The Modern Drama Collection is shelved in the Group Study room.
Introduction Ancient Greece and Rome (Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus etc) Elizabethan and Jacobean (Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Webster etc) French and Spanish Golden Age (Moliere, Racine, Lope de Vega etc) Restoration and 18th Century (Aphra Behn, Sheridan, Farquhar etc) 19th and early 20th-centuries (Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, Shaw etc).
Presented chronologically, this book offers audition pieces for women actors at all levels. Drawing on her enormous experience in drama training, the author has selected 50 monologues for women drawn from classical plays throughout the ages and ranging across all of Western theatre.