Chicago and Other Plays
Urizen Books, February 1981. Trade Paperback. As is. Some foxing on the edges of the print block. More
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Fool for Love and Other Plays
Dial Press Trade Paperback, October 1984. Trade Paperback. Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies. FOOL FOR..... More
A Lie of the Mind
New American Library, January 1987. Hardcover. Octavo. Book Club Edition in dustjacket with some marginal wear & darkening. Front flap not clipped. Black paper covered boards with grey faded lattering along spine-edge. Red rubber stamped illustration on front pastedown. Dust stain/foxing top edge. Small brown stain fore-edge. [143 page]... More
Motel Chronicles
Consortium Book Sales & Dist, May 1983. Trade Paperback. Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural..... More
Seven Plays
Bantam, May 1984. First Trade. Trade Paperback. First trade edition with full number line. More
The Unseen Hand and Other Plays
Urizen Books, February 1981. Trade Paperback. More
Four Two-Act Plays: La Turista; The Tooth of Crime; Geography of a Horse Dreamer; Operation Sidewinder
Urizen, 1980. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Top edge dust stains/foxing. Previous owner's name inked top edge half title page. More
The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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
Rewrites: A Memoir
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
One Way Pendulum: A Farce in a New Dimension (E-325)
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
The Complete Plays of Sophocles
Bantam Classics, September 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - Ajax Trachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at Colonus The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as..... More
Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Mariner Books, November 2002. Trade Paperback. English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index. As is. Minor notes and underlining. More
Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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
The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Vol 1)
University Of Chicago Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket." Robert Brustein, "The New Republic" "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody." Kenneth Rexroth, "The Nation" "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom..... More
Women of Trakhis: A New Translation
Harper Perennial, August 2012. Trade Paperback. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Women of Trakhis is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dynamic new translation by award-winning poet Robert Bagg. A powerful drama centered..... More
The Three Theban Plays
Penguin Classics, January 2000. 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..... More
The Complete Greek Tragedies (series): Sophocles I --Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
University Of Chicago Press, December 1970. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Rubbing and shelfwear; previous owner's name rubber stamped verso of front cover, in margin of page 52 and on final page at end of text. 206 pages. More
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics)
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
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
Little Brown & Co, March 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightly cocked; a little chipping to jacket at bottom of spine; else, very good. More
The Brothers Shubert
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
Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now
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
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Grove Press, March 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Travesties
Pub Group West, July 1991. 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 a...... More
