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The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells. One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story..

"There was no writer like him... prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller)

John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues he raise

In the 1920s and 1930s, Noel Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch, short and often topical or satirical stage pieces. This volume collects Coward's best and most witty pieces.

This collection includes two of Lorca's most notorious late works, "The Public", his only openly homosexual drama and "Play without a Title", set in the world of the theatre, as well as the historical folk play "Mariana Pineda".

A collection of 6 plays from Mikhail Bulgakov, considered by many to be among the foremost Russian playwrights of the first post-revolutionary generation. The plays featured in this collection include "The White Guard", based on his expereinces as a White defending Kiev against the Bolsheviks.

This is the second collection of five plays by the Spanish dramatist (1898-1936) who was murdered by Spanish Nationalists in 1936.

This sixth volume of Ibsen's plays, introduced by the playwright's biographer, contains "Peer Gynt", one of the greatest of 19th-century verse epics and one of Ibsen's most popular and frequently-performed works, and "The Pretenders", an earlier epic that was his first theatrical success.

This selection of plays includes some of Jean Anouilh's most enduring plays: "The Rehearsal"; "Becket"; "The Orchstra: A Play Within a Concert"; and "Eurydice".

"One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" (Observer)

A collection of six plays by the Caribbean playwright Mustapha Matura. The writer's newest play, "The Coup", will premiere at London's Royal National Theatre. Having arrived in Britain in 1961, this collection features his best plays from the 1970s and 1980s.

The major points of Strindberg's so-called mystical period rounds off the collection that began with Volumes One and Two.

Harley Granville Barker's plays are enjoying a revival. This volume contains four plays: "The Marrying of Ann Leete", "The Madras House" - recently performed at the Edinbugh Festival and the Lyric, Hammersmith - "His Majesty" and "Farewell To The Theatre".

Volume three of "Brecht's Collected Plays" brings together in paperback volume 3.i and volume 3.ii of the hardback series. Also included are Brecht's own notes and textual variants.

One of a series of eight, this volume features the plays The Visions of Simone Machard, Schweyk in the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Brecht's adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi. It also contains extensive notes, as well as relevant texts by Brecht himself.

This volume brings together two of Brecht's most studied and performed plays: Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and Her Children together with full editorial apparatus and Brecht's own notes and textual variants.

"Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan" (Guardian)

One of a series of eight, this volume features the plays The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and Mr Puntila and his Man Matti. It also contains extensive notes, as well as variant versions and relevant texts by Brecht himself.

One of a series of eight, this volume features the plays Man Equals Man, The Elephant Calf, The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and The Seven Deadly Sins. It includes extensive notes, as well as variant versions and relevant texts by Brecht himself.

Contains three works by the German playwright, Frank Wedekind. He was the terror of the German bourgeoisie, a moralist who wore the mask of immoralist. His work was persecuted, and his best plays were not performed in his lifetime. The plays include the original "Lulu, A Monster Tragedy".