Plays, Playscripts
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Oresteia
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the image...
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Over all the Mountain Tops
Ariadne Press (US)£17.99| /This play is Thomas Bernhard's devastating satire on the business of literature. The novelist Moritz Meister, after years of neglect, has finally a...
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Parasites
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Two teenagers fleeing unthinkable dangers find solace in each other amidst the unrelentingly damaging confines of an asylum seeker processing centr...
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Parramatta Girls / Eyes to the Floor
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /The inmates of The Girls Training School, Parramatta had about as hard an upbringing as you can get in Australia. But theirs is also one of the gre...
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Peach Season
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zoë away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. Th...
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Perfectionist
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£13.99| /An examination of marriage which follows a pair of academics from Denmark to Sydney as they blunder along the rival paths of career and parenthood ...
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£9.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wi...
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Persians
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /The only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical event—the Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was written—Pe...
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Pete the Sheep
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Shaun the Shearer just wants to give smokin' haircuts to sheep; it's his calling. Unfortunately the other shearers on the station don't like Shaun'...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoktetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet whil...
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Picasso's Artful Occupation
Playdead Press£9.99| /In a gloomy vault of a Paris bank in September 1940, Picasso has been summoned by the German occupation authorities. His precious works of art are ...
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Pinocchio / The Yellow Wallpaper
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /The Yellow Wallpaper: It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw not beautiful ones like b...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Playlunch
Otago University Press (NZ)£13.50| /First published in 1996 and now updated, this book contains plays by established New Zealand writers that were written for lunchtime theatre. They ...
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Plays & Poems
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /The well-known painter, Oskar Kokoschka, also produced a considerable and significant body of literary work: plays, a few poems, essays and autobio...
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Plays for Young Audiences, 2nd Edition
Meriwether Publishing (US)£28.99| /An anthology of selected plays for young audiences. Many consider Max Bush to be the fountain-head of the renaissance in playwriting for young audi...
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Plays of the 50's
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /Four plays from the 1950s: "Sky Without Birds" by Oriel Gray; "Shipwreck" by Douglas Stewart; "The Night of the Ding-Dong" by Ralph Peterson; and "...
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Plays of the 50s, Volume 2
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The exhilaration caused by the success in 1955 of Ray Lawler's 'Summer of the Seventeenth Doll' galvanised a host of new playwrights. Among them wa...
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Plays of the 60s
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /The late 1960s were among the most tumultuous years in recent history. Student revolution spread like wildfire around the world as the past-war gen...
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Plays of the 70s, Volume 2
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /This volume covers the period 1973--75 and marks a consolidation of form, and the recognition of a sense of direction. While public and social issu...
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Plays of the American Experience
Meriwether Publishing (US)£19.99| /"What brings the past alive better than stories performed by live actors? The 25 plays in this collection are short theatrical pieces that bring to...
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