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The Merchant of Venice is classed as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but is more often remembered for its dramatic characters and situations.

Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London.

Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

'An exultant night - a man in total command of his talent.' Observer.

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher.

One of the most significant plays of the twentieth century, Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape is still as startlingly fresh and innovative as it was when it was first published nearly a hund

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.

This collection invites you to meet more than 40 individual women – both real and imagined – whom you could long to know as each moves through her own life's dance.

Carolyn Forché's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, when she travelled around a country erupting into civil war.

From one of America's most cherished and celebrated poets, a landmark collection of Nikki Giovanni's early work!

The original and classic The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas is available once again, now with a brilliant new preface by Paul Muldoon.

Shakespeare may get the lion's share of attention when it comes to early modern playwrights – but critics regard the era as something of a golden age of drama.

Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards – including the Governor General’s Award,

"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine.

This absurdist masterpiece by the author of Rhinoceros—"is explosively, liberatingly funny...a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs" (The Observer).