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Irish Appropriation of Greek Tragedy [PDF ebook] 

Oliver Cotton is a British stage and screen actor, well known for his work on stage, TV and film. In this, his first published stage play, Cotton draws on his own experience as he presents two actors …

‘Here”s to Col”s numpty maw and paw for leaving him home alone and expecting everything to stay the way it was. Suckas!’ When you”re only sixteen, could the events of one night really shape the co …

Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, ”domestic tragedy” was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from …

I suppose I”m a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny” Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from hi …

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare”s plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakesp …

Othello”s Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and m …

‘I looked around the room and I thought, I”m the only person in this room that hasn”t killed anyone’ Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint. The writer, di …

As You Like It: Language and Writing explores one of Shakespeare”s best-known comedies. It considers the literary and theatrical contexts in which Shakespeare was writing; examines, in detail, the d …

Search Party by George Birmingham is a gripping mystery and adventure novel centered around a suspenseful search operation. The story unfolds as a group of individuals becomes embroiled in a complex …

"All for Love, or The World Well Lost" by John Dryden is a classic tragedy that delves into the tumultuous and tragic love affair between Antony and Cleopatra, set against a backdrop of pol …