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PENGUIN PLAYS




THIS PAGE 'PL' PL1 - PL100





The first 'Plays' book published was in the Main series no. 117 as a red covered book Famous One Act Plays. That was in November 1937. There followed several other books of plays, including a whole selection of works by George Bernard Shaw. While the Main series gave birth to Pelicans, and to 'Penguin New Writing' from No. 305, and Pelican Specials led to Penguin Handbooks, it was only in 1959 that Penguin decided to create a separate PLAYS series.

The separate series of PENGUIN PLAYS was launched with G. B. Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma as 'PL1', which was originally published as Penguin No. 564 on 26 July 1946 as part of a uniform set of 10 volumes of Shaw's work. The Penguin Plays series went on to incorporate the 'New English Dramatists', which were included in the series from 1959 with volume PL32. Various cover designs have been used, the first 47 titles (PL1 - PL47) give a "curtain effect".


Information and cover photographs of Penguin Plays Series:

PL1
Series No.: PL1
Title: THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1959 [printed date: 1958]
Previous Penguin Publication: 26 July 1946 as No. 564
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL2
Series No.: PL2
Title: THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS: THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE; CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA; CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1959 [printed date: 1958]
Previous Penguin Publication: 26 July 1946 as No. 562
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
'The Devil's Disciple' was later re-issued as PL100 and 'Caesar and Cleopatra' as PL101
PL3
Series No.: PL3
Title: PYGMALION A Romance in Five Acts
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Illustrated: with over a hundred drawings by Feliks Topolski
Date Published: 1959
Previous Penguin Publication: 23 September 1941 as No. 300
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL4
Series No.: PL4
Title: PLAYS PLEASANT: ARMS AND THE MAN; CANDIDA; THE MAN OF DESTINY; YOU NEVER CAN TELL
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1959
Previous Penguin Publication: 26 July 1946 as No. 560
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
'Arms and the Man' was later re-issued as PL102 and 'Candida' as PL103
PL5
Series No.: PL5
Title: SAINT JOAN A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1959
Previous Penguin Publication: 26 July 1946 as No. 565
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6.
PL6
Series No.: PL6
Title: MAN AND SUPERMAN
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1959
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Previous Penguin Publication: 26 July 1946 as No. 563
PL7
Series No.: PL7
Title: MAJOR BARBARA
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1959; 1960 Screen version
Previous Penguin Publication: 26 July 1946 as No. 500
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL8
Series No.: PL8
Title: THE APPLE CART A Political Extravaganza
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1960
Previous Penguin Publication: June 1956 as No. 1169
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL9
Series No.: PL9
Title: THE MILLIONAIRESS
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Cover: photographic still from the film 'The Millionairess' (1960) directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers
Date Published: November 1960
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL10
Series No.: PL10
Title: ANDROCLES AND THE LION An old fable renovated
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: November 1962 [printed date: 1961]
Previous Penguin Publication: 26 July 1946 as No. 566
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL11
Series No.: PL11
Title: BACK TO METHUSELA A metabiological pentateuch
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1961
Previous Penguin Publication: 28 April 1939 as No. 200
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL12


Series No.: PL12
Title: PLAYS UNPLEASANT: WIDOWERS HOUSES; THE PHILANDERER; MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Published: 1961 (as reprint, but first in PL series)
Previous Penguin Publications: 26 July 1946 as No. 561, reprinted in 1948 and 1951; then in 1957 with the new 'curtain effect' cover design, but still as main series 561 (see second image)
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Second image shows the spines of 561 (1957) and PL12 (1961)
PL13
Series No.: PL13
Title: RHINOCEROS; THE CHAIRS; THE LESSON
Author: Eugène Ionesco
Translated: by Donald Watson
Date Published: September 1962
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 4/-
PL14
Series No.: PL14
Title: THREE PLAYS: ALTONA; MEN WITHOUT SHADOWS; THE FLIES
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Date Published: August 1962
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL15
Series No.: PL15
Title: SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH; A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE; THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Author: Tennessee Williams
Edited: E. Martin Browne
Date Published: September 1962
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL16
Series No.: PL16
Title: PLAYS: LADY WINDEMERE'S FAN; A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE; AN IDEAL HUSBAND; THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, SALOMÉ
Author: Oscar Wilde
Date Published:
Previous Penguin Publication: in two books - 28 August 1940 as No. 274 and April 1948 as No. 600; the five plays were first published together in September 1954
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL17
Series No.: PL17
Title: ANNA CHRISTIE; THE EMPEROR JONES; DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: May 1960
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL18
Series No.: PL18
Title: AH, WILDERNESS!; THE HAIRY APE; ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: September 1960
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: The Whitefriars Press Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL19
Series No.: PL19
Title: ROOTS The Second Play of the 'Chicken Soup' Trilogy
Author: Arnold Wesker
Date Published: November 1959
Pages: 80pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL20
Series No.: PL20
Title: THREE TRAGEDIES: BLOOD WEDDING; YERMA; THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
Author: Federico García Lorca (Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca)
Translated: by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O'Connell
Introduction: by Francisco García Lorca
Date Published: April 1961
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL21
Series No.: PL21
Title: THE ROSE TATTOO and CAMINO REAL
Author: Tennessee Williams
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: August 1958
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hunt, Barnard and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL22
Series No.: PL22
Title: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Author: Tennessee Williams
Date Published: 1957
Previous Penguin Publication: August 1957 as No. 1229  
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL23
Series No.: PL23
Title: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Author: Tennessee Williams
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: January 1959
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Later re-issued with 'Sweet Bird of Youth' as PL15
PL24
Series No.: PL24
Title: ORPHEUS DESCENDING; SOMETHING UNSPOKEN; SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Author: Tennessee Williams
Date Published: September 1961
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Plays were later re-issued: 'Orpheus Descending' in PL81; 'Something Unspoken' in PL82; and 'Suddenly Last Summer' in PL82
PL25
Series No.: PL25
Title: I'M TALKING ABOUT JERUSALEM
Author: Arnold Wesker
Date Published: October 1960
Pages: 80pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL26
Series No.: PL26
Title: THE DREAM OF PETER MANN
Author: Bernard Kops
Introduction: by Mervyn Jones
Date Published: August 1960
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL27
Series No.: PL27
Title: OUR TOWN; THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH; THE MATCHMAKER
Author: Thornton Wilder
Date Published: October 1962
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL28
Series No.: PL28
Title: DEATH OF A SALESMAN Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Author: Arthur Miller
Date Published: February 1961
Pages: 112pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL29
Series No.: PL29
Title: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE and ALL MY SONS
Author: Arthur Miller
Date Published: March 1961
Pages: 176pp
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL30
Series No.: PL30
Title: RIGHT YOU ARE! (IF YOU THINK SO); ALL FOR THE BEST; HENRY IV
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: November 1962
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd
Price: 4/-
'Right You Are! (If You Think So)' and 'Henry IV' later re-issued in PL85
PL31
Series No.: PL31
Title: GALLOWS GLORIOUS (Ronald Gow); LADY PRECIOUS STREAM (S. I. Hsiung); RICHARD OF BORDEAUX (Gordon Daviot)
Edited: by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: August 1958
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 5/6d.
PL32
Series No.: PL32
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 1
EACH HIS OWN WILDERNESS (Doris Lessing); THE HAMLET OF STEPNEY GREEN (Bernard Kops); CHICKEN SOUP WITH BARLEY (Arnold Wesker)

Edited: three plays edited and introduced by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: May 1959
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL33
Series No.: PL33
Title: FOUR ENGLISH COMEDIES OF THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES: VOLPONE (Jonson); THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Congreve); SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Goldsmith); SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (Sheridan)
Edited: by J. M. Morrell
Date Published: March 1959
Previous Penguin Publication: Issued as No. 763
Pages: 414pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL34
Series No.: PL34
Title: THE RULES OF THE GAME; THE LIFE I GAVE YOU; LAZARUS
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: November 1959
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Later re-issued as PL85
PL35
Series No.: PL35
Title: THREE IRISH PLAYS: THE MOON IN THE YELLOW RIVER (Denis Johnston); THE IRON HARP (Joseph O'Conor); STEP-IN-THE-HOLLOW (Donagh MacDonagh)
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: November 1959
Previous Penguin Publication: Issued as No. 763
Pages: 238pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL36
Series No.: PL36
Title: THREE EUROPEAN PLAYS: RING ROUND THE MOON (Jean Anouilh); THE QUEEN AND THE REBELS (Ugo Betti); IN CAMERA (Jean-Paul Satre)
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: 1960 (as reprint, but first in PL series)
Previous Penguin Publication: March 1958 issued as No. 1289  
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL37
Series No.: PL37
Title: FOUR MODERN VERSE PLAYS: THE FAMILY REUNION (T. S. Eliot); A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT (Christopher Fry); THOMAS CRANMER OF CANTERBURY (Charles Williams); HAPPY AS LARRY (Donagh MacDonagh)
Edited: and with an introduction by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: 1961 (as reprint, but first in PL series)
Previous Penguin Publication: August 1957 issued as No. 1253  
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL38
Series No.: PL38
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 2
EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON (John Osborne and Anthony Creighton); THE KITCHEN (Arnold Wesker); A RESOUNDING TINKLE (N. F. Simpson)

Introduction: to three plays by Alan Pryce Jones
Edited: by Tom Maschler
Date Published: 1960
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Unwin Brothers Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Also see PL50
PL39
Series No.: PL39
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 3
THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL (Willie Hall); LIVE LIKE PIGS (John Arden); THE DUMB WAITER (Harold Pinter)

Introduced: by J. W. Lambert
Edited: by Tom Maschler
Date Published: April 1961
Pages: 216pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
Also see PL57
PL40
Series No.: PL40
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 4
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (Peter Shaffer); THE HAPPY HAVEN (John Arden in collaboration with Margaretta D'Arcy); YES, AND AFTER (Michael Hastings)

Introduction: by J. W. Lambert
Edited: by Tom Maschler
Date Published: January 1962
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
Also see PL57
PL41
Series No.: PL41
Title: FAIRY TALES OF NEW YORK
Author: J. P. Donleavy
Date Published: April 1961
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 2/6d.
PL42
Series No.: PL42
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 5
STOP IT WHOEVER YOU ARE (Henry Livings); PROGRESS TO THE PARK (Alun Owen); MARCHING SONG (John Whiting)

Introduction: by Alan Brien
Edited: by Tom Maschler
Date Published: October 1962
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL43
Series No.: PL43
Title: SELECTED PLAYS SHOPPEY; THE SACRED FLAME; THE CIRCLE; THE CONSTANT WIFE; OUR BETTERS
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Cover design: by Hermann Zapf
Date Published: 10 January 1963
Pages: 448pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL44
Series No.: PL44
Title: THE GOLDEN BOY; AWAKE AND SING; and THE BIG KNIFE
Author: Clifford Odets
Introduction: by Eric Mottram
Date Published: April 1963
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL45
Series No.: PL45
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 6
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (Robert Bolt); THE DEVILS (John Whiting); NIL CARBORUNDUM (Henry Livings)

Introduction: by Harold Hobson
Edited: by Tom Maschler
Date Published: August 1963
Pages: 270pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL46
Series No.: PL46
Title: THREE GERMAN PLAYS: WOYZECK (Georg Büchner); BEFORE DAWN (Gerhart Hauptmann); THE THREEPENNY OPERA (Bertolt Brecht)
Introduction: by Martin Esslin
Edited: by Tom Maschler
Date Published: October 1962
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/-
PL47
Series No.: PL47
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 7
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING (Arnold Wesker); AFORE NIGHT COME (David Rudkin); EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN (Giles Cooper)

Introduction: by J. W. Lambert
Date Published: October 1963
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL48
Series No.: PL48
Title: THE WESKER TRILOGY: CHICKEN SOUP WITH BARLEY; ROOTS; I'M TALKING ABOUT JERUSALEM
Author: Arnold Wesker
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: July 1964
Previous Penguin Publication: 'Chicken Soup with Barley' was in PL32; 'Roots' was in PL19; and 'I'm Talking about Jerusalem' was in PL25
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL49
Series No.: PL49
Title: THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL (Willie Hall); THE DUMB WAITER (Harold Pinter); A RESOUNDING TINKLE (N. F. Simpson)
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: July 1964
Previous Penguin Publication: 'The Long and the Short and the Tall' and 'The Dumb Waiter' were in PL39; 'A Resounding Tinkle' was in PL38
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL50
Series No.: PL50
Title: 'EPITAPH FOR GEORGE DILLON' (John Osborne and Anthony Creighton); THE KITCHEN (Arnold Wesker); THE HAMLET OF STEPNEY GREEN (Bernard Kops)
Cover design: by Denise York (mis-spelt Denis)
Date Published: August 1964
Previous Penguin Publication: 'Epitaph for George Dillon' and 'The Kitchen' were formerly included in PL38; 'The Hamlet of Stepney Green' was in PL32
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL51
Series No.: PL51
Title: SELECTED ONE-ACT PLAYS, 1
THE SHOWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET; HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND; O'FLAHERTY V.C.; ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS; VILLAGE WOOING; THE INCA OF PERUSALEM

Author: G. Bernard Shaw
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: March 1965
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: Butler and Tanner Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
See also PL104
PL52
Series No.: PL52
Title: SELECTED ONE-ACT PLAYS, 2
THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS; OVERRULED; GREAT CATHERINE; THE SIX OF CALAIS; AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT

Author: G. Bernard Shaw
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: March 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 4/-
See also PL104
PL53
Series No.: PL53
Title: HEARTBREAK HOUSE
Author: G. Bernard Shaw
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: October 1964
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/-
PL54
Series No.: PL54
Title: CLASSIC IRISH DRAMA: THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN (W. B. Yeats); THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (J. M. Synge); COCK-A-DOODLE DANDY (Sean O'Casey)
Edited: by W. A. Armstrong
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: September 1964
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL55
Series No.: PL55
Title: CALIGULA and CROSS PURPOSE
Author: Albert Camus
Translated: by Stuart Gilbert
Introduction: by John Cruickshank
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: January 1965
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL56
Series No.: PL56
Title: THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
Author: Tennessee Williams
Cover: design by Keith Burns-Begg
Date Published: October 1964
Pages: 118pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 3/-
re-issued later in PL81

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PL57
Series No.: PL57
Title: THREE PLAYS: THE WATERS OF BABYLON; LIVE LIKE PIGS; THE HAPPY HAVEN
Author: John Arden
Introduced: by John Russell Taylor
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: November 1964
Previous Penguin Publication: 'Live Like Pigs' in PL39; 'The Happy Haven' in PL40
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL58
Series No.: PL58
Title: ABSURD DRAMA: AMÉDÉE OR HOW TO GET RID OF IT (Eugène Ionesco); PROFESSOR TARANNE (Arthur Adamov); THE ZOO STORY (Edward Albee)
Edited: and with an introduction by Martin Esslin
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: April 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL59
Series No.: PL59
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 8
COCKADE (Charles Wood); THE TRIGON (James Broom Lynne); ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE (Joe Orton)

Introduced: by John Russell Taylor
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: January 1965
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL60
Series No.: PL60
Title: THE RESPECTABLE PROSTITUTE and LUCIFER AND THE LORD
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: July 1965
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL61
Series No.: PL61
Title: WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Author: Edward Albee
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: September 1965
Pages: 144pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 95¢ (USA version), 4/6d.
PL62
Series No.: PL62
Title: THREE SOVIET PLAYS THE BEDBUG (Vladimir Mayakovsky); MARYA (Isaac Babel); THE DRAGON (Yevgeny Schwartz)
Edited: by Michael Glenny
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: May 1966
Pages: 214pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL63
Series No.: PL63
Title: PARABLES FOR THE THEATRE: Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht THE GOOD WOMAN OF SETZUAN; THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Revised: English version by Eric Bentley
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: July 1966
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL64
Series No.: PL64
Title: THE FIFTH COLUMN
Author: Ernest Hemmingway
Cover photo: by Dennis Rolfe
Date Published: May 1966
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 3/6d.
PL65
Series No.: PL65
Title: NOVELISTS' THEATRE: THE MULBERRY BUSH (Angus Wilson); AUGUST FOR THE PEOPLE (Nigel Dennis); DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Muriel Spark)
Introduction: by Eric Rhode
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: September 1966
Pages: 288pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
PL66
Series No.: PL66
Title: NEW AMERICAN DRAMA: THE AMERICAN DREAM (Edward Albee); GALLOWS HUMOUR (Jack Richardson); THE TYPISTS (Murray Schisgal); INCIDENT AT VICHY (Arthur Miller)
Introduction: by Charles Marowitz
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: October 1966
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL67
Series No.: PL67
Title: AH, WILDERNESS: THE HAIRY APE; ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WINGS; THE EMPEROR JONES; DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
Author: Eugene O'Neill
Introduction: and edited by E. Martin Browne
Date Published: October 1966
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 6/-
PL68
Series No.: PL68
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 9
THE FOUR SEASONS (Arnold Wesker); A LILY IN LITTLE INDIA (Donald Howarth); SKYVERS (Barry Reckord)

Introduced: by Michael Billington
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: November 1966
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL69
Series No.: PL69
Title: TRAVERSE PLAYS: A WEN and ORANGE SOUFFLÉ (Saul Bellow); THE OLD TUNE (Robert Pinget); LA MÚSICA (Marguerite Duras); THE LADY AOL (Yukio Mishima); ALLERGY (Cecil Taylor); THE MASTER OF TWO SERVANTS (George Mully); THE LOCAL STIGMATIC (Heathcote Williams)
Edited: and with an introduction by Jim Haynes
Cover design: by Denise York
Date Published: August 1966
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/6d.
PL70
Series No.: PL70
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 10
THEIR VERY OWN AND GOLDEN CITY (Arnold Wesker); DICKON (David Pinner); BREAD AND BUTTER (Cecil Taylor)

Introduced: by Ronald Bryden
Date Published: September 1967
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL71
Series No.: PL71
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 11
HAPPY FAMILY (Giles Cooper); A NIGHT TO MAKE THE ANGELS WEEP (Peter Terson); FILL THE STAGE WITH HAPPY HOURS (Charles Wood);

Introduction: by Mervyn Jones
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL72
Series No.: PL72
Title: THEATRE OF WAR: VASCO (Georges Schehadé); THE GENERALS' TEA PARTY (Boris Vian); THE CIVIL WAR (Henry de Montherlant);
Edited: and with an introduction by Robert Baldick
Date Published: November 1967
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 6/-
PL73
Series No.: PL73
Title: THE MILK TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE; CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Author: Tennessee Williams
Date Published: October 1969
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 35p 7/-
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' was previously published as 1229 and PL22
PL74
Series No.: PL74
Title: THREE PLAYS: THE KITCHEN (Arnold Wesker); THE HAMLET OF STEPNEY GREEN (Bernard Kops); FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (Peter Shaffer)
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: April 1968
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Western Printing Services Ltd
Price: 5/-
Formerly in PL50 (first two), and PL40
PL75
Series No.: PL75
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 12
(RADIO PLAYS): THE OBJECT (Giles Cooper); NO QUARTER (Barry Bermange); THE ANTS (Caryl Churchill); THE WHELKS AND THE CHROMIUM (Jeremy Sandford); THE LONG-DISTANCE PIANO PLAYER (Alan Sharp); HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN (Cecil Taylor);

Introduction: by Irving Wardle
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: May 1968
Pages: 192pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
PL76
Series No.: PL76
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 13
THE BLOOD KNOT (Athol Fugard); LOOT (Joe Orton); THE DRUMS OF SNOW (David Pinner)

Introduced: by Simon Trussler
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: August 1968
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 6/-
PL77
Series No.: PL77
Title: NEW ENGLISH DRAMATISTS, 14
THE RESTORATION OF ARNOLD MIDDLETON (David Storey); THE MIGHTY RESERVOY (Peter Terson); THE DOOMSDAY SHOW (George Macbeth and J. S. Bingham); THE ESTATE HUNTERS (Ian Hamilton Finley); WALKING THROUGH SEAWEED (Ian Hamilton Finley); YOU'RE HUMAN LIKE THE REST (B. S. Johnson); THE KING (Stewart Conn);

Date Published: 1970
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 35p 7/-
PL78
Series No.: PL78
Title: THE CRUCIBLE A Play in Four Acts
Author: Arthur Miller
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: April 1968
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 4/-
PL79
Series No.: PL79
Title: AFTER THE FALL
Author: Arthur Miller
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: April 1968
Pages: 128pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 4/-
PL80
Series No.: PL80
Title: THREE PLAYS: THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL (William Hall); EACH HIS OWN WILDERNESS (Doris Lessing); YES, AND AFTER (Michael Hastings)
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: April 1968
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
Plays previously in PL39, PL32 and PL40 respectively
PL81
Series No.: PL81
Title: THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA; ORPHEUS DESCENDING
Author: Tennessee Williams
Cover: design by Henning Boelke
Date Published: September 1968
Pages: 224pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 5/-
Previously published in PL56 and PL23
PL82
Series No.: PL82
Title: BABY DOLL; SOMETHING UNSPOKEN; SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Author: Tennessee Williams
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: October 1968
Pages: 160pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 5/-
Previously published in 1233, and the second two in PL24
PL83
Series No.: PL83
Title: THREE PLAYS: KEEN; NEKRASSOV; THE TROJAN WOMEN
Author: Jean-Paul Satre
Cover: design by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: June 1969
Pages: 352pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 37½p 7/6d.
PL84
Series No.: PL84
Title: THREE NEGRO PLAYS: MULATTO (Langston Hughes); THE SLAVE (LeRoi Jones); THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW (Lorraine Hansberry)
Introduction: by C. W. E. Bigsby
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: February 1969
Pages: 208pp.
Printer: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
PL85
Series No.: PL85
Title: THE RULES OF THE GAME; RIGHT YOU ARE! (IF YOU THINK SO); HENRY IV
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Edited: and with an introduction by R. Martin Browne
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: October 1969
Pages: 240pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
PL86
Series No.: PL86
Title: THREE PLAYS: A COLLIER'S FRIDAY NIGHT; THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW; THE WIDOWING OF MRS HOLROYD
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Introduction: by Raymond Williams
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: August 1969
Pages: 200pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 25p 5/-
PL87
Series No.: PL87
Title: THE REPRESENTATIVE
Author: Rolf Hochhuth
Translated: and with a preface by Robert David MacDonald
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: July 1969
Pages: 416pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 50p 10/-
PL88
Series No.: PL88
Title: FIVE PLAYS: COMEDIES AND TRAGICOMEDIES - THE SHOEMAKER'S PRODIGIOUS WIFE; THE LOVE OF DON PERLIMPLIN AND BELISA IN THE GARDEN; DOÑA ROSITA, THE SPINSTER; THE BILLY-CLUB PUPPETS; THE BUTTERFLY'S EVIL SPELL
Author: Federico García Lorca
Date Published: 1970
Pages: 256pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 35p 7/-
PL89
Series No.: PL89
Title: THREE EAST EUROPEAN PLAYS: THE HORSE (Julius Hay); TANGO (Slawomir Mrozek); THE MEMORANDUM (Vaclav Havel)
Introduction: by Martin Esslin
Cover: no information provided
Date Published: 1970
Pages: 272pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 40p 8/-
PL90
Series No.: PL90
Title: THE MAROWITZ HAMLET and THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DR FAUSTUS
Author: Charles Marowitz
Cover: no information provided
Date Published: February 1970
Pages: 176pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 30p 6/-
PL91
Series No.: PL91
Title: A DELICATE BALANCE
Author: Edward Albee
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: October 1969
Pages: 112pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 20p 4/-
PL92
Series No.: PL92
Title: THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER AND OTHER PLAYS IN ONE ACT: QUEENS OF FRANCE; PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA; LOVE, AND HOW TO CURE IT; THE HAPPY JOURNEY TO TRENTON AND CAMDEN
Author: Thornton Wilder
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: July 1969
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 20p 4/-
PL93
Series No.: PL93
Title: WHEN WE ARE MARRIED AND OTHER PLAYS: BEES ON THE BOAT DECK; EVER SINCE PARADISE; MR KETTLE AND MRS MOON
Author: J. B. Priestly
Cover: design by David Pelham, photograph by Michael King
Date Published: September 1969
Pages: 320pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 40p 8/-
PL94
Series No.: PL94
Title: TIME AND THE CONWAYS AND OTHER PLAYS: I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE; AN INSPECTOR CALLS; THE LINDEN TREE
Author: J. B. Priestly
Cover: design by David Pelham, photograph by Michael King
Date Published: September 1969
Pages: 304pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 40p 8/-
PL95
Series No.: PL95
Originally listed as:
Title: SOLDIERS
Author: Rolf Hochhuth
Date Published: April 1969

Title: BROKEN GLASS
Author: Arthur Miller
Cover: design by Gail Belenson, photograph by Inge Morath
Date Published: 1994
Pages: 166pp.
Printed: in USA
Price: $7.95 £4.99
PL96
Series No.: PL96
Title: THE PLAY OF HADRIAN VII Based on Hadrian the Seventh and other works by Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo)
Author: Peter Luke
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: August 1969
Pages: 86pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 20p 4/-
PL97
Series No.: PL97
Title: THE LIVING ROOM
Author: Graham Greene
Introduction: by Peter Glenville
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: 1970
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Hazell, Watson and Viney Ltd
Price: 20p 4/-
PL98
Series No.: PL98
Title: THE PRICE
Author: Arthur Miller
Cover design: by Henning Boehlke
Date Published: 1970
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: Cox and Wyman Ltd
Price: 20p 4/-
PL99
Series No.: PL99
Title: THE BOYS IN THE BAND
Author: Mart Crowley
Cover: design by Robert Hollingsworth
Date Published: 1970
Pages: 96pp.
Printer: C. Nicholls and Co Ltd
Price: 20p 4/-
PL100
Series No.: PL100
Title: CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Previously published in PL2






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