Hydra by Sue Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: NewSouth Plays Ser.
Wild, passionate and ultimately tragic: the love story of Australia's famous literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, plays out on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in the 1950s in this reimagining from award-winning playwright Sue Smith. Dedicating their lives to writing, the couple were fi ...Show more
Paradise by Kae Tempest
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
Lyricist, novelist, poet and playwright Kate Tempest will make her National Theatre debut in June with Paradise, a potent and dynamic reimagining of the Greek classic Philoctetes by Sophocles. Once comrades, now enemies after Odysseus abandoned Philoctetes to suffer a terrible wound alone, Odysseus is p ...Show more
30-Second Shakespeare The 50 Most Significant Ideas, Themes and Events, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Ros Barber; Mark Rylance (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: 30 Second Ser.
The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words an ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by Claire McEachern
$21.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The Arden Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-seller right u ...Show more
Desdemona by Toni Morrison & Rokia Traore
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays
"The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is reimagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traore, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Sellars' 2009 production of Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Des ...Show more
Hedda Gabler/The Pillars of the Community/The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of his pas ...Show more
Black Is the New White (Play) by Nakkiah Lui
$24.99 AUD
Category: Plays
The smash-hit play, in print for the first time with a forward and notes from multitalented playwright, writer, commentator and actor Nakkiah Lui. Winner of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting, NSW Premier's Awards
The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
"No Fear Shakespeare" gives you the complete text of "The Tempest" on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language ...Show more
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
$14.99 AUD
Category: Plays
A tragedy of doomed love between an Egyptian queen and a ruler of Rome, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is edited by Emrys Jones with an introduction by René Weis in Penguin Shakespeare. 'Eternity was in our lips and eyes,Bliss in our brows' bent' A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of ...Show more
Hamlet: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between moral integrity and the need for revenge following the murder of his father. Dealing with themes of love, death and revenge, Hamlet is a rich and complex tragedy that continues to entertain ...Show more
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
Hamlet: Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
$12.99 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more