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  • - The Palace of the Truth, Sweethearts, Princess Toto, Engaged, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
    by William Schwenck Gilbert
    £27.99

    This edition includes four plays and one libretto, covering more than twenty years of the dramatist's career.

  • - Still Waters Run Deep, The Contested Election, The Overland Route, The Ticket-of-Leave Man
    by Tom Taylor
    £27.99

    Tom Taylor was one of the most successful and popular playwrights of the Victorian theatre. His plays are humorous and theatrically powerful, showing a social concern that was advanced for his times - particularly on matters such as the rehabilitation of criminals and corruption in public life.

  • by Henry Arthur Jones
    £22.49

    By the turn of the century Henry Arthur Jones was among the most prominent British dramatists. This volume contains three of Jones's plays representing the best of his work in different styles: melodrama and society drama. Russell Jackson's full introduction places Jones in the context of late victorian society and theatre.

  • - All the Comforts of Home, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes
    by Don B. Wilmeth & Rosemary Cullen
    £27.99

    The American playwright and actor William Gillette is best remembered today for the role of Sherlock Holmes that he first created for the stage in 1899 and played for more than thirty years. This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899).

  • - The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance, Waste
    by Harley Granville-Barker
    £27.99

    Harley Granville Barker, one of the most versatile figures in twentieth-century theatre, was the leader of the campaign to reform the English stage in the Edwardian period.

  • by Susan Glaspell
    £24.99

    A cofounder of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell can also lay claim to be a major figure in her own right. Her concern with language as subject, character as an expression of social role, plot as a mechanism that may ensnare rather than locate the self, mode her a modern.

  • - The Schoolmistress, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Trelawny of the 'Wells', The Thunderbolt
     
    £22.49

    This volume contains four plays by the leading late Victorian and Edwardian playwright Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934). It provides a representative sample of the work of a writer who far outshone his rivals (including both Wilde and Shaw) in his own day.

  • - The Babes in the Wood, The Lancashire Lass, Our Boys, The Gaiety Gulliver
    by H.J. Byron
    £27.99

    This volume introduces the works of an important but neglected dramatist, one of the most prolific and popular of the mid-Victorian period. H. J. Byron wrote an enormous number of comedies, burlesques and pantomimes. He invented the characters of Widow Twankay and Buttons, still beloved by modern pantomime audiences.

  • - The Vampire, the Garrick Fever, Beauty and the Beast, Foutunio and his Seven Gifted Servants, The Golden Fleece, The Camp at the Olympic, The Discreet Princess
     
    £27.99

    James Robinson Planche was one of the most prolific and successful of nineteenth-century playwrights. In a career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred and eighty pieces of all types, from pantomime and farce to melodrama and opera, for production at a wide range of London theatres.

  • - Society, Ours, Caste, School
    by Thomas William Robertson
    £27.99

    This edition comprises four of Robertson's most successful comedies: Society (1865), Ours (1866), Caste (1867), and School (1869).

  • by David Garrick & George Colman
    £27.99

    As playwrights David Garrick and George Colman the Elder showed themselves to be practical men of the theatre, providing excellent acting parts and well-constructed scenes capable of provoking laughter in any age.

  • - Inkle and Yarico, The Surrender of Calais, The Children in the Wood, Blue Beard or Female Curiosity, Speed the Plough
    by George Colman & Thomas Morton
    £27.99

    This volume contains edited texts of five plays by two late eighteenth-century dramatists.

  • - A Flash of Lightning, Horizon, Love on Crutches
     
    £26.99

    The American playwright and manager-director Augustin Daly dominated the theatrical scene in the United States during the last half of the nineteenth century. His plays and productions set a new standard for American theatre and exerted a strong influence in England, beginning with a first European tour in 1884 and culminating in the opening of Daly's own theatre in London in 1893.

  • by Dion Boucicault
    £27.99

    Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative. Irish in origin, he worked and wrote in England and America where for twenty years he led the touring circuit.

  • - Masks and Faces, The Courier of Lyons, It is Never too Late to Mend
    by Charles Reade
    £27.99

    This edition contains the three most important works of Charles Reade (1814-1884). Reade adapted the social purpose and concern for detail of the realistic novel to the stage. He was much concerned with poverty, the brutality of the prison regime of his time and the abuse of mental asylums.

  • - The Minor, The Nabob, The Citizen, Three Weeks After Marriage, Know Your Own Mind
     
    £27.99

    For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy. The plays are The Minor and The Nabob by Foote and The Citizen, Three Weeks after Marriage and Know Your Own Mind by Murphy.

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