An Anthology of poetry for Shakespeare
Bishopsgate Press, January 1988. Paper Back. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Bishopsgate Press, January 1988. Paper Back. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Signet Classics, June 2002. Paper Back. Hilarious fun, this early comedy is filled with the merry violence of slapstick and farce. When two sets of twins, separated and apparently lost to each other, all end up in the rowdy, rollicking city of Ephesus, the stage is set for mix-ups, mayhem..... More
Bantam, 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, February 2000. Trade Paperback. I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or..... More
Franklin Library, 1979. Leather. Brown full leather cover with gilt letterings and design on spine and front and back covers; gilt page edges; silk endpages on front and back; with illutsrations by Rockwell Kent; contains: Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear and Julius Caesar; notable edgewear on front..... More
Washington Square Press, July 2003. Mass Market PaperBack. Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, July 2008. Trade Paperback. During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from..... More
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
Simon & Schuster, January 2004. Mass Market PaperBack. In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and..... More
Bantam Classics, February 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. This is one of Shakespeare's darkest comedies, for the romantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves is set against the more disturbing story of the Jewish moneylender..... More
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
Bedford/St. Martin's, March 2002. Trade Paperback. This edition of the Shakespeare play, Merchant of Venice features the Bevington edition along with an extenstive array of primary documents to help illuminate the religious controversy triggered by the play, including early modern documents reflecting Christian attitudes toward Jews and Jewish reactions to..... More
Pocket Books, 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Simon & Schuster, January 2004. Mass Market PaperBack. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus's Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples--but not before they..... More
Washington Square Press, May 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. Set in a courtly world of masked revels and dances, this play turns on the archetypal story if a lady falsely accused of unfaithfulness, spurned by her bridegroom, and finally vindicated and reunited with him. Villainy, schemes, and deceit threatens to darken..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 2008. Trade Paperback. Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems..... More
Penguin Books, December 2000. 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
Washington Square Press, September 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. An international team of scholars offers:. An international team of scholars offers: In a battle between the sexes, Shakespeare has created a farce filled with practical jokes and sight gags which add fun to the story of how Petruchio tries to win..... More
Modern Library, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Generally believed to be the last play written solely by Shakespeare, The Tempest centers on a banished noble who uses sorcery to confront his foes. In this play, Shakespeare offers some of his most insightful meditations on themes ranging from vengeance and forgiveness to..... More
McGraw-Hill, July 2000. Library Binding. Pictoral hardcover binding intebded for libraries or schools. More
Cambridge University Press, March 2004. Trade Paperback. Penny Gay has written a new Introduction to this updated edition of Shakespeare's popular comedy. She stresses the play's theatricality, its elaborate linguistic games and its complex use of Ovidian myths. In addition, Gay analyzes its delicate balancing of romance and realism and..... More
Penguin Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear, the irresolution of Hamlet or the suspicion of..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 2000. 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..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 2000. 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..... More
Random House Value Pub, September 2001. Oversized Hardcover. 2nd prinitng; Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Everyman's Library / Random House, July 10, 1995. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Dark grey coth with gold lettering framed within black rectangles on spine and front board, both framed in decorative floral design. Tightly bound in grey thread with attached grey ribbon marker with frayed end. [606 pages]. More
Simon & Schuster, July 1997. Trade Paperback. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over..... More
Penguin, 1952. Mass Market PaperBack. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Pages free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 2001. Trade Paperback. Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of the first great twentieth-century English play and a classic exposé of the eternal struggle between the sexes--part of the official Bernard Shaw Library A Penguin Classic After the death of her father, Ann Whitefield..... More
Penguin Books, December 1986. Paper Back. Raises doubts on how seriously we can take Shaw as a political thinker. This title states that despite writing in the 1930s, he has little to say of the nature of totalitarianism. It shows that although he satirises Fascist dictators in Geneva, the satire..... More
Weybright and Talley, January 1970. Cloth. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear, including one and one-half inch wide segment (1/16th inch from tall) worn/chomped damage by what appears to be silverfish. Otherwise good plus overall DJ. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering, Burnt orange colored..... More
Weybright and Talley: New York, January 1969. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with the slightest of edgewear, including one sliver of a waning moon (one sixteenth inch across) top edge near top right corner. Black cloth covered boards with sharp corners and gold lettering along spine. Sound binding. Lilac end pages..... More
Dodd, Mead (Apollo Eds.), January 1960. Trade Paperback. More
Dover Publications, May 2002. Trade Paperback. Fabian socialist and ardent proselytizer, George Bernard Shaw viewed his role as a playwright as far more than that of an entertainer. His audiences heard fully articulated sermons on moral and economic issues, a potentially dry theatrical experience enlivened by Shaw's genius for creating..... More
Noonday Pr. Trade Paperback. This first collection of Wallace Shawn's plays from the seventies and eighties brings together 'A Thought in Three Parts, ' 'Marie and Bruce, ' 'Aunt Dan and Lemon, ' and 'The Fever' -- four incisive and provocative works that have disturbed theatergoers on both sides of..... More
UNKNO. Trade Paperback. More
Yale University Press, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Vibrant, varied, and controversial, British theatre of the past fifty years has encompassed invigorating indigenous drama, political didactics, the formation of such institutions as the National Theatre, worldwide exportation of West End musicals, and much more. This entertaining and authoritative book-the first comprehensive..... More
Bantam Books, January 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Urizen, 1980. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Top edge dust stains/foxing. Previous owner's name inked top edge half title page. More
Penguin Classics, February 1989. Paper Back. The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And while he never overtly moralizes, Sheridan uses brilliant comedy to deflate hypocrisy and satirize the manners of..... More
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
Simon & Schuster, September 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. The autobiography of a successful American playwright who has won virtually all major awards including the Pulitzer and the Tony, which reveals the struggles that went into becoming the success he is today. Octavo in dustjacket. Front flap not clipped. Quarter bound..... More
Grove / Evergreen Original, 1961. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First U.S. paperback edition. Edgewear. Foxing, especially heavily to cover verso front and rear and likewise heavy foxing to first & last pages of textblock. [94 pp.]. More
Theatre Arts Books, 1950. Hardcover. Octavo, In tattered, torn & chipped dustjacket with damp staining. Spine is sun darkened. Margins heavily foxed/darkened. Front flap is clipped. Quarter bound: yellow cloth covered with gold lettering & black paper covered boards.Bumped board corners. Dust stained/darked textblock top edges.[374 pp.]. More
Charles Scribner's Sons. Oversize Softcover. Book edges, inside cover, and endpages foxed. Otherwise, textblock clean. More
Everyman's Library, 1947. Hardcover. Everyman's Library; 1947; Hardcover; Good book in Good jacket; Mild age wear present; Solid binding with clean, sturdy boards; Previous owner book-plate present at front free end-page; Mild chipping present at jacket edges; Jacket housed in protective mylar for further preservation. More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 2007. Paper Back. Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, February 1990. 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 Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the..... More
Harper Perennial, August 2012. Paper Back. The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens--Sophocles's seven surviving works--in vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays Harper Perennial has published as beautifully designed, stand-alone editions. Powerfully portraying the clash between civic and familial..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 2009. Trade Paperback. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1970. First Thus. Paper Back. This new translation is for the contemporary reader. Specifically commissioned for stage production, it rings easily on the modern ear and yet retains fidelity to Sophocles' original, avoiding the archaisms of other translations. Octavo. Complete number line. Sunned..... More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Trade Paperback. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most..... More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Trade Paperback. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most..... More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Trade Paperback. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most..... More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Trade Paperback. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most..... More
University Of Chicago Press, 1963. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo with moderate shelf wear. Darkened, mildly leaning spine. Inked notes all over half title page. Inked underlining and notes scattered here and there through text. [206 pages]. More
Penguin, 1975. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's..... More
Penguin, 1975. Mass Market PaperBack. 'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles (496-406 BC) to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, January 1975. Trade Paperback. The Lion and the Jewel alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' The Times The ironic development and consequences of progress' may be traced through both the themes..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon..... More
Players Press, January 1989. Trade Paperback. 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
Ticknor & Fields, May 1980. Paper Back. Powerful psychological drama deals with political and spiritual conflict between Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots. The five-act play in blank verse takes place in the days before Mary's execution for treason, and focuses on the two royal antagonists' personal..... More
Little Brown & Co, March 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In well worn dustjacket. Torn & frayed edges especially top of spine. Quarter bound, Burgundy cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Red paper covered boards front and back. End pages spotted with soiling and/or..... More
Random House, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn, darkened, DJ with rubbing, creasing and considerable wear overall. Front flap is clipped. Red cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Blue end pages with marginal fade. Spine slightly pulled at top. Dust stained & darkend top edge. [432 pp.]. More
Routledge, April 1999. Hardcover. The glorious tradition of the Broadway musical from Irving Berlin to Jerome Kern and Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim. And then . . . Cats and Les Miz. Mark Steyn's Broadway Babies Say Goodnight is a sharp-eyed view of the whole span of Broadway musical..... More
Pub Group West, July 1991. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the..... 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
Doubleday Anchor, January 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Sunned spine & margins. Chipped & worn at cover edges. 304 pages plus four page list of Anchor titles available. More
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
Cambridge University Press, July 1968. Trade Paperback. Much of twentieth-century drama defies the traditional pigeon-holes of tragedy and comedy: the heroes are not straightforwardly heroic; the subject-matter seems at some times grimly realistic and at others nearer to pure fantasy. Professor Styan explains and illuminates the nature of this dark..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 1977. First Edition. Cloth. How do our ways of perceiving and producing Shakespeare differ from those of the nineteenth century, and how interrelated has the work of scholars and directors become over this century? Professor Styan's purpose in this book is to discuss the 'revolution' in..... 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
Random House, January 1973. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. Four tiny marks about the size of a pencil point on the front of the jacket. One lightly rubbed corner. Price clipped. Signed by William Styron on the front free endpaper. More
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1969. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} In edgeworn jacket with dust stained/darkened spine. Heavily damp stained jacket. Burgundy covered cloth with gold lettering along spine. Sticker removal scar front pastedown. Stamped 'Book Sale' top & bottom textblock edges. Sound binding..... More
lulu.com, July 2012. Trade Paperback. Award-winning play with songs by Caridad Svich that examines grief, loss and the power of love. A young woman loses her husband in a recent war. A community rallies round to save her. More
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959. First Edition. Cloth. Black cloth with gold lettering in edgeworn dust jacket. Clean & sound. Non-authorial inscription & date inked front free end page. More
Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1935. Hardcover. Dust jacket creased and scarred at spine, with shelf wear along top edge. More
NY: Samuel French, January 1937. Soft Cover. 106 pages. Discoloration, soiling and considerable wear. Fair reading copy only. More
Rapp & Carroll, January 1967. Hardcover. More
Oxford University Press, USA, March 1991. Trade Paperback. As an actor, William Shakespeare reinvented himself almost every day. At the height of his career, he often performed in six different plays on six consecutive days. He stopped reinventing himself when he died on April 23, 1616, but, as Gary Taylor..... More
Frederic C. Beil Publisher, March 1986. First Edition. Cloth. A play in 7 scenes set at an imaginary resort in the Cumberland Mountains. The characters are wealthy and urban and come to the mountains from another world (5 men, 5 women). In plain cardstock slipcase. Quarto. Eight &n 1/2-inch x...... More
Penguin Classics, 1987. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play, The Girl from Andros, Terence portrays a...... More
New Directons, Publication date not listed. Reprint. Soft Cover. Thirteenth Printing. Octavo. [107 pages]. More
Faber & Faber, June 1996. Trade Paperback. A collection of Timberlake Wertenbaker plays which spans her work from 1984 to 1992, including Our Country's Good, which won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988. More
Grove Press, January 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club edition in jacket. More
Samuel French Inc, January 1935. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Alfred A. Knopf, April 1995. Hardcover. In a brilliant piece of detective work, Tomalin--whose book about Nelly Ternan, Charles Dickens's secret mistress, won prizes as the best biography of 1991--has retrieved Dora, her story and her world, from the obscurity of lost letters and unexamined documents. As social history, the..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Ibsen's A Doll's House is one of the most widely debated plays, but which version of the play do we refer to--the original text, translations, stage presentation, radio, film or television adaptations? This study addresses these questions and examines how the choice of..... More
Chandler publishing Company, January 1962. Paper Back. Inside first page price clipped. More
Anchor Books, 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Second Edition; Revised & Enlarged. Sunned spine. Stains & darkening textblock top edge. Stained spots to fore-edge. Spine was repaired/reglued (successfully) at some point in its history. A previous owner wrote their name across top of half title page. Later this identification was scribbled..... More
Nick Hern Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. A major rediscovery of a forgotten woman playwright of the twenties, Machinal is a powerful expressionist play about the status of women in an increasingly mechanized society, and the torture of a loveless marriage. Frequently reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In scintillating, sharp-witted "short takes", sometimes wildly funny, sometimes deeply moving, Tommy Tune shares the memories of a stellar career, from his coming of age in a small Texas town to his current status as one of the most celebrated, beloved, and..... More
Bloomsbury USA, November 2001. Hardcover. An engaging, and intimate look at one of the most feared and respected critics of our time. 'Be light, stinging, insolent, and melancholy' were the words hanging over the desk of Kenneth Tynan in his early days as a critic for the London Observer, and..... More
Longman, December 2006. Paper Back. More