Notes from Underground
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), March 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Hyperion Books (Adult Trd Pap), March 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Theatre Arts Books, 1995. Reprint. Cloth. This classic work on acting is one of the very few that stands beside Stanislavsky as a must-have for all acting students and professionals. Richard Boleslavsky's Acting: The First Six Lessons is a treasure-box of wise observation about the art of acting, all wrapped..... More
Clarendon Press /Oxford University Press, April 1991. Cloth. In 1880 Nietzche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 1990. First Thus. Paper Back. Beyond Minimalism explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with Not I and continuing through Catastrophe and What Where, Brater examines the plays..... More
University of Michigan Press, September 1992. Reprint. Paper Back. Original essays honoring Martin Esslin, author of a seminal book on the theater of the absurd. Octavo. Spine cocked. Soiling & pencilled underlining & side notes scattered & splashed through text. Stains likewise along fore-edge. [316 pages]. More
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened/bowed spine with fading lettering. Tape 'repairs' with scotch tape. Marginal tanning to covers. Previous owner's name inked verso of front cover and half title page. Front cover bottom right corner creased. [348 pages]. More
University of Minnesota Press, November 1999. Trade Paperback. In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and possibly the greatest living European playwright." His plays, widely taught and studied, are searing critiques of civilizations run amok. During the thirties, the subversive nature..... More
Grove Press, March 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. These six plays represent the best and most humorous of Brecht's shorter works. The Jewish Wife is from the Fear and Misery in the Third Reich cycle of one-act plays, which, along with In Search of Justice and The Informer, chromicles the hardships..... More
Grove Press, September 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ("Mother Courage"), an itinerant trader, as..... More
Grove Press, January 1965. First Thus. Paper Back. First printing stated; Binding intact; Clean covers with minimal spine wear; Spine top corner bumped; Front cover mildly creased at outer bottom corner; Previous owner name present inside front cover; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Theatre Communications Group, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Evoking Shakespeare is the text of a talk given by Peter Brook in Berlin dealing with the essence of performing Shakespeare today. Based on the author's lifelong interest in interpreting Shakespeare's works for contemporary audiences, Brook's analysis is a typically illuminating and provocative..... More
Newmarket Press, May 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fourteen influential figures--Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Frank Gilroy, William Goldman, William Inge, Alan Jay Lerner, Mary Mercier, David Merrick, Mason Miller, John Patrick, Richard Wilbur, Edwina Dakin Williams, Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson--discuss their successes and failures. 14 b/w photos. Octavo. In dustjacket. Flap..... More
Prentice Hall, 1984. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous reader's name written in ink first inside page. [186 pages]. More
Applause Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. John Russell Brown demonstrates just how much is in Shakespeare's texts; how the language is awakened, colored, emphasized, sensualized and extended in performance. Shakespeare's intended readers were his collaborators, not his commentators. Brown invites all Shakespeare lovers to seek their insights in Shakespeare's natural..... More
Oregon Shakespearean, June 1985. Hardcover. Square quarto in edgeworn dustjacket. Black textured paper covered spine with gold lettering. Soiling to board edges. Marbled grey paper covered boards with gold emblem. Black end pages. Dust stained textblock top edge. [142 pages]. More
Samuel French, Inc., January 1937. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Ivan R. Dee, February 1991. Trade Paperback. In a new edition of this now-classic work, Robert Brustein argues that the roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet. Focusing on each..... More
Hyperion Books, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Award-winning filmmaker Edward Burns is hardly an overnight success story. For four years, Burns wrote his own screenplays while he made a meager living working as a production assistant for a television show in New York City. Then on an extremely low budget -..... More
University of California Press, February 1994. Trade Paperback. The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play.Mariam..... More
J.M. Dent & Sons, July 1993. Trade Paperback. God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic..... More
Modern Library, 1942. Hardcover. More
Columbia University Press, May 2001. Trade Paperback. The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works--ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again--arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of..... More
Bantam, 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. some yellowing, otherwise in very good condition. More
Easton Press, January 1977. Leather. Easton Press Leatherbound Collector's Edition, 1977; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy red leather boards w/ immaculate gilt design/text at front and rear covers, hubbed spine; Outer edge text-block in gilt w/ silk moire end-papers; Pages free of markings; Silk ribbon page marker present and undamaged; An..... More
The Heritage Press, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. {7 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'}. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering in burgundy rectangle upon spine. In stiff cardstock slipcase wrapped in printed pictorial, patterned (red & green & white) paper. Case is moderately worn at corners and edges. Issue Number..... More