Literature & Fiction - British & Irish

Two plays for young people In Eleven Vests, one person is involved in two events; one at school, another as a soldier in the army. Although separat...

Love Me or Kill Meis the first study of Sarah Kane, the most significant British dramatist in post-war theater. It covers all of Kane's major plays...

'Michael Field' (1884-1914) was the pseudonym of two women, the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived and wrote together as ...

Two hard-hitting plays linked by the theme of retribution, exploring the medias fascination with serial killers, and the fall-out from infidelity i...

John Ford's savage play of incestuous love retains its power to shock even contemporary audiences, and yet is also a moving and restrained explorat...

Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, despair, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the ...

"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose.??First of all because we women have been crying for two thousand years. So let's laugh now, even at o...

Comedy, tragedy, and history are masterfully represented in this anthology of Shakespeare's works. Features "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a celebrat...

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from c...

"Those are markers to lead you home," the captain told his son. "People here call them Inukshuks. They say some are as old as time." David wondered...

Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613, this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic nature even in the...

Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's play, not published until 1778. Sebastian reclaims his betrothed from Antonio...

A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point the story of one of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time. Sim...

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader?s notes to help the modern reader contend with Ibsen?s approach to ...

Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the life of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic depe...

Following the logic of a dream-in which characters merge, locations change in an instant, and a locked door recurs obsessively-Strindberg's 1902 "A...

Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof. They concoct a pl...

Its the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows whats causing them, but that doesnt stop people going missing in them. Now Ste...

The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the worlds most celebrated dramatist. Along with a clear, easy-to...

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a writer of great versatility, and his career as a London dramatist spans the most productive, innovative, and exc...