The English Dramatic Critics, an Anthology 1660-1932 -- (A Dramabook D15)
Hill and Wang / a Dramabook, January 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Hill and Wang / a Dramabook, January 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, May 2009. Trade Paperback. 'Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, If greater falsehood ever has been done' The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire..... 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
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
B.W. Huebsch, 1924. Cloth. 2nd printing with jacket in pieces: front panel is present as is front flap, but these two parts are connected but barely. Likewise back panel and back flap are present and better connected. The spine side of jacket is gone but for a tiny fragment. Loads..... More
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
Stage & Screen, January 1995. Book Club. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Chandler publishing Company, January 1962. Paper Back. Inside first page price clipped. More
Library of America, April 2010. Cloth. Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America's living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental. Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry, and parody, editor Laurence Senelick presents writers with the special knack "to distill both the immediate..... More
Library of America, April 2010. First Edition. Cloth. Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America's living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental. Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, poetry, and parody, editor Laurence Senelick presents writers with the special knack "to distill both..... More
Da Capo Press, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a...... More
Doubleday, April 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. One man's post-retirement passion for the works of history's greatest literary genius becomes an inspiring intellectual and spiritual adventure--and a lesson in the ageless wisdom to be found in literature. In the twilight of a successful career as a book editor, Herman Gollob attended..... More
Faber & Faber, June 2003. Trade Paperback. The Great Guskin (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive Harold Guskin is an acting doctor whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens..... 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
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
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
Theatre Communications Group, May 2017. Paper Back. Winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Musical "Dear Evan Hansen lodges in your head long after you've seen it or heard it or read it. It feels like a pure expression from young writers at a crossroad of coming to terms..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2010. Hardcover. Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical South Pacific has remained a mainstay of the American musical theater since it opened in 1949, and its powerful message about racial intolerance continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Drawing on extensive research in..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 1991. Hardcover. When S. Schoenbaum's Shakespeare's Lives first appeared over twenty years ago, critics enthusiastically hailed it as a triumph of wit and scholarship. Stanley Wells, the editor of Shakespeare's complete works, called it an extraordinary achievement....fluent, vivid, and intelligent. Writing in the Saturday Review..... More
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
Pub Group West, July 1991. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was..... 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