'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London.

Roman playwright Terence is one of the founding fathers of European comic drama. This new translation of all six of his comedies brings out their liveliness and performability and sets them in the context of Latin literature and the history of comic drama.

Features four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett that were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. This edition also includes several short prose texts such as: "Heard in the Dark" I & II, "One Evening", "The Way", and, "Ceiling".

Gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. This book includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage, as well for radio.

In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence.

This play is a revolutionary masterpiece, argues Tom Bishop. Held together by a lyrical energy, it is about love and the role of the imagination in love. Human folly, Shakespeare suggests, is also a blessing: the paradox at the heart of the play is that the source of all that is most destructive in the world is also the source of all that is best.

In this concise guide, Graham Bradshaw shows that Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' is much more terrifying than traditional critics allow and offers how own incisive view.

In the 400 years since Othello was written, thousands of critics have expended millions of words arguing about it. Drawing on over thirty years of experience teaching and writing about Shakespeare, Bradshaw outlines, in a clear and enjoyable way, the most interesting critical opinions and offers his own incisive and convincing view of the play.

In this short but provocative guide Simon Palfrey, a leading Shakespearean scholar, shows us why Romeo and Juliet is such an extraordinary work of art and what Shakespeare is really saying about the nature of love itself.

A bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by writers from England, exploring the various identities of a nation that is at once traditional, nationalistic and multicultural.

50 monologues by some of the greatest writers working today, each with a summary of the vital information you need to place the piece in context and perform it to the best of your ability.

The story is of one of the most famous investigations ever conducted by science into the mysteries of the world - and its disastrous ending in the even stranger mysteries of the world within.

The Student Edition of Frayn's multi-award winning play includes a full commentary and notes.

Horner pretends to be a eunuch as a strategy to allow him free access to women. Pinchwife, unaware of Horner's pretended status, admits he has married the innocent Margery, the country wife of the title.

The Country Wife is a satirical comedy, which exposes the immorality of Restoration society in a way that has been both condemned and admired since it was written.

William Wycherley's comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, and social criticism. This volume offers his complete dramatic works in a modern-spelling edition, with detailed annotation and a scholarly introduction. Includes: Love in a Wood; The Gentleman Dancing-Master; The Country Wife; The Plain Dealer

A study of young people and their attitudes towards sex, sexuality and trans-sexuality, by the author of "Blasted". Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, "Crave" charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.

A practical book that offers you various ideas which you need to make drama an exciting, regular and integral part of your primary school's KS1 curriculum.

"Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century" (The New Republic)