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Description"This edition has a very helpful introduction and good clear text, as well as the exceptionally excellent and detailed notes."Dr Michael Herbert, St Andrews University''a useful treatment of a complex play'Barry Gaines, University of New Mexico, Shakespeare QuarterlyJohn Wilders - literar..

DescriptionThe action of the play is as inevitable and eloquent as in Antigone: a clash of values and cultures so fundamental that tragedy issues: a tragedy for each individual, each tribe" Daily Telegraph "This play, by the winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature, asks: 'On the authority of what god..

SynopsisThe iconic multi-million bestselling novel from Louis Sachar. Hilarious, inventive and wonderfully compelling, this is an unmissable modern classic. WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justi..

DescriptionMuch Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry.Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-..

DescriptionSweet Bird of Youth is Tennessee William's atmospheric play of 1959 about Chance Wayne, the one-time heart-throb of his hometown who returns hoping to break into the movies and find the girl he loved in his youth. Accompanied by faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, grieving in a haz..

Genre: Tragicomedy.Plot:First Half: Leontes, King of Sicilia, becomes consumed by jealousy and falsely accuses his wife, Hermione, of infidelity with his best friend, Polixenes, King of Bohemia. He imprisons Hermione and orders the abandonment of their newborn daughter, Perdita.Second Half: The stor..

Why do we think of clusters of films as 'national cinema'? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? "Theorising National Cinema" is a major contribution to work on national cinema, by many of the leading scholars in the field. It addresses the ..