Drama category: 27605 books
Lorca: Three Plays
Full Texts and Introductions (NHB Drama Classics)
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
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,...
Goethe's Faust
Theatre of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centrepiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theatre productions, press coverage...
The Duchess of Malfi
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," laments the sleepless king of Henry IV, Part II. Despite having quelled a rebel army along the Welsh border in Part I, Henry IV faces further insurrections elsewhere in England. His woes are compounded by disturbing reminders of his own mortality...
John Osborne Plays 2
The Entertainer; The Hotel in Amsterdam; West of Suez; Time Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present.
'A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether of the Right or Left, he took no hostages, expecting from other people the same unyielding, unflinching...
by Noah Lukeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2015
“An audacious achievement.”
--Jennifer Lee Carrell, Ph.D. (Harvard)
New York Times Bestselling author of Interred With Their Bones/The Shakespeare Secret
“Lukeman’s sequel to the Scottish play succeeds as both a fascinating literary exercise and an entertaining play in...
At the Sharp End: Uncovering the Work of Five Leading Dramatists
David Edgar, Tim Etchells and Forced Entertainment, David Greig, Tanika Gupta and Mark Ravenhill
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
What value does theatre have in Britain at the beginning of the
twenty-first century? How has theatre responded to the challenge of
remaining relevant in the media-saturated world of today? These are the
questions that underpin this stimulating study of some of the leading dramatists of contemporary...
McDowall Plays: 1
Brilliant Adventures; Captain Amazing; Talk Show; Pomona
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This is the first collection from groundbreaking playwright Alistair McDowall*,* "an exceptionally talented and fast-rising writer. Still only in his twenties, this writer is surely going places. Whatever he dreams up next, his name will almost certainly be in lights at the Royal Court soon,...
by Paul Olson
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
6 female, 4 male cast! Free Royalty offer exended! There is no royalty fee for this play to be produced as a community theater or student production by a public or charter school before November 4, 2013. After November 4, 2013 – community theaters and school royalties are only $5 per performance....
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
"Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king," declares the soon-to-be deposed ruler of this historical drama. Confident in his divine right, Richard II is an ineffective and unpopular king who abuses his power and sows the seeds of his own downfall....
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded...
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
The secret marriage of a king's daughter sets off a chain reaction of slander, jealousy, and divine intervention in this fairy tale-like romance. Shakespeare based his play on myths of an early Celtic king of Britain, incorporating historical elements from classical Rome and Renaissance Italy. With...
by Laura Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Essential tips and advice from stars of stage and screen.
Actors know the best source of advice on the profession is other actors. Nothing compares with the wisdom and practical know-how acquired through years of working in the business.
Advice from the Players features a host of tips...
The Actor’s Workbook
A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising + Video
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting.
The book presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting skills, offers techniques...