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Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; with an Introductory Essay and Notes

By: A Citizen of the West [Owen, Robert Dale]; [Mackay, Robert W. Stuart]

Price: $500.00

Publisher: George Dearborn: 1837

Seller ID: 2289646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards a bit rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot, corners exposed, moderately foxed throughout, ink name on front endpaper and flyleaf. 1837 Hard Cover. Sabin 58021. Sabin gives both Owen and Mackay as possible authors, without providing rationale in support of either. Mackay is listed as the copyright holder on this copy. A historical drama focused on the life of Pocahontas, the Native American daughter of chief Powhatan famous for saving the life of John Smith. She later converted to Christianity and wed John Rolfe.
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A Life of William Shakespeare

By: Adams, Joseph Quincy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1923

Seller ID: 2266251

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 is often called England's national poet, and the Bard of Avon.[5][b] His extant works, including collaborations, consist of ...
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Aeschylus I: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides; Prometheus Bound (The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume I [1]) (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 310) [Oresteia]

By: Aeschylus; Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House: 1942

Seller ID: 2294351

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket. Slightly musty, 1/2 inch closed jacket tear. 1942 Hard Cover. 245, [5] pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Translated from the Greek and edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore. Includes: Introduction to the Oresteia; Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides; Introduction to Prometheus Bound; Prometheus Bound. In the 'Oresteia' - the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity - Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primi...
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers; The Furies

By: Aeschylus; Morshead, E.D.A.; Warner, Rex

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2277128

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

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 chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from...
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Le Voyageur Sans Bagages / Le Bal Des Voleurs

By: Anouilh, Jean

Price: $5.00

Publisher: La Table Ronde: 1958

Seller ID: 2208273

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Lightly rubbed. 1958 Mass Market Paperback. Two plays by a master of French experimental drama.
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Lysistrata (Signet Classic)

By: Aristophanes; Parker, Douglass (Translator)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Signet Classic: 2001

Seller ID: 2198299

ISBN: 0451527895

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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.
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New Voices in the American Theatre (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 258)

By: Atkinson, Brooks; Williams, Tennessee; Miller, Arthur; Inge, William; Axelrod, George; Anderson, Robert; Wouk, Herman

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Modern Library, New York: 1955

Seller ID: 1956425

ISBN: 0394602587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 William Inge; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod; Tea and Sympathy by Robert Anderson; and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial by...
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Bolshoi's Young Dancers

By: Avalani, Noi; Zhdanov, Leonid

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Progress Publishers: 1975

Seller ID: 2199617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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My Brother Brendan

By: Behan, Dominic

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1965

Seller ID: 2268440

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 reader nine years farther to Brendan's funeral. He writes with as much love as his irascible, scathing brother will allow him f...
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The Rover (Second Edition)

By: Behn, Aphra

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Broadway: 1999

Seller ID: 2205403

ISBN: 1551112140

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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 and the sexual intrigue an unsettling depth. As Anne Russell points out in her introduction to this edition, there are three o...
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By: Bloom, Harold

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Riverhead Books: 1998

Seller ID: 2263560

ISBN: 1573221201

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 individual personalities--Hamlet, Falstaff, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Rosalind, and Lear, among them. In making his argument...
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All the World's a Stage: Speeches, Poems and Songs from Shakespeare

By: Boux, Dorothy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Shepheard: 1994

Seller ID: 2144567

ISBN: 0856831468

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Life of Galileo (Penguin Classics)

By: Brecht, Bertolt

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin: 2008

Seller ID: 2302311

ISBN: 0143105388

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed. 2008 Trade Paperback. Galileo ranks alongside Mother Courage and Mr. Puntila as one of Brecht's most intensely alive, human, and complex characters. In Life of Galileo, the great Renaissance scientist is in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. Unable to satisfy his appetite for scientific investigation, he comes into conflict with the Inquisition and must publicly renounce his theories, though in private he goes on working on his revolutionary ideas.
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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

By: Brecht, Bertolt; Auden, W.H.; Kallman, Chester

Price: $10.00

Publisher: David R. Godine: 1976

Seller ID: 2205872

ISBN: 0879231491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 the city. In Act 2 following the hurricane nothing is forbidden and various scenes of debauchery occur. Jenny and Jim try to ...
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Galileo: A Play

By: Brecht, Bertolt; Laughton, Charles; Bentley, Eric

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 2270465

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

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 set-design by Teo Otto. The cast included Steckel himself (as Galileo), Karl Paryla and Wolfgang Langhoff. The second (or 'Am...
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The Later English Drama (Student's Edition)

By: Brown, Calvin S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The A.S. Barnes Company: 1914

Seller ID: 1843396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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 stage, have been selected, and, that the usefulness of the book might be increased, a number of notes have been added. --From th...
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The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning (Student's Cambridge Edition)

By: Browning, Robert

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1895

Seller ID: 2263678

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, light stain along top edge, ink name on front endpaper. 1895 Hard Cover. 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 early career began promisingly, but was not a success. The long poem Pauline brought him to the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and was followed by Paracelsus, which ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Evans Shakespeare Editions)

By: Bruster, Douglas; Shakespeare, William

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Wadsworth Cengage Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: 2203676

ISBN: 0495911194

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

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.
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The Tragedie of Chabot Admirall of France (Publications of the University of Pennsylvania Series in Philology and Literature, Volume X)

By: Chapman, George; Shirley, James; Lehman, Ezra

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co.: 1906

Seller ID: 2304843

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1906 reissue of 1639 quarto editions. Very minor general wear. 124 pp. Printed boards, cloth spine. The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France is an early seventeenth-century play, generally judged to be a work of George Chapman, later revised by James Shirley. The play is the last in Chapman's series of plays on contemporary French politics and history, which started with Bussy D'Ambois and continued through The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. As usual in Chapman's French histories, the characters and plot are based on actual historical perso...
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Motley Tales and a Play (The New York Public Library Collector's Edition)

By: Chekhov, Anton

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 1998

Seller ID: 2197529

ISBN: 0385487304

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author! xxxix, 387 pp. This anthology provides an unusual selection of stories and a play from among the author's own favorites, including The Student and The Three Sisters. Drawing from such rare artifacts as the Moscow Art Theatre's album from its production of The Three Sisters (with Chekhov's wife in the role of Masha) and Vladimir Nabokov's handwritten lecture notes on Chekhov's oeuvre, this Collector's Edition of most-loved works offers readers the chance to become acquainted with Chekhov's tender humor through the author'...
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Anton Chekhov: Greatest Plays

By: Chekhov, Anton; Fen, Elisaveta

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1979

Seller ID: 2265136

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1979 Hard Cover. 274, [6] pp. Black leather spine, grey cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, grey ribbon marker bound in. A collection of plays by Anton Chekhov, including: The Cherry Orchard; The Sea Gull; The Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya.
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Les Parents Terribles

By: Cocteau, Jean

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Paris, Folio / Editions Gallimard: 1972

Seller ID: 2196654

ISBN: 2070361497

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

French text. Light edge wear. 1972 Mass Market Paperback. 179, [13] pp. En 1923 parait aux editions Stock le premier livre de dessins de Jean Cocteau. Le poete a alors 34 ans. On y retrouve plus d une centaine d illustrations: des portraits de Raymond Radiguet, Pablo Picasso, la comtesse de Noailles, des scenes de la vie quotidienne, des souvenirs des Ballets russes, des allegories Jean Cocteau s y revele un talentueux caricaturiste, croqueur de visages et d attitudes. Commemorant le cinquantieme anniversaire de sa mort, la reedition de cet ouvrage inestimable est un evenement.
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Longer Plays by Modern Authors (American): Beau Brummell; The Copperhea; Dulcy; The Intimate Strangers

By: Cohen, Helen Louise; Fitch, Clyde; Thomas, Augustus; Kaufman, George S.; Connelly, Marc; Tarkington, Booth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company: 1922

Seller ID: 2302750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. xxvii, 357 pp. CONTENTS: Drama in America, an Introduction; Clyde Fitch - Introduction, Beau Brummell; Augustus Thomas - Introduction, The Cooperhea; George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly - Introduction, Dulcy; Booth Tarkington - Introduction, The Intimate Strangers; Selected Bibliography for the Study of Drama in America; A List of American Plays for Supplementary Reading.
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The Way of the World: Comedy in Five Acts

By: Congreve, William; Kronenberger, Louis

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 2261913

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes publisher's slipcase, Sandglass Special Publication: S26 laid in. Spine faded, slipcase edge faded. 1959 Hard Cover. xix, [1], 108 pp. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger, illustrations by T.M. Cleland. With piercing accuracy William Congreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of society where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversation—and money—eased the passage to success. Through sparkling, witty dialogue and brilliant characterisation—Lady Plyant, Valentine, Lady Touchwood, Mirabell and Millamant—Congreve exposed the follies and vanities of that world, and sug...
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Laughing Anne & One Day More: Two Plays

By: Conrad, Joseph; Galsworthy, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: John Castle: 1924

Seller ID: 2197196

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Page ridge and first few leaves foxed. 1924 Hard Cover. 127 pp., 3-page publisher ad bound in following text. 8vo. Two plays by the author of The Heart of Darkness and numerous nautical stories, with an introduction by John Galsworthy, author of The Forsyte Saga.
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The Battle of Nashville: A Pictorial Record of the Centennial Re-Enactment, Warner Park, December 12, 1964

By: Corn, Jack; Ellis, Jimmy; Rudis, Joe; Kovach, Bill

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Self-Published: 1965

Seller ID: 2282986

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

No jacket, spine starting to split from joints, edges lightly rubbed. 1965 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A Pictorial Record of the Centennial Re-Enactment, Warner Park, December 12, 1964.
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Shakepeare and the Dramaturgy of Power (Princeton Legacy Library)

By: Cox, John D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2263725

ISBN: 0691067651

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xviii, 282 pp. Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama most clearly illuminates Shakespeare's treatment of political power and social privilege.
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La Vida es un Sueño

By: De La Barca, Pedro Calderon

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Jorge A. Mestas: 1999

Seller ID: 2280013

ISBN: 8489163502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spanish language. Pages faintly toned. 1999 Trade Paperback. One of Calderon's most celebrated plays of the Spanish theater.
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La Reine Morte

By: De Montherlant, Henry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Gallimard: 1947

Seller ID: 2208271

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1947 printing. Faint toning. A French-language comedy about the royal family.
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Oliver Twist [Photoplay Edition]

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1912

Seller ID: 2281598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light stain to top margin corner, does not affect text, light spot on spine head. 1912 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, [1], 432 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt image of Dickens on front board, black titles. Illustrated with photographs from The Liebler Company's Centenary Celebration production of J. Comyn Carr's Adaptation of the Novel, first acted by a special cast at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, February 26, 1912. Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 183...
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