This is one of Shakespeare’s darkest comedies, for the romantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves is set against t……続きを見る
"Man and Superman" is George Bernard Shaw's response to the request of his fans to write a Don Juan themed play. This four-act drama often preformed without or with an abbreviated version of the len……続きを見る
著者:Neil LaBute
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2006年06月27日
Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your sideーso what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's prob……続きを見る
著者:Anonymous
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年12月06日
Performed at the Globe Theater in 1605, King Leir is presumed to be a prime source for Shakespeare. Although the story is the same, in this anonymous version the ending is happy. This is the first t……続きを見る
Three Early Comedies
Love's Labor's Lost
Farce and fun follow when a young king and his three friends vow to give up women for a yearーjust as a pretty princess and her three ladies-in-waiting arriv……続きを見る
'The work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.' The Times
Do Hirst and Spooner really ……続きを見る
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ……続きを見る
著者:Brian Twiddy
出版社: Brian Twiddy
発売日: 2015年05月11日
A short, funny play for 7-11 ol ds, including a craft activity relevant to the Tudor times. Henry VII has to keep control of the royal finances. He also likes to know all the gossip around the palac……続きを見る
George Bernard Shaw demanded truth and despised convention. He punctured hollow pretensions and smug prudishnessーcoating his criticism with ingenious and irreverent wit. In Mrs. Warren’s Profession……続きを見る
Small Town, Fife. Andy and Vicky were meant to be getting married tomorrow.
The trouble is, Andy's stag weekend was so epic, so legendary, that he didn't survive it. The finest pleasures that Amster……続きを見る
著者:Nigel Patten
出版社: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co.
発売日: 2013年11月14日
Une passion incompatible raconte lhistoire dramatisée des derniers trois mois dans la vie du poète activiste, Percy Bysshe Shelley.----Au printemps 1822, Percy et sa deuxième épouse, Mary Woolstonec……続きを見る
Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish ……続きを見る
'A powerful and cleverly constructed trio of plays linked in subtle but unmistakable ways.'
In Love is an Urban Myth, we are cast as voyeurs into the relationship of Dave and Sarah and learn that……続きを見る
Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences heard fully articulated sermons on moral and econ……続きを見る
著者:David Worrall
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary theat……続きを見る
Declared by Swinburne as having 'no parallel in all the range of tragedy', Doctor Faustus is considered Christopher Marlowe's greatest work. This edition of his play gathers together both published ……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
This moving and eloquent historical drama depicts the conflict between a willful and arrogant poet of a king, Richard II, and his politically pragmatic cousin, Bolingbroke. Rich with memorable scene……続きを見る
Venus and Adonis
by William Shakespeare
This is a fully annotated edition of all the poems which are now generally regarded as Shakespeare's, excluding the Sonnets. It contains Venus and Adonis, The……続きを見る
Don Cornetto wordt wel eens de Godfather genoemd van de grootste maffia familie die zich ooit in Vlaanderen vestigde. Maar toen werd hij dus vermoord. Er zijn 5 verdachten, en don Cornetto is er zow……続きを見る
This charming comedy has delighted audiences for over two centuries. First performed in 1773, it concerns Kate Hardcastle, a young lady who poses as a serving girl to win the heart of a young gentle……続きを見る
Featuring the rise of King Henry V, this history play chronicles England's underdog victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War.
This revised Signet Classics edi……続きを見る
Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
"The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays, written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical: for a major……続きを見る
Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salomé from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers ー Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeter……続きを見る
著者:J. M. Barrie
出版社: Clarendon Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays, Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman ……続きを見る
著者:Brian Twiddy
出版社: Brian Twiddy
発売日: 2015年05月11日
A short, funny, history play, for 7-11 year olds, Set in ancient Rome. Julius Caesar has led the Roman army to great victories,and returned home despite the pirates, but the senate isn't sure. When ……続きを見る
December 1849, Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland. A Reporter has been despatched to investigate reports of distress and starvation. It is the period now known as The Great Irish Famine. There is no foo……続きを見る
著者:D H Lawrence
出版社: Blackthorn Press
発売日: 2013年09月06日
David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930) was the son of a coal-miner and a mother from a family with middle-class aspirations. He was a poet, novelist, travel writer, short story writer, art critic as ……続きを見る