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Medea and Other Plays
General Introduction Richard Rutherford Note on the Text Chronological Table Translator’s Note John Davie The Plays Notes Richard Rutherford Bibliography Glossary of Mythological and Geographical Names
Anton Chekhov: Plays
Introduction Richard Gilman Further Reading Chronology Ronald Wilks Translator’s Note Peter Carson Glossary
Henry IV, Part I
To the Student Introduction: Background to Henry IV, Part I Synopsis Scene by Scene Analysis Characters Commentary Examination Questions
Alan Ayckbourn: Three Plays
Preface Alan Ayckbourn, Scarborough 1976
Together
Introduction: The Cooperative Frame of Mind Part One: Cooperation Shaped ‘The Social Question’: Reformers in Paris Explore a Puzzle The Fragile Balance: Competition and Cooperation in Nature and Culture The ‘Great Unsettling’: How the Reformation Transformed Cooperation Part Two: Cooperation Weakened Inequality: Imposed and Absorbed in Childhood The Social Triangle: How Social Relations Become Embittered …
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
First Published as The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches (Viking, 1992)
The Voice of War
Introduction Denis Healey Foreword General Sir John Hackett The Second World War: an Historical Review Field Marshal Lord Carver The Sound of Oasis Martin Jarvis How I Wrote My First Poem Spike Milligan The World of the Poets: A Retrospective View Victor Selwyn 1939-40 The Middle East The Home Front The Mediterranean, North Africa, Italy …
Iron Curtain
Part One: False Dawn Zero hour Victors Communists Policemen Violence Ethnic cleansing Youth Radio Politics Economics Part Two: High Stalinism Reactionary enemies Internal enemies Homo sovieticus Socialist realism Ideal cities Reluctant collaborators Passive opponents Revolutions Epilogue