 | "Hamlet" (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.34 One of Shakespeare's finest. Sublime exploration of family bonds, the influence of power and insanity.
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 | "Othello" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £3.98 Another superb Shakespeare tragedy, with trust, jealousy and manipulation moving an entrancing plot along.
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 | Master Harold and the Boys (Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature) by Athol Fugard
Buy new: £13.26 / Used from: £11.37 I saw this at the Everyman in '03 and was amazed. A deep play exploring apartheid in the early '50s through a white boy's relationship with his parent's two black employees.
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 | A View from the Bridge and All My Sons (Penguin Modern Classics) by Arthur Miller
Buy new: £5.11 / Used from: £0.97 One of Miller's finest, and great to watch. Touches numerous subjects such as immigration & interracial dating without losing pace. I'm not familiar with the other featured play.
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 | The Glass Menagerie (Methuen drama) (Student Editions) by Tennessee Williams
Buy used from: £0.01 I read this at AS level and unfortunately never saw it performed. The metaphors are at times clumsy and too blatant, but the characters are perfect and as such the play is superbly endearing.
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 | Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £4.49 I saw this in an amazing performance by New Experience. A thought provoking play about relationships and roles in society, the tension steadily builds until the bursting climax. Enticing stuff.
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 | The Crucible (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Miller
Buy used from: £0.97 Everytime I read or see this I appreciate it more; simply put it's amazing. Miller's finest is the story of alleged witchcraft in Salem and the consequences. Great characters, tension and plot.
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 | Blood Brothers - A Musical (Methuen Student Editions) by Willy Russell
Buy new: £6.53 / Used from: £0.02 I prefer smaller, more thought-provoking plays, but Blood Brothers has everything it really should have. Sit back and enjoy.
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 | Mother Courage and Her Children (Methuen Student Editions) by Bertolt Brecht
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 I saw an awful modern renedition of this which unsuccesfully tried to tie in Britney Spears jokes. Fortunately the original is still a classic.
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest (Methuen Student Editions) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £0.01 I read this after seeing it performed by another year group as an A level set text for moderation. Wilde at his unsupressable best.
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 | "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £6.64 / Used from: £3.50 If a play still makes audiences laugh approaching 6 centuries after its release then you're onto a winner.
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 | The House of Bernarda Alba and other Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.75 Lorca's most notable work.
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 | The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien
Buy used from: £3.25 My favourite musical.
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 | An Actor Prepares (Eyre Methuen Drama Books) (Performance Books) by Constantin Stanislavski
Buy used from: £0.65 And here's the man to consult on playing the roles involved. Read all the books in this series, they'll prove invaluable.
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