Drama
Wit : A Play
Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike..... More
On Acting
Simon & Schuster, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ full number line; Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy quarter cloth boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket mildly worn from handling w/ no significant flaws to disclose; A solid copy despite some cosmetic flaws. More
Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy
Oxford University Press, August 2006. Hardcover. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a boring old realist, whose plays are of..... More
Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Bantam Classics)
Bantam Classics, March 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters
Easton Press, January 1977. Leather. Easton Press Leatherbound Collector's Edition, 1977; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy red leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer edge text-block in gilt w/ silk moire end-papers; Pages free of markings; Silk ribbon page marker present and undamaged; An..... More
When We Dead Awaken and Three Other Plays -- Anchor A215b -- The Lady From the Sea; The Master Builder; John Gabriel Borkman
A Doubleday Anchor Original, 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market, first edition in paperback. Newly translated from the Norwegian. Darkened cover at margins and along spine that leans with mild bow. Previous owner's name in blue ballpoint on verso of front & rear cover panels. [373 pages and..... More
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
Simon & Schuster, October 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with full number line. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. More
Brecht: A Collection of Critical Essays
Prentice-Hall, 1962. Cloth. More
The Waltz Invention: A Play in Three Acts --- 75233
POCKET Cardinal, September 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate shelfwear. Edgewear including quite noticable chip along fore-edge on front panel near bottom. 4 pieces of clear scotch tape (darkened) attached to front and rear panel at the fore-edge. Rose red tinted textblock edges. Some mild marginal damp staining of internal pages..... More
Globe Illustrated Shakespeare : The Complete Works
Random House Value Pub, September 2001. Oversized Hardcover. 2nd prinitng; Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Signs of Race)
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2010. Hardcover. Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the..... More
Shakespeare without Words and Other Essays
Harvard University Press, January 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy blue cloth boards; Previous owner name present at front paste-down; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket VG w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy. More
Tempest
Modern Library, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In this play, Shakespeare offers some of his most insightful meditations on themes ranging from vengeance and forgiveness to..... More
Comedians -- E-667
Faber & Faber, 1976. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. Marginal darkening to internal pages. Cover is bright, clean, red cardstock with black & white lettering. [69 pages plus eight page list of Grove Press titles]. More
Mary Barnes (A Methuen modern play)
Eyre Methuen, January 1979. Pamphlet. {4 & 5/8th x 7 & 3/8th} Previous reader's name written in ink on verso of front panel. [88 pages]. More
Molière: The Pretentious Young Ladies; A Translation of Les Precieuses Ridicules
Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1959. Stapled Pamphlet. {5' x 7 & 1/4'} Rubbing & soiling to cover. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [38 pages]. More
EUGENE IONESCO [COLUMBIA ESSAYS ON MODERN WRITERS NUMBER 7]
Columbia University Press, 1965. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. Yellow cover with darkened spine & margins. With two staples. [47 pages]. More
Landscape of the Body.
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1978. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. Tan cardstock cover with black lettering. Dust stains & soiling. Two staples. Previous reader's name in ink verso of front panel. [76 pages plus five pages of advertisements]. More
Rich and Famous
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., January 1998. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. Pamphlet in yellow cardstock with black lettering and two staples. [60 pages plus six pages of advertisements]. More
The Three Theban Plays
Penguin Classics, 1984. Trade 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 most..... More
Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Pantheon Books, April 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. From one of our most distinguished Shakespeare scholars, here is a fascinating, lively, anecdotal work of forensic biography that firmly places Shakespeare within the hectic, exhilarating world in which he lived and wrote. Theater in Shakespeare's day was a burgeoning "growth industry." Everyone..... More
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Riverhead Books, October 1998. Hardcover. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but..... More
Thieves: A Comedy in Two Acts
Samuel French, January 1977. Stapled Pamphlet. 12mo. Discolorated stains & marginal sun lightened areas. [83 pages]. More
My Sister in This House
Samuel French, Inc., March 2011. First Thus. Stapled Pamphlet. Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Set Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, and at NYC's Second Stage is about a celebrated..... More