Books on Drama
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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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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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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 Dramatic Craftsmanship of Claderon. His Use of Earlier Plays.
327p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, well preserved copy
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The Ancient Classical Drama. A Study in Literary Evolution.
xx 479p cloth, indices, a firm and clean copy
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The Critic, Or: A Tragedy Rehearsed. A Dramatic Piece in Three Acts.
v 96p engraved title page, removed from binding, firm and clean
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Sophonisba: or, Hanibal's Overthrow. A Tragedy, Acted at the Theatre Royal.
72p imprint page missing, no cover, removed from binding
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Dicks' Standard Plays. A Collection of seven 18C plays published uniformly in this famous series.
bound together in simple half cloth, containing: Cibber: Careless Husband; Rowe: Lady Jane Grey; ...
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Modern English Drama: A Survey of the Theatre from 1900.
240p cloth, plates, index, appendix, a well preserved copy from a Cambridge college library
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Stage by Stage. The Making of the Theatre Museum.
xvi 72p card cover, many plates, also in colour, index, fresh and clean
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Giraudoux. Three Faces of Destiny.
viii 164p cloth, dustjacket, bibliography, as new, Sexual, metaphysical, political plays, excellent ...
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W S Gilbert Society Journal. Vol 1, No 3 & 4. Published by the Gilbert Society.
2 issues of this journal, together approx 60p, stapled, from typescript, contains bibliographical ...
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Cowardy Custard. The World of Noël Coward.
144p large format hardback, bright yellow dustjacket present, very well preserved, first edition
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The Playboy of the Western World.
vii 132p papercovered boards, dustjacket, nice copy, very good
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The Journalists. A Triptych.
288p hardback, dustjacket, light library markings, very little used, first edition
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Masse-Mensch. Ein Stück aus der sozialen Revolution de 20. Jahrhunderts.
82 (2)p orange paper cover, old tape repair, 20 th- 22nd thousand, still very good
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Stürmer und Dränger. Vol 1 - 3. (Deutsche Nationalliteratur, Ed. J Kürschner, Vol 79 - 81)
380p 380p 340p hardback bindings not uniform, hard to find
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Unamuno. A Philosophy of Tragedy. Translated by Philip Silver.
vii 136p purple paperback, paper yellowing, text clean, no names or stamps, a well preserved co py
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Die Schwarze Kammer. Eine heitere Oper in Drei Aufzügen.
79p black card cover, signed by Roters, very good
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Sprech Chöre 1.
white folder with single sheets of texts (some folded) by Paquet, Stammler, Käthe Rheindorf, ...
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Oak Leaves and Lavender, or: A Warld on Wallpaper.
163p green cloth, songs, very good, first edition, from a Cambridge college library
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Schnaddegatz vergrössert sich. Komödie.
107p mimeographed, card cover, cloth spine, stamps, a little worn and dusty
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Rosamunde Floris. Schauspiel in drei Akten.
94p wrapper, theatre stamp, also on cover, very good dusty
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Berliner Theater Almanach 1942.
418p papered boards (spine small fault), plates, illustrations, Spielplanübersicht, war-time drama: ...
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Der Heilige und die Tiere.
187p frontispiece, white cloth illustrated gilt nice and fresh, very good
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German Classical Drama. Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750 - 1870.
xiii 240p large paperback, index, bibliography, a very good copy
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Frauenlist. Musikalisches Lustspiel in einem Aufzuge.
68p original printed card cover, stamp, very good
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Il Vezzo di Perle. Commedia in quattro atti. Con una Diceria.
182p private binding in full green calf, five bands, spine dull but firm, original paper cover ...
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The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
xxi 494p 16cm embossed green cloth, introduction and notes by Joseph Knight, very good
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If You're Glad I'll be Frank.
31p paperback, cover a little yellowed, still a very good copy
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Comedy: An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith; Laughter by Henri Bergson.
xvi 260p paperback, a fresh and tight copy, square spine, no names or stamps, light soiling to ...
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The Duchess of Malfi. Ed. Elizabeth Brennan.
xxx 130p paperback, introduction by Brennan, notes, appendices, very good
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Angels and Ministers, and Other Plays.
96p 18cm cloth, dustjacket (nice but slightly browned), seven short plays, very good copy, fresh ...
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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Comédie-Ballet. Ed. A Gombert. Being the Eighth of a Selection of the Most Approved Plays, illustrated by Arguments in English, at the Head of Each Scene. With Notes, Critical and Explantory...
124p 14cm buff leather, edges of cover worn, cover torn at front hinge, spine badly rubbed and ...
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Women Beware Women. Ed. Roma Gill.
xxviii 112p red paperback, fac-simile of titlepage, very good
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Seeing Things.
viii 341p cloth, yellow jacket (edges worn and torn), index, Rylands bookplate, first edition
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Don Gil de las Calzas Verdas.
32p slim booklet library rebound hardback with cloth spine, paper browned, text in two columns, a ...
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Il Teatro in Italia nel 1909.
xx 444p original paperback, collection of theatrical reviews of 1909 includes among other things ...
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