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This collection of plays by one of Britain's most controversial dramatists includes "The Ruling Class", "Leonardo's Last Supper and Noonday Demons", "The Bewitched", "Barnes' People: Eight Monologues".

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A mixture of social satire, comedy and tragedy. This volume contains two major plays, "Red Noses" and "Sunset Glories", and a series of three short plays on disability including "Nobody Here But Us Chickens". Two plays on figures from the past, "Columbus" and "Socrates" have also been included.

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A third collection of Peter Barnes plays which reflect his social satire and anarchic mix of comedy and tragedy. As one of Britain's most controversial dramatists, he repeatedly challenges the parameters of theatrical convention.

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A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values

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An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works. A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry. This irreverent comedy dissects the cult of the theatrical personality, with guest appearances from the Bard himself and Sir Peter Hall.

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Set in late 13th-century Italy, where power struggles erupt between the Church, the propertied and the landless. The conflict inspires such characters as the spineless Charles II, a paid killer, a mad woman and Pope Celestine V to provoke a crisis of faith. Barnes also wrote "The Ruling Class".

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In "To Be or Not to Be" (1942), Ernest Lubitsch brought his legendary comic touch to the most unpromising situation: life in Nazi-occupied Poland. In this study, Peter Barnes considers what it is to make comedy out of tragedy.