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In this love comedy, Lyly retells an ancient legend of the prolonged sleep of the man with whom the moon (Cynthia) fell in love. This edition makes an argument for the relevance of "Endymoin" to the threat of the Spanish Armada invasion of 1588 and to the role of the Earl of Oxford in England's politics of that decade.

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Contains the story of a search for a new heart, about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost.

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A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the seventeenth century to today.

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A collection of plays that features Crucifixion and Resurrection.

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Published to tie-in with the world premier at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in March 2005.

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The first collection by Sweden's foremost contemporary playwright

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One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic in Lucy Prebble's second stage play, produced at Chichester Festival Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre in 2009. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of the corporation Enron and its founding partners.

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One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic in Lucy Prebble's second stage play, produced at Chichester Festival Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre in 2009. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners.

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An anniversary edition of Entertaining Mr Sloane, with a new critical introduction, which offers an opportunity to reappraise both Orton's reputation as a playwright and the status of his play, plus a selection of previously unpublished photographs from the Orton archive.

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States that "Epicene" is one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. This book analyzed the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and performed at the little-known Whitefriars Theatre. It discusses the composition of the play, which took place during a critical period in Jonson's life and career.

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This text is part of the New Mermaids series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.

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This anthology contains three of Euripides' tragedies: "Medea" concerns an abandoned wife who murders her children; "The Phoenician Women" adds a further twist to the story of Oedipus and Jocasta; and "Bacchae" is a macabre play about the power of Dionysos and unreason.

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This anthology includes four translations of the Athenian tragedian, Euripides. "Cyclops" is a satyr play, one of the oldest forms of drama, whilst "Hecuba", "Iphigenia at Aulis" and "The Women of Troy" centre on the Trojan War and the horrors of mental and physical contact.

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This collection of three plays by Euripides includes: "Alkestis", a romance with parallels to Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"; "Helen", an alternative version of the myth of the Trojan War; and "Ion", a portrayal of childlessness and the abandoned child.

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The three plays by Euripides in this volume - "Elektra", "Orestes" and "Iphigeneia in Tauris", show the consequences of Agamemnon's "sacrifice" of his daughter at the start of the Trojan War.

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Written at the time of the Peloponnesian War (425-420 BC), the three plays in this volume - "Andromache", "Herakles' Children" and "Herakles" - highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war.

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The collection in this volume is intended for both performers and readers. It includes translations of "Hippolytos", "Suppliants" and "Rhesos".

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"Europe", a play inspired by Bosnian refugees waiting in a bus on the border for a country prepared to grant them asylum, is a black, bleak comedy. The protagonist of "Architect", Leo Black, used to be an idealistic architect, but now his buildings and his family are falling apart.

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A real-life story of gender transition and the search for identity

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