Dionysus in Paris (A Guide to Contemporary French Theater)
Meridian Books, January 1960. Paper Back. Cover wear. Previous owner's name. More
Drama
Peter Cottontail: Easter Musical in One Act
Samuel French, 1951. Stapled Soft Cover. 31 pages. More
Copenhagen
Anchor Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. The Tony Award--winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to..... More
Copenhagen
Anchor Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. The Tony Award--winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to..... More
Blood Knot and Other Plays
Theatre Communications Group, January 1993. Paper Back. These three Port Elizabeth plays, which established South African playwright Athol Fugard's international reputation more than twenty years ago, examine with passion and grace close family relationships strained almost unendurably by the harshest of economic and political conditions. A rare playwright, who could..... More
The Captain's Tiger
Theatre Communications Group, April 1999. Paper Back. Subtitled a Memoir for the Stage, the play is told both from the point of view of the twenty-year-old author who was the captain's tiger--a glorified personal servant to the ship's captain--and the author as his current-day self. This is a fascinating voyage..... More
Master Harold . . . And The Boys (Penguin Plays)
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1984. Trade Paperback. More
Valley Song
Theatre Communications Group, April 1996. Paper Back. The first post-apartheid play by one of the greatest playwrights in South Africa and the world, Valley Song is a coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go..... More
Statements
Theatre Communications Group, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these are the works in Fugard's canon that most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. Includes: Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act. More
Coming of Age in Shakespeare
Routledge, April 1997. Paper Back. Marjorie Garber examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns--coming of age--in Shakespeare's plays. Citing examples from virtually the entire Shakespeare canon, she pays particular attention to the way his characters grow and change at points of personal crisis. Among the crises Garber discusses are..... More
Thieves: A Comedy in Two Acts
Samuel French, January 1977. Stapled Pamphlet. 12mo. Discolorated stains & marginal sun lightened areas. [83 pages]. More
Making of Gypsy
ECW Press, May 1994. Trade Paperback. Here's the story of the musical version of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee's life. Highlighted by 15 illustrations, Keith Garebian gives behind-the-scenes information about Ethel Merman and Angela Lansbury, both of whom portrayed the flamboyant "artist," and provides an in-depth analysis of the play's structure..... More
O'Neill a Collection of Critical Essays (20th century views) TC-39
PRENTICE HALL INC, January 1964. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 6th printing. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. Tick marks and some other scattered marginal markings. Well worn. Sticker residue to cover. [180 pages plus two page list of Twentieth Century Views titles]. More
Curtain Calls
Dodd, Mead, January 1949. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily chipped/edgeworn dustjacket with rubbing. Large jacket piece missing top of spine (two inches by one inch). Small holes worn in jacket at folds. Darkening/foxing to verso of DJ. Tan cloth covered boards with red rectangle containing silver lettering on spine. Darkened to..... More
The Beggar's Opera and Companion Pieces (Crofts Classics)
Harlan Davidson, 1986. Reprint. Paper Back. MATT. We retrench the Superfluities of Mankind. The World is avaritious, and I hate Avarice. A covetous fellow, like a Jackdaw, steals what he was never made to enjoy, for the sake of hiding it. These are the Robbers of Mankind, for Money was..... More
The Blacks: A Clown Show (Evergreen Original, #E-208)
Grove Press, Inc./ Evergreen original, January 1960. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 8th printing. Octavo. Heavily stained with foxing. Darkened textblock edges. (128 pp.). More
The Maids
Faber and Faber, January 2009. Paper Back. "The Maids" ("Les Bonnes," here translated by Bernard Frechtman) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Paris in 1947, its action was inspired by a real-life scandal, the murder by two maids, sisters Christine and Lea Papin, of..... More
Plays Unpleasant (Shaw Library)
Penguin Books, January 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Two Plays for Puritans, Collector’s Edition
Easton Press, January 1979. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Moire endpapers. More
The Beaux Stratagem
New Mermaids/A & C Black/W.W. Norton, 2001. Paper Back. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...arms of your general, then to your..... More
The Beaux' Stratagem (Drama Classics)
Nick Hern Books, March 1996. Trade Paperback. More
The Seesaw Log: A Chronicle of the Stage Production, with the Text, of Two for the Seesaw (Second Printing)
Alfred A. Knopf, April 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. First Edition. In tattered, edgeworn dustjacket with clipped flap. Veso darkened/foxing. Quarter bound: Teal cloth covered spine with gold lettering & burgundy paper covered boards blinded stamped WG with fleurs-de-lys corner decor. Tanned end pages. Darkened textblock top edge. Darkened deckled fore-edge. [2nd..... More
THE TRIAL a Dramatization Based on Franz Kafka's Novel (SB53)
Schocken Books, January 1965. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4' x 8'} Shelf worn cover. Previous owner's name inked on verso of front panel. [140 pages.]. More
Early Stages
Macmillan, 1939. Hardcover. Solid binding; Gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy boards, mildly edge-worn; Pages free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
