"Of all Lepage's magic boxes, this is the masterpiece" (Independent on Sunday)

Features witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. This title covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, and lost plays and less well-known works of poetry.

Adrian Poole explains why Antony and Cleopatra is both so special and so different from the four commonly regarded as Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth. Poole shows that while Shakespeare is dramatising the most famous love affair in the ancient world, his handling of sex and politics is strikingly modern.

An entertaining and erudite guide to Shakespeare's great sequence of history plays, culminating in Henry V, and to what the plays tell us about the public and private lives of politicians.

The first collection of work by playwright, poet, novelist and performer, Ntozake Shange. Her work reflects the raw reality of Black women's lives and is widely studied on Black and feminist/women's writing courses.

Part of the affordable and recognizable Drama Classics Series.

This drama text is one of a series of important English plays. It includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of date and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of She Stoops to Conquer"."

This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama: Fielding's The Modern Husband, Garrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, and O'Keeffe's Wild Oats.

Sometimes you crack. Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that. Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it out And sometimes, sometimes you have to hibernate until you've healed. This is a new day. Shedding a Skin is a story for our times.

Olga, the pretty young daughter of a drunken forester on a country estate, and her fateful relationships with the men in her life. Adored by Urbenin, the estate manager, whom she marries to escape the poverty of her home, she is also desired by the dissolute Count Karneyev and by Zinovyev, a magistrate, who knows the secret misery of her marriage.

This play concerns five misfits in an uncertain drug society. Supposedly friends or at least acquaintances, no one can really be honest with each other, sexually or financially. This is a harrowing, fast yet humorous commentary on 90s London.

Saturday 7 October 2000. England v Germany, The King George v The Duke of York. Keegan resigns and Barry plays a blinder. Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose again.

Six strangers turn up in a rehearsal room and demand that their story be acted out by the assembled company. As the actors perform, the increasingly gruesome story becomes frighteningly real.

This annotated edition brings together six of O'Neill's most famous works: Bound East for Cardiff, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night. It contains an introduction by Herman Daniel Farrell III, President of the Eugene O'Neill International Society (US).

Pirandello's plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.

This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes.

An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England, published alongside its revival at the 2015 Manchester International Festival

An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

Seen from a British perspective, The Spalding Suite gets to the heart and soul of the gravity-defying game of basketball.

Revenge plays became the most durable and commercially successful type of drama on the Elizabethan stage. The Spanish Tragedy brings to life the intrigues of the Spanish court, dramatically contrasting romantic passion with violent deaths and clandestine politics.