A hilarious and heart-felt landmark play about courage, compassion and the fear of loneliness in life's journey towards self-discovery.

Drama is a key tool in helping children to build skills such as speaking and listening, in enhancing self-esteem, and in connecting learning across subjects. This book gives professionals practical examples of how it can work in classroom settings across a range of curriculum subjects.

but underneath it all she's struggling to manage big secrets, and there's only one person she can talk to. Sarah Hanly's Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in October 2021. It is co-produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Here presented in its original 1916 version, with a wealth of extra material, including the author's subsequent revisions and additions to the text, Pygmalion has spawned a great number of screen adaptations and shows ancient myth's undiminishing ability to find new incarnations in modern life.

Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence.

Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre

Presents a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world, and simultaneously offer some protection against them.

An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British playwriting.

A collection of Mark Ravenhill's plays: "Shopping and Fucking"; "Faust"; Handbag"; and "Some Explicit Polaroids".

'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love letter all rolled into one ... It is the work of an iridescent and sympathetic imagination' The Times

Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, their separation by a curse and eventual reunion, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama its greatest poet and playwright. This new verse translation includes the famous version of the story from the Mahabharata and an introduction to classical Indian aesthetics and drama.

When the theatres reopened in 1660, tragedy, the greatest of the Renaissance genres, had vanished. Focusing on the directions taken by tragicomedy and the court masque, this book accounts for the shift in genre during the decade following the return of Charles II.

Exploring the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England during Shakespeare's formative years, this text discusses how the surrounding cultural context may have shaped him as an artist, looking at "Twelfth Night", "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

This Jacobean tragic-comedy by Philip Massinger explores the cultural conflict between Christian Europe and Muslim North Africa experienced when the two began to travel and trade in the early modern period.

In an unidentified Latin American country, General Felix Barriaux has captured an elusive revolutionary leader. The rebel, known by various names, is rumoured to have performed miracles throughout the countryside.

Depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time enamoured of and disgusted by, the luxury of the court.

A collection of three plays including "Rhinoceros", "The Chairs" , and "The Lesson".

This new edition of Richard II in the acclaimed Oxford Shakespeare series features a freshly edited version of the text, extensive commentary, lively illustrations, and a wide-ranging introduction covering the play's historical contexts, political significance, language, and stage history.