Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/three-plays-380-114319.html The MetroPlus Playwright Award was instituted in 2008 by The Hindu for the best original unpublished and unperformed English script. Harlesden High Street by Abhishek Majumdar, 2008’s winner, is an evocative, complex play about displacement and optimism. Through its motley characters and shifts of time and space, this play captures the limited world of immigrants, their frustrations and their dilemmas. The Skeleton Woman by Kalki Koechlin and Prashant Prakash, 2009’s winners, is a love story about two people who defeat fantastical odds to be together. Swinging between reality and make-believe, it weaves together an Inuit folk tale and a modern-day story about a young fisherman-turnedwriter with a potent imagination and his long-suffering wife. Taramandal by Neel Chaudhuri, the winner for 2010, borrows the protagonist from Satyajit Ray’s short story ‘Patol Babu Filmstar’. Chaudhuri uses a host of characters to masterfully construct a parallel narrative that mirrors Patol’s journey to disillusionment.

Author: NEEL CHAUDHARI, KALKI KOECHLIN, ABHISHEK MAJUMDAR  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/brief-candle-380-114286.html Brief Candle: Three Plays brings together the most recent work of Sahitya Akademi award-winner Mahesh Dattani as he continues to explore subjects that need to be addressed but are relentlessly brushed under the carpet of middle-class morality incest, gender bias and death. The title play is set in a hospital ward where terminally ill patients put up an energetic farce in memory of their friend who died of cancer. The blurring of lines between their romp and the events of their own lives leads to revelations that are both tragic and life-affirming. In the radio play The Girl Who Touched the Stars, Bhavna now an astronaut ready to take off on a mission into outer space reflects on her past in this moment of glory, only to confront the bitter truths she has tried to ignore all her life. The fragile fabric of familial relations is ripped apart in Thirty Days in September when memories of a traumatic past return to haunt a mother and her daughter. Playful and poignant, devastating and redemptive, these critically acclaimed plays lay bare the far-reaching consequences of the choices we make, confirming Dattani as one of India s foremost dramatists.

Author: MAHESH DATTANI  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cupid-psyche-380-105897.html A beautiful princess has a husband she can never see. He visits her only in the dead of night. When curiosity overcomes her, she discovers who he really is, only to be cruelly abandoned. Psyche must find her husband. But she has earned the wrath of Venus by rivalling her in beauty, and the vengeful goddess will stop at nothing to destroy her.

Author: Apuleius  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/descent-into-hell-380-105898.html Many have made the journey. None have ever returned. Wandering through a dark forest, Dante finds himself at the gates to the underworld. Despite his terror, he dares to enter the Circles of Hell, where the damned lie in torment. As he descends deeper, he encounters wildeyed sinners, sees the threeheaded, howling hound Cerberus, and meets a longdead prophet who foretells Dante's destiny. He passes through realms of fire and ice, and at last reaches the frozen heart of Hell where the hideous Satan, greatest of all the damned, lies in wait.

Author: Dante  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/destruction-of-troy-380-105899.html The city of Troy has fallen, and the brave hero Aeneas must save his family and escape before the invading Greeks murder them all.JBut he is cursed by Juno, Queen of Heaven.JChasing him across the seas, the revenging goddess summons up every torment in her powers to destroy him.JCan Aeneas survive to fulfill his destiny and create the proud city of Rome?

Author: Virgil  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/empty-space-the-380-105900.html Explores the issues facing theatrical performances. This work describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting. It also shows how theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions and creates lasting memories for its audiences.

Author: Brook, Peter  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/exodus-380-105901.html An ancient people have been forced into a life of endless servitude.JThe king has ordered that all their male children be slaughtered to make sure it stays that way, but one boy, Moses, survives. He will rise up to demand that the king lets his people go, bringing plagues in his wake until, against all the odds, he leads the Israelites to a new world.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fall-of-jerusalem-380-105902.html Led by the mighty Titus, the Roman army besieges Jerusalem. The citizens plead for mercy, but as the Romans march on the Temple of Masada, the most sacred sanctuary of the Jewish people, flaming torches blaze above their heads.

Author: Josephus, Flavius  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/good-woman-of-setzuan-the-380-105903.html A play written during Brecht's exile to the United States and set in preCommunist China. It is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between her own needs and those of her friends and neighbours.

Author: Brecht, Bertolt  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/jason-the-golden-fleece-380-105904.html It is a task that no man has ever completed to bring back a magical ram's fleece that lies hidden in a faroff land, guarded by an allseeing serpent.JBut one man, Jason, must try.

Author: Apollonius, Of Rhodes  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/legendary-adventures-of-alexander-the-gr-380-105905.html A prince is born under a star of good fortune, and it is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time.JAlexander grows up to fulfill this destiny, conquering all who stand in his way.JBut this is not enough for the young warrior.JAlexander will not rest until he has defeated his mortal enemy, the King of Persia.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/madness-of-nero-380-105906.html Nero has seized control of Rome and the crown.JHe is willing to destroy anyone that gets in his way.JNo one is safenot even his scheming mother.JAs its new emperor sinks to insane levels of brutality, Rome becomes a hell of corruption, depravity and vice, and dark omens hang over the city.

Author: Tacitus, Cornelius  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/odysseus-returns-home-380-105907.html After ten years at war and ten years wandering the world, Odysseus returns home, but he cannot reveal his identity to his faithful wife Penelope.J A gang of wouldbe lovers are prepared to kill anyone who claims to be her husband.JHe must use all his cunning and ingenuity to get rid of them, if he is to reclaim his wife and his rightful place as King of Ithaca.

Author: Homer  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-380-105908.html Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Keseys work is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on literature. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, funloving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. A visually arresting deluxe edition of Ken Keseyas counterculture classic Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Keseyas 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, funloving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute halfIndian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphyas heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.

Author: Kesey, Ken ; Sacco, Joe  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sagas-myths-of-the-northmen-380-105909.html Journey into a realm of legend, where heroes from an ancient age do battle with savage monsters, and every man must live or die by the sword. When a dragon threatens the people of the north, only one man can destroy the fearsome beast.JElsewhere, a mighty leader gathers a court of champions, including a noble warrior under a terrible curse.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sea-the-sea-380-105910.html Trying to help a prince overthrow the king of Persia, the Greek army has been betrayed. Now the surviving soldiers are trapped in a hostile country as unforgiving enemies attack from all sides. Enter Xenophon, a tough and brilliant leader. He must guide the retreating Greeks across the treacherous mountains and rivers that stand in their way.

Author: Xenophon  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/serpent-s-teeth-380-105911.html When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil.JOnly a great man can tame them and fulfill his destiny.J Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chained to a rock; people are transformed into owls, frogs, even mountains; and a boy falls tragically in love with his own reflection.

Author: Ovid  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/siegfried-s-murder-380-105912.html Having killed a dragon and bathed in its blood, the mighty Siegfried seems undefeatable.JBut during a bitter family feud, his naive and beautiful wife reveals he has one terrible weakness.JSo Siegfried's enemies take him with them into the dark depths of a forest, where they will exploit that weakness and plunge a spear deep into his heart.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sunjata-story-380-105913.html After the leader of a great African kingdom hears that a baby has been born who will destroy him, he hides behind a mighty army and surrounds himself with magical charms.JThere remains only one way to kill him.JWhen the sister of his enemy seduces him, lust overwhelms the king, and he foolishly begins to share his secret.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/way-of-the-world-other-plays-380-105914.html The wittiest of a renowned playwright's masterful comedies A master of the comedy of manners, William Congreve was the most elegant of the Restoration dramatists. With piercing accuracy, he depicted the shallow world of society, where the right artifice in manners, fashion, and conversationand moneyeased the passage to success. *?Also includes The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, and Love for Love

Author: Congreve, William  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/absurd-person-singular-absent-friends--380-105915.html Funny, gripping and wrenchingly truthful, these three blackly comic plays slice into the soul of suburbia. Couples often mismatched, sometimes disorientated dominate the action. The settings are simple a kitchen, a bedroom, a party all familiar terrains where husbands and wives meet, bewildered, puzzled and angry. 'In the hilarious delineation of marital pain there is no one to touch Alan Ayckbourn' Eric Shorter in the Daily Telegraph.

Author: Ayckbourn Alan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/complete-gilbert-sullivan-380-105916.html Gilbert and Sullivan's operas are some of the world's bestloved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsyturvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas. From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, to lesserperformed gems such as the fanciful The Sorcerer and the acerbic lampoon Patience, Gilbert's libretti are collected here in their most accurate and faithful form. There is a fascinating commentary on each work, telling the extraordinary stories behind the inspiration for the opera and its performance history, and giving plot summaries and original cast lists. Also containing original illustrations from Gilbert's Bab Ballads, as well as extensive notes for every work, this ultimate Gilbert and Sullivan collection will delight all devotees of the incomparable duo.

Author: Gilbert, W.S & Sullivan, Arthur  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/epic-of-gilgamesh-380-105917.html Enkidu is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh, but instead of killing each other, the two become friends.JTravelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba.JBut when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh, who resolves to find the secret of eternal life.

Author: George, Andrew  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-46-nature-380-105918.html Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-49-man-alone-with-himself-380-105919.html Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's 'will to power'.

Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-53-days-of-reading-380-105920.html Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.

Author: Proust, Marcel  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/my-fair-lady-380-105921.html When overbearing Professor Higgins stumbles on flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in Covent Garden he recognizes that her hideous vowels and forgotten consonants are all that separate her from the upper classes. Higgins wagers that he can pass her off as a Duchess in a matter of weeks. But what will become of Eliza when the bet is over?

Author: Lerner, A J  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/oleander-jacaranda-a-childhood-percei-380-105922.html An autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know. It is a look at Egypt up to, and including, World War II from a small girl's point of view.

Author: Lively, Penelope  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/three-revenge-tragedies-380-105923.html Following Queen Elizabeth Ias reign, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age, who explored the ways in which social decadence and the abuse of power breed resentment, leading inexorably to violent retribution. In Cyril Tourneuras The Revengeras Tragedy, the debauched son of an Italian Duke attempts to rape the virtuous Glorianaaa veiled reference to Elizabeth I. John Websteras The White Devil depicts a sinister world of intrigue and murderous infidelity, while The Changeling, perhaps Thomas Middletonas supreme achievement, powerfully portrays a woman bringing about her own unwitting destruction. All three are masterpieces of brooding intensity, dominated by images of decay, disillusionment, and death.

Author: Middleton, Thomas  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/voyages-of-sindbad-380-105924.html A poor man meets a great sailor and asks to hear his tale.JHe is amazed to be told of seven journeys to foreign lands, every one ending in shipwreck.JSindbad the Sailor has grown rich from his travels, but his path to fortune has been anything but easy.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/xerxes-invades-greece-380-105925.html To Xerxes, King of Persia, it seems inevitable that Greece will be crushed beneath his might.JAs storms lash the Persian ships, and sinister omens predict a cruel fate, Xerxes strives onward, certain his enemies will accept him as their king.JAs he soon discovers, the Greeks will sacrifice anything, even their lives, to keep their liberty.

Author: Herodotus  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/abduction-of-sita-380-105926.html Ravana, the Supreme Lord, has enslaved all the gods.JAlthough he now rules the world, he cannot resist a beautiful woman.JWhen he catches a glimpse of the princess Sita, he falls under her spell and steals her away.JHer beloved husband, Rama, will do anything to get her back.

Author: Narayan, R K  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/caucasian-chalk-circle-the-380-105927.html A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Bertolt Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness is published to coincide with the National Theatre's production touring the United Kingdom.

Author: Brecht, Bertolt  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/king-arthur-s-last-battle-380-105928.html From the moment he draws the sword Excalibur from a magic stone, King Arthur is hailed as the savior of England.JWith his loyal band of brothers, the Knights of the Round Table, he reigns over a golden age of chivalry and enchantment.J But dark forces are stirring in the land, and one last epic battle must be fought on English soil.

Author: Malory, Sir Thomas  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/caligula-other-plays-caligula-cross-380-105929.html A collection of plays Caligula, Cross Purpose, The Just and The Possessed dramatizing action and revolt in the name of liberty.

Author: Camus, Albert  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-42-some-anatomies-of-melan-380-105930.html Features essays that form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet, drunkenness, love and beauty are each given equal consideration in this examination of the human condition.

Author: Burton, Robert  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-51-useful-work-v-useless-380-105931.html Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author: Morris, William  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-54-an-appeal-to-the-toilin-380-105932.html Brings you the works of thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author: Trotsky, Leon  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-57-books-v-cigarettes-380-105933.html Explores everything from the perils of secondhand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.

Author: Orwell, George  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-59-concerning-violence-380-105934.html Angered by the racism he witnessed on Martinique during the Second World War, Fanon here examines the roles of class, culture and violence, and expresses his profound alienation from the idea of colonialism and its bloodshed. More than four decades on, Fanon's work still inspires liberation movements today.

Author: Fanon, Frantz  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/great-ideas-60-the-spectacle-of-the-sc-380-105935.html Argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to becoming an instrument of systematic domination over individuals in society not just of our bodies, but our souls.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dance-like-a-man-:-a-stage-play-in-two-380-96197.html ‘Dattani’s work probes tangled attitudes in contemporary India towards communal differences, consumerism and gender . . . a brilliant contribution to Indian drama in English.’ —Sahitya Akademi award citation Jairaj Parekh and his wife Ratna, aging Bharatnatyam dancers, are engaged in finding a substitute mridangam player to accompany their daughter Lata at her performance at a high-profile dance festival. Lata, in the meantime, nervously awaits the meeting between her parents and Viswas, the young man she wishes to marry. When the four meet, and in the conversations and discussions that follow, the fissures in the relationship between Jairaj and Ratna begin to explode into high-strung battles which lead back to their own youth and the tragedy that lies at the heart of their discord. The younger couple have their own issues to contend with: the obvious mismatch between the two sets of parents, the arguments over Lata’s career as a dancer after marriage and most unsettling of all, Lata’s attempt to balance her parents’ ambition with her own needs and desires. A brilliant study of human relationships and weaknesses framed by the age-old battle between tradition and youthful rebellion, Dance Like a Man has been hailed as one of the best works of the dramatic imagination in recent times.

Author: Dattani, Mahesh  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shattered-thigh-other-plays-the-380-96198.html A selection of the earliest existing plays by a major dramatist in classical Sanskrit Bhasa is one of the most celebrated names in classical Sanskrit literature. He lived and wrote about two thousand years ago. Though his dates have not been conclusively established, it is certain that Bhasa preceded Kalidasa, the great poet and dramatist of ancient India, who has praised Bhasa by name in one of his own plays. Bhasa's works were considered lost and it was only in the beginning of the twentieth century that some of his plays were recovered. Six of these, which form the present collection, are based on the Mahabharata, which provides a thematic unity to the plays. Bhasa's strengths were his skilful melding of dialogue, legend and dramatic action. The comparatively short and fast-paced plays in The Shattered Thigh are remarkable in their nearness to modern idiom despite their antiquity. Of the six plays in this collection four—The Middle One, The Envoy, The Message and Karna's Burden—are one-act plays evoking tragic and heroic emotions. Five Nights and The Shattered Thigh have three and two acts respectively. The latter is a tragedy in which the hero dies on stage, an innovation that is very unusual in Sanskrit drama.

Author: Bhasa (Translated by A.N.D. Haksar)  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/good-heavens!-:-one-act-olays-for-child-380-96199.html Seven thought-provoking and fun plays for children The stage is a magical place, where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary and imagination rules supreme. Discover the wonders of the stage with Good Heavens!. The seven plays in this collection will help you explore different aspects of theatre. While some require interesting sets, props and costumes, others demand imaginative choreography, music, and stage lighting. Good Heavens!, No, Not I and Stone Soup will have the audience doubling up with laughter; Hamsadhwani and A Christmas Miracle will make them ponder and debate; and The White Elephant and The Monster Night throw up unusual problems that children resolve! In the detailed introduction, the author discusses theatre, its origins, and how to prepare for a production. Meticulous, with step-by-step details on auditions, rehearsals, props, set design, sound, music, costumes and lighting, it acquaints you with the stage and its requirements. Written by one of India’s most exciting playwrights for children, Good Heavens! is invaluable for all who are interested in children’s plays, and especially those involved in children’s theatre productions.

Author: Sengupta, Poile  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bravely-fought-the-queen-380-96200.html ‘Dattani [is] one of India’s best and most serious contemporary playwrights’ —International Herald Tribune First staged in Mumbai in 1991, Bravely Fought the Queen juggles between two spaces – centre stage where an empirical drama removes the mask of hypocrisy from a seemingly ‘normal’ urban household; and a small, rear backdrop from where emerges the raison d’

Author: Dattani Mahesh  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/comedies-volume-1-380-87447.html The everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the first volume of Comedies containing THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. LOVES LABOUR'S LOST, ROMEO AND JULIET (sic) and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/comedies-volume-2-380-87448.html The penultimate volume in the 8-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare's later Comedies - THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and MEASURE FOR MEASURE. The beautifully produced, single-column text of the plays, with the Signet footnotes, is supplemented with bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Professor Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in content. The seven plays bought in Penguin would cost 23. 20, while the Cambridge and Oxford Classics editions cost 33. 25 and 27. 50 respectively.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/histories-volume-1-380-87449.html The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. In volume I are contained Shakespeare's first five history plays: HENRY VI parts I, II and II; RICHARD III and KING JOHN. The text of the plays is accompainied by extensive notes, author chronology, bibliography and a detailed introduction to each play and to Shakespeare's history plays in general by Tony Tanner.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/histories-volume-2-380-87450.html The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing HENRY IV, parts I and II, HENRY V and HENRY VIII. As before, there is an extended introduction by Tony Tanner, a bibliography and author chronology. The plays are lightly annotated and the text is therefore ideal for both students and general readers.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tragedies-volume-1-380-87451.html 0

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tragedies-volume-2-380-87452.html Volume 1 of the new Everyman Shakespeare, published in 1992, included the four major tragedies: HAMLET, KING LEAR, OTHELLO and MACBETH. Volume 2 completes the survey of Shakespeare's tragic output with ROMEO AND JULIET, JULIUS CAESAR, ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA, CORIOLANUS, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA and TITUS ANDRONICUS. The authoritatively edited texts of the plays are supplemented with extensive bibliographies, a chronology of Shakespear's life and times and a substantial introduction in which Prosessor Tony Tanner examines Shakespeare's evolution as a tragedian while also providing detailed discussions of the individual plays. This is the only two-volume edition of the tragedies with such comprehensive apparatus and it will eventually form part of a complete Shakespeare (plays and poems) in eight volumes.

Author: Shakespeare, William  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/will-in-the-world-380-87453.html The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. Shakespeare had to make concessions to the commercial world, for the theatre company in which he was a shareholder had to draw some 1,500 to 2,000 paying customers a day into the round wooden walls of the playhouse to stay afloat and competition from rival companies was fierce. The key was not so much topicality - with government censorship and with repertory companies recycling the same scripts for years. Instead, Shakespeare had to engage with the deepest desires and fears of his audience. Will in the World is about an amazing success story that has resisted explanation: it aims to be the first fully satisfying account of Shakespeare's character and the blossoming of his talent. There have, of course, been many biographies of Shakespeare. The problem each one faces is the thin amount of material surrounding his life. They lead us through the available traces but leave us no closer to understanding how the playwright's astonishing achievements came about. The real-world sources of Shakespeare's language - of his fantasies, passions, fears, and desires - lie outside the scope of these earlier books. Will in the World will set out to recover the links between Shakespeare and his world and with them to construct a full and vital portrait of the man. Its purpose is to know the magician himself, as well as his magic tricks, and to experience the touch of the real. It is a journey that centres on the perils and pleasures of Shakespeare's unfolding imaginative generosity - his ability to enter into others, to confer upon them his own strength of spirit, to make them live and breathe as independent beings as no other artist who ever lived has done.

Author: Greenblatt, Stephen  Publisher: Pimlico]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/oresteia-the-380-87454.html One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, this is one of the great tragedies of all time. The three plays portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War. Contains Agamemnon, Choephoroe and Eumenides

Author: Aeschylus  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/marlowe:-complete-plays-380-10762.html MARLOWE: COMPLETE PLAYS

Author: MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER  Publisher: ORPG]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100