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The Methuen World Classics series has for twenty years been regarded as the foremost collection of classical playscripts for a broad spectrum of readers, from students to theatre-goers. These authoritative and practical collections span the entire range of the established theatre repertoire, from Aeschylus to Wilde. The translations are designed to suit the needs of both scholars and performers. Each volume in the series contains a valuable and informative introduction.




    Aeschylus


    Aeschylus / Sophocles / Euripides

    • Six Greek Tragedies
      • Persians / Prometheus Bound / Women of Trachis / Philoctetes / Trojan Women / Bacchae


    Jean Anouilh

      • Antigone / Léocadia / The Waltz of the Toreadors / The Lark / Poor Bitos
      • The Rehearsal / Becket / Eurydice / The Orchestra


    John Arden

      • The Waters of Babylon / When is a Door Not a Door? / Live Like Pigs / Serjeant Musgrave's Dance / The Happy Haven
      • The Workhouse Donkey / The Bagman / Armstrong's Last Goodnight / Left-Handed Liberty / The True Story of Squire Jonathan and His Unfortunate Treasure


    John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy

      • The Business of Good Government / The Royal Pardon / The Little Gray Home in the West / Ars Longa Vita Brevis / Friday's Hiding / Vandaleur's Folly / Immediate Rough Theatre


    Aristophanes

      • The Acharnians / The Knights / Peace / Lysistrata
      • The Wasps / The Clouds / The Birds / Festival Time / The Frogs


    Aristophanes / Menander

      • Women in Power / Wealth / The Malcontent / The Woman from Samos


    Aristophanes / Menander / Euripides

      • Birds / Frogs / Women in Power / The Woman from Samos / Cyclops / Alkestis


    Brendan Behan

      • The Hostage / The Quare Fellow / Richard's Cork Leg / Moving Out / A Garden Party / The Big House


    Aphra Behn

      • The Lucky Chance / The Rover (part 1) / The Widow Ranter / The False Count / Abdelazer


    Bertolt Brecht

      • Baal / Drums in the Night / In the Jungle of Cities / The Life of Edward II of England / A Respectable Wedding / The Beggar or the Dead Dog / Driving Out a Devil / Lux in Tenebris / The Catch
      • Man Equals Man / The Elephant Calf / The Threepenny Opera / The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny / The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie
      • St Joan of the Stockyards / The Mother / Lindbergh's Flight / The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent / He Said Yes/He Said No / The Decision / The Exception and the Rule / The Horatians and the Curiatians
      • Round Heads and Pointed Heads / Fear and Misery of the Third Reich / Señora Carrar's Rifles / The Trial of Lucullus / Dansen / How Much Is Your Iron?
      • Life of Galileo / Mother Courage and Her Children
      • The Good Person of Szechwan / The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui / Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
      • The Good Person of Szechwan / The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui / Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
      • The Visions of Simone Machard / Schweyk in the Second World War / The Caucasian Chalk Circle / The Duchess of Malfi
      • The Antigone of Sophocles / The Days of the Commune / Turandot or The Whitewashers' Congress


    Georg Büchner

      • Danton's Death / Leonce and Lena / Woyzeck / The Hessian Courier / Lenz / On Cranial Nerves and Selected Letters


    Mikhail Bulgakov

      • The White Guard / Madame Zoyka / Flight / Moliere / Adam and Eve / The Last Days.


    Pedro Calderón de la Barca

      • The Surgeon of Honour / Life is a Dream / Three Judgements in One


    Karel Capek

      • R. U. R. / The Insect Play / The Makropulos Case / The White Plague.


    Anton Chekhov

      • The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard / four vaudevilles
      • Adapted by David Hare
      • A New Version by David Lan


    Noël Coward

      • Hay Fever / The Vortex / Fallen Angels / Easy Virtue
      • Private Lives / Bitter-Sweet / The Marquise / Post-Mortem
      • Design for Living / Cavalcade / Conversation Piece / Tonight at 8.30 (i)
      • Blithe Spirit / Present Laughter / This Happy Breed / Tonight at 8.30 (ii)
      • Relative Values / Look After Lulu / Waiting in the Wings / Suite in Three Keys
      • Semi-Monde / Point Valaine / South Sea Bubble
      • Quadrille / "Peace in Our Time" / Tonight at 8.30 (iii) (We Were Dancing, Shadow Play, Family Album, Star Chamber)
      • I'll Leave it to You / The Young Idea / "This was a Man"


    Eduardo de Filippo

      • The Local Authority / Grand Magic / Filumena / Marturano


    Ramon del Valle-Inclan

      • Divine Words / Bohemian Lights / Silver Face


    Alfred de Musset

      • The Moods of Marianne / Fantasio / Lorenzaccio / Don't Play with Love / Caprice


    Lope de Vega / Rojas Zorrilla

      • The Duchess of Amalfi's Steward / The Capulets and Montagues / Cleopatra


    Euripides

      • Medea / The Phoenician Women / Bacchae
      • Hecuba / The Women of Troy / Iphigenia at Aulis / Cyclops
      • Alkestis / Helen / Ion
      • Elektra / Orestes / Iphigeneia in Tauris
      • Andromache / Herakles' Children / Herakles
      • Hippolytos / Suppliants / Rhesos


    Georges Feydeau

      • Heart's Desire Hotel / Sauce for the Goose / The One That Got Away / Now You See It and Pig in a Poke
      • The Girl from Maxim's / She's All Yours / A Flea in Her Ear / Jailbird


    Max Frisch

      • The Fire Raisers / Andorra / Triptych


    John Galsworthy

      • Strife / Justice / The Eldest Son / The Skin Game


    Nikolai Gogol

      • The Government Inspector / Marriage / The Gamblers


    Maxim Gorky

      • Enemies / The Lower Depths / Summerfolk / Children of the Sun / Barbarians
      • The Zykovs / Egor Bulychov / Vassa Zheleznova (The Mother) / The Last Ones


    Harley Granville-Barker

      • The Voysey Inheritance / Waste / The Secret Life / Rococo / Vote by Ballot
      • The Marrying of Ann Leete / The Madras House / His Majesty / Farewell to the Theatre


    Adrian Henri


    Victor Hugo

      • Hernani / Marion de Lorme / Lucrece Borgia / Ruy Blas


    Henrik Ibsen

      • Ghosts / The Wild Duck / The Master Builder
      • A Doll's House / An Enemy of the People / Hedda Gabler
      • Rosmersholm / The Lady from the Sea / Little Eyolf
      • The Pillars of Society / John Gabriel Borkman / When We Dead Awaken
      • Brand / Emperor and Galilean
      • Peer Gynt / the Pretenders


    Alfred Jarry

      • Ubu Rex / Ubu Cuckolded / Ubu Enchained


    Federico Garcia Lorca

      • Blood Wedding / Doña Rosita the Spinster / Yerma
      • The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife / The Love of Don Perlimplín / The Puppet Play of Don Cristóbal / The Butterfly's Evil Spell / When Five Years Pass
      • Mariana Pineda / The Public / Play Without a Title


    Pierre Marivaux

      • The Double Inconstancy / The False Servant / The Game of Love and Chance / Careless Vows / The Feigned Inconstancy / Five one-act pieces


    W. Somerset Maugham

      • Sheppey / The Sacred Flame / The Circle / The Constant Wife / Our Betters
      • For Services Rendered / The Letter / Home and Beauty / Lady Frederick


    Molière

      • The Misanthrope / Tartuffe / The School for Wives / The Miser / The Hypochondriac


    Joe Orton

      • Entertaining Mr Sloane / Loot / What the Butler Saw / The Ruffian on the Stair / The Erpingham Camp / Funeral Games / The Good and Faithful Servant.


    Arthur Pinero

      • The Magistrate / The Second Mrs Tanqueray / Trelawny of the 'Wells'


    Luigi Pirandello

      • The Rules of the Game / Six Characters in Search of an Author / Henry IV


    Plautus / Terence

      • Plautus: The Haunted House / Casina, or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding; Terence: The Eunuch / Brothers


    Terence Rattigan

      • French Without Tears / The Winslow Boy / The Browning Version / Harlequinade
      • The Deep Blue Sea / Separate Tables / In Praise of Love / Before Dawn


    Sophocles

      • Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonnus / Antigone
      • Ajax / Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes


    August Strindberg

      • The Father / Miss Julie / The Ghost Sonata
      • A Dream Play / The Dance of Death / The Stronger
      • Master Olof / Creditors / To Damascus


    J M Synge

      • In the Shadow of the Glen / Riders to the Sea / The Tinker's Wedding / The Well of the Saints / The Playboy of the Western World / Deirdre of the Sorrows


    Frank Wedekind

      • Spring Awakening / Lulu: A Monster Tragedy


    Oscar Wilde

      • Lady Windermere's Fan / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / A Woman of No Importance / Salome / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or, The Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtesane



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