Shaw, Bernard

Saint Joan.

Constable, 1927. Hard Cover, 14th impression. 62pp Preface and 114pp Text of the play. Olive green cloth covered boards. Slight wear to top of spine, previous owner's names on flyleaf, otherwise clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 3845

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: play, theatre

Shaw, Bernard

Saint Joan A Chronicle Play In Six Scenes And An Epilogue.

Constable, 1928. Hard Cover, 15th impression of 1st edition. 114pp, olive green cloth covered boards, hand cut foredge. Original owner's name on flyleaf, and her pencil notes to margin of Preface, otherwise clean... Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 6581

Catalogue: Theatre

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Plays The Rivals St Patrick's Day The Duenna A Trip to Scarborough The School for Scandal The Critic Pizarro.

Dent, 1937. Hard Cover, Everyman edition. 411pp, green cloth covered boards, a little faded to spine. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on inner board, a couple of spots of foxing on foredge, otherwise internally clean. 7 complete plays... Very Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 4179

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Theatre, Play

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The Rivals.

Dent, 1956. Hard Cover, King's Treasuries of Literature series, editied by John Hampden for use in schools, with Introduction and full acting Appendix. 187pp, blue cloth covered boards. Frontispiece portrait. A clean, Near Fine copy... Very Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 12998

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Theatre, Play

Sisam, Kenneth (ed)

Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose.

Oxford, 1962. Hard Cover, Revised edition. 292pp plus Introduction, Notes, Glossary etc. Red cloth covered boards. Map. Previous owners' names to the flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. Extracts include Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight, The Pearl, Piers Plowman, Mandeville's Travels, political pieces, Mystery Plays etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 11958

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: History, Middle Ages, Medieval, Poetry, Sir Gawain

Sitwell, Sacheverell

The Romantic Ballet from Contemporary Prints.

B T Batsford, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover, 12 pages of Introduction and Notes and 16 full page coloured facsimile reproductions of contemporary lithographs. Grey boards. Illustrated dustjacket is priceclipped and rubbed to the edges, but otherwise complete Internally clean. The stars of the romantic ballet, including Taglioni, Elssler, Grisi and Cerrito, from about 1840 to 1850... Very Good /Very Good.

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N° du livre: 6159

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Theatre, Ballet, Dance

Plautus Edited By C E Freeman and Rev A Sloman

Trinummus.

Oxford, 1931. Hard Cover, Reprint of the third edition of 1891. Brown cloth covered boards with black ornament. Latin text, English Introduction and Notes. Previous owner's name on inner board, pencil notes.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 10280

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Latin, Classics, Theatre, Play

Stokes, John

The French Actress and Her English Audience.

Cambridge, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover, 224pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. The history of the reception of French actresses such as Mlle Mars, Sarah Bernhardt and Edwige Feuillere by English audeinces from the early 19th century to the mid 20th century by spectators such as Hazlitt, Dickens and Oscar Wilde etc.. Fine /Fine.

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N° du livre: 8130

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Theatre, Actress, Theatre History, History, Stage

Storey, Alan

Arabesques.

Newman Wolsey, 1948. Hard Cover, Ill.: Hugh Stevenson. With photographs of scenes from ballets & decorations by Hugh Stevenson. 152 pp, blue boards, spine faded. Internally clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 132

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: ballet, Hugh Stevenson

Styan, J L

The Dark Comedy The Development of Modern Comic Tragedy Second Edition.

Cambridge, 1968. Soft Cover, Second edition, updated. 311pp, softback covers designed by Sebastian Carter. A clean, tight copy. The nature of dark paradoxical modern comedy drama, and how techniques have developed - Checkhov. Pirandello, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Pinter etc... Very Good.

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N° du livre: 11931

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Drama, Theatre, Ibsen, Chekhov, Oirandello, Brecht

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Locrine A Tragedy.

Chatto & Windus, 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover, With publisher's catalogue of October 1890. 139pp, hand cut edges, dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt fillet edging and lily motif to spine, a very little rubbed to top of spine. Internally very clean. A play based on the story of the ruler of Loegria, and son of Brutus, from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History.. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 5920

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Loegria, Geoffrey of Monmouth

Synge, John M

Collected Plays.

Penguin, 1952. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback, Ill.:. First Penguin edition. 270pp, the paper browning a little with age. Red and white softback covers with a little wear to the top of the spine. Previous owners' names to the flyleaf, front gutter a little cracked but holding well, otherwise internally clean. 6 plays - The Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Tinker's Wedding, The Well of the Saints, The Playboy of the Western World and Deirdre of the Sorrows... Very Good.

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N° du livre: 4154

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Plays, Irish Literature, Drama, Theatre

Synge, John M

Deirdre of the Sorrows. A Play.

Maunsel and Company Ltd, 1911. Hard Cover, 98 pp + press opinions and list of Lady Gregory's works. Brown boards with vellum spine, corners of boards a little worn. Date in biro on flyleaf and bookplate may have been removed, otherwise clean.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 565

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: plays, irish literature

Talbot, Dorothy Howard

Hints on Stage Make-Up.

Charles H Fox, First Edition. Soft Cover, Ill.: Joyce Dennys. Probably 1930s. 19pp, softback covers illustrated by Joyce Dennys. Previous owner's name on title page, pencil notes to last page, otherwise clean. Requirements, greasepaints for different effects etc... Very Good.

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N° du livre: 12424

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: Theatre, Stage, Make Up

Thomas, Dylan

Under Milk Wood.

Dent, 1963. Mass Market Paperback, Aldine Paperback edition. 86 pp. Softback covers with photograph of the author. Internally clean. Preface by Daniel Jones and full text of the radio play... Very Good.

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N° du livre: 10031

Catalogue: Theatre

Mots-clés: play, Radio