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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
$23.99 AUD
Category: Plays
Every summer Roo and Barney have come down from their work in the Queensland canefields to the Carlton house they share with Olive and Nancy for an annual celebration of love and laughter. But this year Nancy has deserted the house to get married, and Pearl has taken her place... Ray Lawler's brawny can ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
$7.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, encompassing witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions as well as high poetry, blended in such a way as to demonstrate the assured dramatic touch of Shakespeare's maturity. Macbeth's tragedy is that of a good, brave and honourable man turned int ...Show more
The Crucible (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
"The Crucible" is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. M ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays : Medea/ Alcestis/The Children of Heracles/ Hippolytus - Euripides - Translated by John Davie - Penguin Classics by EurÃpides; John Davie (Translator); Richard Rutherford (Introduction by, Notes by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew - No Fear Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
The Oxford Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
$18.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers * a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings * on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and muc ...Show more
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Glyn Robbins (Adapted by); Dodie Smith
$37.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Acting Edition Ser.
Dodie Smith's children's novel is brought to the stage by Glyn Robbins.
Medea and Other Plays by EurÃpides; Philip Vellacott (Introduction by, Translator)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles; E. F. Watling (Translator, Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Classics Ser.
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
Richard II - No Fear Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; John Crowther, ed.
$11.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Richard II on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.Each No Fear Shakespeare contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete ...Show more
Tempest: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Edition by SparkNotes
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Category: Plays | Series: No Fear Shakespeare Ser.
The Shakespeare Made Easy series aims to take the fear out of Shakespeare. By having Shakespearean and Modern English facing each other, pupils will find it easier to comprehend the text. Through discussion of the life, work and theatre of Shakespeare pupils can gain a more rounded understanding of thes ...Show more
Our Town - A Play in Three Acts by Thornton Wilder
$27.99 AUD
Category: Plays
" Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth."-- New Yorker Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical representation ...Show more