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	ANTHOLOGY Stratford-upon-Avon studies 6: Restoration Theatre Edward Arnold London 1973 pbk A collection of papers by Norman Suckling, Anne Righter, Kenneth Muir and others on drama in the Restoration period. Good. 240pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB3713 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	BROWN, IVOR Theatre 1954-5 Reinhardt London 1955 hdbk An analysis of British theatre in 1955, with articles by Priestley on Shakespeare, Ustinov on the playwright, George Devine on training, etc. Ex lib, good, no DJ. 200pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4208 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	BROWN, IVOR What is a Play? MacDonald London 1st 1964 HB Ex-lib with the usual blemishes, good 159pp GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 \| JP¥ 854] Book number: BYB5827 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	COLBY, DOUGLAS As the Curtain Rises - on contemporary British drama 1966-1976 Associated University Presses New Jersey 1978 hdbk 'To analyze in depth the use of the opening visual metaphor as the interpretive key to three different British plays':- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Stoppard; The Philanthropist by Hampton; Old Times by Pinter. VG in VG DJ. 103pp GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 11.58 \| JP¥ 996] Book number: BYB4207 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	CUNNINGHAM, JOHN E Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama Evans Brothers London 1965 pbk Good only. 128pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB2865 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	DOWNER, ALAN S American Drama and its Critics University of Chicago press 1st 1965 pbk A collection of essays by different critics on aspects of US drama and dramatists 1897-1964 Good. 258pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4321 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HAMON, AUGUSTIN, FRANK MAURICE TRANS. The Technique of Bernard Shaw's Plays C W Daniel London 1912 HB Cover worn, marked and faded; small name stamp to ffep, pages roughly cut, resulting in some pages being chipped and torn; good. 70pp GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 \| JP¥ 1423] Book number: BYB5458 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HAVEL, VACLAV Audience Samuel French London 1978 PB Translated by Vera Blackwell. One of the Vanek plays. Stapled booklet, stamped 'review copy' to cover, o/w VG. 24pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB7290 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HINCHCLIFFE, ARNOLD P British Theatre 1950/70 Basil Blackwell Oxford 1st edition 1974 HB The changes wrought by dramatists such as Osborne, Wesker, Pinter and Arden, and then by directors such as Joan Littlewood, Peter Hall and Peter Brook. VG in VG DJ 205pp GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 \| JP¥ 1423] Book number: BYB6197 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HUNTER, JIM Tom Stoppard Faber London 2000 PB A Faber Critical Guide. Detailed analysis of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties and Arcadia. Cover a little creased, clip to half title, generally VG 240pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB7080 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KENNER, HUGH A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett Thames & Hudson London 1st 1973 pbk A lucid analysis of the English versions of Beckett's novels, stories, filmscripts and plays. Covers a little worn, name to ffep, generally VG 208pp GBP 5.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.1 \| JP¥ 783] Book number: BYB3931 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KERSHAW, JOHN The Present Stage; new directions in theatre Fontana 1966 PB Essays on Pinter, Osborne, Wesker, Frisch, Ionesco, Beckett VG, cover a little worn 142pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB3423 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KITCHIN, LAURENCE Drama in The Sixties; Form and Interpretation Faber London 1966 hdbk Frontis. British Council lib stqamp on fep 226pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4368 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KITCHIN, LAURENCE Mid-Century Drama Faber London 1969 HB Frontis. VG, no DJ. 238pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4369 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	LOFTIS, JOHN Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian England Basil Blackwell Oxford 1976 HB VG in sunned and very slightly edge-worn, price-clipped, DJ. 174pp GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 \| JP¥ 1138] Book number: BYB7692 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MARRIOTT, J W Modern Drama Thomas Nelson & Sons London HB Undated - 1930's. In the 'Little Theatre' series. The dates for this 'modern drama' are 1864 - 1934. There are discussion questions on the chapters at the end. Cover marked and sunned, internally VG, no DJ 327pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB6889 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MARX, MILTON The Enjoyment of Drama Appleton-Century-Crofts New York 2nd 1961 PB Cover a little worn but generally VG 167pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4565 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MORLEY, SHERIDAN Shooting Stars - Plays and Players 1975-1983 Quartet London 1st 1983 HB A collection of theatre reviews written for Punch. VG in VG DJ. 383pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB5392 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MORTENSEN, BRITA AND DOWNS, BRIAN Strindberg - an introduction to his life and work Cambridge Univ Press London 1965 PB A biography and a critical survey. Good. 234pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB6826 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	NICOLL, ALLARDYCE The Theory of Drama George G Harrap & Co London 1931 hdbk Also published as "An Introduction to Dramatic Theory", this is a longer, revised edition. Ex lib - good. 262pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4329 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	NORWOOD, GILBERT Euripides and Shaw Methuen London 1st 1921 HB Includes Euripides and Shaw: a comparison: Present renaissance of English drama: the Nature and Methods of drama Good - slightly worn cover, a little foxed. 226pp GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 US$ 19.85 \| JP¥ 1707] Book number: BYB2237 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	RABKIN, NORMAN Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi Prentice-Hall New Jersey 1968 PB Contributors include Rupert Brooke and T S Eliot. Cover rather worn and marked, pages yellowed, generally VG 120pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB6462 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KAUFMANN RALPH J (ED.) Elizabethan Drama OUP New York 1966 pbk Critical essays on the poetic dramas of Shakespeare's contemporaries, inc. Lyly, Marlowe, Marston, Jonson, Webster, Middleton and others. Contributors inc. T S Eliot, Wilson Knight, Empson lib. Stamp on fep, o/w VG, cover sl. worn, some neat pen annotation. 372pp GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 \| JP¥ 854] Book number: BYB3096 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	ROWELL, GEORGE (ED.) Victorian Dramatic Criticism Methuen London 1971 pbk Essays by Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Lamb, GBS, Archer, Max Beerbohm and many others, arranged in sections: Actors; Theatres and audiences; melodrama; society drama; comedy; Ibsen; pantomime and music hall; the critic. Good. 372pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4353 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	SHAW, BERNARD Our Theatres in the Nineties Vol I Constable London 1948 HB Vol One only of three. Occasional journalism on theatre. Red cloth cover slightly worn and marked, pages yellowed, generally VG, no inscriptions, no DJ 288pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB7209 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.

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	ANTHOLOGY Stratford-upon-Avon studies 6: Restoration Theatre Edward Arnold London 1973 pbk A collection of papers by Norman Suckling, Anne Righter, Kenneth Muir and others on drama in the Restoration period. Good. 240pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB3713 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	BROWN, IVOR Theatre 1954-5 Reinhardt London 1955 hdbk An analysis of British theatre in 1955, with articles by Priestley on Shakespeare, Ustinov on the playwright, George Devine on training, etc. Ex lib, good, no DJ. 200pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4208 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	BROWN, IVOR What is a Play? MacDonald London 1st 1964 HB Ex-lib with the usual blemishes, good 159pp GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 \| JP¥ 854] Book number: BYB5827 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	COLBY, DOUGLAS As the Curtain Rises - on contemporary British drama 1966-1976 Associated University Presses New Jersey 1978 hdbk 'To analyze in depth the use of the opening visual metaphor as the interpretive key to three different British plays':- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Stoppard; The Philanthropist by Hampton; Old Times by Pinter. VG in VG DJ. 103pp GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 11.58 \| JP¥ 996] Book number: BYB4207 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	CUNNINGHAM, JOHN E Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama Evans Brothers London 1965 pbk Good only. 128pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB2865 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	DOWNER, ALAN S American Drama and its Critics University of Chicago press 1st 1965 pbk A collection of essays by different critics on aspects of US drama and dramatists 1897-1964 Good. 258pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4321 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HAMON, AUGUSTIN, FRANK MAURICE TRANS. The Technique of Bernard Shaw's Plays C W Daniel London 1912 HB Cover worn, marked and faded; small name stamp to ffep, pages roughly cut, resulting in some pages being chipped and torn; good. 70pp GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 \| JP¥ 1423] Book number: BYB5458 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HAVEL, VACLAV Audience Samuel French London 1978 PB Translated by Vera Blackwell. One of the Vanek plays. Stapled booklet, stamped 'review copy' to cover, o/w VG. 24pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB7290 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HINCHCLIFFE, ARNOLD P British Theatre 1950/70 Basil Blackwell Oxford 1st edition 1974 HB The changes wrought by dramatists such as Osborne, Wesker, Pinter and Arden, and then by directors such as Joan Littlewood, Peter Hall and Peter Brook. VG in VG DJ 205pp GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11 US$ 16.54 \| JP¥ 1423] Book number: BYB6197 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	HUNTER, JIM Tom Stoppard Faber London 2000 PB A Faber Critical Guide. Detailed analysis of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties and Arcadia. Cover a little creased, clip to half title, generally VG 240pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB7080 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KENNER, HUGH A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett Thames & Hudson London 1st 1973 pbk A lucid analysis of the English versions of Beckett's novels, stories, filmscripts and plays. Covers a little worn, name to ffep, generally VG 208pp GBP 5.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.1 \| JP¥ 783] Book number: BYB3931 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KERSHAW, JOHN The Present Stage; new directions in theatre Fontana 1966 PB Essays on Pinter, Osborne, Wesker, Frisch, Ionesco, Beckett VG, cover a little worn 142pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB3423 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KITCHIN, LAURENCE Drama in The Sixties; Form and Interpretation Faber London 1966 hdbk Frontis. British Council lib stqamp on fep 226pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4368 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KITCHIN, LAURENCE Mid-Century Drama Faber London 1969 HB Frontis. VG, no DJ. 238pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4369 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	LOFTIS, JOHN Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian England Basil Blackwell Oxford 1976 HB VG in sunned and very slightly edge-worn, price-clipped, DJ. 174pp GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.23 \| JP¥ 1138] Book number: BYB7692 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MARRIOTT, J W Modern Drama Thomas Nelson & Sons London HB Undated - 1930's. In the 'Little Theatre' series. The dates for this 'modern drama' are 1864 - 1934. There are discussion questions on the chapters at the end. Cover marked and sunned, internally VG, no DJ 327pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB6889 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MARX, MILTON The Enjoyment of Drama Appleton-Century-Crofts New York 2nd 1961 PB Cover a little worn but generally VG 167pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4565 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MORLEY, SHERIDAN Shooting Stars - Plays and Players 1975-1983 Quartet London 1st 1983 HB A collection of theatre reviews written for Punch. VG in VG DJ. 383pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB5392 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	MORTENSEN, BRITA AND DOWNS, BRIAN Strindberg - an introduction to his life and work Cambridge Univ Press London 1965 PB A biography and a critical survey. Good. 234pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB6826 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	NICOLL, ALLARDYCE The Theory of Drama George G Harrap & Co London 1931 hdbk Also published as "An Introduction to Dramatic Theory", this is a longer, revised edition. Ex lib - good. 262pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4329 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	NORWOOD, GILBERT Euripides and Shaw Methuen London 1st 1921 HB Includes Euripides and Shaw: a comparison: Present renaissance of English drama: the Nature and Methods of drama Good - slightly worn cover, a little foxed. 226pp GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 US$ 19.85 \| JP¥ 1707] Book number: BYB2237 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	RABKIN, NORMAN Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi Prentice-Hall New Jersey 1968 PB Contributors include Rupert Brooke and T S Eliot. Cover rather worn and marked, pages yellowed, generally VG 120pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB6462 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	KAUFMANN RALPH J (ED.) Elizabethan Drama OUP New York 1966 pbk Critical essays on the poetic dramas of Shakespeare's contemporaries, inc. Lyly, Marlowe, Marston, Jonson, Webster, Middleton and others. Contributors inc. T S Eliot, Wilson Knight, Empson lib. Stamp on fep, o/w VG, cover sl. worn, some neat pen annotation. 372pp GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 \| JP¥ 854] Book number: BYB3096 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	ROWELL, GEORGE (ED.) Victorian Dramatic Criticism Methuen London 1971 pbk Essays by Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Lamb, GBS, Archer, Max Beerbohm and many others, arranged in sections: Actors; Theatres and audiences; melodrama; society drama; comedy; Ibsen; pantomime and music hall; the critic. Good. 372pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB4353 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.
	SHAW, BERNARD Our Theatres in the Nineties Vol I Constable London 1948 HB Vol One only of three. Occasional journalism on theatre. Red cloth cover slightly worn and marked, pages yellowed, generally VG, no inscriptions, no DJ 288pp GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 8.27 \| JP¥ 711] Book number: BYB7209 Click here to order or inquire at Byre Books.