PEARL (Methuen's Modern Plays)
Heinemann, September 1988. Paper Back. More
Drama
Shakespearean Tragedy (Longman Critical Readers)
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
Three Plays: Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, Epitaph for George Dillon.
Criterion, January 1958. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Edgeworn dust jacket. More
Three Irish Plays: The Moon in the Yellow River; The Iron Harp; Step in the Hollow -- Penguin Plays, PL35
Penguin Books, January 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with marginal darkening. Brown stains & foxing. [236 pp.]. More
Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones (A-122, Apollo Editions)
Apollo Editions/ William Morrow & Company, April 1967. Reprint. Paper Back. Review copy with slip laid in (3 & 1/2' x 5'), white paper with Dijon color lettering, 'This book is sent to you for review with the compliments of Apollo Editions, publication date, April 15, 1966, Please do not..... More
Epicoene or the Silent Woman
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
Exiles: A Play in Three Acts
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
The father of secrets: A play ; and, The defiance of imitation : an essay on African drama
Zikawuna Books, January 1978. Paper Back. Non-authorial inscription. More
Backstage: Broadway Behind the Curtain
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
Persons of the drama: Theater criticism and comment
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
Theater Criticisms (PAJ Books)
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
I'd Rather Be Right: A Musical Revue
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
Elizabethan Drama Modern Essays in Criticism
Galaxy / Oxford University Press, 1964. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Red cloth with black lettering. Previous reader's name inked ffep. [372 pages plus 3 pages of Galaxy titles]. More
Candide: A Comic Operetta Based on Voltaire's Satire
RANDOM HOUSE, January 1957. Hardcover. More
Stunt Plays For Your Club Night
Samuel French, Inc, January 1957. Soft Cover. Stains to cover. Shelf wear. 12mo. More
The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
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
Shakespeare, the Kings Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613
Yale University Press, August 1995. Hardcover. Soon after James Stuart became King of England in 1603, William Shakespeare, while still working in the public theatre, became the royal playwright, and his acting troupe became the premier playing company of the realm. How did this courtly setting influence Shakespeare's work? What..... More
Journey to the Center of the Theater
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
My Sister in This House
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
Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
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
A Wedding Comedy in One Act
Samuel French, January 1955. Stapled Soft Cover. More
The Golden Labyrinth: A Study of British Drama N138
W.W. Norton & Company, 1962. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo paperback with darkening and moderate wear.[402 pages]. More
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
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
Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time (Revised)
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
Indians: a play
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
