Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Way of the World, the Conscious Lovers, the S
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1973. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1973. Trade Paperback. 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
Dover Publications, February 1976. Paper Back. {9 & 1/4' x 10'}. Mild edgewear. Small quarto. Toning. {154 pp.]. 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
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, January 1923. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2) Heavily chipped & tanned dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. Dark green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine & blindstamped JMB emblem. Clean, unmarked internal text. No underlining or side notes. Echoes of the..... More
Penguin Classics, June 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened/bowed spine. [385 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available]. More
Heinemann Drama, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Certainty may give way to misgiving, happiness may become unease. Moment-to-moment changes often make actors and directors pause and ponder when deciding to perform a Shakespeare comedy. But this should not be the case, claims theatre scholar Albert Bermel. In Shakespeare at the Moment..... More
Riverhead Books, January 1998. Trade Paperback. More
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
Clarendon Press /Oxford University Press, April 1991. Cloth. In 1880 Nietzche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises..... More
Oregon Shakespearean, June 1985. Hardcover. Square quarto in edgeworn dustjacket. Black textured paper covered spine with gold lettering. Soiling to board edges. Marbled grey paper covered boards with gold emblem. Black end pages. Dust stained textblock top edge. [142 pages]. More
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
Macmillan, January 1966. First Edition. Cloth. First/first US edition in dustjacket with mild edgewear. Front flap is clipped with vertical crease. Gingerbread brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. There is a review clipped from an Atlanta based newspaper glued to the Front Free End Page entitled 'A..... More
Bloomsbury USA, August 2010. Paper Back. Shakespeare's First Folio, the first complete collection of his plays, was almost never printed. Its eventual publication went practically unnoticed, and many of the original 750 copies were gone before the turn of the eighteenth century. But a hundred years later the plays were..... More
Anchor Doubleday, January 1961. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor original. Black marker doodle on verso of front cover. Previous owner's name written in ink on half title page. Sticker residue on front cover. Cover design by Jack Wolfgang Beck. [364 pages plus eight pages of Anchor titles..... More
University Of Chicago Press, 1970. Reprint. Trade Paperback. In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with sun-lightened spine and worn edges. [255 pages]. More
J. T. White, January 1973. Leather. {7' x 10& 1/2'} Small quarto. In dustjacket with darkened margins & spine. Flap not clipped. Dark brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering. More
Cooper Square Press, September 2000. Trade Paperback. From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J. (1878-1963), despite poor beginnings and near-illiteracy, created a theater monopoly unrivaled in history. Their ruthless business tactics and showmanship made 42nd Street the heart of..... More
Ernest Benn Limited, January 1953. Hardcover. Beige cloth binding. Lightly foxed. More
The Modern Library, January 1950. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ mild stain present at front board; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket significantly edge-worn w/ moderate chipping/open tears; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation. More
The Modern Library. Hardcover. Grey cloth. Dustjacket chipped and creased along edges; ink scribble on back of dustjacket; wrapped in mylar for future protection. Inscription from previous owner on front free endpage. Text block clean [383 pages]. More
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