Alfieri, Vittorio

Tragedie. Vol. III

P. Borghi E. Comp. Florence, Italy, 1826. First Thus, Vellum. Very Good/N/A. gilt titles on red leather label spine with extensive gilt decoration; gilt double-line outer border on front & rear covers; yellow endpapers; b/w. engraved vignette on title page; Italian text; previous owner's name on title page & inside front cover; creasing to some pages; 268 pages. We also have for sale Vol. II in a matching binding. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Text is in Italian. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Italian Drama; Italian Language; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00026.

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Alfieri, Vittorio

Tragedie. Vol. II

P. Borghi E. Comp. Florence, Italy, 1826. First Thus, Vellum. Very Good/N/A. gilt titles on red leather label spine with extensive gilt decoration; gilt double-line outer border on front & rear covers; yellow endpapers; b/w. engraved vignette on title page; Italian text; previous owner's name on title page & inside front cover; slight outward bend to rear cover; 271 pages. We also have for sale Vol. III in a matching binding. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Text is in Italian. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Italian Drama; Italian Language; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00027.

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Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar-La dama duende-Mañanas de Abril y Mayo

M. Aguilar, Madrid, Spain, 1944. First Thus, Leather. Near Fine/N/A. gilt titles & decoration spine; blind-stamped design on blue/green leather front & rear covers; blue endpapers with white lines & motifs; blue ribbon bookmark; No. 36 in the Crisol collection series; sepia frontis. portrait of author; Spanish text; three plays by one of Spain's foremost dramatists and one of the finest playwrights of world literature; previous owner's inscription on front endpaper; 530 pages plus index. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Text is in Spanish. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Spanish Baroque Theatre; Spanish Language; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00028.

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Clark, Barrett H. (selected by)

World Drama Vol. 2 : An Anthology

Dover Publications, New York, 2003. Reprint, Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. 9780486200590 black titles spine; volume 2 of 'World Drama' in two volumes which was originally published in 1933; this volume contains plays (unabridged) from Italy; Spain; France, Germany; Denmark; Russia & Norway; the plays are: Beolco: Bilora; Scala: The Portrait; Goldoni: The Fan; Alfieri: Saul; Cervantes: The Cave of Salamanca; Lope de Vega: The King, the Greatest Alcalde; Calderon: The Constant Prince; Corneille: The Cid; Racine: Berenice; Moliere: The Cit Turned Gentleman; Beaumarchais: The Barber of Seville; Hugo: Hernani; Augier and Sandeau: M. Poirier's Son-in-Lata, Dumas fils: The Demi-Monde; Lessing: Miss Sara Sampson; Coethe: Egmont; Schiller: Wil/iam Tell; Holberg: Jeppe of the Hill; Ostrovsky: The Thunderstorm; & Ibsen: A Doll's House.; a clean, tight copy with minimal signs of wear; Dover paperbacks are made to last with the pages sewn in, not glued; 685 pages plus catalogue of Dover publications. N.B. this is a thick & heavy book which, together with protective wrapping, takes its weight above the 1kg. standard quoted rate for post & packing so extra shipping charges will be requested. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Anthologies; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0486200590. ISBN/EAN: 9780486200590. Inventory No: PLY00019.

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Dekker, Thomas (edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ernest Rhys)

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists: Thomas Dekker (Mermaid Series)

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1894. First Thus, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. grey paper-covered boards with black titles in red border to paper label spine; inside of covers have (printed by publisher in orange) blank ex-libris bookplates; b/w. frontis. illustration of the Fortune Theatre from an engraving made in 1811; further b/w. decorations & embellishments to titles pages & others; published in the 'Mermaid Series' of 'The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists' this volume includes four plays: 'The Shoemaker’s Daughter', 'The Honest Whore' (parts I and II), 'Old Fortunatus', and 'The Witch of Edmonton'. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 473 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat plus stamped name. front inner hinge starting. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Elizabethan Drama; Sixteenth Century Drama; England; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: 3791.

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Euripides; Murray, Gilbert (trans.)

The Alcestis: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1915. First Thus, Paperback. Good/N/A. black titles front; "The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets'. It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable."; some foxing to pages especially towards the end of the book; 82 pages plus list of the author's other writings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00013.

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Gittings, Robert

This Tower My Prison

The National Trust, Swindon, Wiltshire, 1990. Reprint, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Near Fine Condition. Signed by Author. A signed copy of this little play reprinted for the National Trust to whom the copyright has been given by the author ( the setting - Greys Court - is now cared for by the National Trust). In 1613, Sir Thomas Overbury died in the Tower of London. A few months later, his friend and patron Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, the favourite of James I, married the reigning Jacobean beauty Frances Howard, previously the wife of Lord Essex, a constant visitor to Greys Court, where her sister, wife of William Lord Knollys, lived. Within two years, Frances and Robert were found guilty of having poisoned Overbury. Frances confessed, her motive being that Overbury knew secrets that would have prevented her marriage; Robert protested his innocence. They were both reprieved, but condemned to be confined together at Greys Court , where Frances had plotted much of the murder. Their only daughter Anne having been brought up in ignorance of her parents' crime, read of it one day in a book, and fainted away. The story, set in the spot where her parents were imprisoned, tells how her father, battling against her mother's influence for their daughter's soul, causes them to re-live their crime for the girl's sake; he thus expiates the crime and helps her to achieve a happy marriage to William Russell, Earl of Bedford. Loosely inserted is a N.T. leaflet giving the history of the play. First Thus. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 31 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. illustrated by b/w. pictures. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Theatre & Plays; History; Historical Plays; Seventeenth Century; England; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Poetry. Signed by Author. Inventory No: 4034.

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Grein, J. T.

The New World Of The Theatre 1923-1924

Martin Hopkinson & Co, London, 1924. First Edition, Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. black titles spine; preface by G. K. Chesterton; "58 erudite articles by the distinguished drama critic of the Illustrated London News on the plays & the theatre world of the 1920's"; some fading to spine; previous owner's (1929) bookplate inside front cover; light foxing to page edges; including index - 264 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00005.

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Ibsen, Henrik

The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen Volume XI: Little Eyolf; John Gabriel Borkman; When We Dead Awaken.

Heinemann, London, 1922. Reprint, Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles & decoration spine (faded); bright gilt motif front cover; blind-stamped publisher's device rear cover; Volume 11 of 12 in the 'Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen' copyright edition edited by William Archer; containing 'Little Eyolf'; 'John Gabriel Borkman' & 'When We Dead Awaken.'; 29 page introduction followed by the plays; 456 pages; some browning to endpapers; previous owner's art deco style bookplate inside front cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00040.

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Jourdain, Eleanor Frances

Dramatic Theory and Practice in France 1690-1808

Longmans, Green and Co. London, 1921. First Edition, Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; "this book, begun in 1914 as a series of lectures, attempts to trace the development of comedie, trogedie, and drame in France in the eighteenth century, and thus to define the relation between the dramatic art of the seventeenth and that of the nineteenth century. A detailed study of certain plays of the Revolution period will be found in the Appendix."; a neat & clean copy; including appendices & index - 240 pages. A HEAVY BOOK WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Literature; Canada; 18th century; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: LIT00027.

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Kott, Jan; Preface by Peter Brook; Boleslaw Taborski (translation)

Shakespeare our Contemporary (University Paperbacks)

Methuen, London, 1967. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage conceptions. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary has been translated into 19 languages since it appeared in 1961, and readers all over the world have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi + 308. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles spine. Includes chronological Table of Shakespeare in the World & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Theatre & Plays; Literature & Literary; Shakespeare; Shakespeare Plays; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 4769.

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Nicoll, Allardyce

A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850 - Vol.1

Cambridge. University Press, London, 1930. First Edition, Green Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. green titles on cream cloth spine; deckled outer & bottom edges; volume one only of two; "this survey of early nineteenth century theatrical endeavour aims to provide a guide both to the theatrical tendencies and to the dramatic activities of the period."; previous owner's name on front endpaper; including appendix A (List of Theatres 1800-1850) - 234 pages plus 17-page index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Literature & Literary; 19th century; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: LIT00028.

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Pratchett, Terry; (adapted by Briggs, Stephen)

Johnny and the Dead (Oxford Playscripts)

Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford, 1999. Reprint, Paperback, Illustrated by: Chapman, Neil. Very Good/N/A. 9780198314929 white titles spine; illustrated by b/w. drawings; "Johnny Maxwell can see the dead. He can talk to them, too - much to his friends' amazement. So when the news breaks that the local council plans to sell the cemetery to a property developer, Iohnny learns that there are some things in life (and death) that are worth fighting for ... "; light bumping to corners; 96 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Chapman, Neil. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Theatre & Plays. ISBN: 0198314922. ISBN/EAN: 9780198314929. Inventory No: PLY00044.

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Racine, Jean

Tragedies Choisies De Racine

Doubleday, New York, 1962. First Thus, Softcover. Very Good Condition. published in the 'Collection Internationale' series this complete collection of Racine's plays in French text includes: Andromaque; Britannius; Berenice; Iphigenie; Phedre; & Athalie. Two-page 'Table Chronologique' at the rear. A clean & tightly bound copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 394 + 2 pages. Text is in French. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, though spine slightly browned with age. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Theatre & Plays; Drama; French Drama; French Literature; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; French Language; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3866.

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Rice, Elmer

See Naples and Die - a comedy in three Acts

Victor Gollancz, London, 1932. First Edition, Paper Covered Card. Very Good/Very Good. black titleers spine & front; "from 1914 until the mid-'40s, Elmer Rice was one of the most prominent playwrights and theatrical directors in America, and made important contributions to motion pictures, both as an author and screenwriter. Although initially unsuccessful as a play See Naples and Die was brought to the screen as Oh Sailor, Behave in 1930."; 96 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00004.

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