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Decade

Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

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An ingenious satirical comedy, often considered playwright Richard Brome's masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of the Caroline era, presenting a farcically topsy-turvey view of London in the 1630s.

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The Fleer

By Edward Sharpham

A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.

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The Honest Whore

By Thomas Dekker

A passionate tale of paternal disapproval and sexual deceit, following the lives of a princess and a whore.

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King Leir

By Anonymous

An anonymous Elizabethan play about the ancient king of Britain, a prime source for Shakespeare's version of the story.

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Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

By Terence Rattigan

The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

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The Witches of Lancashire

By Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome

A sensational dramatisation of the seventeenth-century witch trials, first performed at the original Globe Theatre in 1634.

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The Middlemarch Trilogy

By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.

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The Tempest

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

An eidition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

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The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

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Separate Tables

By Terence Rattigan

Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.

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The Noble Spanish Soldier

By Thomas Dekker

A revenge tragedy set in the Spanish court, filled with powerful dramatic moments of violence, pathos, satire and humour. Part of the Globe Quartos series, co-published with Shakespeare's Globe.