Author: Arthur Miller Written in 1945, Focus was Arthur Miller's first novel and one of the first books to directly confront American anti-Semitism. It remains as chilling and incisive today...

Jean Genet The two plays featured in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In...

Leslie Dunkling

William Shakespeare An international team of scholars offers: modernised, easily accessible texts ample but unobtrusive academic guidance attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history informative...

  William Shakespeare David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind...

William Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation...

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration,...

Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka has translated—in both language and spirit—a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus...

Bella MerlinThe Complete Stanislavsky ToolkitA hands on, step-by-step guide to Stanislavsky's famous "System" illustrating, with exercises, each of his famous acting techniques. The book is organized into three sections -...

Tennessee WilliamsThe story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.

Author: William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and Julius Caesar are the two comedies and two tragedies in this collection. Set in Venice, Athens, Denmark...

Clive BarkerThe games decribed in this handbook are all designed to enable anyone involved in acting to develop their technique without inhibition or artificiality. Actor, director and drama teacher, Clive...