Catch-22: A Dramatization Based on the Novel Catch-22
Samuel French Inc., 1971. Unknown. 105 pages. Very good in stapled wrappers (paperback). Edge wear. Pages unmarked.
Drama
Macbeth (Signet Classics)
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.....
Lottie Dundass: A Play in Three Acts
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.....
Our Town (Perennial Classics)
HarpPerenM, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed.....
Mandragora: Rey de gitanos
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.....
End-Game: A play in a act
Evergreen. Trade Paperback.
King Lear, A Longman Cultural Edition
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.
Macbeth: Texts and Contexts (Bedford Shakespeare)
Bedford/St. Martin's, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This edition of the Shakespeare play, Macbeth features the Bevington edition along with an extenstive array of primary documents offering a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture.
Othello: The Moor of Venice (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
Signet Classics, May 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare, Pelican)
Penguin Classics, September 1965. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Excerpt from All's Well That Ends Well Ber. His good remembrance, sir, Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; So in approof lives not his epitaph As in your royal speech. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes.....
Othello and The Tragedy of Mariam
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.....
Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Penguin Classics, December 2001. Trade Paperback. The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction.....
The Tempest (Norton Critical Editions)
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.....
Othello (Shakespeare, Pelican)
Penguin Classics, May 1958. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal foreword by.....
The Collected Plays (Three Volumes)
Hamish Hamilton, 1964. Hardcover. Later printings of volumes one and two; first edition (first printing) of volume three. All very good copies in very good price clipped dust jackets.
Briefcase
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).
Hamlet (Signet Classics (Paperback))
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......
Autograph letter signed (2); typed letter unsigned
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.....
Sawdust and Cigarettes (filmscript); The End of Hercules (a play in three acts); Bottle of Dregs (a play in three acts); Between Me and Tomorrow (novel) (4 items)
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.....
In the Web (playscript)
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.....
autograph postcard signed
1927. Ephemera. Autographj postcard signed, dated 1927, in German, About 30 words. Ludwig Fulda was a German playwright.
Of Mice and Men': Musical Drama in Three Acts. Vocal Score (with libretto)
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.
The Theater and Its Double
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.....
The Tempest (Signet Classics)
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.....
Visit to a Small Planet (Revised)
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).