisters and their partners gather at the home of their recently dead mother and revisit the past in poignant and often hilarous way Also included is "Five Kinds of Silence".
A unique collection of Moliere's four greatest verse comedies in new translation: The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The School for Wives and The Clever Women, plus two short plays, The School for Wives Criticized and The Impromptu at Versailles.
Presents the conflict between sexual and social position. This work belongs to the series of plays, notably "The Father and Creditors", in which sex and marriage are treated with frank realism.
Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of 6 decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights from that decade together with an extensive commentary on the period.
Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1950s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of T. S. Eliot, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne and Arnold Wesker.
Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1960s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Edward Bond, John Arden, Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn.
Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights from that decade, together with an extensive commentary on the period.
Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1980s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Howard Barker, Jim Cartwright, Sarah Daniels and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. The 1990s volume freshly evaluates the work of Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Anthony Neilson and Philip Ridley, besides others.
A collection of the most important plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume, the first in a series of anthologies celebrating landmarks of world drama. It is aimed at structuring college and university courses
Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly's comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters' aspirations for their own advantage.
In Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece translated by John Willett features an extensive introduction and Brecht's notes and textual variants.