This invaluable and informative anthology chronologically sets out social, historical and cultural backgrounds of the chosen play texts and covers the dramatic heritage historical duologues representing twenty-three eras from the classical Greeks to the present day. Assisting theatre students with their approach to performance, direction and the nature and content of drama through the ages, the historical and political context of the playwrights, their plays and many practitioners, this collection also offers a choice of texts, both well known and not so well known. Teachers and students looking for duologues for festival work, worldwide, will find this anthology beneficial as many of the duologues within this text have been taken from the curricula already being studied for BTEC, GCSE, AS and A2 levels. This anthology is intended to complement these curricula and work in partnership with the individual examining boards.