Playscripts, commentary and criticism, playwright biography and studies.
The history of theatrical directors, actors and venues.
Books relating to the stage.
A Casebook 1918-1939
Plays by Witkiewicz, Toller, Brecht, Olyesha, Pirandello, Cummings and de Ghelderode, as well as essays by Witkiewicz, Brecht, Olyesha, Squarzina, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud.
ISBN 0690008481
VG- large format paperback with some age browning to paper
$15 C/C
Thomas Y. Crowell 1976, 591pp.
[#4917]
Translated by Una Ellis-Fermor.
Penguin Classics L16, theatre, script, norwegian, norway, literature
VG- paperback with sewn binding, some foxing, name to first page, very small ink ticks to list of Penguin Classics on rear cover.
$8 A/B
Penguin 1952 first reprint paperback, 368pp
[PB1567 ]
Methuen drama student edition edited by Susan C W Abbotson
ISBN 9781408108390
20th century, mccarthyism, witchcraft, puritan, witch-hunt, american theatre
VG paperback with some pencil notes.
$8 A/B
Methuen 2010, 159 pages.
[#2213 ]
A study in political drama as expressed in William Shakespeare's plays.
With a foreword by Gunnar Boklund and a good bibliography of sources.
ISBN 087081009X
theatre, plays, Elizabethan England, royalty, criticism
VG hardback in VG- dust jacket which is a bit handling soiled.
$20 C/B
Colorado Associated University Press 1971 first edition, xiii 138pp.
[#4945 ]
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare retold by Marchette Chute in detailed summary.
All the plays of the First Folio, thirty-six comedies, tragedies and histories.
A nicely produced book.
synopsis, prose, shakespeare in summary
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Some old faint tape rust to paste downs.
$20 C/C
John Murray 1963, 351pp.
[#4946 ]
A study of Shakespeare's time and environment.
1. The Upstart Crow 2. Education of a Dramatist 3. Experiments
4. The Passing of an Eclipse 5. Maturity 6. The New Comedy 7. The Globe
8. The Lost Leader 9. Tumultuous Interludes 10. The Tragedy of Hamlet 11. End of an Epoch.
VG- softback with some discolouring to foot of rear pages and wrapper, name stamp to first page.
$10 C/B
University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor 1958 sewn paperback, 325pp.
[#4931 ]
Attempts to relate Shakespeare's treatment of the language and content of the law with the political ideas of his day.
Part 1. Shakespeare and the law
1. The law and lawyers in Shakespeare's England
2. The lawyers and Shakespeare
3. Shakespeare's use of legal terminology
4. Sir Edward Coke and Shakespeare
5. The law of nature, the Jus Gentium, and international law in Shakespeare
6. Local justice in Shakespeare's plays
7. The law of debt in Shakespeare
8. The bastardy of Falconbridge
9. Shylock v. Antonio
10. Three lesser trials
11. Lord chief justice Gascoigne
12. The death and burial of Ophelia
13. Some legal problems in Hamlet
14. Two legal problems in Richard III
15. Trail by battle in Shakespeare
Part 2. Shakespeare's political thinking
16. Shakespeare and the political thought of the sixteen century
17. The title to the crown in the histories
18. Shakespeare's view of the English kingship
19. The political background of King John
20. Jack Cade's rebellion
21. The death of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
22. Richard III: the machiavellian hero
23. Henry VIII and his council
24. The politics of the Greek and Roman plays
25. Measure for Measure: social corruption and the criminal justice.
Elizabethan England, society, shakespearean society, Shakespeare studies, 16th century
VG hardback with VG dust jacket.
Presentation slip from Professor O. Hood Phillips pasted to free end paper.
$30 C/C
Pitman & Sons 1967 first edition hardcover, viii 417pp + plates
[#4930 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a VG dust jacket with a chipped head of the spine.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1964, lxxxv 224pp
[#4932 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a VG dust jacket.
Some minor pencil notation throughout.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1963, lxxxix 225pp
[#4933 ]
The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare
Long considered the best critical textual edition of Shakepeare.
Shakespeare Studies, Criticism, English Literature
VG hardback cloth with a G+ dust jacket with a chipped and torn bottom corner.
Some minor pencil and ink notation throughout.
$35 C/C
Methuen 1963, xci 188pp
[#4934 ]
English translation of the German play based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Marat' as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade.
The published text allows the reader to see how skilfully Weiss has dramatised the paradox of de Sade, a black saint whose humanity must be set against the horrors of his imagination.
ISBN 9780714503615
theatre, playscript, modern theatre
VG paperback.
$10 C/B
Marion Boyars 2006, 124pp
With new introduction for students.
ISBN 9780714503615
[#4980 ]
VG- softback, some spotting to wrappers.
$10 C/B
Calder 1969, 124pp
[#1605 ]