Princeton University Press, October 2019. Trade Paperback. An international collection of the traditional tales that inspired some of Shakespeare's greatest plays Shakespeare knew a good story when he heard one, and he wasn't afraid to borrow from what he heard or read, especially traditional folktales. The Merchant of Venice, for..... More

Broadway Play Pub, January 1986. Paper Back. Mild wear from age; Text free of markings; Previous seller barcode sticker present at rear cover. More

Yale University Press, February 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Few playwrights write as much of their lives into every work as did Tennessee Williams, and few had lives that were so obviously theatrical. Growing up amid abusive alcoholism, genteel posturing, and the incipient madness of his beloved sister, Rose, Williams produced..... More

Everyman's Library, 1947. Hardcover. Everyman's Library; 1947; Hardcover; Good book in Good jacket; Mild age wear present; Solid binding with clean, sturdy boards; Previous owner book-plate present at front free end-page; Mild chipping present at jacket edges; Jacket housed in protective mylar for further preservation. 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

Faber & Faber, January 1986. Trade Paperback. As is. Corner cut on half title page. Some ex-library marks. More

Cambridge University Press, September 2011. Hardcover. This second volume of The Letters of Samuel Beckett opens with the War years, when it was often impossible or too dangerous to correspond. The surge of letters beginning in 1945, and their variety, are matched by the outpouring and the range of Beckett's..... More

Penguin Books, December 1986. Paper Back. Raises doubts on how seriously we can take Shaw as a political thinker. This title states that despite writing in the 1930s, he has little to say of the nature of totalitarianism. It shows that although he satirises Fascist dictators in Geneva, the satire..... More

Grove Press, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo with covers front and back curled at fore-edge. Previous owner's name written in ink top edge. First Evergreen/first printing. (76 pages). More

Hyperion Books, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Award-winning filmmaker Edward Burns is hardly an overnight success story. For four years, Burns wrote his own screenplays while he made a meager living working as a production assistant for a television show in New York City. Then on an extremely low budget -..... More

Penguin Books, October 1988. Paper Back. Thomas Middleton was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to..... More

Funk & Wagnalls, January 1967. Hardcover. Moderate wear to book and jacket. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More