Four plays by a distinguished Scottish based writer long associated with Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre

"The six plays gathered together in this anthology are seminal works in the unprecedented flowering of Scottish drama that occurred in the 1970s - a time when, as one critic remarked, 'Scottish theatre was alive as never before, with one fine play following another'."--Jacket.

Plays: Jesse amd the Bandit Queen by David Freeman. --Pacific Overtures by John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim. --Chicago by Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse, and John Kander. --Travesties by Tom Stoppard. --The Norman conquests by Alan Aycbourn. --Knock knock by Jules Feiffer. --Streamers by David Rabe. --Serending Louie by Landford Wilson. --Rebel women by John Babe. --The runner stumbles by Milan Stitt. --Threepenny opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

"Maxwell is the best dramatic poet now at work in English" - Daily Telegraph

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

Contains 'The Castle, ' 'Gertrude, ' 'The Cry, ' 'Animals in Paradise' and '13 Objects.'

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