Greenwood, August 1996. Hardcover. Tennessee Williams is generally regarded, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, as one of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century. This reputation rests upon more than 40 years of critical acclaim accrued by his two masterpieces-- A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. This introductory study presents Racine's Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary and theatrical context, shows its relationship with other tragedies of Racine, and sketches its influence on later European literature. It analyzes the..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1963. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original. 'Newly Translated from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer'. Spine is slanted. Otherwise clean, sound & without markings. [164 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
Rutgers Univ. Press, January 1948. Cloth. {5&1/2' x 8&1/2'} Army green cloth covered boards with gold lettering with title and author's name within square fields of red and gold decorations along spine. Top textblock edge likewise tinted green. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to pastedown. Non-authorial inked inscription on ffep. Foxing..... More
Reynal & Hitchcok, 1947. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. 2nd printing. Beige cloth covered boards with darkened margins and spine. Dark blue lettering along spine. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Dustjacket is missing. Tick marks and side notes in pencil lightly scattered through text. [83 pages]. More
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Clean, sound, and without interior markings. Lightly tanned spine, and likewise light marginal tanning to covers. Internal text without markings. [157 pages plus two page list of Anchor titles.]. More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the..... More
Chatto and Windus, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. First UK in brown cloth. Gold lettering (starting to fade) on spine. Top textblock edge tinted with dark brown. Top corner of textblock appears chewed possibly by a rodent. Dustjacket is missing. Mildly bowed boards. [232 pages]. More
Columbia University Press, September 1999. Trade Paperback. This Columbia Critical Guide steers a clear path through the huge body of critical material on Richard II that has accrued over the past three centuries, elucidating the play's reception by audiences, critics, and scholars since its first production. Beginning with a discussion..... More
W. W. Norton, September 2005. Trade Paperback. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be..... More
University Of Chicago Press, 1963. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo with moderate shelf wear. Darkened, mildly leaning spine. Inked notes all over half title page. Inked underlining and notes scattered here and there through text. [206 pages]. More
Palgrave Macmillan, January 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Modern Library, 1959. Hardcover. small tears/pieces missing on top front top and bottom spine of dust jacket; large tear on back top of DJ; front flap clipped; rubbing and shelf wear of cloth over board cover; corner bumping of covers; binding in good condition; name written in ink on front..... 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
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1995. Hardcover. In his Pulitzer prize-winning 1993 book Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills showed how the Gettysburg Address revolutionized the conception of modern America. In Witches and Jesuits, Wills again focuses on a single document to open up a window on an entire society. He..... More
Continuum, August 2001. Hardcover. Between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook; Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage; and Hamlet - A Monologue, directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version - at least in..... More
Vintage, July 1991. Trade Paperback. The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers--not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine--as they struggle to have..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1984. Trade Paperback. More
[Grasmere?] : Shakespeare's Globe and the Wordsworth Trust, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Theatre Communications Group, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Evoking Shakespeare is the text of a talk given by Peter Brook in Berlin dealing with the essence of performing Shakespeare today. Based on the author's lifelong interest in interpreting Shakespeare's works for contemporary audiences, Brook's analysis is a typically illuminating and provocative..... More
Vintage, December 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. "Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the..... More
Viking Copmpass, March 1974. Reprint. Paper Back. This compelling 1902 play, considered Gorky's masterpiece, centers on a group of wretched souls who congregate to play cards, tell stories, and debate whether it is better to live without illusions or to maintain a romanticized world view. A powerful, influential drama, hailed..... More
Hassell Street Press, 1969. Trade Paperback. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United..... More
McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., January 1959. Trade Paperback. More
Dover Pub T1606, January 1966. Trade Paperback. More
