Henrik Ibsen Four Plays
The Franklin Library, January 1978. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Marbled endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. More
The Franklin Library, January 1978. Leather. Gilt edges and cover design. Marbled endpapers. Embossed stamp on title page. More
W.W.Norton & Company, January 1968. Paper Back. More
Dover Publications, December 1990. Trade Paperback. Known as the father of modern drama, Henrik Ibsen is considered one of the world's greatest playwrights. His ability to turn revolutionary philosophical ideas into brilliant social dramas inspired the likes of George Bernard Shaw, while his drive to manifest the truths of the..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1997. Paper Back. Nora Helmer, wife to Torvald and mother of three children, appears to enjoy living the life of a pampered, indulged child. But as her economic dependence becomes brutally clear, Nora's acceptance of the status quo undergoes a profound change. To the horror..... More
A Doubleday Anchor Book, 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First edition in Anchor edition. Darkened, slanting spine. Marginal darkening of interiors and cover. [157 pages]. More
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Clean, sound, and without interior markings. Lightly tanned spine, and likewise light marginal tanning to covers. Internal text without markings. [157 pages plus two page list of Anchor titles.]. 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
Anchor Doubleday Books, January 1966. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original'. This Anchor original is the first edition of the title, 'Ghosts and Three Other Plays'. Previous owner's name inked on verso of front cover. Below this name is a rubber stamped illustrated face: a striking image..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1963. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original' Mildly shelf worn mass market paperback with scattered pencil markings, notes and a handful of yellow highlights. Previous owner's name hand written in ink verso of [164 pages plus three page list of available Anchor titles.]. More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1963. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original. 'Newly Translated from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer'. Spine is slanted. Otherwise clean, sound & without markings. [164 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
Anchor Books, January 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original'; Foxing/darkening cover margins & spine. A previous owner's name top edge of front wrapper verso with black fine-tipped marker. A sprinkle of soiling across top textblock edge. (376 pages plus ten pages of available Anchor titles.). More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine and margins. Previous owner's name, address & phone # inked verso front cover. (157 pages.). More
Grove Press, March 1974. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 3rd printing paperback edition. Rubbing, mild wear. Unmarked interiors. [105 pages plus one page list of Grove/Evergreen titles then availabe.]. More
Grove Press / Evergreen, June 1969. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 2nd printing. Octavo. Mild toning. It appears the first segment of pages might have been reglued or else there was a problem during production/publishing. The first 28 pages are a fraction of an inch out of line with the rest of..... More
Grove Press / Evergreen Original, June 1960. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo with foxing/darkening especially margins and textblock edges. Interior pages unmarked. Heavy foxing/tanning verso of cover, front and back. Likewise first and last pages of textblock opposite above. [159 pp.]. More
N/A, January 1995. Trade Paperback. The 14 short plays collected here introduce readers to one of the most intelligent and anarchically funny playwrights of the last decade and his "utterly delightful one-act plays that percolate with comic brio" (The New York Times. Some peeling on cover edges. Previous owner's name..... More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1928. Hardcover. Quarto; cloth spine; grey paper-covered boards with red lettering. Spine mildly slanted; somewhat frayed & shelf worn; paperclip rust residue top edge of textblock first 22 pages or so. Bumped & worn at corners. Foxing-tanning to end papers; previous owner's bookplate affixed front pastedown. 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
Funk & Wagnalls, January 1967. Hardcover. Moderate wear to book and jacket. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Dennis Dobson, London, January 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. More
Methuen Publishing, December 2000. Trade Paperback. 'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative..... More
Collier Books, 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 2001. Trade Paperback. A reissue of a now classic American drama. If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." So wrote the young Henry David Thoreau in..... More
Heinemann, September 1988. Paper Back. More
Routledge, December 1991. Trade Paperback. Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a key intervention in its own right and as a representative of an influential critical approach to the genre. The collection..... More
Criterion, January 1958. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Edgeworn dust jacket. More
Penguin Books, January 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with marginal darkening. Brown stains & foxing. [236 pp.]. More
A&C Black, December 2002. Trade Paperback. 'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy..... More
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1941. Cloth. {5 & 3/4' x 9'} Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering and decorations. Mild wear of board edges. Two small tears in cloth at top spine edge. Binding tight at base of spine and somewhat pulled at spine head. Textblock top edge..... 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
Zikawuna Books, January 1978. Paper Back. Non-authorial inscription. More
Harry N. Abrams, May 2001. Cloth. Dreams may come true on the stage, but they're made behind the scenes. From frenzied last-minute rehearsals to costume transformations to nightly curtain-call countdowns, backstage routines and rituals create an energy unique to each performance. Rivka Katvan captures these revealing moments in Backstage, her..... More
Harper & Row, January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In foxed dustjacket with two and three quarters inch crease (almost torn through) front panel at bottom edge. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Dust stains/foxing textblock edge. Complete number line.[397 pp.]. More
PAJ Publications, July 2001. Paper Back. Stanley Kauffmann is the theater critic of Saturday Review and was theater critic of The New York Times and The New Republic. He has received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, as well as the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller fellowships. He teaches..... More
Random House, January 1937. Hardcover. Second printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy, navy cloth boards w/ immaculate gilt design/letting at front and spine; Pages free of markings; Dust jacket clipped at all four corners, moderate age wear present w/ chipping, creasing and some small tears present at edges; Jacket housed in..... More
RANDOM HOUSE, January 1957. Hardcover. More
Springer, June 2009. Trade Paperback. What happens to politics when it takes the form of theatre? How has theatre both exploited and undermined politics both in society and on the stage? Theatre & Politics explores the complex relationship between theatre and politics, questioning some of the assumptions that often arise..... More
Samuel French, Inc, January 1957. Soft Cover. Stains to cover. Shelf wear. 12mo. More
Oxford University Press, September 2010. Hardcover. Ranging from ancient Greek tragedies to the latest developments around the globe, The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an all-embracing approach that encompasses drama and musical, opera, dance, radio, and non-dramatic performances including circuses and parades. Based on the celebrated two-volume Oxford..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, January 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with darkened spine & mild edgewear. Front flap is not clipped. Quarter bound: dark brown cloth covered spine with gold lettering along spine. Tan paper covered boards with brown 'W.K.' initials stamped front panel. Tanning to end pages. Darkened/dust..... More
Samuel French, Inc., March 2011. First Thus. Stapled Pamphlet. Wendy Kesselman Full Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Set Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, and at NYC's Second Stage is about a celebrated..... More
Gotham, October 2008. Trade Paperback. Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, an eminent scholar puts the spotlight on the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare's work. Everyone knows of his matchless understanding of the human condition, but we have been deprived for centuries of the full extent of..... More
Samuel French, January 1955. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Penguin, 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Clean & sound with slight shelfwear. [174 pages]. More
W.W. Norton & Company, 1962. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo paperback with darkening and moderate wear.[402 pages]. More
Yale University Press, January 2005. Paper Back. This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other's development. Robert Knopf here assembles essays from performers, directors, writers..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2010. Trade Paperback. How are hybrid and diasporic identities performed in increasingly diverse societies? How can we begin to think differently about theatrical flow across cultures? Interculturalism is an increasingly urgent topic in the 21st century. As human traffic between nations increases, it becomes imperative to critically..... 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
Yale University Press, March 1998. Trade Paperback. In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries-and in particular in disentangling Sophocles' ideas from Freud's psychoanalytical interpretations-Bernard Knox casts fresh..... More
Bantam Books, October 1971. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback edition. 2nd Bantam printing. Clean, sound, with mild toning. Superficial creasing along spine. Previous owner's name inked first inside page and back cover. [114 pp.]. More
Hill and Wang, 1981. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Darkened at margins. Curled cover at fore-edge side. Unmarked interiors. Third printing. [78 pp.]. More
Farrar Straus & Giroux / Hill & Wang / Mermaid Dramabook, June 1960. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, bright, sound without interior markings. [89 pp.]. More
Penguin Books, January 1960. First Trade. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild foxing. Inked doodle inside half title page. Sticker residue front cover. (93 pp.). More
Theatre Communications Group, February 2005. Trade Paperback. "Mr. Kushner's glorious specialty is in giving theatrical life to internal points of view, in which our thoughts meld with a character's wayward speculations or fantasies... He makes the personal and the universal, the trivial and the cosmic come simultaneously to life in..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, March 2000. Trade Paperback. The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the..... More
Penguin Books, January 1973. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. Darkening of cover verso and margins to internal pages. Fingerprint stains. [288 pages]. More
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, June 1997. Trade Paperback. John Lahr describes the lives and careers of playwrights, directors and performers, providing a vivid backdrop to his critique of particular productions in this book of theatrical criticism, history and gossip. He also makes the reader feel present at the run-up to an..... More
Pathfinder Press / A Merit Book, January 1971. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. First paperback printing. Some darkening and stains to cover. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. [200 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, December 2010. Hardcover. In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959)..... More
Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, May 1999. Trade Paperback. "CYRANO need not have diminished emotional impact when divorced from the grand acting style for which the play was conceived. Its lyrical scenes still etch a portrait of Cyrano as a man of uncompromising bravery except in matters of the heart. They..... More
Anchor Doubleday, January 1964. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original in well worn mass market with slightly cocked spine. Sun lightened at spine. Previous owner's name is written in ink upon half title page. {529 pages with two page list of then available Anchor titles.]. More
Continuum, August 2001. Hardcover. Between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook; Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage; and Hamlet - A Monologue, directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version - at least in..... More
Smith & Kraus, December 2013. Trade Paperback. The corners are bumped. The text is clean and the binding tight. More
Tulane University, 1968. Soft Cover. Octavo with tanned spine. Mild foxing. Marginal tanning/foxing to (blank, white) back cover. Previous owner's name inked across top of first inside page. [119 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, April 1989. Hardcover. This book traces the career of the Russian revolutionary theater director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, from his early years as a founding member of the Moscow Art Theater with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, through his Symbolist period, his experiments with commedia dell'arte and other popular forms, and..... More
Chatto and Windus, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. First UK in brown cloth. Gold lettering (starting to fade) on spine. Top textblock edge tinted with dark brown. Top corner of textblock appears chewed possibly by a rodent. Dustjacket is missing. Mildly bowed boards. [232 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
Panjandrum, March 1984. Paper Back. Inked name on inside of front cover. More
Applause Books, April 2004. Paper Back. (Applause Books). A cycle of eleven episodes told in Story Theater form, a narrator speaking and life-sized puppets performing simultaneously, The Greek Myths tells the story of Greek mythology from the first moments of creation through its version of the story of the flood..... More
Continuum, December 1991. Trade Paperback. Lessing was a playwright, scholar, poet, archeologist, philosopher, and critic. His genius is evident in the works collected in this volume, which includes the comedy Minna von Barnhelm, the tragedy Emilia, Galotti, Nathan the Wise, The Jews (and related correspondence), Ernst and Falk: Conversations for..... 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
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. First Thus. Paper Back. The bedrock, authoritative account of the little-known early life of Tennessee Williams. "Plainly a work of distinction...It will be great service to Williams's reputation and among other things may bring more of the young to an appreciation of his achievement."--Arthur..... More
the modern library, January 1937. Cloth. The jacket has a 2.5 inch tear on the spine, also other chipping and tiny cuts. Price clipped. Mylar wrapped to preserve. There is an ex-libris plate on the front paste down endpaper, minor edge rubbing on the boards. More
Methuen Drama, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Fully annotated student edition of a modern classic Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. First performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East..... More
Dutton Books, June 1993. Hardcover. The daughter of one of America's most prolific and enduring composers (Guys and Dolls, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) pens an engaging portrait of her father, her family, and the life they shared in the giant shadow cast by his fame. Photographs..... 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
Crown, June 2013. Hardcover. A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare s plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization andcontainthe finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poetry, and films in the..... 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
Turtle Bay Books: imprint of Random House, Inc., November 1992. Hardcover. More
Grove Press, 1983. Soft Cover. The Woods, described by the Chicago Daily News as a "beautifully conceived love story," is a modern dramatic parable in which a young man and woman who spend a night in his family's cabin experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end reconciled by..... More
R.S. Means Company, 1997-06-01. Trade Paperback. More
Odyssey / State University of New York, January 1970. Paper Back. Octavo. Sun lightened spine. Previous owner's name written in ink half title page. [212 pages]. More
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., June 2010. Paper Back. Octavo. Pamphlet with lettered spine. [72 pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin Company/Riverside Press, 1964. Paper Back. More
Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, December 2001. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean & sound. [274 pp.]. More
Salamander, 1995. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto. {10 & 3/4' x 11 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine. Pale blue end pages. Previous owner's name inked bottom edge of front pastedown. Textblock is starting to become loose from boards, though it..... 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
Garden City Publishing, Co. Inc., 1939. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Dustjacket missing. Six Maugham plays, selected by Maugham, who also wrote the preface. Black cloth covered boards with discoloration and edgewear. Red lettering with horizontal bars. Stamped front panel also in red the usual Doubleday/Garden City colophon of this period. Top..... More
Washington Square Press, January 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with scuff marks, creased spine. [296 pages]. More
Suhrkamp Verlag, January 1967. Trade Paperback. More
Harcourt, June 1959. Trade Paperback. More
Farrar, Straus and Company, January 1963. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in dustjacket with small tears & moderate edgewear. Flap is not clipped. Denim cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Darkened textblock edges. [248 pages]. More
Picador, September 2021. Trade Paperback. More
Harper, November 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays--A..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. An Englishman, an Irishman and an American are locked up together in a cell in the Middle East. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive? Frank McGuinness's new play..... More
Dramatists Play Service Inc., 1974. Pamphlet. Pamphlet with pale blue card cover sun tanned margins. Two stapleds along spine/fold. [86 pages]. More
Frederick Ungar, 1972. Paper Back. {4 & 3/4' x 7 & 3/4'}. Mild shelfwear. Rubbing. [184 pages]. More
Samuel French, Inc., June 1967. Trade Paperback. Collection of Six One Act Plays including: Birdbath, Ferryboat, Halloween, Lunchtime, The Shirt, Times Square. Octavo. Mild wear to cover with marginal tanning. Stray mark on front cover. Previous owner's name in ink lower edge of verso of front cover. [188 pp.]... More