Princeton University Press, April 1976. Hardcover. Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and..... More
Hill and Wang, January 1982. Paper Back. 20th printing, 1983; Covers and spine mildly worn; Previous owner initials present at half title; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Bloomsbury USA, August 2010. Paper Back. Shakespeare's First Folio, the first complete collection of his plays, was almost never printed. Its eventual publication went practically unnoticed, and many of the original 750 copies were gone before the turn of the eighteenth century. But a hundred years later the plays were..... More
MacMillan Press, September 1992. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous reader's name written in ink on half title page. [172 pages]. More
Samuel French, Inc., 1959. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Anchor Books, 1961. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Mild edgewear. Dust stains. [289 pages0. More
Knopf Publishing Group, October 2010. Hardcover. Noel Coward said, "The only thing that really saddens me over my demise is that I shall not be here to read the nonsense that will be written about me and my works and my motives . . . There will be lists of..... More
Doubleday & Company, January 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Tan covered cloth with dust stains & soiling. Tanned/darkened spine. Black lettering. Missing dust jacket. Bumped/bruised bottom corners. Tanned/foxed end pages. Spine leans slighly. Sound binding. [191 pp.]. More
Grove Pr, December 1979. Trade Paperback. Slight shelfwear and foxing along edges. More
Currency Press Pty Ltd, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Asylum seekers and refugees are at the vanguard of some of today's most pressing international challenges, their perilous journeys mapping the borderlines of a world in which the right to enter and remain in safe and secure living spaces is zealously guarded..... More
Greenwood, August 1996. Hardcover. Tennessee Williams is generally regarded, along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, as one of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century. This reputation rests upon more than 40 years of critical acclaim accrued by his two masterpieces-- A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass..... More
Da Capo Press, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human and fallible, while confirming his enormous stature both as a man and a...... More
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, March 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. Dario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires Can't Pay Won't Pay is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar...Fo-faced farce wears a broad smile and proceeds at breathtaking speed"..... More
Methuen Drama, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Twenty monologues for women Twenty monologues in this volume which range from the deeply serious to the extravagantly comic and accessible to a wide range of audiences"The pieces are comic, grotesque, on purpose. First of all because we women have been crying for two..... More
random house, January 1971. Hardcover. Jacket has some edge wear and corner chipping. Mylar wrapped to protect. Book is lightly bumped at the top of the spine. Two 'Workshop Theatre' stamps on the front endpapers. More
Manchester University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Links acting traditions with cultural milieu. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of scenography. More
Hill & Wang / Mermaid Dramabook, June 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. Tanned, slightly cocked spine. Textblock top edge is foxed & dust stained. Previous owner's name in ink verso of front cover top edge. [278 pages]. More
Cambridge University Press, March 2009. Paper Back. Originally published in 1953, this was the first edition of Dekker's plays to appear in print since the late nineteenth century. Thus, for many years prior, Dekker had been the least accessible of the prominent Elizabethan dramatists, with the result that his anthologized..... More
Taplinger Pub. Co, January 1979. Paper Back. Previous owner's name. More
Penguin Classics, October 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot--of the triumvirate that dominated French letters in the eighteenth century, Diderot was unmatched in the sheer breadth and depth of his interests and ideas. Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream are dazzling exposés of Diderot's radical scientific and philosophical thinking. Written..... More
Frederick Ungar Publishing, January 1964. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with sun-bleached spine. Front flap is clipped. Grey cloth boards with blue & black lettering along spine. Previous owner's name in ink F.F.E.P. Black tinted top textblock edge. Tightly bound. [243 pages.]. More
Rutgers, January 1969. Hardcover. 4th printing; some shelf wear along the edge of right front dust jacket; sun fading and a small tear on upper spine of dust jacket; otherwise dust jacket in very good condition. More
Broadway Play Publishing Inc., January 1984. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} First/first. Paper plate which was glued to (I think) the title page (with Broadway Play Publishing, Inc., frog logo and address) is now laid in. Glue residue and tanning opposite confuses the..... More
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. "Laughing wild amid severest woe" perfectly describes the fiercely ironic comedy of Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild (which takes its title from this Thomas Gray quotation via Samuel Beckett) and the previously unpublished Baby with the Bathwater. In Laughing Wild, two comic monologues evolve into..... More
