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Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright who also served as a Whig member of the British House of Commons for over 30 years.  Sheridan’s most famous plays are The Rivals and The School for Scandal.  This edition of The School for Scandal includes a table of contents.

Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. Winner of the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize A devout Quaker, her wealthy husband, a freed American slave and her emancipator come together in 1840s Dublin. As they interact, each is revealed to be rather less...

George Bernard Shaw was a prolific Irish playwright who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.  Shaw’s famous plays include Man and Superman and Pygmalion which was adapted into the classic musical My Fair Lady.  This edition of Getting Married includes a table of contents.

According to Wikipedia.com, George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his...

The Duchess of Padua by the Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet,Oscar Wilde.The Duchess of Padua is a play,it is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down,...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than...

With words written from the heart by the Irish poet, Patrick W Kavanagh and complemented by the Inspirational art of Vancouver artist, Bill Oliver, we are taken on a journey to many different places and times. In the worlds of the imagination, based on reflections of their own lives, memories and...

"The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama" is a 1909 play in one act by George Bernard Shaw. Described by Shaw as a religious tract in dramatic form, it was originally refused a performance licence due to comments made by the protagonist about God, considered blasphemous...

‘Do you know what they call someone who doesn’t drink, by the way, the Irish...? A pioneer. Isn’t that gas? A pioneer. Like you’re discovering a new continent.’ On a Friday night in Dublin, Stephen Hanrahan ushers a young female colleague in from the summer rain to what was once his...

Michael hasn’t been back to Ireland in almost twenty years. Having been kicked out of the seminary and exiled from his family home, he found himself in London, by accident rather than design. But now, the death of his mother sees him back in the small town where he grew up. The place that chewed...

“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” is a lengthy narrative poem written by the English poet Lord Byron, and was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describes the travels and thoughts of two characters who, disillusioned with a life of idleness and pleasure, seek a new life in foreign lands; altogether,...

Declared by Swinburne as having 'no parallel in all the range of tragedy', Doctor Faustus is considered Christopher Marlowe's greatest work. This edition of his play gathers together both published versions of The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus, from the Quarto of 1604, and the Quarto of 1616,...

“Extraordinary. . . . This is no butterfly-watching stroll through a life.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times David Hare has long been one of Britain’s best-known screenwriters and dramatists. He’s the author of more than thirty acclaimed plays that have appeared on Broadway, in the...

Taking a unique look at one of the world's most acclaimed and best-loved poets, 'Robert Burns, A Very Peculiar History' provides a fascinating insight into the life and times of Scotland's bard. Take a wee stroll through his romantic yet tragic life, and join him on his journey from underdog to celebrity....