Books from Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

  • The Rover: Revised edition
    The Rover: Revised edition
    By Aphra Behn

    This new edition contains a completely new introduction, and takes into account important criticism from the past decade, as well as a new understanding of the nature of theatre in Behn's time, and the significance of her contribution to ...

  • Harvey Plays: 2: Guiding Star , Hushabye Mountain , Out in the Open
    Harvey Plays: 2: Guiding Star , Hushabye Mountain , Out in the Open
    By Jonathan Harvey

    A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme "JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous" Sunday Times GUIDING STAR: "Dry, funny ...

  • Story of the Scene: The inside scoop on famous moments in film
    Story of the Scene: The inside scoop on famous moments in film
    By Roger Clarke

    This book features the behind-the-scenes stories of eighty important moments in film history, both on and off the screen.

  • Drama and Digital Arts Cultures
    Drama and Digital Arts Cultures
    By David Cameron, Michael Anderson, Rebecca Wotzko

    Drawing on examples from games, education, online media, technology-enabled performance and the creative industries, the book uses the elements of applied drama to frame our understanding of digital cultures.

  • John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star
    John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star
    By Jonathan Croall

    New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of the finest classical actor of the twentieth century.

  • Donkeys' Years
    Donkeys' Years
    By Michael Frayn

    Masterclass performances. This is one of the best revivals in the West End for years. Unmissable!' Sunday Times

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 6: Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
    Brecht Collected Plays: 6: Good Person of Szechwan; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
    By Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim

    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.

  • Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus
    Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus
    By Christopher Marlowe

    This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus.

  • Treehouses
    Treehouses
    By Elizabeth Kuti

    Interweaving lives and secrets Treehouses is a magical tale of refuge, treachery and of love lost and found.

  • The Producers: Money, Movies and Who Calls the Shots
    The Producers: Money, Movies and Who Calls the Shots
    By Tim Adler

    Tim Adler introduces us to the mavericks and adventurers of modern-day cinema, in candid interviews with Michael Douglas (a producer who became an actor by mistake), Dino De Laurentiis (last of the great moguls), Duncan Kenworthy and Andrew ...

  • The Fifth Elephant: Stage Adaptation
    The Fifth Elephant: Stage Adaptation
    By Terry Pratchett

    A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels Commander Vimes is sent to wild, wintry and Transylvania-like Uberwald to establish trade links with the King of the Dwarfs but he ends up trying to stop and inter-species war ...

  • The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men
    The Methuen Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men
    By Chrys Salt

    This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Howard Brenton and Bryony Lavery to Charlotte Jones and Mark Ravenhill.

  • The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays: A Doll's House, Miss Julie, The Weavers, Mrs Warren's Profession, Three Sisters, Strife
    The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays: A Doll's House, Miss Julie, The Weavers, Mrs Warren's Profession, Three Sisters, Strife
    By Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, John Galsworthy

    The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education.

  • National Theatre Connections 2012
    National Theatre Connections 2012
    By Various Authors

    This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups.

  • My Father, Odysseus
    My Father, Odysseus
    By Timberlake Wertenbaker

    My Father, Odysseus received its world premiere at the Unicorn Theatre, London, on 13 March 2016. It is ideal for young people over the age of 11.

  • Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays
    Tennessee Williams: One Act Plays
    By Tennessee Williams

    ' This collection gathers some of Williams's most exuberant early work and includes one-acts that he would later expand to powerful full-length dramas: 'The Pretty Trap,' a cheerful take on The Glass Menagerie, and 'Interior: Panic,' a ...

  • Three Late Medieval Morality Play: A New Mermaids Anthology
    Three Late Medieval Morality Play: A New Mermaids Anthology
    By G.A. Lester

    It offers moral instruction and spiritual teaching with personal abstractions representing good and evil. Surviving plays from that period number about sixty and the three in this edition were among the first ten.

  • Plays
    Plays
    By Philip Ridley

    Volume 1 contains Ridley's first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. This edition also contains 3 early monologues, in print for the first time.