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Three plays from author of Stanley and Marlene.

New editions of major plays by one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights.

"The Liar" is a hilarious comedy of the impossible situations which arise when a compulsive and incorrigible liar falls in love. "The Illusion" is a fascinating play within a play within a play with a strong mystical element. "Le Cid, " his most famous play, is a tragicomedy that caused a furious controversy between Corneille and his fellow-writers

Includes the plays The Foursome, Alpha Beta, The Sea Anchor and The Punishment

Includes the plays Laburnum Grove, When We Are Married and Mr Kettle and Mrs MoonWith an introduction by Tom Priestley and a foreword by Roy Hattersley.These three domestic comedies display J B Priestley's talent for the ordinary situation turned sharply on its head. In Laburnum Grove George Radfern's friends and relations want a share of his wealth - until they find out where it's come from. When We Are Married features three high-minded couples who gather to celebrate their silver wedding anniversaries, only to discover they were never properly married at all.And in Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon an unassuming bank manager turns rebel when a voice tells him to pack in his position and stay at home.In these mischievous depictions of respectability gone awry, the proud and the prejudiced battle against emerging truths and potential scandal. J B Priestley proves himself a skilled craftsman and presents his characters with rich humour, warmth and humanity.

In The Viewing, a family buys a house which is haunted by God, while My Father's House looks at British politics through the eyes of Joseph Chamberlain and family. Also includes: Beef and Black Star. The second collection from Pownall published by Oberon Books.

This collection of plays by Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni includes the plays Mirandolina and The Housekeeper. Both are comedies about women surviving in a man's world. All plays here are translated by Scottish playwright Robert David MacDonald and were produced at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.

The second collection of plays from John Whiting published by Oberon Books.

Includes: The Epiphanous Use of the Microphone, Under the Table, Kitty Wilkinson, Ploughboy Monday and Beef.

Includes accounts of the writer's work on Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", Tolstoy's "Strider" and other Russian projects, as well as essays on how Anton Chekhov's four masterpieces actually work in the theatre. This book is a study of the great writer, a partial autobiography, and, an actor's search for identification with the Anton.

Luckham's plays are both gritty and comic, often historical and/or musical.

A collection of four plays from the legendary English playwright, screenwriter and actor John Osborne.

Three Danish comedy plays by Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Holberg--the "father" of Danish and Norwegian literature. Plays have been translated by Michael Meyer.

Includes the plays Smithereens, Strange Orchestra, Before The Party and The Old Ladies from Rodney Ackland in this second collection published by Oberon Books. With an Introduction by Michael Hastings.

Includes the first publication of Sugar in the Morning, performed in 1959 at the Royal Court Theatre.

Tales from the Vienna Woods describes the decay of a society haunted by inflation and lurching towards Fascism. Italian Night lays bare the blindness of even well-intentioned men and the dangerous inadequacy of their fascist tormentors. Sladek and Right Around the Congress are set in a period of roaring inflation in Germany after WWI.

Three plays from the Jewish playwright Bernard Kops. Kops is one of the best known Jewish playwrights of his time. Also published by Oberon Books is Kops: Plays One and Kops: Plays Two

Features the plays Sweet talk, Alterations, In the Mood and El Dorado Michael Abbensetts is the writer who gave Caribbeans a real voice in Britain.

A native Muscovite, Ostrovsky became Russia's most prolific painter of Mercantile Society and the common people, writing over fifty plays, mostly comedies. Includes: "The Forest, Artistes and Admirers, Wolves and Sheep, Sin and Sorrow, "and "The Power Darkness."

The second collection of plays from Torben Betts, published by Oberon Books. Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter Craze

Two plays from two German playwrights. This collection, published by Oberon Books, is translated by David Tushingham and Meredith Oakes. Includes the plays The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness and Warweser

Three dramas, ranging from historical to domestic.

"Dickens' unforgettable characters are exuberantly made flesh." London Times

Alfred de Musset (1810-57) is regarded in France as the most significant dramatist of the first half of the 19th century. The seven plays in this collection including "Marianne", "Fantasio", "Don't Trifle with Love", "The Candlestick", and "A Diversion" share a light-hearted tone, though with occasional and unexpected moments of seriousness.

"Turgenev (1818-1883) tends to be seen in Chekhov's shadow, yet his plays pre-date Chekhov's work by nearly half a century. A Month in the Country is Turgenev's acknowledged masterpiece. This selection not only reveals the extent of Turgenev's achievement as a dramatist, but sheds an interesting light on the great novels that followed.

A triology of plays from the famous playwright Henrik Ibsen. This is collection of three of Ibsen's most famous plays and is translated by David Rudkin. Includes the plays Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When We Dead Waken

Three unique testimonial plays from South Africa by a hugely influential and highly acclaimed young playwright.

A distinctive new volume of six plays by Britain's best black writers.

Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. This book features his plays.

Theresa draws from secret research into the Nazi occupation of Channel Island, and the collaboration of local residents, with terrifying results. A Dead Woman on Holiday is an unlikely love story set during the Nuremberg trials. The Dybbuki, in homage to Anski's Russian classic, traces the last moments of five irreligious Jews.