Author: | Robert Bolt |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Modern Classics |
A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual freedom. Throughout the play Sir Thomas More's eloquence and endu... read more
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Wordsworth Classics |
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the ma... read more
Author: | Martin Sherman |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Modern Plays |
First major theatrical adaptation of EM Forster's classic novel for a contemporary audience Before deciding whether to marry Chandrapore's local magistrate, Adela Quested wants to discover the "real India" for herself. Newly arrived from England, she agrees to see the Marabar C... read more
Author: | A.B. Paterson |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Poetry Library |
Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson may fairly be regarded as Australia's national poet. 'Waltzing Matilda', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'The Man from the Snowy River' still strike a chord in the hearts of Australians wherever they may be, evoking, as they do, the rough li... read more
Author: | Clare Morpurgo |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Pippa loves staying with her Aunty Peggy. She loves going for walks, whether it's sunshiney or cold long, wandering walks where her wellies take her. Follow Pippa into the beautiful countryside as her day unfolds, and the wildlife, animals and people she encounters are co... read more
Author: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally MinogueElizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a l... read more
Author: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Wordsworth Poetry Library |
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull.
Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most r... read more
Author: | John Donne |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Wordsworth Poetry Library |
Edited with an Introduction, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography and Glossary by Roy Booth, Royal Holloway College, University of London.
John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subj... read more
Author: | William Shakespeare |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Wordsworth Classics |
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the res... read more
Author: | John Keats |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Poetry Library |
'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death, ' John Keats soberly prophesied in 1818 as he started writing the blankverse epic Hyperion. Today he endures as the archetypal Romantic genius who explored the limits of the imagination and celebrated the... read more
Author: | Rupi Kaur |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Reading Level: | very good |
Awards: |
A hardcover gift edition of Milk and Honey, the #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, ... read more
Author: | David Williamson |
Category: |
Poetry & Plays |
Series: | Current Theatre |
To survive the 90s you've got to be lucky, rich or able to tell Brilliant Lies (2 acts, 4 men, 3 women).