Books on Drama
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Der mitleidigste Mensch ist der beste Mensch. Poetik des Mitleids von Lessing bis Büchner.
116p card cover, index, notes, fresh and clean with author inscription: bürgerliches Trauerspiel
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The Toy Card. A Play in 5 Acts.
114p half cloth, label to spine, dustjacket, uncut, fresh and clean, fine copy, first edition
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The Player's Library. The Catalogue of the Library of the British Drama League. With an Introd by Frederick Boas. 4 vols.
xi 1115p cloth fresh, together with Supplements 1 - 3 (1951-6), 128p; 256p; 256p. Invaluable ...
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Drama in School and Church. A Short Survey.
144p hardback, index, very good copy from a Cambridge college library
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English Drama: Forms and Development. Essays in Honour of M C Bradbrook.
x 263p hardback, dustjacket, index, nice and clean copy from a Cambridge library
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Emlyn Williams.
113p card cover, tall format, plate, bibliography, newspaper clipping inserted, limited edition, ...
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The Making of a Play. T S Eliot's Cocktail Party.
46p card cover, cover a little dusty, sewn, with author inscription
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Tragedy and Tragicomedy in the Plays of John Webster.
151p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, as new
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The Revenger's Tragedy. (1608) Ed. Brian Gibbons.
xxxv 108p card cover, illustrations, fresh and clean
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English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes. Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama.
lxxi 250p green cloth, many illustrations, glossary, notes, fresh and clean first edition, Muriel ...
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The Theatre of the Absurd.
463p paperback, very good copy, first Penguin printing, spine not creased
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Deirdre of the Sorrows.
98p hardback, brown paper covered boards with gilt lettering, vellum style spine a little dark and ...
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The Poet in the Theatre.
viii 139p cloth, shows some wear, from a Cambridge college library: Eiot, James, Grillparzer, ...
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Dramatic Essays.
xix 299p olive cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a bit pale, ...
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The Last Actor-Managers.
xii 84p cloth, index, many plates, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, A theatrical ...
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Studies in the Contemporary Theatre.
189p cloth, fresh copy with striking bookplate (Delahaye): Pirandello, Pitoëff, and the influence ...
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The Arts Theatre in London 1927 - 1981.
123p cloth, dustjacket, index, appendices, plates, fresh and clean
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Transactions of the International Conference on Theatre History, London 1955.
viii 118p card cover, fresh and clean, handwritten notes inserted
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The Elizabethan Private Theatres. Facts and Problems.
20p grey card cover, stapled, clean and fresh copy, with frontispiece
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The Hypocrite, A Comedy. Taken from Molière and Cibber by the Author of The Alterations of a Plain-Dealer. 2nd Ed.
92p half-title, preface acknowledges Garricks assistance in writing this, disbound booklet, author ...
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Abroad and at Home / [At Home and Abroad. A Comic Opera].
92p no title, ?first edition 1796
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French and English Drama of the 17th Century. [Two Essays] Eugene Waith, Judd Hubert.
58p wrappers, fresh and clean inscribed with additional review: Otway, Racine, Corneille, Moliere
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Alonzo Ye Brave and Ye Fayre Imogene. An Hysterical Drama, in three Acts.
22p original card cover dusty, beginning of text titles "An historical Play"
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The Old House on the Bridge of Notre Dame. A Drama in 3 Acts. Adapted from the French of T Barriere and Henry de Kock.
47p plus 3p catalogue of Lacy's Acting editions, frontispiece, includes reprod of bill, plain card ...
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Frühlings Erwachen. Eine Kindertragödie.
82p card cover, very good, 63-67 Tausend, well preserved
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The Hard Journey. The Myth of Man's Rebirth.
208p brown hardback, index, clean copy from a Cambridge college library: Ibsen, Kafka, Beckett, ...
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The Fashionable World Displayed. 2nd Ed.
xvi 104p 16cm: Religion, Government, Education, Manners, Language, Dress, Amusements, Happiness, ...
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Several Discourses upon Practical Subjects, the Arguments of which may be Collected from the Contents. Second Edition with Enlargement.
[4] 442p frontispiece, crisp paper, old full calf binding, extensive ink notes to endpaper, printed ...
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The True Misteries and a Chronicle Play of Peterborough Cathedral.
256p card cover, very good: modernised version, based on French Medieval Mystery Cycle by A & S ...
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Five Restoration Tragedies.
xviii 450p cloth, very good: Dryden (All for Love); Otway (Venice); Southerne (Oroonoko); Rowe ...
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Three Latin Comedies.
96p paperback, beige cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, pages clean and neat ...
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The Dramatic Writings.
208p red cloth, glossary, new, reprint of Early English Drama Society edition, privately published, ...
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The Tragic Vision. Variations on a Theme in Literary Interpretation.
xiv 271p brown purple card cover, index, a fresh and clean copy
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Murder under Trust. The Topical MacBeth and other Jacobean Matters.
xii 195p hardback, dustjacket, frontispiece, as new, the Scottish point of view: Quidnuncs, Scot ...
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Thomas Dekker als Dramatiker. Dissertation.
115p paperback, staples rusty, bibliography, very good
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Daniel Czepkos: Coridon und Phyllis. Eine Analyse des Epos mit Strophenkommentar zum ersten Buch.
167p card cover, bibliography, fresh and clean, published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
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Shakespeare's Problem Plays.
154p paperback, bright pink cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding tight, spine not ...
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Character and Symbol in Shakespeare's Plays. A Study of Certain Christian and Pre-Christian Elements in their Structure and Imagery.
viii 211p cloth, bright yellow jacket, index, very good: This is the Chatto Edition from 1969
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Those Nut-Cracking Elizabethans. Studies on the Early Theatre and Drama.
viii 212p red cloth (gilt), top edge gilt, plates, excellent paper, a very nice book: Massinger's ...
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Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquar.
xix 431p blue cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, pages are bright ...
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10 Lecciones de técnica de actuación teatral: Arregladas por Salvador Novo.
55p large format paperback, well preserved, paper yellowing, uncommon title, with illustrations
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18th and 19th Century Stage Designs from the Mayr-Fajt Collection. Catalogue No 5.
approx 60p stapled booklet, 20 plates, 60 items, introduction, inscribed by Scholz, very good indeed
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