This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which...

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship

This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents areal-life character, the notorious ...

An outrageously funny satire on modern politics, New Labour and the fine art of spinAlistair Beat...

'One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds' (The Times)

'A breathless, exhilarating crash course in the low morality of high finance' Independent

A collection of plays by one of Ireland's finest dramatists of the 80s and 90sTea in a China Cup ...

Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But theyare not ordinary people. The...

A witty energetic piece of young people's theatre

This text reassesses how women are talked about and constructed visually across a range of popula...

For almost four hundred years, journalism has played a central role in the evolution and developm...

'Postmodernism' is a valuable resource for the increasing numbers of teachers and students in hig...

This concise student friendly guide focuses on three key strategies for improving essay performan...

Drawing on the work of dozens of scholars from Russia, Europe, Japan, and the United States, this...

The books in the Contexts series provide broad-ranging and accessible information about the liter...

'Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century' Observer

Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series

A second collection of plays from one of Britain's most original dramatistsThis second volume of ...

The story behind the great comedy double-act

'Passionately satirical and sharply observant, he is one of the most interesting of our playwrigh...

This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays

Helge, the patriarch of a chain of restaurants, is celebrating his sixtieth birthday and everyone...

Authoritative student edition of Euripides' Enduring Classical Tragedy about filial revenge in Ke...

Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remainsrelatively unavailable: partly th...

A reference guide to American literature, with more than four hundred entires devoted to aspects ...

How do young audiences play with the cultural spectacle offered by reality shows like Big Brother...

Winner of the 1996 BAFTA for Best Single Drama

A collection of this major 19th century French playwright

'One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds' (The Times)

The first stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's famous crime novel

The script of BBC's major 3-part drama for Spring 2001, starring Michael Gambon, Timothy Spall, L...

Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness moves between dream story and real lives to tell an intric...

Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic su...

A stimulating introduction to the key debates and dimensions in mediastudies, this Reader is a va...

This comprehensive new study provides an original and provocative approach to Cromwell's reputati...

First published in 1960, Pomp and Circumstance, Coward's only novel, was greeted with wide critic...

A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies

'Like bawdy Shakespeare meets wild Wycherley filtered through the formalised camp of John Osborne's

Globalisation is one of the most potent concepts informing academic debates across many disciplin...

Neville Chamberlain remains one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century British po...

The nineteenth century was Britain's, in the sense that during theperiod she more closely approac...

The importance of gender as a category of analysis is now very widely accepted, but there has bee...

Interpreting Television takes a radical new approach that returns to the currently under-explored...

This glossary offers an introduction to Irish culture and society and a route-map to further stud...

A play about Benjamin Britten and his friendship with WH Auden and Peter Pears

A major new play, with its world premiere at London's Almeida Theatre

In this highly personal and comprehensive survey of contemporary drama, Dominic Dromgoole, one of...

A selection of plays by 'one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain' (T...