The Provoked Wife

John Vanbrugh

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• In this late Restoration comedy Vanbrugh not only pushes the unhappily married couple, which had been good for no more than a raucous subplot in earli... Lees meer

The Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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• Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (t... Lees meer

Gammer Gurton's Needle

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• Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward V's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewin... Lees meer

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

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• Wilde's drama engages issues which are of immediate importance in modern culture, and his stylish manner is calculated to permit a degree of detachmen... Lees meer

Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

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• This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume... Lees meer

Arden of Faversham

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• This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays scandalises and thril... Lees meer

All for Love

John Dryden

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• All for Love or, The World Well Lost is John Dryden's 1677 adaptation of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra into a neo-classical quintet with support... Lees meer

The Witch of Edmonton

John Ford, Thomas Dekker, William Rowley

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• It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were being burnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although there were a fe... Lees meer

Marlowe: Four Plays

Christopher Marlowe

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• This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The J... Lees meer

The Critic

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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• The Critic was Sheridan's response to a very specific political and theatrical situation. In the summer of 1779, a Franco-Spanish invasion seemed immi... Lees meer

The Spanish Tragedy

Thomas Kyd

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• The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Traged... Lees meer

The White Devil

John Webster

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• "Woman to man is either a god or a wolf" John Webster's first independent play, The White Devil , originally performed in 1612, centres on the beautif... Lees meer

The Recruiting Officer

George Farquhar

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• Farquhar's last two plays, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem, have been called 'the last worthwhile comedies of the Restoration traditio... Lees meer

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

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• One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's... Lees meer

The Country Wife

William Wycherley

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• 'He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.' This bawdy, hilarious, subversive and wickedly satirical drama pokes f... Lees meer

A Woman Killed with Kindness

Thomas Heywood

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• "Here lies she whom her husband's kindness killed" This is the epitaph, in golden letters, Master John Frankford proposes for the tomb of his wife, An... Lees meer

The Relapse

John Vanbrugh

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• Written in defiance of Jeremy Collier and the budding fashion for sentimental drama, this late Restoration comedy exposes the reformed rake Loveless t... Lees meer

Major Barbara

Bernard Shaw

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• "There are two things necessary to salvation ... money and gunpowder" Major Barbara , Bernard Shaw's story of the conversion contest between the arms ... Lees meer

Arms and the Man

Bernard Shaw

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• "What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead." Cheered by some and booed by others on opening night in 1894, Arms and the Man ... Lees meer

Thomas Middleton: Four Plays

Thomas Middleton

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• An anthology of four Thomas Middleton plays in the New Mermaid Series, brought together with an introduction and commentary notes by William Carroll, ... Lees meer

A Woman Killed with Kindness

Thomas Heywood

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• A main theme in early modern domestic tragedy was not marital discord as such but violent - usually unreasonably violent - behaviour on the husband's ... Lees meer

The Beggar's Opera

John Gay

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• Mr. and Mrs. Peachum are horrified when they learn of their daughter Polly's secret marriage to the rebellious and notorious highwayman, Macheath. How... Lees meer

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

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• The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses ... Lees meer

The Old Wife's Tale

George Peele

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• This is George Peele's work, about an old woman's tale that turns magically into a play. Lees meer