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The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
$16.99 AUD
Category: Plays
Unabridged English value reproduction of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading.
Shifting Heart, The by BEYNON RICHARD
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: A&R playtexts
The universal theme of a persecuted minority is here applied to the sufferings of an Italian immigrant family settling in a resentful Melbourne suburb. What the critics say: This Australian play won a prize in The Observer Play Competition and it is easy to see why. For it is a strong play set in strong ...Show more
Signs of Life by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
Continuing on from Tim Winton's award-winning novel Dirt Music, Signs of Life reflects on the ways in which people with radically different histories form awkward, spiky alliances in order to survive.
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
$22.99 AUD
Category: Plays
Though sometimes classified as a 'problem play' for its mix of turbulent emotional and light-hearted comedy, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a timeless study of jealousy and desire. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Ernest Schanzer with an introduction by Russ McDonald. 'You may a ...Show more
Titus Andronicus by A. R. (EDT) Stephen (EDT); Braunmuller Russ (INT); Orgel Russ (EDT); McDonald William; McDonald Shakespeare
$15.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: General Adult
These easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remains a valued ...Show more
The Shakespeare Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. This bold book covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, plus lost plays and less well-kn ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare; Peter Holland (Ed)
$15.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: General Adult
These easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage appeared between 1956 and 1967. With these electrifying new covers, dependable texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remains a valued ...Show more
Hamlet (Penguin Black Classics) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
Perhaps the single most influential work of English drama, William Shakespeares Hamlet is a timeless tragedy of the conflicted loyalties, madness, betrayal and terrible revenge. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by TJB Spencer with an introduction by Alan Sinfield. 'To be or not to be - that is ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
A View from the Bridge (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller
$24.95 AUD
Category: Plays
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York. Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privile ...Show more
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; John Lotherington
$35.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and ot ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Black Classic) by William Shakespeare
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
The greatest love story in English, William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play of star-crossed lovers who take a valiant stand against social convention, with tragic consequences. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with notes by T.J.B. Spencer, and an introduction by Adrian Poole. 'What's ...Show more