Set in London, Saigon, San Francisco - and East Anglia - in the late 1960s, this title tells a true story of James Mossman, a difficult but brilliant BBC reporter and ex-MI6 agent, who killed himself in 1971.

Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late-Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper, who she deliberately leads on. This is Nicholas Wright’s new version of Wedekind’s early 20th century erotic drama.

Product Description: Transcripts of talks with Philip Pullman, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Nicholas Hytner and others. The discussions, which took place during the first run of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, are lively and entertaining debates about some of the themes in the trilogy...read more

Product Description: A dramatization of the time that Van Gogh spent in Brixton in the 1870s—a period before he became a painter and one that changed him completely. Vincent develops a rapport with a widow twice his age, which blossoms into a full-blown love affair, only to be cruelly curtailed by the arrival of his fiercely puritan young sister...read more

The companion volume to a six-part PBS television series, a tour of the British and American stage covers the gamut, from Pygmalion to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Copenhagen, in a richly illustrated volume that chronicles the history of twentieth-century theater on both sides of the Atlantic. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: THis work examines the soldier-peasant relationship in the context of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), aiming to bring out more closely the realities of the situation. It seeks an understanding of different attitudes: how aristocratic soldiers reconciled the ideals of chivalry with exploitation of non-combatants, and how French peasants reacted to the soldiery, drawing on the late-medieval literature of chivalry and political commentary in England and (especially) in France...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ranging back over twenty years, this volume contains a rich selection of work by a writer who has also been a quiet power behind the scenes of British theatre for three decades. Includes: Treetops, One Fine Day, The Custom of the Country, The Desert Air, and Mrs. Klein. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the seedy and glamorous backstage world of London theatre in 1630s. Women are still not allowed on stage, their roles being taken by precocious boys. Shank has been one of the best, but is now grudgingly reduced to teaching others the tricks of the trade...read more

Product Description: In 1997, Richard Eyre was invited by the BBC to write and present a series of programmes about the history of British theatre in the 20th century. Eyre decided to write a book first and then base his TV series on it. This is that book...read more

Product Description: This multi-authored work provides a comprehensive account of both general and systemic pathology in the modern context. Each chapter has been written by a panel of internationally acknowledged experts and incorporates the most recent advances in the field...read more

Full Cast recording. Starring, Lindsay Crouse, Julie Harris, Jobeth Williams. The air is thick with Freud and sex as eminent psychoanalyst Melanie Klein comes roaring to life in a 1930's drawing room. london offers the witty, overbearing Mrs. Klein refuge from rising European fascism. but perhaps her children are still in need of refuge -from her.

Product Description: This multi-authored work provides a comprehensive account of both general and systemic pathology in the modern context. Each chapter has been written by a panel of internationally acknowledged experts and incorporates the most recent advances in the field...read more

Product Description: This multi-authored work provides a comprehensive account of both general and systemic pathology in the modern context. Each chapter has been written by a panel of internationally acknowledged experts and incorporates the most recent advances in the field...read more