Women in Beckett: Performance and Critical Perspectives
University of Illinois Press, January 1992. Paper Back. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. Light pencil underlining and side notes scattered about through text.[260 pages.]. More
Drama
Benchley at the Theatre: Dramatic Criticism, 1920-1940
Ipswich Pr, September 1985. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with foxing. Flap not clippe. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Matching burgundy end pages. Dust stains textblock edges. [220 pages.]. More
The History Boys: A Play
Faber & Faber, April 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Writing Home
Faber & Faber, Incorporated, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name. Bookstore stamp. More
Bernard Shaw
New Directions, (1947). Hardcover. Remainder stripe on bottom edge. More
Bernard Shaw: A reconsideration (The Norton library ; N818)
Norton, January 1976. Trade Paperback. some yellowing on cover and pages; couple of stains (looks like coffee) on side and bottom page edges; expected bumping and shelf wear for age; name and date inscribed in two places on inside front cover. More
The Classic Theatre; Volume IV: Six French Plays (A155d)
Doubleday Anchor, January 1961. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. 'A Doubleday Anchor Original'. Six classic plays previously published, but published in this collective format fort first time here, and as far as I can find the only time. Mildly edgeworn. Darkened spine with superficial creasing. Bumped at head of spine..... More
The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times
Harvest Books, November 1987. Trade Paperback. Here is Bentley's definitive original text, including his long-suppressed foreword. A major study by one of the leading modern dramatic critics. Introduction by Richard Gilman; new Afterword by the Author. Index. More
Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama
Penguin Books, March 1990. Trade Paperback. The work of Appia, Artaud, Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Pirandello, Shaw, Stanislavsky, Richard Wagner, Yeats and Zola is the subject of the first part of this anthology. Their ideas about their art and about the future possibilities of drama are revealed through either their..... More
What Is Theatre?: Incorporating the Dramatic Event and Other Reviews, 1944-1967 (Revised and Revised)
Hill & Wang, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Introduction by Donald Lyons "What Is Theatre?," originally published in 1968, collects all of Eric Bentley's theater criticism. Bentley's most productive years as a reviewer coincided with some of the greatest years of twentieth-century drama. His essays cover the premieres of works by..... More
Let's Get a Divorce! And Other Plays
Mermaid Dramabook / Hill & Wang, January 1958. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. First Mass Market paperback. Previous reader's name written in ink half title page. [364 pages]. More
The Modern Theatre, Volume Five -- Danton's Death by George Buchner; The Marriage by Nikolai Gogol; Escurial by Michel de Ghelderode; Medea by Jean Anouilh; Cock-A-Doodle-Dandy by Sean O'Casey (Anchor, A -48E)
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine, mildly tanned margins. Previous owner's name inked top of cover verso. Scattered pencil side notes & underlining. Cluster of pages from 268 through book's end appears to have been re-glued, in such a manner these pages..... More
The Modern Theatre - 5 Plays Edited By Eric Bentley - Volume 3 : An Italian Straw Hat (Labiche & Marc-Michel); Gamblers (Gogol); One Day More (Conrad); Judith (Giraudoux); Thieves' Carnival (Anouilh) (Theater)
Doubleday Anchor, January 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine & margins. [306 pp. plus four page list of available Anchor titles.]. More
The Classic Theatre Volume One: Six Italian Plays. The Mandrake; Ruzzante Returns from the Wars; The Three Cuckolds; The Servant of Two Masters; Mirandolina; The King Stag -- Anchor A155a
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened/bowed spine. [385 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available]. More
The Modern Theatre: Volume One; Five Plays: Woyzeck; Cavalleria Rusticana; Woman of Paris; The Threepenny Opera; Electra -- (Anchor, A 48A)
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine, dust stained cover, inked tick marks next to 3 out of 5 plays listed on front & there is a black marker strike top left corner front cover. Large elaborate previous dealer's stamp in red ink with handwritten number in..... More
The Modern Theatre: Volume One; Five Plays: Woyzeck; Cavalleria Rusticana; Woman of Paris; The Threepenny Opera; Electra -- (Anchor, A 48A)
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Volume one of six volume set, edited by Bentley. [302 pages plus five page list of available Anchor titles.]. More
The Modern Theatre. Volume 6. (A Doubleday Anchor Book , A48F)
Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. A paperback original, First/first. Mild edgewear and chipping to corners. Toning. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover. [296 pages plus four page list of Anchor titles available.]. More
The Modern Theatre. Volume 6. (A Doubleday Anchor Book , A48F)
Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with mild edgewear. Previous owner's name in ink verso front cover. Stated First Edition. [296 pages plus four page list of Anchor titles.]. More
The Classic Theatre; Volume III: Six Spanish Plays (A115C)
A Doubleday Anchor Book, 1959. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine, half inch tear top of spine left corner of front panel. A Doubleda Anchor Original. First edition. [507 pages]. More
From the American Drama: The Modern Theatre Series, Volume Four -- Guys & Dolls; Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines; The New York Idea; Pullman Car Hiawatha; The Man with the Heart in the Highlands (A 48D)
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate edgewear to cover. Bumped top of spine. Heavily darkened spine. Some superficial creasing of cover including front parallel to spine, 1/16th' from edge. There is inked marking upper right corner front cover. Some darkening textblock edges. And some interior foxing..... More
Comedy: 'An Essay on Comedy' by George Meredith; 'Laughter' By Henri Bergson; Introduction & Appendix: The Meanings of Comedy By Wylie Sypher (A87)
A Doubleday Anchor Book, January 1956. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Sunning of spine. Dust stained/slight darkening of textblock top edge. Toe-nail sized smudge upon fore-edge. Internal text clean & without markings, underlining or side-notes. (260 pages plus four pgs. of Anchor titles available.). More
Comedy: 'An Essay on Comedy' by George Meredith; 'Laughter' By Henri Bergson; Introduction & Appendix: The Meanings of Comedy By Wylie Sypher (A87)
A Doubleday Anchor Book, January 1956. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Heavily worn mass market paperback. Cover creased, with flaking and darkening to white background of wrapper rear panel. Front hinge before half title page is tender. Previous owner's name, a date and Emory University campus address in ballpoint verso..... More
Shakespeare at the Moment: Playing the Comedies
Heinemann Drama, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Certainty may give way to misgiving, happiness may become unease. Moment-to-moment changes often make actors and directors pause and ponder when deciding to perform a Shakespeare comedy. But this should not be the case, claims theatre scholar Albert Bermel. In Shakespeare at the Moment..... More
Two plays for Puritans
Easton Press, January 1979. Leather. Red leather with gold lettering & decoration. Silk ribbon marker. Gilt textblock edges. Moire end pages. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Flecking/wear to margins of boards. More
The Life and Work of Harold Pinter
Faber & Faber, January 1996. First Edition. Cloth. Harold Pinter is our foremost living dramatist; and in this ground-breaking book - the first authorized biographical study - Michael Billington examines Pinter's work in the context of his life. Pinter's plays, including such acknowledged masterpieces as The Caretaker and The Homecoming..... More
