Drama category: 27605 books
The Alchemist
Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...
by John Marston
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
A student edition of Marston's classic play
The Malcontent is a tragicomedy deriving from the tradition of the revenge play. The verbal ingenuity of Malevole, the "malcontent", and the extravagance of the drama, push the relentlessness of intrigue to its logical conclusion, exposing...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In this chronicle of the European Thirty Years War and taking place between the years 1624 and 1636, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon to whomever she can. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Written in exile during the Second World War, the story of Brecht's classic play subverts an ancient Chinese tale - echoed in the Judgement of Solomon - in which two women claim the same child. The message of Brecht's parable is that resources should go to those who will make best use of them. Thanks...
by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that...
Brecht Collected Plays: 2
Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century.
Bertolt Brecht's hugely influential views on drama,...
Brecht Collected Plays: 1
Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by...
Brecht Collected Plays: 6
Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
This sixth volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains three plays he wrote while in exile during the early...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Lehrstücke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre.
Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's most sharply Communist works, these short plays show an abrupt rejection of most of the trappings...
Brecht Collected Plays: 7
Visions of Simone Machard; Schweyk in the Second World War; Caucasian Chalk Circle; Duchess of Malfi
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.
The seventh volume of Brecht's Collected Plays contains the plays which Brecht wrote during his six-year stay...
by Mr Alistair McDowall
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Nineteen-year-old science genius Luke finally has some peace to work on the extraordinary box in his living room, holed up in a dingy flat on a near-abandoned Middlesbrough housing estate.
After his unbalanced brother Rob introduces him to a wealthy out-of-towner they're thrown into a dangerous...
Dramatic Geography
Romance, Intertheatricality, and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location was created in early modern theatres that featured minimal scenery. While previous studies have stressed these plays' connections to a historical Mediterranean...
by P.J. Matthews, Mr Martin McDonagh
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants...