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Penguin, July 1988. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Penguin, July 1988. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
NYRB Classics, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne's best reader--a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne's ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that.....
NYRB Classics, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. "Euripides," the classicist.....
Opus Books, April 2013. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the.....
W.W. Norton & Co., December 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Sources and Contexts" offers a rich collection of documents on the play's central themes--magic and witchcraft, politics and religion, geography and travel. Writers include Ovid, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gabriel Naudé, Michel de Montaigne, and William Strachey.....
Barron's Educational Series, January 1986. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This edition of Shakespeare's classic play presents the 1974 text edited by G. Blakemore Evans from The Riverside Shakespeare (complete with footnotes, glosses, and textual notes) along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a......
Nelson Doubleday, 1975. Hardcover. A very good copy in a dust jacket with short, creased tears to the edges.
Methuen Drama, September 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Tanika Gupta's epic drama pushes the boundaries of verbatim theatre, telling an important story in a fresh and authentic way never seen on stage before. A rousing piece of work. - Greg Walker, Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, University.....
Theatre Communications Group, June 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This collection includes plays by the most important ensemble theater companies working today: Roadside Theater (Whitesburg, Kentucky), Pregones Theater (Bronx, New York), Junebug Productions (New Orleans, Louisiana), Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble (Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania), A Traveling Jewish Theatre (San Francisco.....
The Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. 197 pages. 7-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches. With color illustrations. A fine copy; no dust jacket. In the slipcase with some wear to the folds. Publisher's Sandglass newsletter laid in.
n.d, ca. early 1940s. Trade Paperback. Mimeographed typed sheets: Act I: Scene 1pp. 1-23; Scene 2, pp. 24-37; Act II, Scene 1, pp. 1-20; Scene 2, 20-24; Scene 3, pp. 25-32; Act III: Scene 1, pp. 1-5; Scene 2, pp. 6-17; Scene 3, pp. 18-20; Scene 4, pp, 21-43. Enid.....
Ediciones Mandragora, 1954. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 83 pages. One of 500 copies. By the Chilean founder of the Latin American Surrealists, Grupo Mandragora. A drama inspired by the German Romantic wroter Achim von Arnim. Text in Spanish. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Spotting.....
Pearson, August 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, "King Lear, edited by Claire McEachern, presents the play along with a critical introduction and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare.
Signet Classics, May 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Longman, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Othello, edited by prominent Shakespearean scholar Clare Carroll, includes Othello, Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry, and source materials on early modern ethnography and on women and gender. Longman Cultural Editions.....
Wings Press, 1979. Pamphlet. 18 pages. Play script, with black-and-white illustration from the first production. Some toning else a fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
1974. Ephemera. Autograph letters signed, Sarah Rodman to Waring Jones: 1. Dated March 31, 1974. Letter offers Waring the use of a house while he is on tour in London. About 260 words. 2. Dated May 9, 1974. Letter discusses the successful musical 'Billy' and urges Waring to see it.....
Robert G. Van Meter, 1950s. Trade Paperback. Sawdust and Cigarettes: 311 typed mimeographed pages, printed recto only; The End of Hercules (1953) : 107 mimeographed typed pages, printed recto only; Bottle of Dregs (1952): 87 mimeographed typed pages, printed recto only. Between Me and Tomorrow: 207 mimeographed typed pages, printed.....
n.d., ca. 1964. Trade Paperback. 71 mimeographed typed sheets, printed recto only. Alfonso Sastre (1926-2021) was a Spanish playwright, essayist and critic associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was an outspoken critic of censorship and was often in trouble during the reign of Franco. Play titled 'En la.....
Belwin-Mills Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 206 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Covers mildly soiled with remnants of partially removed small sticker lower right front cover. Stamp of Belwin-Mills Music Ltd, Croydon, (England), bottom of title page.
Grove Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. "We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is.....
Signet Classics, September 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he.....
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1959. Pamphlet. 77 pages. 5-1/4 by 7-3/4 inches. A play about a visit to Earth by an extraterrestrial, adapted for the 1960 science fiction comedy film starring Jerry Lewis. Includes paragraph about ordering publicity materials. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
International Plays, 1964. Trade Paperback. 96 mimeographed sheets, printed recto only. Act 1: 37 pp.; Act 2, scene 1, 15 pp., scene 2, 21 pp.; Act 3, 21 pp. Unproduced play. Patricia Joudry (1921-2000) was a Canadian-born playwright who wrote an estimated forty-five works in an eighteen month period. These.....
William Goyen, 1982. Trade Paperback. 42 typed mimeographed sheets, printed recto only. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in folder bound with metal fastener. Printed at bottom of title page: 'Copyright 1982, William Goyen / 6225 Quebec Drive / Los Angeles, CA 90068 / 213-465-4398.' Rare.