The Dramatist, Paperback

The Girl from Andros was the Roman comic playwright Terence's first play and shows him as already a master dramatist. It contains much plotting and...

Soldier and Dramatist tells the story of LCpl Harold Chapin, a US born actor, author and playwright who volunteered for the British Army in 1914. O...

A definitive biography of the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician, now in paperback. 'Riveting... a fine biography', Tom Holland...

Reducere. "Of Anger" from Seneca the Younger. Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (4 BC - 65 AD).

Featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and gr...

Described by The Times as 'the national children's dramatist', David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting in plays for children fo...

Reducere. Anton Chekhov is one of the undisputed masters of world drama. He is usually thought to hide himself behind his characters and stories, keeping his...

Reducere. -Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line.- - Village Voice -A masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrig...

Reducere. Hildegard of Bingen, the first German mystic, is one of the most influential women in European history. Born in 1098 in Bockelheim on the Nahe Rive...

Philosopher and educationalist Rudolf Steiner was also a radical dramatist who wrote four lengthy and complex plays.Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press...

Reducere. Romain Rolland, by Stephan Zweig, is a classic literary biography of the great French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic. Roma...

An analysis of three of Lorca's plays, providing a new view of Lorca as a dramatist and presenting new material to students of symbology.

Reducere. Carlo Goldoni, the Venetian dramatist and librettist, lent new direction and subtlety to the stock characteristics of the commedia dell'arte tradit...

Reducere. DescriptionA lively portrait of Seneca: philosopher, dramatist, moralist, and eyewitness of Neronian Rome.About the AuthorEmily Wilson is Professor...

Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and...

One of a series of plays by the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist, this was first staged in 1928. The play incorporates a "stream-of-consciousness" tec...

DescriptionA haunting and darkly funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel that follows an unusual postal worker on his very bizarre mail route. Amid th...

'A writing career which is the most consistently adventurous of any British dramatist.' ObserverRecording dizzying changes in culture and politics,...

Cinderella is tired of a life of chores, but everything changes when her fairy godmother turns up. Just as she meets her perfect prince, though, th...

Reducere. On the Shortness of Life is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger in 49 AD, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his father-in-law Paulinus.About th...

Set in the Yoruba village of Ilunjinle, this is one of the popular plays by Africa's major dramatist, Wole Soyinka. The theme of this play is how t...

Startling discontinuities and surprises erupt throughout these avant-garde landscapes by Poland's outstanding modern dramatist where duchesses and ...

DescriptionThe most famous play by this remarkable Irish dramatist. Juno and the Paycock has been produced throughout the world and offers a compel...

Based on conversations with directors and actors who knew her, this book is a study of the British post-war dramatist, Sarah Kane. It covers all he...

Reducere. Enid Blyton's name is synonymous with children's stories, none being more famous than NODDY. David Wood, the acclaimed children's dramatist, draws ...

Three plays by Greece's most important modern dramatist. The Courtyard of Wonders (1957) and The Four Legs of the Table (1978) explore social issue...

Reducere. ANTIGONE PROJECT is a play in five parts by Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, and Caridad Sv...

The Essential Nawal El Saadawi gathers together a wide range of Saadawi's writing. From novellas and short stories to essays on politics, culture, ...

DescriptionToo wild to live, too young to die #YOLO Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou . . . Oh wait, he's hanging around in the garden again. Will y...

Reducere. At once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms, 'Mine-Haha' describes a unique boarding institution for girls where pupils are trained ...

Reducere. ComedyCharacters: 9 male, 2 female 2 Interior Sets This clever romp is two short plays. In the first, a troupe of English schoolboys (played by adu...

Reducere. Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Lady Falkland (1585- 1639) was a poet, translator, and dramatist. Cary was associated with the literary circle of Mary Her...

Reducere. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian,...

Reducere. Poetry. Szporluk has often been read and praised as a visionary surrealist, but her body of work, evinced by VIRGINALS, shows her also as a powerfu...

Reducere. In The Other World, French dramatist Cyrano de Bergerac tells of his fictional attempts to reach a lunar civilization that sees the Earth as its ow...

Reducere. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and o...

Reducere. Anton Checkhov's The Lady with the Dog and Other Storiesis one of his many collection of short stories. Inlcuded are: The Lady with the Dog, A Doct...

Philosopher, novelist, dramatist and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the greatest writers of all time. He was fascinated by the role play...

One of Coward's best-loved classics in a single-play editionCoward's wit and precision as a modern dramatist is nowhere better exemplified than in ...

DescriptionThere are times in the theatre when you suddenly find yourself in the grip of silence. There is no fidgeting or coughing, no shifting ab...

Reducere. Description4.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression. On...

Reducere. Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist, and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid, page-turning, rich portrai...

Charles Wiilliams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making them believable and profoundly suggestive of spir...

Reducere. Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African A...

Reducere. The Wedding is a Polish classic, continually in production in Poland since Stanislaw Wyspianski wrote it nearly a hundred years ago. A witty but ul...

Reducere. This collection of 10-minute plays will delight readers and audiences alike. From the futuristic musings of Michael Rudd's "Clothes For Their Souls...

Reducere. DescriptionHUNGER by Knut Hamsun...the novel that inspired some of the world's greatest writers. "Hamsun taught me to write." ERNEST HEMINGWAY "The...

When Blasted was first produced at the Royal Court in 1995 it was hailed jointly as a masterpiece and a 'disgusting piece of filth' (Daily Mail). S...

Reducere. Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, ha...

Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellec...

Reducere. DescriptionNikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, considered the father of modern Russian r...

DescriptionAeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the pow...

Reducere. George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist ...

Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which Shakespeare's genius...

DescriptionJean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political t...

Reducere. Poetry. Translated by Austin Carder. Featuring an introduction by Adonis. The first book-length translation of works by this important Egyptian-bor...

Reducere. Writing a Great Movie is a practical nuts-and-bolts manual to dramatic writing for film. This hands-on course in screenwriting shows how to create,...

Reducere. Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bor...

Reducere. Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dramatist "Clo Graves", but became better known unde...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus...

Reducere. George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and po...

Reducere. America's most important living playwright, Edward Albee, has been rocking our country's moral, political and artistic complacency for more than 50...

Reducere. Only seven plays of the Ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles have survived to today. Sophocles is best known for his trilogy of dramas known as the "T...

"Marvelous, sad, and blisteringly funny... a brave and rewarding drama that speaks to us all." -- The Guardian The powerful debut play from Alexi K...

The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world's most celebrated dramatist. Along with a clear, easy-t...

DescriptionVictor Hugo is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to bot...

This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical an...

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the cou...

August Strindberg (1849-1912, Sweden's internationally recognised dramatist, was an astonishingly prolific all-rounder. The new National Edition of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rabindranath TagoreWritten by the most famous Bengali poet, philosopher, social reformer, and dramatist who came into inter...