Translator Gilbert Murray
Publisher: Good Press
This famous play was written about 500 years BC by the great Greek dramatist. The story is now well-known and concerns the Prince of Thebes (a mythological character) and Dionysius (a Greek god).
‘Perchance to dream’ is an offer that most of us would accept in the blink of an eye. That mysterious ‘other world’ where the day’s reality is processed by our subconscious, really is a mystery, even to the experts and self-help books who decipher our beguiling imaginings with all sorts of reasonings. Perhaps the better truth is that most of us don’t remember much about our dreams, unlike its near neighbour the nightmare! Day-dreams too fall into a fantasy imagining where we try to re-route the natural course of events as we move from one emotion to another. Our unconscious dreams seem essential for our mental and emotional well-being and some believe they provide solutions, answers and prophesize important events. In the conscious world we use the word to describe our goals, desires and wishes which reveal much about who we are and our chosen path for life. Whatever their significance may or may not be, they are universal and a subject on which our poets have much to say. With such a rich seam to mine, our poets from Sarojini Naidu to Lewis Carroll, Edna St Vincent Millay to Shakespeare by way of Antonio Machado and Longfellow and a host of others provide a pillowful of poems that will set you dreaming. 01 - The Poetry of Dreams - An Introduction 02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 03 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 04 - The Dream by John Donne 05 - The Dream by Amy Levy 06 - Ay, Workman, Make Me A Dream by Stephen Crane 07 - House of Dreams by Sara Teasdale 08 - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower by John Skelton 09 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 10 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 11 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 12 - The Dream by Alexander Pushkin 13 - A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 14 - The Dream by Aphra Behn 15 - Love by Rupert Brooke 16 - This Faulted Dream by Daniel Sheehan 17 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing by William Shakespeare 18 - The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 19 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 82 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 21 - Song of a Dream by Sarojini Naidu 22 - A Midday Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 23 - Dreams Old by D H Lawrence 24 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll 25 - Dream Town by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 26 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 27 - The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfeild 28 - Dreams by John Dryden 29 - Life Tells the Dreamer by Margaret Widdemer 30 - Dreams by Anne Bronte 31 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 32 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu 33 - Dreams by Edgar Allen Poe 34 - I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins 35 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 36 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 37 - I Dream'd I Lay by Robert Burns 38 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker 39 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 40 - Forgotten Dreams by Edward Silvera 41 - Boaz Asleep by Victor Hugo 42 - A Dream of Glory by Albery Allson Whitman 43 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker 44 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 45 - Dream Variation by Langston Hughes 46 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 47 - Dreams by Robert Herrick 48 - Dream Pediary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 49 - Dreamland by Christina Rossetti 50 - A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 51 - Dreams and Duty by Tom Kettle 52 - Last Night I Dreamed by Hafiz 53 - Musselman's Dream by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 54 - ThShow book
A brand-new ancient-history play in verse that tells the story of one of Britain's most iconic women: a queen, a warrior and a rebel. AD 61, Britannia. On the furthest outreaches of the Roman Empire – at the very edge of the known world – rebellion is brewing. The King of the Iceni has died and his widow, Boudica, has tried to claim her rightful throne. For her insolence in defying Rome, the queen has been flogged, her daughters have been raped, and they have been banished from their homeland. But now, Queen Boudica has returned. And this time she has an army. She will have revenge. She will have blood. She will make Rome quake in fear. Boudica by Tristan Bernays premiered at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in September 2017.Show book
Very few playwrights can be identified from a single line of dialogue – debbie tucker green is one of them. This collection of her first six plays, together with a short introduction by the author, shows a dramatic artist in full control of her craft. born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; winner of the Olivier Award for Best Newcomer) dives headlong into the heart of a conflicted family, unleashing wit, ferocity and verbal dexterity on the way. 'One of the most assured and extraordinary new voices we've heard in a long while. Electrifying' Independent on Sunday dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003) is a mesmerising study of voyeurism, power and guilt. 'There is a sly, controlled power in this writing… And now I cannot get it out of my head' Guardian generations (National Theatre Platform performance, 2005; Young Vic, 2007) follows three generations of a Black South African family comparing cooking skills – but food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining. 'Devastating… will last you a lifetime' Guardian stoning mary (Royal Court Theatre, 2005) confronts the reality of global conflicts, transposing them to the West. 'The words fly around the theatre piercing the dark like gleaming shards of shrapnel' The Stage trade (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2005) shines a light on the world of female sex tourism. 'Poetry laced with shards of broken glass' Guardian random (Royal Court Theatre, 2008) is set over one day, following one family and the effects of one random act of violence. 'The writing seems to penetrate the very heart of grief' Telegraph 'debbie tucker green uses language as deftly as a composer might use notes.' Financial TimesShow book
Part coming of age, part political intrigue, Founding Stones questions what it means to be a citizen of the world. Trouble simmers in a small Pacific Northwest town when generations of secrets collide. Hannah, the daughter of the largest berry farmer in the county, searches for her voice after her twin sister dies of cancer. She jumps into the controversy around immigrant workers at the farm, and naively causes further problems. Her boyfriend, Luis, forced to live without his deported family, seeks his place within the American dream. His elderly friend, Joseph, an undocumented immigrant from Russia, emerges from seclusion to confront an old vendetta and protect his mushroom cure for cancer and his prototype of a light silk-titanium airplane wing from outside forces.Show book
In science one reasons by analogy, so when mankind is confronted by experiences entirely beyond its understanding it takes an individual with intelligence and bravery in equal measure to push back the boundaries of the unknown…. In London, in the 1900s, the solutions to supernatural occurrences were investigated by a man who was famous for his dealings with the unknown and the worlds of the dead: Jarrem Lee - Ghost Hunter, (or as he prefers to call it, a psychical detective). With the help of college student Arthur Bennett, he embarks on a series of spine-tingling and exciting adventures in the world of the dead. Episode 17 - A Ghost from the Past - When he was younger, Jarrem Lee once succeeded in summoning a daemon and ever since he's kept a dark secret. Some ghosts cannot be left in the past. Episode 18 - The Death Knell - Someone is tolling the church bell in the peaceful village of Loscombe and the whole village is afraid. Reverend Upway thinks it's a supernatural force and calls in the ghost-hunter. Episode 19 - All Cats Are Grey - The most curious of cases can affect the plainest of people. What is the strange creature which cries outside the house of unassuming Harold Rayner each night? Episode 20 - The Radinski Automaton - Professor Radinski's Automaton is truly a remarkable machine, more skilful, graceful and talented than any man alive. But is there also a dark secret at the heart of the machine?Show book
Mary, a mother of two, is doing the ironing one Saturday morning when she feels something on her shoulder. It's the beginning of a series of events that will change things for ever. For every one. A re-imagining of Everyman, one of the oldest stories in English drama, Jo Clifford's bold and haunting play tells a deeply emotional and warmly funny story of a voyage into the heart of living - and of what it means to lose the people we love. Every One was first performed at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, in 2010, and was revived in a new production by Chris Goode & Company at Battersea Arts Centre, London, in 2016. 'astonishing... an open wound of a play... a work of cathartic brilliance' - GuardianShow book
