Arden of Faversham by Martin White (Editor, Volume Editor); Tom Lockwood
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman' and her 'unsatiable desire of f ...Show more
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
$6.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Student Editions | Reading Level: good
It is Australia and the year is 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal...Winner of the Laurence Oli ...Show more
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mum's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad by Arthur L. Kopit
$5.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good
Christopher Marlowe - The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters ...Show more
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
$7.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very goodgood
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The Roaring Girl by Thomas Middleton & Thomas Dekker
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Contexts" is thematically arranged to include almost all known documents from the period concerning Mary Frith (aka Moll Cutpurse), among them records of her court appearances, letters recounting the same, and her last will. Also reprinted are significant passages from her purported 1662 "autobiography ...Show more
Jack Hibberd: Selected Plays by Jack Hibberd
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Play Collections | Reading Level: very good
Hibberd has been called the most innovative Australian playwright of his generation. His early plays have endured the test of time and continue to be performed, studied and read for pleasure. White with Wire Wheels (1967) satirises a culture of masculinity expressed in cars, booze and work. Women are ma ...Show more
The Man from Mukinupin by Dorothy Hewett
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Plays Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This comic and touching musical play is a celebration of life in a country town at the time of the Great War (2 acts, 4 men, 5 women).
Stolen by Jane Harrison
$10.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Cts Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Stolen' tells of five Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. Segregated from their community, after their release they begin their journey 'home', not all of them successfully.
Think of a Garden and Other Plays by John Kneubuhl
$20.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Talanoa: Contemporary Pacific Literature Ser. | Reading Level: very good
By his own reckoning, John Kneubuhl was "the world's greatest Swiss/Welsh/Samoan playwright." The son of a Samoan mother and an American father, Kneubuhl's multicultural heritage produced a distinctive artistic vision that formed the basis of his most powerful dramatic work. Born and raised in Samoa, Kn ...Show more
Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson; Suzanne Gossett (Editor)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Revels Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The annual fair for St Bartholomew's Day is a bawdy celebration peopled by tricksters, thieves, prostitutes, pedlars and entertainers. Also drawn to the festivities are a group of ordinary citizens who find their respectable lives turned up ...Show more