Product Description: Cicero returns to continue his struggle to grasp supreme power in the state of Rome. Amidst treachery, vengeance, violence, and treason, this brilliant lawyer, orator, and philosopher finally reaches the summit of all his ambitions...read more

Drawing on a lifetime's experience of playing Shakespearean roles, the author offers advice to actors, directors and drama students on a variety of scenes, characters, speeches and individual lines from Shakespeare's plays. He takes us through the process of Preparation, Rehearsal and Performance.

The Great Poets series launched in 2007 has proven very popular, offering many of the best-loved poems by popular poets in an inexpensive 1 CD collection. Here is a selection of the well-known poems by William Wordsworth (1770-1850). One of the major figures of the English Romantic movement, Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death. In this popular collection are many of his best-known poems, including I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Tintern Abbey.

Product Description: Though famous for War and Peace, Tolstoy was equally adept at shorter works as is shown by this novella. Ivan Ilyich Golovin is a high court judge living a carefree life in St Petersburg. One day, without warning, he is beset by pains and soon has to come to terms with the fact that he is going to die...read more

Product Description: The book is both an in-depth analysis of the play, in which Davies looks at the many possible interpretations of both play and character, and a rehearsal diary in which we see the author’s personal journey through the role, from when he played Lear for the Almeida Theatre in 2002...read more