<DIV><p>Published to celebrate twenty years of Methuen's Royal Court Writers Series, this volume contains five ground-breaking plays of the eighties and nineties.</p> <p> <I>Top Girls</I>: "Builds to a superb, emotion-draining climax that sent me out of the theatre convinced that this is the best British play ever from a woman dramatist."&mdash;<I>Guardian</I></p> <p> <I>Hysteria</I>: "One of the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have seen in years."&mdash;<I>Sunday Times</I></p> <p> <I>Blasted</I>: "Kane has an acute grasp of sexual politics, and her dialogue is both sparse and stunning. They will call her mad, but, then, they said that about Strindberg."&mdash;<I>Mail on Sunday</I></p> <p> <I>Shopping and F***ing</I>: "A real coup de theatre ... a blackly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings."&mdash;<I>Evening Standard</I></p> <p> <I>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</I>: "The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea ... a born storyteller."&mdash;<I>The New York Times</I></p></DIV>