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By: N/A
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: University of the State of New York: 1929
Seller ID: 2259845
Wrappers lightly toned. 1929 Stapled Binding. 63 pp. Pageants: Genesee Country, Leicester, September 14, 1929; Finger Lakes Area, Geneva, September, 21, 1929; Newtown Battlefield Area, Elmira, September 28, 1929. Includes black-and-white photographs. View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: Anchor Books: 2006
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2275618
First printing. Ink name on blurb page, faint odor of smoke, minor general wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 572 pp. Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd immerses us in sixtee... View more info
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266251
First edition. No jacket, light general wear, pages faintly toned. 1923 Hard Cover. xvi, 559 pp. Adams was descended from the Presidential family, and was the first appointed director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. William Shakespeare (/??e?ksp??r/ SHAYK-speer; 26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[2][3][4] He... View more info
By: Aeschylus
Price: $2.50 $2.00
Publisher: Penguin: 1988
Seller ID: 2198925
Minor ink marginalia. 1988 Mass Market Paperback. Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides the... View more info
By: Aeschylus; Morshead, E.D.A.; Warner, Rex
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2277128
Endpaper edges a bit faded. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [2], 177, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead, with an introduction by Rex Warner, and illustrations by Michael Ayrton. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody ch... View more info
By: Aeschylus; Morshead, E.D.A.; Warner, Rex
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2280923
Edges lightly foxed, a few blemishes on boards. 1979 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, [2], 177, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Greek by E.D.A. Morshead, with an introduction by Rex Warner, and illustrations by Michael Ayrton. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his s... View more info
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1982
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265086
Stain to fore-edge margin. 1982 Hard Cover. 360, [2] pp. 8vo. Green leather spine, green cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A collection of Greek tragedies translated by various contributors. Includes: Agamemnon; Prometheus Bound; Oedipus the King; Antigone; Medea; The Bacchae. View more info
By: Al Greenstone
Price: $3.00 $2.40
Publisher: Al Greenstone, New York:
Seller ID: 1819891
Lightly rubbed. Playbill with two tone photographs and biographical information on Edna Ferber, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and the cast of the production. View more info
By: Anouilh, Jean
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: La Table Ronde: 1958
Seller ID: 2208273
Lightly rubbed. 1958 Mass Market Paperback. Two plays by a master of French experimental drama. View more info
![Image for The Birds [with] The Frogs](/assets/images/product/2261907.jpg "The Birds [with] The Frogs")
By: Aristophanes; Fitts, Dudley; Hickie, William James; Seldes, Gilbert
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959
Seller ID: 2261907
Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Number I:25 laid in. Slipcase lightly toned. 1959 Hard Cover. xii, 52; xviii, 62 pp. The Birds, bound dos a dos with The Frogs. The Birds is translated by Dudley Fitts, with illustrations by Marian Parry, and The Frogs is translated by William James Hickie, with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes, and wood engravings by John Austen. View more info
By: Aristophanes; Parker, Douglass (Translator)
Price: $3.00 $2.40
Publisher: Signet Classic: 2001
Seller ID: 2198299
Sticker on rear cover, pages toned. 2001 Mass Market Paperback. 128 pp. Translated by Douglass Parker. Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favors with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes Lysistrata a comedy without peer in the history of theater. View more info
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The Modern Library, New York: 1955
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 1956425
Includes original jacket. Printed between 1969 and 1975 based on jacket design. Jacket lightly rubbed.Very Good. 1955 Hard Cover. xi, 559 pp. 2-page terminal publisher ad. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, silver titles & rules on spine, blind-stamped emblem & border on front board. A collection of American plays, with a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. Includes: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Come Back, Little Sheba by Wil... View more info
By: Avalani, Noi; Zhdanov, Leonid
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: Progress Publishers: 1975
Seller ID: 2199617
Ink gift note on front endpaper, corners rubbed. 1975 Hard Cover. 309 pp. A spotlight of famous Bolshoi dancers including Vladimir Vassiliev, Ekaterina Maximova, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Natalia Bessmertnova, Yuri Vladimirov and Nina Sorokina documented in gorgeous black and white photographs. View more info
By: Barnet, Sylvan; Berman, Morton; Burto, William
Price: $2.00 $1.60
Publisher: Mentor: 1962
Seller ID: 1514511
Faded wrappers, edge wear. 1962 Mass Market Paperback. 448 pp. Includes Abraham and Isaac; The Second Shepherds' Play; Everyman; Doctor Faustus by Marlowe; Macbeth by Shakespeare; Volpone by Ben Johnson & Samson Agonistes by Milton. View more info
By: Beard, Jocelyn A.; Near, Timothy
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: A Smith and Kraus Book: 1991
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 2285140
A fine copy. 1991 Trade Paperback. xx, 195 pp. THE comprehensive monologue book for women from the brilliant theatre of the 1980's. Including selections from: Fool For Love by Sam Shepard, The Loman Family Picnic by Donald Margulies, Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Gray, Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill, The Widow's Blind Date by Israel Horovitz, The Cocktail Hour by A.R. Gurney, Aristocrats by Brian Friel, Reckless by Craig Lucas. View more info
By: Behan, Dominic
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2268440
First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink note on front endpaper. 1965 Hard Cover. 159 pp. Dominic Behan's bottle book uncorks the same Dionysian spirit as Brendan's Confessions of An Irish Rebel (see p. 153). Much of the story is reconstructed from Brendan's own lips, and nearly all is personal observation. Dominic's portrait of Brendan is more savagely graphic and uninhibited, covers some of the same incidents, fills in the missing parents, and carries the re... View more info
By: Behn, Aphra
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: Broadway: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2205403
Light edge wear. 1999 Trade Paperback. Increasingly Aphra Behn?the first woman professional writer?is also regarded as one of the most important writers of the 17th century. The Rover, her most famous and most accomplished play, is in many ways firmly in the tradition of Restoration drama; Willmore, the title character, is a rake and a libertine, and the comedy feeds on sexual innuendo, intrigue and wit. But the laughter that the play insights has a biting edge to it an... View more info
By: Belasco, David
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1912
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2269676
No jacket, spine faintly toned, a few faint spots on page ridges, ink name on front endpaper. 1912 Hard Cover. 344 pp. Novelized from the play by David Belasco. View more info
By: Bigley, Isabel; Hayes, Bill; Mark Dawson and His Chorus; Arthur Maxwell and Singers
Price: $3.00 $2.40
Publisher: RCA Victor: 1953
Seller ID: 1527484
Includes original sleeve with art by Don Freeman (author of Corduroy and other children's books). Sleeve lightly rubbed. 1953 Unbound. 45 RPM EP record. Features No Other Love - Isabel Bigley, Bill Hayes; Keep It Gay - Mark Dawson and Chorus; Marriage Type Love - Arthur Maxwell and Singers; I'm Your Girl - Isabel Bigley, Bill Hayes. Me and Juliet is a musical comedy written by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and book). Along with Allegro and Pipe... View more info
By: Bloom, Harold
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Riverhead Books: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2263560
First edition. Jacket spine slightly faded. 1998 Hard Cover. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually created it: before Shakespeare, there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there was character, men and women with highly... View more info
By: Boux, Dorothy
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Shepheard: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2144567
Very light edge wear to upper rear jacket.Very Good. 1994 Hard Cover. A gorgeously illustrated version of the greatest speeches and scenes from the works of Shakespeare. View more info
By: Brecht, Bertolt
Price: $3.00 $2.40
Publisher: Arcade Publishing: 1994
Seller ID: 1294977
Light wear. 1994 Trade Paperback. 154 pp. In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble. Considered by many to be one of the greatest anti-war plays... View more info
By: Brecht, Bertolt; Auden, W.H.; Kallman, Chester
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: David R. Godine: 1976
Seller ID: 2205872
A very nice copy.Minor tear to jacket base. 1976 Hard Cover. 107 pp. Brecht's operatic play produced with Hauptmann, Neher and Weill was first staged in 1930. The story is that three criminals create the city of Mahagonny. Drinking, gambling, prize-fights and similar activities are the sole occupation of the inhabitants, and money rules. Mahagonny is threatened by a hurricane at the end of Act 1, which despite much anticipation and causing much distress simply bypasses t... View more info
By: Brecht, Bertolt; Laughton, Charles; Bentley, Eric
Price: $4.00 $3.20
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.: 1966
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: 2270465
Seventh printing. Ink mark on front wrapper, pages lightly toned. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 155 pp. Life of Galileo (German: Leben des Galilei), also known as Galileo, is a play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht with incidental music by Hanns Eisler. The play was written in 1938 and received its first theatrical production (in German) at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, opening on 9 September 1943. This production was directed by Leonard Steckel, with ... View more info
By: Brecht, Bertolt; Vesey, Desmond; Bentley, Eric
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut: 1993
Seller ID: 2144207
Publisher's Notes from the Archives insert laid in. 1993 Full-Leather. 155 pp. Tall 8o. Brown full leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, coral ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the original German with the English lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Color lithographic frontispiece and illustrations by Jack Levine. Based on John Gay's eighteenth century Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera, first staged in 1928 at the T... View more info
By: Brown, Calvin S.
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: The A.S. Barnes Company: 1914
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 1843396
Second edition. Rear hinge starting. 1914 Hard Cover. xix, 571 pp. Contents include; Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer; Sheridan's The Rivals; The School for Scandal; Knowles' Virginius; Bulwer-Lytton's The Lady of Lyons; Richelieu. It is the object of this book to present in convenient and accessible form what has ben done best in English drama from the time of Goldman to the present [1914]. For this purpose six plays, all of which still retain a place on the sta... View more info
![Image for Shakespeare [William]](/assets/images/product/2263987.jpg "Shakespeare [William]")
By: Brown, Ivor
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Collins: 1963
Edition: 4th Printing
Seller ID: 2263987
4th printing. Spine faded. 1963 Full-Leather. 352, [4] pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full red morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the corner of the front board: O.C.S. A biography of the immortal playwright and poet often simply called The Bard. View more info
By: Browning, Robert
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1895
Seller ID: 2263678
No jacket, light stain along top edge, ink name on front endpaper. 1895 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 1033 pp. Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Browning's ... View more info
By: Bruster, Douglas; Shakespeare, William
Price: $9.00 $7.20
Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Publishing: 2012
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2203676
1st printing. A fine copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. viii, 292 pp. Each volume of EVANS SHAKESPEARE is edited by a Shakespearean scholar. The pedagogy is designed to help students contextualize Renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play.Keywords: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EVANS DOUGLAS BRUSTER MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM PLAYS THEATER THEATRE View more info
By: Bull, John
Price: $7.50 $6.00
Publisher: Macmillan: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1840645
First edition. Bright copy.Very Good. 1984 Hard Cover. 244 pp. A masterful examination of four of England's premier modern playwrights: Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Trevor Griffiths and David Hare. Keeps a strong focus on the sociopolitical context of late 20th Century Britain and how this affected drama, and vice versa. View more info
