Signet Classics, May 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's timeless story of star-crossed lovers. One of the Bard's most popular plays, this is both the quintessential story of young love and a cautionary tale of the tragedy that can occur when the forces.....
Avon, January 1976. Mass Market Paperback. A new copy. The full text of Oscar Wilde's beloved comedy of manners, including exclusive commentary, selections from Wilde's correspondence, and excerpts from the original four-act version. The Importance of Being Earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's legendary wit, and embodies more.....
Samuel French, Inc., January 1958. Trade Paperback. 66 pages. A play in one act. Adapted from the French by Paul Bowles. A new copy. Fantasy / Characters: 2 male, 2 female Scenery: Interior No Exit was first presented in New York at the Biltmore Theatre with Claude Dauphin, Annabella, and.....
Signet Classics, April 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In its concentration of interest upon the protagonists, Macbeth can be seen as Shakespeare's experiment in unity of focus, whose chief appeal arises from the struggles of the central characters with each other and with the infernal powers that inspire or.....
Lois Berman, 1963. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Mimeographed sheets, printed recto only, ii, 93 pages. Barbara Field (1935-2021) wrote this adaptation for the Seattle Children's Theater where it was first performed during the 1983-4 season. She was the co-founder of The Playwrights' Center in the Twin Cities and served as.....
Gotham Book Mart, 1932. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 16 pages. Limited to 500 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in pink paper wrappers (paperback) with title in red. Pages uncut. String sewn.
The Heritage Press, 1958-1959. Hardcover. 1016, 1120, and 1362 pages. A very good 3-volume set in the original slipcases with wear to the corners. With publisher's informational Sandglass pamphlet laid in to each volume. A heavy set.
Oxford University Press, June 2008. Unknown. A new copy. A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular play, particularly as a first introduction to Shakespeare for children--filled as it is with a marvelous mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies. Simple and engaging on the surface, it is none the.....
Bedford/St. Martin's, May 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This edition of the Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure features the Bevington edition along with four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations to help facilitate your ability to view many different approaches to both the play and.....
Washington Square Press, January 2004. Mass Market Paperback. A new copy. The authoritative edition of Much Ado About Nothing from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. One of Shakespeare's most frequently performed comedies, Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite.....
Signet, April 1998. Mass Market Paperback. A new copy. This wisely funny comedy, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, contrasts a country's world of envy and rivalry with a forest's world of compassion and harmony. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman.....
THE BLAKISTON CO, January 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a good only dust jacket.
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.....
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, 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......
Signet Classics, June 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs 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.
Samuel French Inc., 1971. Unknown. 105 pages. Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback). Edge wear. Pages unmarked.