A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. While Lyman recovers, two women meet in the hospital waiting room only to discover that they are both married to him.

A real-time picture of London's 2011 summer riots as they unfolded, told by the many voices affected by the riots.

A major new edition which brings a modern approach to the Introduction and text.

In the course of one wild night, the drunken guide Scullery conducts a tour of Road, his derelict Lancashire street. This play was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1986 and has won the Samuel Beckett Award and the George Devine Award.

Edition of Philip Massinger's most renowned play, part of the inestimable Revels Plays; for all students and academics of early modern drama

Includes such dramas as "The Rose Tattoo", "Camino Real", and "Orpheus Descending".

Tom Stoppard's reputation as a playwright was made when his dazzling debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, opened at the National Theatre. Fifty years later, the play's wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were in 1967. This edition aims to coincide with a fiftieth anniversary production at The Old Vic, London.

Featuring a play which takes place in the wings of Hamlet, this book includes both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords.

This anthology offers a full introduction to Renaissance theatre in its historical and political contexts, along with newly edited and annotated texts from certain plays.

A collection of four plays by Willy Russell. The plays are "Educating Rita", "Breezeblock Park", "Our Day Out" and "Stags and Hens". All the plays are concerned with working class people striving to enjoy life or improve themselve

This is a fresh, up to date and accessibly written critical edition for literature and drama students. An authoritative and academically rigorous edition, edited by leading Cambridge scholar, Jean Chothia, under the guidance of the advisor to the Shaw Estate and international Shaw expert, Len Connolly.

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principal themes and styles of the work of Samuel Beckett. It also places it in the context of modern theatre, and includes a select bibliography.

A concise and informative account of the development of Beckett's prose and drama from the early experiments in fiction through the major work to the minimal.

This Beginner's Guide provides an introduction to the life and work of one of the great literary figures of the 20th century, whose writing is often considered to be dark and inaccessible. Coots investigates Beckett's preoccupation with human existence and the absurdity of the human condition.

Offering an introduction to Beckett, his work and contexts, this guide looks at each of the major genres in turn, analysing key works chronologically. It explains why Beckett's texts can seem so daunting and confusing, and focuses on key questions and issues.

A play set in London in the 60s reflecting a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estate

"Senelick's accomplishment is astounding."-Library Journal

Includes plays such as - "The Shadowy Waters"; "Cathleen in Houlihan"; "The Hour Glass"; "On Baile's Strabd"; "The Green Helmet"; "Deirdre"; "At the Hawk's Well"; "The Dreaming of the Bones"; "The Cat and the Moon"; "The Only Jealousy of Emer"; "Calvary"; "Sophocles' King Oedipus"; "The Resurrection"; and, "The Words Upon the Windwo-FPane".

Goldoni s classic farce of a man trapped by his own greed. The original source material for One Man, Two Guvnors."