Plays – Globolibri.it

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies

Arnaldo Ageno — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:28:11 +0000

Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker’s Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl
Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays’ cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:33:17 +0000

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best.

Subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, by a butterfly for butterflies, it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment.

Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original.

Also included in this special collection are Wilde s first comedy success, Lady Windermere s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time.

Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet and an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer

Private Peaceful

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:32:12 +0000

Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line.
Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year, Private Peaceful is by the third Children’s Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse.

His inspiration came from a visit to Ypres where he was shocked to discover how many young soldiers were court-martialled and shot for cowardice during the First World War. This edition also includes introductory essays by Michael Morpurgo, Associate Director of Private Peaceful production Mark Leipacher, as well as an essay from Simon Reade, adaptor & director of this stage adaptation of Private Peaceful.