Shakespeare in Parts by Simon Palfrey
$16.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: good-very good
Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing only a single character's speeches and cues. This collaboration of theatre history with literary criticism captures Shakespeare's development as a writer, showing how scripting and acting work together to pr ...Show more
A New History of Early English Drama by John D. Cox (Editor); David Scott Kastan (Editor); Stephen Greenblatt (Foreword by)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: good-very good
Twenty-six original essays by leading theorists and historians of the pre-seventeenth-century English stage chart a paradigmatic shift within the field. In contrast to the traditional emphasis on individual authors, the contributors to this storehouse of new historical information and critical insight e ...Show more
Aristophanes - Essays in Interpretation by Aristophanes; Jeffrey Henderson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: Yale Classical Studies Volume XXVI | Reading Level: very good
Aristophanes, one of the greatest and most important poets of the golden age of classical Greek literature, has remained, in the English-speaking world at least, one of the most forbidding, because least well understood. This is a collection of critical and interpretative essays in English devoted entir ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: The New Penguin Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Part of "The New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this text looks at "King Lear" with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Plautus - Four Comedies - The Braggart Soldier; the Brothers Menaechmus; the Haunted House; the Pot of Gold by Plautus
$10.00 NZD
Category: Latin Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The first professional playwright in history, Plautus was the creator of racy, raucous, hilarious plays that will make modern audiences laugh as much as the first Romans did. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, makin ...Show more
Plays Unpleasant - Widowers' Houses/The Philanderer/Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
$12.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
Includes the plays "Widowers' Houses", "The Philanderer", and "Mrs Warren's Profession".
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shake ...Show more
Shakespeare: For All Time by Stanley W Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford Shakespeare (Hardcover) | Reading Level: very good
A leading Shakespeare scholar pens an entertaining and informative account of Shakespeare's life work and legacy. of color illustrations.
Hedda Gabler/The Pillars of the Community/The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of his pas ...Show more
World Drama - From Aeschylus to Anouilh by Allardyce Nicoll
$15.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
Euripides I - Alcestis/The Medea/The Heracleidae/Hippolytus by Eurípides; David Grene (Translator, Editor); Richmond Lattimore (Introduction by, Translator, Editor); Rex Warner (Translator); Ralph Gladstone (Translator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Greek Literature | Series: The Complete Greek Tragedies | Reading Level: very good
In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and indivi ...Show more