Theatre
The Two Friends
By Alessandro Gallenzi and Peter Benson
£9.99 £7.99
A theatrical retelling of Gogol’s famous story of the two Ivans squabbling over a trifling insult, The Two Friends transposes the action to the village of Newington Green on the outskirts of London in the year 1722, when Daniel Defoe was a resident of the parish, the South Sea Bubble had recently bu…
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The Wallace
By Sydney Goodsir Smith
£16.99 £13.59
The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against England in the early fourteenth century led to his capture and execution, but, also through the continuing and successful rebellion of his successor, Robert the Bruce, to…
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Seven Expressionist Plays
By Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Kafka, Ernst Barlach, Georg Kaiser et al.
£12.99 £10.39
This volume contains even plays, written between 1906 and 1926, which demonstrate the basic forms, tenets and preoccupations of German Expressionist drama, which has been described as the forerunner of Absurdist theatre and is characterized by both visual and verbal violence. These plays, taken toge…
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Racine and Shakespeare
By Stendhal
£18.99 £15.19
This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before ‘The Charterhouse of Parma’, it marked the beginning of his illustrious career and established him at the forefront of the French Romant…
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