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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of London's Royal Court Theatre

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The "Actors on Shakespeare" series draws on the contemporary relevance of, and enjoyment to be found in, Shakespeare. Each book provides an introduction to a particular play from an individual actor's perspective; here Harriet Walter offers her view of Lady Macbeth and "Macbeth".

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This collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today. It includes the plays Dealing with Clair, Play with Repeats, Getting Attention and The Treatment, and is introduced by the author.

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Written in a spare and lyrical language, Midwinter is a play about now, about love, self and a world made from conflict. Midwinter premiered as part of the RSC New Work Festival at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in October 2004.

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Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1980s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Howard Barker, Jim Cartwright, Sarah Daniels and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

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Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. The 1990s volume freshly evaluates the work of Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Anthony Neilson and Philip Ridley, besides others.

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The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art of Success and In the Ruins, his intelligent and original political parable Zenobia and his chilling adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.

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In 1964, at the age of thirty-three, James Earl Jones won an Obie award for his portrayal of Othello in Joseph Papp's production in Central Park, New York. He brings his vast wealth of experience to this book and articulates the themes and issues in the play, looking at the personal and universal significance of the drama.

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The plays collected here follow the journeys of Pericles, prince of Tyre; the political and romantic betrayals of Cymbeline, a chieftain of ancient times; and a work based on Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale." Revised and repackaged.

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Counterpointing the experiences of a fiercely intelligent Englishwoman flown into France as a secret agent during the Second World War with her life in the following twenty years, the author offers a view of post-war history, as well as making a powerful statement about changing values and the collapse of ideals embodied in a single life.

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This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations.

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One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principal themes and styles of the work of Samuel Beckett. It also places it in the context of modern theatre, and includes a select bibliography.

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Doren deftly guides the reader though the sometime labyrinthine intricacies of Shakespeare's rich and strange language, the better to reveal the mysteries at the heart of his achievement.

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Brings to life Shakespeare's England and the original production of his plays.

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Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum.

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What's so funny about Shakespeare's comedies

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The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did