ａｎ - Plays & Playwrights 4

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.’ Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is cons……続きを見る

Evening. He gets home, checks his voice mail as is his wont... listens, bemused, to various recorded messages... tenses, frowns as he hears a far-away voice from a distant past: his estranged wife s……続きを見る

Pontiac, or Ponteach, was a Native American leader who made war upon the British in what became known as Pontiac's Rebellion (1763 to 1766). One of the earliest accounts of Pontiac is a play, writte……続きを見る

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their ……続きを見る

A protagonist finds himself in a story that is not his. Engulfed in self-hatred, the philosophical narrator is found by who he believes is beyond humanity. His fascination by perfection takes him th……続きを見る

This is the true story of Louis Bannet a Jewish jazz musician known throughout Europe in the 1930's and 40's as The Dutch Louis Armstrong. The story travels from the nightclubs of Amsterdam to the n……続きを見る

Global Warming, The Polar Bear and The Monkeys is a book that targets young people but the adults who have read it expressed immense pleasure at the contents. The havoc climate change is causing aro……続きを見る

This guide explores the roles, skills and knowledge needed to become an effective drama teacher. It combines practical advice on planning, teaching and assessing with the best teaching practices. It……続きを見る

At the funeral of her possessive mother, Anne feels free at last, but events take a strange turn. At once amusing and chilling the story explores the relationship between a daughter and her mother. 続きを見る

Love, solitude and their timeless link with the misplaced loyalties and friendship of life are what run through the tale of Brandon. As he rides out to save the iconic father figure of his misspent ……続きを見る

Assam Ali travels freely through Pakistan. His ultimate goal is to spread his belief throughout the free world. To fund his terrorist ways he keeps the drug trade going with the help of his American……続きを見る

“When the Love is Gone”, there’s nothing left but pain and regret… Have you ever wondered why your parents chose each other as mates when they were never a good match in the first place? Ever wonder……続きを見る

The sun rises on a crisp cold desert morning on the central outback Australian mining city of Broken Hill. Lisa Freeman sits in a drug haze on the outskirts of the city, she pulls up the worn collar……続きを見る

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also know……続きを見る

Una novela corta y varios cuentos sobre la realidad cubana conforman este libro. Una mirada distinta a dicha realidad, pues Enmanuel Castells Carrión ofrece una visión casi cinematográfica de fragme……続きを見る

"Adventure. That’s the key word here. Every play in this collection began with a question, a strong scene, image, or situation that haunted me, whose mystery could only be solved by writing it, movi……続きを見る

Действие происходит в большом вымышленном городе на Волге ー Бряхимове. Открытая площадка возле кофейни на приволжском бульваре. Кнуров («из крупных дельцов последнего времени, пожилой человек с огр……続きを見る

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier. The play has maintained the dual nature of these intentions ever since. An aristocrat……続きを見る

An ancient Irish curse holds Sara in its grip: Cormac MacDougal steals her red cap which means she must become his fish wife or she and her unborn child will die. One night she can bear her life no ……続きを見る

Living a normal life, the phantoms inside Johnny Feelwater reawaken after nine year of marriage. His ancestral heritage catches up with him in the form of Cassandra Mott. Johnny is drawn into her su……続きを見る

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a ……続きを見る

For most, it was TGIF. For Marj, the weekend started with a dread filled 150 mile drive home thru a part of rural Kansas that had become a killer's playground. 続きを見る

You're not a thrill seeker and you certainly don't look for trouble, but sometimes trouble finds you. You see or hear something you shouldn't - and wish you hadn't. You can't UN see or UN hear it. P……続きを見る

The One I Knew Best of All (1893) is a memoir written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The author covers her childhood and girlhood, taking the reader into confidence and depicting the delightful situati……続きを見る

In October of 1956, my twelve year old newly adopted orphan babysitter, Janet Cash and I were staying the night alone on my uncles northern California ranch. During the night, we were attacked by th……続きを見る

What begins as a planned three month hiatus from a frustrating American culture, turns into an odyssey of unexpected travels, adventures, friendships, and perceptive observations into the European w……続きを見る

After embarrassing himself during an interview with a senator, Seattle-based reporter Greg McCullough finds himself unemployed. With nothing to lose, he travels across the country to the city of For……続きを見る

The journalist Emma de Antoni has just moved to the Mojave desert when she meets Jackson Carver at an antique store. There's no place where Jackson feels more at home than in his independence. She l……続きを見る

Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contempor……続きを見る

In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal. Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting. A woman tries to save her family, while a girl tries to save h……続きを見る