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One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with magical……続きを見る

Paradise Road is the story of Kevin McGarry a young man from the West of Scotland, who as a youngster was one of the most talented footballers of his generation in Scotland. Through a combination of……続きを見る

A short, funny, history play, for 7-11 year olds, Set in ancient Britain. Emperor Claudius has brought the Roman army back to Brittania, but the locals don't seem to be scared.In fact they are makin……続きを見る

Jonathon was head of a typical middle-England family. As Zorba the Greek once said, 'Wife, children, house; the full catastrophe.' They live in Worcestershire. He and his wife Katie, and their tw……続きを見る

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download Bleak House [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] leak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, publishe……続きを見る

Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It draws on the story of "The Dead", the final short story in Joyce's first major work, Dubliners, and was rejected by ……続きを見る

Classic play. According to Wikipedia: "An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and……続きを見る

Mystery, suspense and family drama combine in this dramatic debut novel. Late summer, 2000. Fourteen-year-old Davey Reynolds has witnessed a crime and his only friend, Danny, is missing. Are t……続きを見る

"In His Steps" is a classic of Christian literature whose premise centers on the idea of emulating Christ in one's everyday life. When faced with the challenges of everyday life the book suggests th……続きを見る

This is a collection of the plays of George Bernard Shaw that includes "The Millionairess", "Too True to be Good" and "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles". 続きを見る

King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare "Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battl……続きを見る

The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. The title character is the merchant Antonio, not the moneylender Shylock, who i……続きを見る

This is part of our Creating History series and is a short, funny play for 7 - 11 year olds, including craft ctivities. Set during the second world war. some girls are going out for the evening to t……続きを見る

John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Bett……続きを見る

Displaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare’s first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, viole……続きを見る

ELIZABETH DEVON becomes Florence Nightingale's maid, a life little better than slavery, as a starving DANIEL COLLINE flees Ireland's potato famine. They meet and fall in love at London's 1851 Great ……続きを見る

King Richard the Third by William Shakespeare "Richard III is William Shakespeare's unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England. The play is sometimes classified as a tragedy……続きを見る

You remind me of my uncle's brother. He was always on the move, that man. Never without his passport. Had an eye for the girls. Very much your build. Bit of an athlete. Long-jump specialist. He had ……続きを見る

A short, funny play for children aged 7 - 12 years.It also contains craft activities, relevant to the Tudor period. Mary I is on the throne, she has decreed that everyone should now become Catholics……続きを見る

No dramatist has ever seen with more frightening clarity into the heart and mind of a murderer than has Shakespeare in this compelling tragedy of evil. Taunted into asserting his “masculinity” by hi……続きを見る

Two full length stage plays: Does Your Mother Dance? Love affairs, family conflict, and wanting to be in show business. "My auntie Julie believes everybody should have what they want in life, at lea……続きを見る

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), a bricklayer's son, rose to become one of the most eminent playwrights of the Jacobean period. Along with Ben Johnson he helped shape the dynamic course of drama in Ren……続きを見る

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part One again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scen……続きを見る

A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Violent, wildly funny, Harold Pinter's new play displays a vivid zest for life. In The Room, Harold Pinter's first play, he reveals himself a……続きを見る

An Incompatible Passion tells the dramatized history of the last three months in the life of the controversial poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. ----In the spring of 1822, Percy and his second wife, Mary ……続きを見る

This play ran at the National Theatre, London, throughout 1978 and the New York production in the autumn of 1982 was equally well received. In counterpointing the experiences of an Englishwoman help……続きを見る

This Modern Library edition presents all fourteen comedies--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are: *The Tempest The Two Gentlemen of Veron……続きを見る

A fascinating look at the life and letters of one of the greatest Victorian era poets, Robert Browning. 続きを見る

Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and mas……続きを見る

Originally published in George Bernard Shaw's 1901 collection "Three Plays for Puritans" and first performed in 1900, "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" is the drama of its title character, a sort of……続きを見る