Results for: books tagged ‘Conflict’
After Juliet: Sharman Macdonald
A tense truce holds between the Capulets and the Montagues after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Benvolio, Romeo's best friend, is in love with Rosaline, Juliet's cousin; but Rosaline ... More
The Baltic Convoy: Showell Styles
First published in 1979 The Baltic Convoy continues the adventures of Showell Styles’s hero Michael Fitton. Now past middle-age and still only a lieutenant the widowed Michael Fitton is in ... More
Big Boys' Rules: Mark Urban
The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. ... More
Blood Wedding: Federico Garcia Lorca and Ted Hughes
Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. The story is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with ... More
Brokenville & The Pilgrimage: Paul Goetzee and Phillip Ridley
This volume contains two imaginative plays for young people. Philip Ridley's Brokenville is set in the ruins of a city destroyed by disaster. A group of individuals gathers round a ... More
The Burial at Thebes: Seamus Heaney
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose ... More
CloudWorld: David Cunningham
Imagine a planet entirely covered in clouds . . .Imagine peaks rising out of the cloudscape . . .Imagine a citadel standing on each peak . . . Heliopolis. A ... More
Confrontations: J. C. Beckett
The essays in this collection cover several centuries of Irish history and discuss a variety of topics. Yet, as Professor Beckett points out in his preface, they are linked by ... More
Conspirators: Michael Andre Bernstein
Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations ... More
The Cordelia Dream: Marina Carr
Haunted by her dream of Cordelia and Lear, a woman confronts an elderly man, her lifelong antagonist and rival. During their passionate altercation he dismisses her success as a composer ... More
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