Shakespeare the invention of the Human
Riverhead Books, January 1998. Trade Paperback. More
Riverhead Books, January 1998. Trade Paperback. More
Random House Inc, September 1995. Hardcover. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically..... More
Mariner Books, October 1962. Trade Paperback. New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index. More
Routledge, December 1990. Trade Paperback. One of British actor Sir Laurence Olivier's greatest achievements was to set up The Royal National Theatre and lead it from 1963 to 1973. Olivier's closest colleagues have written 36 short essays, accompanied by rarely seen photographs, celebrating the actor and his working methods. Compiled..... More
Penguin, 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Clean & sound with slight shelfwear. [174 pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin, August 1989. Reprint. Trade Paperback. J. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses..... More
Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press, Cloth. 12mo. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Mild edgewear. Foxing and stain spotting to textblock edge. Previous owners name written in ballpoint ffep. Tanning to end pges. [320 pages]. More
Touchstone Book / Published by Simon & Schuster, 1983. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First Touchstone paperback edition. Complete number string: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Mild shelf wear. Some light scars and scratches to cover, especially front. Superficial vertical crease running down center..... More
Cambridge University Press, October 1967. Trade Paperback. Outlines the potentialities and limitations of the Elizabethan playhouse and how Shakespeare exploited them, discussing the plays as a sequence of stage effects planned to enrich, modify and reinforce each other. Spine is creased. Minor shelf wear on head and foot of spine..... More
Princeton University Press, July 1975. First Thus. Paper Back. This handsomely illustrated biography provides a dramatic, human view of Shakespeare as he lived his life. Narrative and pictures follow Shakespeare from his birth and boyhood in Stratford, through his career in the London theatre, and back to Stratford during the..... More
Capra Pr, January 1988. Hardcover. Octavo in edgeworn jacket. Black textured paper covered boards. Gold & white lettering along spine. Previous owner's name written in ballpoint on front pastedown. Sound binding. [227 pages]. More
Agate Midway, October 2016. First Edition. Cloth. "Engaging and insightful." --Booklist Much Ado, written by award-winning journalist Michael Lenehan, gives readers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the lauded American Players Theatre's 2014 production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout has called the..... More
Hutchinson of London, 1964. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 10'} In edgeworn jacket. Flap not clipped. UK edition. Burgunday cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated end pages with darkened spine. [159 pages]. More
Appleton Century Crofts, January 1960. First Thus. Paper Back. Well worh octavo. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [340 pages]. More
University of Washington Press, 1959. Paper Back. Darkened spine & mildly darkened margins. Previous owner's name stamp verso of front cover, top, dust stained, textblock edge and last inside page. Else interiors clean, un,marked. [341 pages]. More
Samuel French, Inc., January 1992. Reprint. Paper Back. 12mo. [115 pages+six page list of Samuel French titles]. More
Grove Press, September 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ("Mother Courage"), an itinerant trader, as..... 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
Macmillan Publishing Company, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in lightly edgeworn jacket. Brown cloth covered boards gold lettering along spine.[321 pages]. 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
Theatre Communications Group, November 2018. Paper Back. "This is a fresh take on the American road story, filled with people and ideas we rarely get to see onstage...It offers two seriously rich roles for women, each with important things worth singing about...Miss You Like Hell is a powerful example of..... More
Clarendon Press, March 1994. Hardcover. Shakespeare's Henry V has traditionally been acclaimed for its impressive depiction of the psychological and political impact of warfare, and it remains one of the most widely-discussed plays in the canon. In this highly original, scholarly, and thought-provoking study Professor Meron uses rare medieval ordinances..... More
University of California Press, February 1994. Trade Paperback. The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play.Mariam..... 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
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