Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
Women on the Early Modern Stage
A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a...
by Simon Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Seasonal new play by London's most prolific and evocative playwright
People don't mourn out of love, they mourn out of fear and the fear makes them stop.
Michael, Billy and Giuseppe are biding their time before Christmas away from their loved ones. When Charlie comes in with his cello,...
by Mr David Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
"Trash for starters, Tories for seconds: David Eldridge is Serving it up again" (Independent)
Serving It Up "Combines a promising talent for spark, funny dialgue with a bleak vision of racism and rage in London's East End...What is astonishing is that it manages to be rancidly...
by Mr David Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Helge, the patriarch of a chain of restaurants, is celebrating his sixtieth birthday and everyone is coming home from the party including Helge's sons, Christian, Michael and his daughter Helene. Missing from the roster of invitees is Christian's twin sister, Linda, who recently committed suicide....
Holy Warriors
A Fantasia on the Third Crusade and the History of Violent Struggle in the Holy Lands
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
There is one in the Kingdom of England. Who goes by the name of Richard the Lionheart. My waking dreams tell me he will come upon us. He will come to these lands and make pilgrimage, conquest.
Saladin's great army have corrected a great wrong by taking Jerusalem back for Islam, after the barbaric...
Bond Plays: 6
The War Plays; Choruses from After the Assassinations
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Plays Six includes some of the most acclaimed work of Edward Bond, one of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, who is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author.
The collection includes The War Plays and Choruses from After the Assasinations....
Bond Plays: 5
The Bundle; Human Cannon; Jackets; In the Company of Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
One of Britain's greatest living contemporary dramatists, Edward Bond is widely studied by schools and colleges. The collection includes a commentary by the author.
The Bundle - "A complex and marvellously written play" (The Times); Jackets - "An astonishingly powerful piece...
Bond Plays: 7
The Crime of the Twenty-First Century; Olly's Prison; Coffee
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The latest collection of plays by one of Europe's most important playwrights.
THE CRIME OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: The past has been abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed. A woman lives in a vast desert of white rubble. A tiny group of people comes seeking a hiding place - and...
by Paul Murphy, Paul Murphy, James Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This Critical Companion to the work of one of Ireland's most famous and controversial playwrights, Sean O'Casey, is the first major study of the playwright's work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916...
by DC Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Produced as a programme text for the world premiere of the work at the Royal Court Theatre's Theatre Upstairs, Alaska explores the life and lies of Frank.
Frank is an ordinary bloke who likes smoking, history and playing House of the Dead 3. He can put up with his job on a cinema kiosk until...
by DC Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Common is a dark and disturbing journey into the carnivalesque world of early-Industrial Britain, exploring the personal and public traumas in the period of the enclosure.
Written with verve and wit by Olivier Award-nominated and Writers' Guild Award-winning playwright DC Moore, it tells the...
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller
All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible,...
Lorca Plays: 2
Shoemaker's Wife;Don Perlimplin;Puppet Play of Don Christobel;Butterfly's Evil Spell;When 5 Years
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer
The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Love of Don Perlimplín use an old story of the old man married to the young wife to expose the social attitudes of a traditional Spain bound by rigid concepts...
Lorca Plays: 3
The Public; Play without a Title; Mariana Pineda
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
"Lorca is one of the few indisputably great dramatists of the twentieth century" Observer
Mariana Pineda achieved immediate critical success on its first performance in Barcelona in 1927. The Public is a powerful and uncompromising demand for sexual, and specifically homosexual, freedom...