Notes from Underground
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), March 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), March 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Theatre Arts Books, 1995. Reprint. Cloth. This classic work on acting is one of the very few that stands beside Stanislavsky as a must-have for all acting students and professionals. Richard Boleslavsky's Acting: The First Six Lessons is a treasure-box of wise observation about the art of acting, all wrapped..... 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
Oxford University Press, USA, September 1990. First Thus. Paper Back. Beyond Minimalism explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with Not I and continuing through Catastrophe and What Where, Brater examines the plays..... More
University of Michigan Press, September 1992. Reprint. Paper Back. Original essays honoring Martin Esslin, author of a seminal book on the theater of the absurd. Octavo. Spine cocked. Soiling & pencilled underlining & side notes scattered & splashed through text. Stains likewise along fore-edge. [316 pages]. More
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened/bowed spine with fading lettering. Tape 'repairs' with scotch tape. Marginal tanning to covers. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover and half title page. Front cover bottom right corner creased. [348 pages]. More
University of Minnesota Press, November 1999. Trade Paperback. In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and possibly the greatest living European playwright." His plays, widely taught and studied, are searing critiques of civilizations run amok. During the thirties, the subversive nature..... More
Grove Press, March 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships..... 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
Grove Press, January 1965. First Thus. Paper Back. First printing stated; Binding intact; Clean covers with minimal spine wear; Spine top corner bumped; Front cover mildly creased at outer bottom corner; Previous owner name present inside front cover; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Theatre Communications Group, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Evoking Shakespeare is the text of a talk given by Peter Brook in Berlin dealing with the essence of performing Shakespeare today. Based on the author's lifelong interest in interpreting Shakespeare's works for contemporary audiences, Brook's analysis is a typically illuminating and provocative..... More
Newmarket Press, May 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fourteen influential figures--Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Frank Gilroy, William Goldman, William Inge, Alan Jay Lerner, Mary Mercier, David Merrick, Mason Miller, John Patrick, Richard Wilbur, Edwina Dakin Williams, Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson--discuss their successes and failures. 14 b/w photos. Octavo. In dustjacket. Flap..... More
Prentice Hall, 1984. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous reader's name written in ink first inside page. [186 pages]. More
Applause Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare's texts; how the language is awakened, colored, emphasized, sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare's intended readers were his collaborators, not his commentators. Brown invites all Shakespeare lovers to seek their insights in Shakespeare's natural..... 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
Samuel French, Inc., January 1937. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Ivan R. Dee, February 1991. Trade Paperback. In a new edition of this now-classic work, Robert Brustein argues that the roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet. Focusing on each..... 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
Vintage, 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Vintage V-207. 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
J.M. Dent & Sons, July 1993. Trade Paperback. God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic..... More
Modern Library, 1942. Hardcover. More
Columbia University Press, May 2001. Trade Paperback. The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works--ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again--arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of..... More
Bantam, 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. some yellowing, otherwise in very good condition. More
Grove Press, January 2009. Paper Back. Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theater, and this was as true of Ivanov, his first full-length play, as of The Cherry Orchard, his last. Building on the success of his acclaimed adaptation of The Seagull, Tom Stoppard returns to Chekhov..... 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
The Heritage Press, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. {7 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'}. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering in burgundy rectangle upon spine. In stiff cardstock slipcase wrapped in printed pictorial, patterned (red & green & white) paper. Case is moderately worn at corners and edges. Issue Number..... More
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 2007. Trade Paperback. One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The..... 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
The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. Soft Cover. More
Faber & Faber, August 1989. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. Sticker residue on back cover. [125 pages]. 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
Macmillan Publishing Company, January 1974. First American. Cloth. Light foxing. Minor jacket chipping. Mylar wrapped. More
MacMillan Publishing Company, January 1977. Hardcover. As is. One inch split at the bottom of the spine. Binding still tight. All text clean and clear. 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
Collier Books, September 1974. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Dust stains & soiling. Sticker residue affiixed to verso of front cover. 308 pages. More
Applause, February 2000. First Thus. Cloth. For six decades, Harold Clurman illuminated our artistic, social, and political awareness in thousands of reviews, essays, and lectures. His work appeared indefatigably in The Nation, The New Republic, The London Observer, The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, New York Magazine, and more. The..... More
Princeton University Press, April 1976. Hardcover. Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and..... More
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
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
Samuel French, Inc., 1959. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Anchor Books, 1961. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Mild edgewear. Dust stains. [289 pages0. More
Doubleday & Company, January 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Tan covered cloth with dust stains & soiling. Tanned/darkened spine. Black lettering. Missing dust jacket. Bumped/bruised bottom corners. Tanned/foxed end pages. Spine leans slighly. Sound binding. [191 pp.]. More
Grove Pr, December 1979. Trade Paperback. Slight shelfwear and foxing along edges. More
Currency Press Pty Ltd, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Asylum seekers and refugees are at the vanguard of some of today's most pressing international challenges, their perilous journeys mapping the borderlines of a world in which the right to enter and remain in safe and secure living spaces is zealously guarded..... 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
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar...Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed"..... More
Methuen Drama, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two..... More
random house, January 1971. Hardcover. Jacket has some edge wear and corner chipping. Mylar wrapped to protect. Book is lightly bumped at the top of the spine. Two 'Workshop Theatre' stamps on the front endpapers. More
Manchester University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Links acting traditions with cultural milieu. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography. More
Hill & Wang / Mermaid Dramabook, June 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. Tanned, slightly cocked spine. Textblock top edge is foxed & dust stained. Previous owner's name in ink verso of front cover top edge. [278 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, March 2009. Paper Back. Originally published in 1953, this was the first edition of Dekker's plays to appear in print since the late nineteenth century. Thus, for many years prior, Dekker had been the least accessible of the prominent Elizabethan dramatists, with the result that his anthologized..... More
Grove Weidenfeld, January 1994. Trade Paperback. A Taste of Honey tells the story of a working-class adolescent girl and her various relationships: the black sailor who gets her pregnant; the homosexual art student who moves into her apartment to help her through the pregnancy; her fun-loving and saloon-frequenting mother; and..... More
Prentice-Hall, 1962. Cloth. More
Oxford University Press, 1966. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. {6' x 7 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with slightly darkened spine and mild edgewear. DJ torn at top edge of rear panel and tiny tear at bottom edge of same. Tan cloth covered boards. Title plate with black & red lettering affixed to..... More
Bantam Books. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Frederick Ungar Publishing, January 1964. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with sun-bleached spine. Front flap is clipped. Grey cloth boards with blue & black lettering along spine. Previous owner's name in ink F.F.E.P. Black tinted top textblock edge. Tightly bound. [243 pages.]. More
Broadway Play Publishing Inc., January 1984. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} First/first. Paper plate which was glued to (I think) the title page (with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., frog logo and address) is now laid in. Glue residue and tanning opposite confuses the..... More
Smith & Kraus, November 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. "Laughing wild amid severest woe" perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into..... More
Nelson Doubleday, Inc., January 1981. Book Club. Hardcover. Moderate wear to DJ with creasing and tears at head of spine from where a heavy bump that effects both jacket and boards. Tan paper covered boards with small black lettering along spine. [63 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, January 1984. Paper Back. This book offers a critical assessment of the career of one of the most formidable figures of English literature, the most influential poet and dramatist of the early seventeenth century. Richard Dutton focuses on the greatest landmark of Jonson's career, the 1616 folio..... More
Grove Press, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. Creasing on cover; foxing on edgepages and inside cover. More
Eyre Methuen, January 1979. Pamphlet. {4 & 5/8th x 7 & 3/8th} Previous reader's name written in ink on verso of front panel. [88 pages]. More
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
Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike..... More
Cambridge University Press, July 1984. Paper Back. This book makes ample use of approaches to language within linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and sociology, in order to do justice to the subtlety of Shakespeare's verbal artistry. Keir Elam adopts a fresh approach to the language of Shakespeare's comedies, considering..... More
Samuel French, January 1957. Stapled Soft Cover. Middle page is coming loose from staples. More
Samuel French, January 1950. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Harcourt, Brace & World, January 1965. Paper Back. Octavo. Underlining & side notes here & there through text. Rubbing & some soiling to cover. Foxing/sunning spine and margins. [192 pp.]. More
Harcourt, Brace and Company, March 1950. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily worn, darkened/tanned dustjacket with small tears and one rough hewn tear top of rear panel. Tiny, library Dewey decimal catalogue sticker affixed to jacket spine and book spine, both. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tanning..... More
Faber & Faber, May 1950. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd printing of UK First Edition in tattered, chipped and torn dustjacket. Green cloth with gold lettering along spine. Darkened margins of boards & moderate wear. Mild tanning of end pages with previous owner's name inked front free end pages. {171 pp.]. More
Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo.In dustjacket with darkened margins and spine. Sun tanned spine with likewise brown-tinted spine verso. Heavy damp stain top edge of back cover and top of spine visible on recto & verso of DJ. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards..... More
Faber and Faber, 1959. Hardcover. Jacket badly torn and chipped with significant discoloration. Foxing on all endpapers. Previous owner's name and address in ink on front free endpaper. Light pencil notations throughout. More
Knopf, January 1988. Hardcover. More
Routledge & Kegan Paul, February 1981. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition. Octavo. In dustjacket with marginal foxing. Some mild darkening/foxing of verso. Stickers from previous bookstores affixed bottom of front flap. Pale green cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine and some darkening of edges. End pages tanned..... 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
Macmillan, January 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Quarter bound: with brown cloth covered spine with stamped silver foil lettering and burnt orange paper covered boards. Dust stained top edge. Foxing to fore-edge. [332pp.]. More
Anchor Books, January 1971. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Bright, clean, sound. Previous owner's name (marked over) verso of front cover. [379 pages]. 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
Franklin Library, January 1979. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page marker. More
Grove Press/Evergreen, January 1958. Paper Back. Soiling & foxing to exteriors. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. Text clean & without markings. Decent reading copy. More
Oxford University Press, February 1990. Paper Back. A translation and interpretation of one of Euripides' plays, this version reveals the formal beauty and thematic concentration of the Alcestis. The late William Arrowsmith presents the play as a drama of human existence with recognizably human characters who also represent masked embodiments..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1991. Trade Paperback. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the..... More
University of Chicago Press/ Phoenix Books, 1970. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo; stains & sunning to spine. Mild shelf wear. Crease running parallel to spine left side of front cover. Previous owner's name stamped verso of front cover, top textblock edge and last blank page, centered. 255 pages. 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
Persea Books, April 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Barron's Educational Series, January 1981. Paper Back. 12mo. Curled textblock from improperly carrying curled in a coat pocket or handbag. Highlighting on many pages. More
Dover Pubns, June 1983. Paper Back. Folio. Foxing. Dust stains top edge. [122 pp.]. More
Anchor, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavy shelf wear. Chipping. Scuff marks. Previous dealer's address stamp first inside page. [255 pages]. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with sun-lightened spine and worn edges. [255 pages]. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. Spine darkened & covers likewise darkened at margins. Smudges of soiling topedge of textblock toward spine. Hole-punch to front cover at eye level of Daumier's court jester. (217 pages.). More
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
Faber & Faber, January 1986. Trade Paperback. As is. Corner cut on half title page. Some ex-library marks. More
Faber & Faber, July 2000. First Thus. Paper Back. Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theater? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to..... More
University of California Press, November 2007. Hardcover. Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she meant to Americans over so many..... More
Thomson Learning, May 1997. Trade Paperback. 'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I...... More
Random House Inc (P), May 1987. Trade Paperback. More
A & C Black Publishers Ltd, April 1988. Trade Paperback. More