Books in the Oberon Modern Plays series

A new play about our prejudices and identity in the age of suicide bombings in Europe by award-winning Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri.

Third Angel brings you a conspiracy theory documentary-exposedetective story for the 21st century that asks: What aren't youlooking at? #TheDepartmentOfDistractions

In a cheap house made of plywood and glue, notions of masculinity and femininity become weapons with which to defeat the old order. But in Taylor Mac's sly, subversive comedy, annihilating the past doesn't always free you from it.

Ghosts is published to coincide with the Gate Theatre's production of Amelia Bullmore's new translation of Ibsen's classic.

Buchner is often considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck"was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of itsbasic story, there are complex themes of human motivation, victimisation, guilt, class, and the meaning and nature ofexistence. This edition incorporates recent research and full Introduction and Notes."

An electrifying new version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, by visionary director Benedict Andrews.

An elegant and spellbinding stage adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel, Mansfield Park opened in Theatre Royal, Bath in 2012, and is back by popular demand, touring the UK in 2013.

In a new adaptation for London's Gate Theatre, award winning British playwright Nick Payne retells the story of Sophocles Electra in a visceral and powerful new stage version.

A play by critically acclaimed and prize-winning playwright, Shelley Silas, this original and funny play explores cultural traditions and clashes.

This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean.

Frantic Assembly fuses a taut adaptation of the classic text with its trademark hard-hitting choreography.

A new translation of French poet and dramatist Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by British playwright and acclaimed transltor Ranjit Bolt. Originally opened at the Bristol Old Vic.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ranks as one of the greatest figures in European drama and literature.

Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's law overruling the laws of the gods. The clash between her and Creon with its tragic consequences have inspired continual reinterpretation. This translation was made for a BBC TV production of the "Theban Plays" in 1986.

Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.

The story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia, "The Government Inspector", Gogol's masterpiece was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language.

Sophocles' age-old existential questions are asked again, and are found to be as relevant as ever. In a translation from playwright, tv presenter and journalist Keith Dewhurst. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize.

A bestselling stage adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel.

Tartuffe, or The Impostor (pronounced: [taRtuf]; French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Moliere, and the characters of Tartuffe, Valere, and Dorine are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. This is a translation for the stage by Ranjit Bolt.

The story of a man who preserves his youth while his portrait visibly deteriorates with time.

A murdered King. A usurped Prince. A promise of revenge. Returning to court to find his father murdered and his mother married to the murderer, Hamlet faces a terrible dilemma. This is Shakespeare's great tragedy of passion, corruption and revenge.

Regarded as Von Kleist's masterpiece. Prince Friedrich of Homburg is the indisputable dramatic masterpiece of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), a leading figure, along with Goethe and Schiller, among early German Romantics.

Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, "Absolute Hell" is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was directed by Anthony Page.

"Shakespeare's dexterous comedy of two twin masters and two twin servants continually mistaken for one another is both farce and more than farce. The Comedy of Errors examines the interplay between personal and commercial relationships, and the breakdown of social order that follows the disruption of identity" --

A new dramatization of one of the angriest, funniest and most deeply felt stories about childhood ever written.

Two years after its disastrous opening in 1896, "The Seagull" was successfully revived at the Moscow Art Theatre. Checkhov's self-mocking description of the play was: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".

A masterpiece of Russian drama, now in a student edition

Wedekind's play about adolescent sexuality is as disturbing today as when it was first produced