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These plays are from the major British director of the first quarter of this century. His best-known plays including "Waste", were written as contributions to his company's repertoire of modern drama for a national theatre. "Waste" and "The Voysey Inheritance" played at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival.

Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), now widely regarded as one of the greatest farce writers, had a succession of hits in turn-of-the-century Paris. This first volume of his collected works includes early successes such as "Pig in a Poke" (1888) and more mature pieces such as "Heart's Desire Hotel".

Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays

Tennessee Williams' lesser-known one act plays reveal a tantalising and fascinating perspective to one of the world's most important playwrights.

This work brings together five of Moliere's finest and best known play Works such as "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe" have been skilfully translated into English rhyming couplet

This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form

This work brings together all the theatrical works of the groundbreaking Irish playwright Brendan Behan. As well as containing his famous full-length plays, such as "The Hostage", the book also showcases three intensely autobiographical one-act plays, originally written for radio.

The first volume in the Coward Collection, introduced by Sheridan Morley.

The second volume in the Coward Collection, including Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise and Post-Mortem.

The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties.

Volume Four of Noel Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties.

During his short life, John Millington Synge wrote six plays which remain among the classics of Irish theatre. This volume contains six of his plays, the final one being Deirdre of the Sorrows, which he had nearly completed on his death.

The fifth volume in the Coward Collection, containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life.

Containing the texts of Alfred Jarry's three "Ubu" plays, this book also has biographical notes, an introduction by Simon Watson Taylor, and the text of Jarry's "Writings on the Theatre".

A collection of this major 19th century French playwright

This volume - the second of two featuring John Arden's early plays - contains "The Workhouse Donkey", "Armstrong's Last Goodnight", "Left-Handed Liberty", "Squire Jonathan" and "The Bagman".

Written at the height of Lorca's theatrical powers, these three tradgedies display his innovative mix of Spanish popular tradition and modern dramtic technique. They focus on the lives of passionate individuals, particularly women, trapped by the social conventions of peasant communitie

Volume four of "Brecht's Collected Plays" contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as Brecht's own life. The plays included tackle the Nazi race policy and life under Hitler, the Spanish Civil War and pacifism.

Marivaux's light-hearted comedies of love and intrigue are enjoying a vigorous revival

This volume contains a selection of Brecht's last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. It contains 'The Antigone of Sophocles', 'The Days of the Commune', 'Turandot or The Whitewashers' Congress'.

This volume - the first of two featuring John Arden's early plays - contains "Waters of Babylon", "When is a Door not a Door?", "Live Like Pigs", "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance" and "The Happy Haven".

This collection of plays is from the work of one of the major Spanish voices of this century, Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclan. He was a major influence on the early work of Lorca and the film-makers Luis Bunuel and Carlos Saura.

All three of Gogol's most satirical plays are translated in this collection by Stephen Mulrine, who also includes a complete introduction to Gogol's theatre and a chronology of the Russian writer's work.

Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, Georges Feydeau's plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment, and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. This volume contains four plays.

A collection of plays written in collaboration between John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy. The plays featured here include "The Business of Good Government", "Ars Longa Vita Brevis", "Friday's Hiding", "The Royal Pardon", "Vandaleur's Folly" and "The Little Gray Home in the West".