Howard Brenton: 20 books

Book cover of Eternal Love (NHB Modern Plays)
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

A spellbinding new telling of a passionate and legendary love story. When Abelard begins a wild affair with his brilliant student Heloise, his enemies find the perfect pretext to destroy him. Abelard is already on thin ice with the church over his contentious views and when Heloise bears his...
Book cover of Doctor Scroggy's War (NHB Modern Plays)
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014

An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War. Jack Twigg, twenty-one years old, enlists in the London Regiment and goes on a journey he never imagined - nor did the rest of the world. On his way, he meets the pioneering medic Harold Gillies, who saves his...
Book cover of The Magna Carta Plays
by Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015

On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, four short plays inspired by the celebrated document. RANSOMED In the sleepy Cathedral City of Melchester, a crime has been committed. The Cathedral’s prize possession, a copy of the original Magna Carta, has been stolen in a daring heist. Who...
Book cover of Paul (NHB Modern Plays)
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain. The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus - was a trick. It was actually Jesus appearing to him. Jesus did not die on the cross but...
Book cover of Never So Good (NHB Modern Plays)
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century. Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at the Ritz, Never So Good paints the...
Book cover of The Shadow Factory (NHB Modern Plays)
by Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018

Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages. Southampton is home to our only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But, in one of many devastating raids on the town, the Luftwaffe destroy the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire factory. The Government requisitions local businesses to use as shadow factories...
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