Da Capo Press, March 1996. Trade Paperback. Joe Papp was an American cultural icon - the son of Jewish immigrants, he became a self-made impresario, an ardent advocate for human rights and a controversial innovator who was one of the most influential figures in American theater. Known for his accomplishments..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. This introductory study presents Racine's Phèdre as the culmination of French classical tragedy. It situates the play in its historical, literary and theatrical context, shows its relationship with other tragedies of Racine, and sketches its influence on later European literature. It analyzes the..... More
Modern Library, October 2005. Mass Market PaperBack. An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante's masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1963. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original. 'Newly Translated from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer'. Spine is slanted. Otherwise clean, sound & without markings. [164 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
Univesity of Chicago Press, 1963. Reprint. Paper Back. {5&3/8' x 8&1/2'} Sun bleached spine and margins. Dust stained & foxing top edge & fore-edge. Previous owner's name in ink on half title page. Ink underlining scattered over a dozen or thereabout toward end of this anthology. [221 pages]. More
Rutgers Univ. Press, January 1948. Cloth. {5&1/2' x 8&1/2'} Army green cloth covered boards with gold lettering with title and author's name within square fields of red and gold decorations along spine. Top textblock edge likewise tinted green. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to pastedown. Non-authorial inked inscription on ffep. Foxing..... More
Reynal & Hitchcok, 1947. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. 2nd printing. Beige cloth covered boards with darkened margins and spine. Dark blue lettering along spine. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Dustjacket is missing. Tick marks and side notes in pencil lightly scattered through text. [83 pages]. More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. First American Edition. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 3/4'} In mildly edgeworn dustjacket. Flap is not clipped. White cloth covered boards with gold lettering & green foil lettering. Green foil lettered illustration centered front panel. Olive green end papers. [76 pages]..... More
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Clean, sound, and without interior markings. Lightly tanned spine, and likewise light marginal tanning to covers. Internal text without markings. [157 pages plus two page list of Anchor titles.]. More
Penguin Classics, 1984. Trade Paperback. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family--Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus--are among the most..... More
Chatto and Windus, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. First UK in brown cloth. Gold lettering (starting to fade) on spine. Top textblock edge tinted with dark brown. Top corner of textblock appears chewed possibly by a rodent. Dustjacket is missing. Mildly bowed boards. [232 pages]. More
Grove Press, August 1997. Trade Paperback. A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, Waiting for Godot was Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater. The story line revolves around..... More
Knopf, January 1958. First Edition. Cloth. First American Edition in jacket with -- two inch x two inc x three inch --- triangle shaped chipe at top edge of front panel. Front flap is clipped. Roughly torn rear panel, bottom edge of rear panel. Black cloth covered spine with gold..... More
Signet, April 1970. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Columbia University Press, September 1999. Trade Paperback. This Columbia Critical Guide steers a clear path through the huge body of critical material on Richard II that has accrued over the past three centuries, elucidating the play's reception by audiences, critics, and scholars since its first production. Beginning with a discussion..... More
W. W. Norton, September 2005. Trade Paperback. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be..... More
University Of Chicago Press, 1963. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo with moderate shelf wear. Darkened, mildly leaning spine. Inked notes all over half title page. Inked underlining and notes scattered here and there through text. [206 pages]. More
Palgrave Macmillan, January 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Modern Library, 1959. Hardcover. small tears/pieces missing on top front top and bottom spine of dust jacket; large tear on back top of DJ; front flap clipped; rubbing and shelf wear of cloth over board cover; corner bumping of covers; binding in good condition; name written in ink on front..... More
Plume, May 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His writing--at once bawdy and delicate--brilliantly fuses serious political satire with pyrotechnical bombast..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, September 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1995. Hardcover. In his Pulitzer prize-winning 1993 book Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills showed how the Gettysburg Address revolutionized the conception of modern America. In Witches and Jesuits, Wills again focuses on a single document to open up a window on an entire society. He..... More
Continuum, August 2001. Hardcover. Between 1995 and 1996, three highly unusual shows were produced by three celebrated figures in world theatre: Qui Est La, directed by Peter Brook; Elsinore, directed by Robert Lepage; and Hamlet - A Monologue, directed by Robert Wilson. Each was a version - at least in..... More
Dramatists Play Service, July 1998. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4' x 7 & 3/4} Lightened by sun at margins and spine. Damp staining and salmon pink ink stain running from moisture. [76 pages plus three pages of Dramatists Play Service titles then available]. More
Collier Books/ Macmillan, January 1970. First Thus. Paper Back. First Collier paperback edition, 1970. 12mo. Darkened spine & margins. [99 pages]. More
