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Plays

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The Rivals

The Rivals

By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

One of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Medea

Medea

By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The Hypochondriac

The Hypochondriac

By Molière Translated by Martin Sorrell

Molière's classic farce in a fresh and performable translation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Jew of Malta

The Jew of Malta

By Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe's drama of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set on the island of Malta. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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A Doll's House

A Doll's House

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

Romulus Linney: Six Plays

Romulus Linney: Six Plays

By Romulus Linney

Six plays from a major talent of the American theatre, endowed with Linney's lyric intensity, and augmented by his rich sense of humour.

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Jelly's Last Jam

Jelly's Last Jam

By George C. Wolfe

The hit Broadway musical based on the life of the jazz great, Jelly Roll Morton.

Les Parents Terribles

Les Parents Terribles

By Jean Cocteau Translated by Jeremy Sams

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

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Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun

Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun

Plays by African-American Women

Edited by Sydné Mahone

A collection of plays by African-American women.

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Gypsy

Gypsy

By Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jule Styne

One of the greatest musicals of all time, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.

The Substance of Fire and other plays

The Substance of Fire and other plays

By Jon Robin Baitz

This collection contains Jon Robin Baitz's debut play, The Film Society, alongside two more recent works: The End of the Day and the title play, The Substance of Fire.

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Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

By Jon Robin Baitz

‘A work of burning anger and bruising emotional power’ about the foisting of powdered milk on Third World infants. Plus seven monologues.

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The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss (stage version)

By George Eliot Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.

The Clearing

The Clearing

By Helen Edmundson

A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.

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The Crack in the Emerald

The Crack in the Emerald

New Irish Plays

Edited by David Grant

Four Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Low in the Dark

Low in the Dark

By Marina Carr

A witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.

Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
    Misogynist

    Misogynist

    By Michael Harding

    A powerful anatomy of misogyny, by 'one of the most significant new Irish writers of his generation' (Sunday Times).

    Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
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