An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son, which he does before discovering the truth.

Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare's late plays such as The Winter's Tale. This edition provides a modernised text edited to the scholarly standards associated with all Arden editions and a detailed, illustrated introduction.

Back in print after a lengthy absence, this is one of the most enduring plays of its time, edited by scholar and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. It joins the roster of "The Revels Plays", almost 30 of which are now in print.

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town.

School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a girlfriend), all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service.

School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a girlfriend), all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service.

A Student Edition of Synge's classic play, complete with full introduction, commentary and questions for study.

This Oxford World Classic includes sixteen of George Bernard Shaw's shortest theatrical scripts. This collection introduces readers to the playlets virtually unknown outside the world of Shavian scholarship by revealing how they explain Shaw's own life and legacy.

Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays, introduced by the author, contains: Icecream; Mad Forest; The Skriker; Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of Birds (written with David Lan).

A collection of Richard Nelson's plays brings together five major works for the stage, including three - "Some Americans Abroad", "Two Shakespearean Actos" and "New England" - written for the Royal Shakespeare Company. It also includes the plays "Principia Scriptoriae" and "Left".

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Best-known for her plays, she also wrote fiction, poetry, and translations, and edited verse collections. This edition includes comprehensively introduced and fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be hers.

The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. This new verse translation is accurate and highly readable, providing a consecutive text by using surviving words in the damaged papyri.

Includes the plays "Widowers' Houses", "The Philanderer", and "Mrs Warren's Profession".

These five plays provide an excellent introduction to Kaiser's vision of the regeneration of man, which he illustrated in his works by a total paring down of detail, penetrating to the core of the matter and revealing man's true potential.

This second volume of plays by Georg Kaiser contains five plays ranging from his early work through the time of his prolific maturity in the 1920s to his last period as an exile in Switzerland, where he died in 1945.

At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare the everyday lives, loves and yearnings of ordinary people. This book includes an introduction that examines how Chekhov broke with theatrical conventions and discusses each play in detail.

"Edward Bond is the most radical playwright to emerge from the sixties ... the most savagely powerful dramatist writing today ... Bond's plays cannot be ignored" (Independent)

Two exhilarating plays by the author of Shopping and F***ing: pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people written for the National Theatre's Shell Connection Programme.

Divided into themes and through using photocopiable sheets, this book emphasises the importance of allowing children to express their feelings through dance and drama, and encourages the teacher to view drama as a different method of learning.