Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have written ...Show more
The Rover by Aphra Behn; Simon Trussler (Editor)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Drama Classics Ser.
A Drama Classic: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights. Arriving in Naples at carnival time, a group of exiled cavaliers determine to enjoy themselves. They are repeatedly tempted and tricked by various ...Show more
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
'Magisterial and saucy . . . This fresh account kickstarts the queer canon of English literature: Shakespeare won't go back in the closet again'EMMA SMITH, author of This Is ShakespeareWas Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . .Shakespeare's work was profo ...Show more
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Drama Classics S.
The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet by Deborah Bull
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
This is the essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world. This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Whee ...Show more
The Faber Pocket Guide to Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama by Simon Trussler
$26.95 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
The essential pocket guide: Analysis - Text - Rare Titles - Cast Lists - Synopsis - Critiques
Box the Pony by Scott Rankin, Leah Purcell
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
The semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Stephanie - which traces the events of her life growing up on an impoverished Aboriginal mission in Queensland. Despite the poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Stepanie is nurtured through the love of her family.
Season At Sarsaparilla by White Patrick
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Patrick White¿s classic 1965 drama The Season at Sarsaparilla is `a charade of suburbia¿¿a play of shadows, rather than substance. The neighbours that populate the play are held by their environment, waiting with determination, but little expectation, for the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and de ...Show more
Jack Hibberd: Selected Plays by Jack Hibberd
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Play Collections | Reading Level: very good
Hibberd has been called the most innovative Australian playwright of his generation. His early plays have endured the test of time and continue to be performed, studied and read for pleasure. White with Wire Wheels (1967) satirises a culture of masculinity expressed in cars, booze and work. Women are ma ...Show more
The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Shakespeare Ser.
Honor and Dignity-- Two Noble Kinsmen is based on Geoffrey Chaucer's the Knight's Tale. Three queens ask Theseus and Hippolyta to avenge the deaths of their husbands at the hands of the tyrant Creon of Thebes. Theseus agrees and wages a war that changes the fate of many those involved. The play ends wit ...Show more
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
A tragicomedy, a satire on materialism and a scream of pain and injustice, Timon of Athens depicts Shakespeare's greatest optimist and his most vehement pessimist in its central character, the wealthy and deluded Timon. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by G. R. Hibbard with an introduction by ...Show more