William Shakespeare: a Life
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Paper Back. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Paper Back. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
University Of Chicago Press, May 1969. Trade Paperback. "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket." Robert Brustein, "The New Republic" "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody." Kenneth Rexroth, "The Nation" "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1999. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2018. Trade Paperback. Ranked #2 Translation of 2018 by Open Letters Review This Norton Critical Edition includes: Oliver Taplin's new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragedy--a trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argos--with explanatory annotations by the editors. Ancient..... More
Penguin Classics, February 1984. Trade Paperback. These plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. In "Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for..... More
Penguin Classics, February 1984. Trade Paperback. These plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods. In "Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for..... More
Hill and Wang / a Dramabook, January 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. More
University of Ottawa Press, April 2016. Trade Paperback. Carroll Aikins's play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in 1927. This critical edition not only revives the work for readers and scholars alike, it also provides historical context for Aikins's often..... More
Pocket Books, January 1966. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Slight fraying of the front cover. More
NAL Trade, August 2006. Trade Paperback. A bitter marriage unravels in Edward Albee's darkly humorous play--winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. "Twelve times a week," answered actress Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way..... More
Samuel French, Inc., January 1966. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Knopf, October 1990. Hardcover. More
Broadview Press, February 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Dover Pubns, March 1984. Paper Back. Wonderful vintage portraits of over 300 stars from pre-Civil War to 1950s. Edwin Booth, Ellen Terry, the Barrymores, Helen Hayes, Brando, and many others in rare, hard-to-find views culled from private collections. Printed on coated stock for best reproduction. Captions. Index. Quarto. {8 &..... More
Dover Publications, February 1976. Paper Back. {9 & 1/4' x 10'}. Mild edgewear. Small quarto. Toning. {154 pp.]. More
Hill and Wang, 1957. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened & edgeworn cover. Cover curling at fore-edge. [211 pp.]. More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in edgeworn, NOT price-clipped dust jacket. Grey cloth with silver embossed lettering on spine. Embossed title top edge front board. Slight foxed edges & marginal tanning. Previous owner's inked front free end page. Patterned end pages. Original price $4 front flap. Dark..... More
Grove Press / Evergreen, June 1962. First Thus. Paper Back. First paperback printing. Octavo. Mild edgewear and some scattered scuff marks. Foxing & marginal darkening. Heavy darkening at gutters between cover and first/last pages of textblock. [104 pages plus seven pages of photos from English production of play]. More
Bantam Classics, March 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Plume, May 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing--at once bawdy and delicate--brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast..... More
University of Nebraska Press, January 1963. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. Badly bent at bottom of spine. Otherwise, a good reading copy of a difficult-to-find title. More
Grove Press, January 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Pub Group West, December 1966. Trade Paperback. A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. "We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1976. Trade Paperback. More
Counterpoint LLC, November 2005. Hardcover. 2006 marks the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth. To most, he was a brilliant artist who shied away from celebrity and photographers, but to the distinguished painter Avigdor Arikha and his wife, author Anne Atik, Beckett was the close friend with whom they shared..... More