Modern British Dramatists, New Perspectives (Twentieth Century Views)
Prentice Hall, 1984. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous reader's name written in ink first inside page. [186 pages]. More
Drama
Shakespeare's Plays in Performance
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
The Guinness Dictionary of Theatrical Quotations
Guinness World Records Ltd, April 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Golden Fire the Anniversary Book of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
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
Junior's Moustache, A Comedy of Youth in One Act
Samuel French, Inc., January 1937. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Letters to a Young Actor: A Universal Guide to Performance
Basic Books (AZ), November 2005. Hardcover. The founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as Harvard's American Repertory Theater, and the drama critic for The New Republic for going on thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles. In Letters to a Young Actor..... More
The Theatre of Revolt: Studies in modern drama from Ibsen to Genet
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
The Guys and Dolls Book
Methuen Publishing Ltd, February 1983. Oversize Softcover. As is. Foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Blooms of Dublin: A Musical Play Based on James Joyce's Ulysses
Arrow (A Division of Random House Group), June 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Three Screenplays by Edward Burns
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
Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman's Library (Paper))
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
Sixteen Famous British Plays
Modern Library, 1942. Hardcover. More
Tempest: Based on Shakespeare's the Tempest,
Tcg Translations, May 2002. Paper Back. "Césaire's Tempest, in translation by Richard Miller, is a sprightly and song-filled enchantment. The luminous intelligence of Mr. Césaire's meditation on the absurdities of colonialism shines through the antics of the bewildered characters." -New York Times "The weapon of poetry may be Césaire's greatest..... More
Presence of the Actor
Theatre Communications Group, January 1993. Trade Paperback. Chaikin, who directed the celebrated Open Theater in the '60s, kindled an emphasis on communal playmaking whose impact is still evident today. This conversational review of his efforts details his methods and reveals the struggles involved in the creation of some of the..... More
Shakespeare on Love and Lust
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
The Latent Heterosexual
Bantam, 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. some yellowing, otherwise in very good condition. More
Two Plays: The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters
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
Uncle Vanya
Grove Press, January 1994. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet's Uncle Vanya is a sparkling restoration of a masterpiece of the modern stage, marked by Mamet's finely tuned ear for dialogue and memorable poetic imagery. In Uncle Vanya, a retired professor and his beautiful young wife return to..... More
Five Plays: Ivanov, the Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and the Cherry Orchard (Revised)
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1998. Trade Paperback. Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this collection, taken from the authoritative Oxford Chekhov, in Ronald Hingley's acclaimed translation. Hingley has also..... More
Anton Chekhov's Plays (A Norton Critical Edition)
W. W. Norton & Company, November 1977. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Critical discussions on Chekhov's dramatic purpose and structure as well as biographical material accompany a new translation of the plays. Octavo with previous owner's name inked on first inside page. 2nd printing. [412 pages]. More
Plays of Anton Chekhov
Harper, April 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. These critically hailed translations of "The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters" and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor. Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately..... More
Two Plays of Anton Chekhov: Translated by Constance Garnett: THE CHERRY ORCHARD and THREE SISTERS
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
Tamburlaine (New Mermaids) (2 Parts)
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, September 2007. Trade Paperback. One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The..... More
The Jew of Malta (New Mermaids)
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, May 2009. Trade Paperback. 'Tell me worldlings, underneath the sun, If greater falsehood ever has been done' The Jew of Malta, written around 1590, can present a challenge for modern audiences. Hugely popular in its day, the play swings wildly and rapidly in genre, from pointed satire..... More
Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1967. Soft Cover. More
