The Complete Works of J.M. Synge by J. M. Synge
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The literary and dramatic work of J.M. Synge is most famous for the 'riots' provoked by his 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World and, indeed, this was neither the first nor the last time that Synge's dramas incited passionate disagreements. But, one hundred years on, it's clear that his writings a ...Show more
As You Like it - Wordsworth Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a pr ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems by William Wordsworth
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield. Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject-matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period an ...Show more
Works of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Dr Tim Cook. Robert Browning (1812-1889) represents the intellectual and argumentative strand in English poetry in contrast to the more ornate style of Spenser and Tennyson. His poetry demonstrates how a poet must be a sharp perceptive observer of the complexity of the human con ...Show more
Chapman's Homer :The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Brilliant Lies by David Williamson
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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).
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen. The drama ranges between the destructively si ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth classics
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, 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 material ...Show more
No Sugar by Jack Davis
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Currency Plays
The family problems of Western Australian Aborigines in the 1930s (4 acts, 12 men, 8 women).
The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: good-very good
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages ...Show more
The Collected Poems of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Library
With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eightee ...Show more