pha - British & Irish 1

This is book one in a series of three, all on different topics. Book ones' poems are about family, children and pets. All are easy to read and well written. Book two is called Inspirational Poems ab……続きを見る

Book three - This 'N That A collection of poems written over the years which are varied in theme and style. From a trip up a Volcano to the depths of Insomnia, there is something for everyone. This ……続きを見る

The tragedy Cato was written by Joseph Addison in 1712 and recounts the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, a Stoic who was always resistant to Julius Caesar's tyranny and an icon of republi……続きを見る

The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Chris……続きを見る

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works……続きを見る

Based on J M Synge’s Playboy of the Western World. Playboy of the West Indies opened at the Oxford Playhouse in 1984 and subsequently toured the UK finishing at the Tricycle Theatre in London. It ha……続きを見る

The poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, which he was dissuaded from calling 'Curtain Call', often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations……続きを見る

A once close-knit family of four is reunited after a long period of estrangement. This time, this time, it must go right. In this touching and comic drama, Stephanie Jacob delves into the turmoil, l……続きを見る

Eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage. Selected by Sue Pa……続きを見る

In 'Excalibur: An Arthurian Drama' by Ralph Adams Cram, readers are treated to a poetic and compelling retelling of the classic Arthurian legend. Cram's literary style is rich in symbolism and lyric……続きを見る

October 1999 saw the death of the poet Learaí Phádraic Learaí Ó Fínneadha, from an Lochán Beag in Cois Fharraige originally, but who had moved closer to Galway city, to Bearna, when he married. Now,……続きを見る

Maraiche nan Cuantan is one of the most well-known songs in the contemporary Gaelic culture of Scotland, and was composed by Floraidh NicPhail from Tiree. Now, for the first time in print, readers h……続きを見る

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the p……続きを見る

The English essayist, poet, playwright and politician, Joseph Addison was a leading contributor and guiding spirit of the periodicals ‘The Tatler’ and ‘The Spectator’. Addison also wrote ‘Cato’, one……続きを見る

Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare’s England examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in early modern England. Stepha……続きを見る

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, t……続きを見る

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, t……続きを見る

In 'The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase,' readers are presented with a rich tapestry of 18th-century English literature, encapsulating the nuanced flavors of neoclass……続きを見る

Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahe……続きを見る

‘A story of paralysing passion’ 1860s Paris. In a small dusty haberdasher’s shop near the Seine in the dank, narrow Passage du Pont Neuf, the young and beautiful Thérèse Raquin is trapped into a lov……続きを見る

In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present, and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, ……続きを見る

This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious. This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean……続きを見る

The Road to Huntsville by Stephanie Ridings is a short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line. The play is taken from ……続きを見る

A story of domestic servitude and abuse of power, as authoritarian Kat, her ageing mother, Ma, and their teenaged slave, Maudie, jostle for power – and affection – in their dilapidated London home. ……続きを見る