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"There was no writer like him. . . prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination" (Arthur Miller)

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The first volume in the Coward Collection, introduced by Sheridan Morley.

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The second volume in the Coward Collection, including Private Lives, Bitter-Sweet, The Marquise and Post-Mortem.

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The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties.

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Volume Four of Nol Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties.

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The fifth volume in the Coward Collection, containing Coward's best work from the last two decades of his life.

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The sixth volume in the Coward Collection, including Semi-Monde.

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The Seventh Coward volume, including four pieces from the Tonight at 8.30 sequence.

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This anthology contains three of Coward's early plays: "I'll Leave it to You"; "The Young Idea"; and "This Was a Man". The first two of the plays - the first of Coward's to ever be produced - were enthusiastically acclaimed on their release. The third was banned for "facetious adultery".

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In the 1920s and 1930s, Nol Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch, short and often topical or satirical stage pieces. This volume collects Coward's best and most witty pieces.

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These plays include "Napoli Milionaria" produced at the Royal National Theatre in 1991. Eduardo De Filippo was one of Italy's leading popular dramatists. His plays focus on the lives of the Neapolitan people, their cunning nourished by centuries of hunger, their fantasies and their love of life.

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Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), now widely regarded as one of the greatest farce writers, had a succession of hits in turn-of-the-century Paris. This first volume of his collected works includes early successes such as "Pig in a Poke" (1888) and more mature pieces such as "Heart's Desire Hotel".

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Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, Georges Feydeau's plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment, and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. This volume contains four plays.

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This volume contains three of Max Frisch's plays in which he charts the clash between the individual and society. Beyond the deliberately grotesque situation, an important ingredient of each play is language.

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John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues he raise

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All three of Gogol's most satirical plays are translated in this collection by Stephen Mulrine, who also includes a complete introduction to Gogol's theatre and a chronology of the Russian writer's work.

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Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays

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This collection of four plays, written at the turn of the 20th century, chart the descent of Russia into revolution.

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These plays are from the major British director of the first quarter of this century. His best-known plays including "Waste", were written as contributions to his company's repertoire of modern drama for a national theatre. "Waste" and "The Voysey Inheritance" played at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival.

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Harley Granville Barker's plays are enjoying a revival. This volume contains four plays: "The Marrying of Ann Leete", "The Madras House" - recently performed at the Edinbugh Festival and the Lyric, Hammersmith - "His Majesty" and "Farewell To The Theatre".

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These three plays, in translations by Michael Meyer, show Ibsen's concerns moving from the study of social problems to the sickness of individuals, and focus in particular on the way in which one person may gain a hypnotic hold over another.

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This sixth volume of Ibsen's plays, introduced by the playwright's biographer, contains "Peer Gynt", one of the greatest of 19th-century verse epics and one of Ibsen's most popular and frequently-performed works, and "The Pretenders", an earlier epic that was his first theatrical success.

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Written at the height of Lorca's theatrical powers, these three tradgedies display his innovative mix of Spanish popular tradition and modern dramtic technique. They focus on the lives of passionate individuals, particularly women, trapped by the social conventions of peasant communitie