A varied collection of plays, television and film scripts. They are arranged in four themed sections: Identity, Turning points, Deception and Laughter. The collection includes extracts from Henry V, The Elephant Man, Blackadder, Doctor Who, The Alchemist, The Wind in the Willows and Fawlty Towers.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Collections .

There are 288 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: 1. Identity: Beauty and the Beast, Laurence Boswell; Doctor Who: Human nature, Paul Cornell; The Elephant Man, De Vore, Bergen and Lynch; A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansbury; Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka. 2. Turning Points: Nicholas Nickleby, David Edgar; Treasure Island, (Robert Louis Stevenson), David Calcutt; Trifles, Susan Glaspell; Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw; Henry V, William Shakespeare. 3. Deception: Lad Carl, John O'Connor; The Wind in the Willows, (Kenneth Grahame), Alan Bennett; The Foreigner, Larry Shue; Blackadder, Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. 4. Laughter: Wyrd Sisters, (Terry Pratchett), Stephen Briggs; Fawlty Towers: a Touch of Class, John Cleese and Connie Booth; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, (Oscar Wilde), Constance Cox; The Alchemist, Ben Johnson.