Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Penguin Plays)
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Theatre Communications Group, April 1996. Paper Back. The first post-apartheid play by one of the greatest playwrights in South Africa and the world, Valley Song is a coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go..... More
Theatre Communications Group, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act. More
Routledge, April 1997. Paper Back. Marjorie Garber examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns--coming of age--in Shakespeare's plays. Citing examples from virtually the entire Shakespeare canon, she pays particular attention to the way his characters grow and change at points of personal crisis. Among the crises Garber discusses are..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1955. Trade Paperback. Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward an inescapable tragic end. Yerma. "The whole tragic burden of..... More
Samuel French, January 1977. Stapled Pamphlet. 12mo. Discolorated stains & marginal sun lightened areas. [83 pages]. More
ECW Press, May 1994. Trade Paperback. Here's the story of the musical version of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee's life. Highlighted by 15 illustrations, Keith Garebian gives behind-the-scenes information about Ethel Merman and Angela Lansbury, both of whom portrayed the flamboyant "artist," and provides an in-depth analysis of the play's structure..... More
PRENTICE HALL INC, January 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 6th printing. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. Tick marks and some other scattered marginal markings. Well worn. Sticker residue to cover. [180 pages plus two page list of Twentieth Century Views titles]. More
Dodd, Mead, January 1949. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily chipped/edgeworn dustjacket with rubbing. Large jacket piece missing top of spine (two inches by one inch). Small holes worn in jacket at folds. Darkening/foxing to verso of DJ. Tan cloth covered boards with red rectangle containing silver lettering on spine. Darkened to..... More
Harlan Davidson, 1986. Reprint. Paper Back. MATT. We retrench the Superfluities of Mankind. The World is avaritious, and I hate Avarice. A covetous fellow, like a Jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was..... More
Grove Press, Inc./ Evergreen original, January 1960. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 8th printing. Octavo. Heavily stained with foxing. Darkened textblock edges. (128 pp.). More
Faber and Faber, January 2009. Paper Back. "The Maids" ("Les Bonnes," here translated by Bernard Frechtman) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Paris in 1947, its action was inspired by a real-life scandal, the murder by two maids, sisters Christine and Lea Papin, of..... More
Penguin Books, January 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Easton Press, January 1979. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Moire endpapers. More
New Mermaids/A & C Black/W.W. Norton, 2001. Paper Back. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...arms of your general, then to your..... More
Nick Hern Books, March 1996. Trade Paperback. More
Alfred A. Knopf, April 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. First Edition. In tattered, edgeworn dustjacket with clipped flap. Veso darkened/foxing. Quarter bound: Teal cloth covered spine with gold lettering & burgundy paper covered boards blinded stamped WG with fleurs-de-lys corner decor. Tanned end pages. Darkened textblock top edge. Darkened deckled fore-edge. [2nd..... More
Schocken Books, January 1965. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4' x 8'} Shelf worn cover. Previous owner's name inked on verso of front panel. [140 pages.]. More
Gibbs Smith, April 2011. Trade Paperback. Like Hemingway to Cuba or Mark Twain to the Mississippi, certain writers are inextricably tied to their environments-the culture, the history, the people, the cuisine. The plays of Tennessee Williams evoke the ambiance and flavor of the South. Part food memoir and part cookbook..... More
Da Capo Press, March 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 1991. Hardcover. In this groundbreaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is..... More
Dramatic Publishing, January 1998. Paper Back. 12mo. [95 pages]. More
Anchor Books, January 1963. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Shelf worn mass market paperback edition. Sun tanned spine with darkened/dust stained edges. Worn corners. Creases. Previous reader's name inked half title page. [503 pages plus nine page list of Anchor and Dolphin titles.]. More
Modern Library, January 1950. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. In well worn jacket with clipped front flap. 380 ML titles listed on verso of dustjacket. Grey cloth covered boards with small gold lettering in green rectangles on front board and along spine. Kent end papers. [258 pages]. More