Lady Jane: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Edgar, David

Smith, A.C.H.

British & Irish

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Business Strategy is a compact, plain-speaking textbook for those approaching strategy for the first time. Key features include: international case studies; chapters on current issues such as CSR, emerging markets and new technologies; hot topics: research project areas to investigate, and guru guides: bite-sized bios of key thinkers in the field.

Business Strategy: An Introduction

Business & Money

Stonehouse, George

Business Culture

Red Globe Press

This volume contains the best of David Edgar's work from the seventies
 The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs is an adaptation of the famous South African writer's diaries and deals with solitary confinement and loneliness - "a remarkable, persuasive picture." (Observer); Mary Barnes is based in a commune in the sixties and focuses on schizophrenia "promulgating the theory that schizophrenia can be effectively treated through behaviourist methods alone"; Saigon Rose tackles venereal disease and is "intriguing and entertaining...Edgar handles his themes - loss of innocence and a sense of betrayal - in a bitty, playful style laced with black comedy" (Independent); Oh Fair Jerusalem deals with the black death and Destiny deals with the loss of Empire and the rise of fascism in contemporary Britain "A play which astonished me with its intelligence, density, sympathy and finely controlled anger." Dennis Potter (Sunday Times).

Edgar Plays: 1: Jail Diary of Albie Sachs; Mary Barnes; Saigon Rose; O Fair Jerusalem; Destiny (Contemporary Dramatists)

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

The production of this play established David Edgar as a major playwright, one of the most important of the young generation of dramatists to emerge out of the 'portable' theatre movement of the late sixties.

Destiny (Methuen's new theatrescripts ; no. 3)

EYRE METHUEN

Mary Barnes (A Methuen modern play)

DESTINY

Heinemann

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian)Nicholas Nickleby: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well...A landmark" (New Statesman); In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: "English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion" (Sunday Times) and Ecclesiastes, a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US.

Edgar Plays: 2: Ecclesiastes, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Entertaining Strangers (Contemporary Dramatists)

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) 
 Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations" (City Limits); Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the failed revolutionary dreams of a set of teenagers. Maydays compares the phenomenon of post-war social rebellion from Western and Eastern perspectives; That Summer is an "elegantly tangential treatment of the 1984 miners' strike" (Plays and Players) "Edgar never lets his drama simplify into ideological diagram. . .This elegant, humane play keeps its emphasis on the. . .results that can ensue when diverse lives briefly brush against each other." (Independent)

Edgar Plays: 3: Teendreams; Our Own People; That Summer and Maydays (Contemporary Dramatists)

Destiny (Modern Plays)

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is closely modelled on the eighteenth-century novels that Charles Dickens loved as a child, such as Robinson Crusoe, in which the fortunes of a hero shape the plot. The likeable young Nicholas, left penniless on the death of his father, sets off in search of better prospects. His meandering route to happiness includes work as a teacher at Dotheboys Hall, where the brutal Wackford Squeers ill-treats his impoverished pupils, and a spell as an actor with the absurdly melodramatic Crummles troupe. Nicholas's many adventures give Dickens the freedom to follow the eccentricities of a vivid gallery of characters, exploring themes of class, love, and self-awareness with exuberant comedy and biting satire.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Part II. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

David Edgar, from the novel by Charles Dickens

DICKENS., CHARLES

Humor & Entertainment

Dramatist's Play Service

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