The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves ...

Two plays by the great German director include the story of Schweyk, a common German soldier who survives the war through opportunism and wit, and a French Resistance version ...

Long in preparation and in considerable demand, here are the essential poems and prose of one of the giants of 20th century world literature. Following an authoritative ...

Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one ...

In Mother Courage and Her Children, considered one of Bertolt Brecht's greatest plays and one of "the great plays of our time" (Lillian Hellman), a lone woman, Anna Fierling ...

Set in British colonial India, this groundbreaking play shows a man being disassembled and reconstructed into a soldier. Reissue.