The Methuen book of modern monologues for men /

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0413774252

Paperback The Methuen book of modern monologues for men /

Publication year: 2004

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: Methuen Drama,

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 0413774252 9780413774255(pbk)

Notes: Spring awakening Frank Wedekind -- Crime passionel / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard -- Entertaining Mr Sloane / Joe Orton -- The music cure / George Bernard Shaw -- Anatol / Arthur Schnitzler -- The playboy of the western world / John M. Synge -- Don Juan or the love of geometry / Max Frisch -- The white liars / Peter Shaffer -- The kitchen / Arnold Wesker -- Ross / Terence Rattigan -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- Woyzeck / Georg Büchner -- The National Health (speech 1) / Peter Nichols -- The National Health (speech 2) / Peter Nichols -- The life of Galileo / Bertolt Brecht -- The devils / John Whiting -- Accidental death of an anarchist / Dario Fo -- Inadmissible evidence / John Osborne -- Justice / John Galsworthy -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- Oh what a lovely war / Joan Littlewood, Charles Chilton and Theatre Workshop -- Eden cinema / Marguerite Duras -- Travesties / Tom Stoppard -- A man for all seasons / Robert Bolt -- The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann -- The quare fellow / Brendan Behan -- Play iwth a tiger / Doris Lessing -- Sergeant Musgrave's dance / John Arden -- Poor Bitos / Jean Anouilh -- Equus / Peter Shaffer -- Confusions / Alan Ayckbourn -- The long and the short and the tall / Willis Hall -- Honour and offer / Henry Livings -- A view from the bridge / Arthur Miller -- An inspector calls / J. B. Priestley -- The insect play / Karel Capek -- Sleuth / Anthony Shaffer -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- Ubu Rex / Alfred Jarry -- Noah / André Obey. This is a selection of speeches for men drawn from the great landmark plays of the twentieth century. An appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editor's introductions and commentaries, which set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance contexts.

Audience: Teen readers

Series title: Methuen drama

Extent: 150 pages ; 20 cm.