A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pocket Books, 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Drama
The Idea of a Theater: The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective -- Anchor 4
Doubleday Anchor, 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with sun-lightened spine and worn edges. [255 pages]. More
Five Comedies of Aristophanes: The Birds. The Frogs. The Clouds. The Wasps. Lysistrata (A57)
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with dust stained cover and darkened spine. Edgeworn. Creased back panel upper left corner. Chipped corners. [343 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles]. More
The human image in dramatic literature -- Essays (A124)
Doubleday Anchor, 1957. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback, Doubleday Anchor Original with darkened spine & margins. Non-authorial inscription in ink half title page. [217 pages]. More
A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Master Builder
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 Merchant of Venice (Signet Classics)
Signet Classics, April 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. The Merchant of Venice has been performed more often than any other comedy by Shakespeare. This edition pays special attention to the expectations of its first audience, and to our modern experience of seeing and hearing the play. Mahood explores. More
King Lear Pel
Penguin Books, September 1999. Trade Paperback. The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction..... More
Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays
Penguin Classics, January 2004. Trade Paperback. The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine..... More
Staircase a Play
Grove Press, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. Creasing on cover; foxing on edgepages and inside cover. More
Three Plays: Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever
Grove Pr, December 1979. Trade Paperback. Slight shelfwear and foxing along edges. More
Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse
Charles Scribner's Sons. Oversize Softcover. Book edges, inside cover, and endpages foxed. Otherwise, textblock clean. More
Waiting for Godot (Eng rev): A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
Grove Press, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Performed across the globe by some of the world's most iconic performers, Samuel Beckett's indelible masterpiece remains an unwavering testament of what it means to be human. From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment..... More
A Selection from Around Theatres -- A 226
Anchor Doubleday, May 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine and mild edgewear. Cover drawing by the author. [346 pages]. More
The idea of a theater, a study of ten plays;: The art of drama in changing perspective (A4)
Anchor, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavy shelf wear. Chipping. Scuff marks. Previous dealer's address stamp first inside page. [255 pages]. More
The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, September 1998. Paper Back. This volume of specially commissioned essays contains studies of O'Neill's life, his intellectual and creative forebears, and his relation to the theatrical world of his creative period, 1916-1942. Also included are descriptions of the O'Neill canon and its production history on stage and..... More
Brecht on Theatre : The Development of an Aesthetic
Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1994. Trade Paperback. This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht's groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition of the Epic Theatre and his theory of alienation-effects in directing, acting, and..... More
American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner
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
Inferno, Alone and other writings (A492)
Doubleday Anchor, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original'. Mass market paperback, stated, First Edition. Sun lightened spine with superficial creases. Edgewear with soiling and dust stains. [429 pages plus five page list of Anchor titles]. More
The Yale Shakespeare 40 Volume Set
Yale University Press, January 1965. Book Club. Hardcover. Complete set of 40 volumes; Conditions range from Good+ to VG+; All bindings are solid; Blue cloth boards clean and sturdy, gilt at spine faded on some volumes, on others crisp and clean, book club blind-stamps present at rear boards; Mild staining..... More
What Is Theatre?: Incorporating the Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1944-1967 (Revised and Revised)
Hill & Wang, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Donald Lyons "What Is Theatre?," originally published in 1968, collects all of Eric Bentley's theater criticism. Bentley's most productive years as a reviewer coincided with some of the greatest years of twentieth-century drama. His essays cover the premieres of works by..... More
The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times
Harvest Books, November 1987. Trade Paperback. Here is Bentley's definitive original text, including his long-suppressed foreword. A major study by one of the leading modern dramatic critics. Introduction by Richard Gilman; new Afterword by the Author. Index. More
Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790)
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
Hamlet (Folger's Library General Reader's Shakespeare)
Folger Shakespeare Library, June 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. More
There Shall Be No Night
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Cloth. Octavo. Jacket is missing. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine and front panel. Well worn. Darkened spine. Damp stains & discoloration to boards. Likewise damp stains to fore-edge. Top edge heavy dust stains. Tanning end pages. [178 pages]. More
Playwrights on Playwriting: the Meaning and Making of Modern Drama From Ibsen to Ionesco
Hill and Wang, January 1982. Paper Back. 20th printing, 1983; Covers and spine mildly worn; Previous owner initials present at half title; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
