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“Now BarabbasÉ”
- £30.00
- Douglas Home's first play, its original West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre lasted for 130 performances from 7 March to 28 June 1947. It concerns a variety of inmates at a British prison, including new arrivals, old hands and a convicted murderer sentenced to hang. The original cast included…
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A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
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A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
- £15.00
- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
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A Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
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Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
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Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
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Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy
- £20.00
- From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century. He it was who most passionately, most powerfully and most memorably dramatized the traumatic birth of the nation. He it was who gave to the twentieth-century theatre a greater range of vivid and original…
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women (LAMDA)
- £9.00
- Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women contains a collection of speeches from plays written since 1985, suitable for both teenagers and young adults. The selections vary in content, tone and style, and are accompanied by a brief outline of the context and the setting. The compilation will provide any…
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Curlew River: A Parable for Church Performance
- £40.00
- Libretto for Benjamin Britten’s Nō Play
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Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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Epitaph for John Dillon: a play in 3 acts
- £30.00
- Epitaph for George Dillon absorbs and fascinates because it is that rarest of theatrical phenomena, a realistic modern drama which is not bourgeois in its underlying assumptions. It is like a familiar building caught at an angle which suddenly makes it look like something never seen before.' Harold Hobson, Sunday…
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Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles
- £12.00
- The original text of Samuel Beckett's play which would be translated and performed in English in the same year as Endgame.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
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Heartbreak House et al
- £20.00
- Shaw’s Chekhovian tragicomedy set just before the 1st World War as ‘cultured and leisured Europe was drifting towards destruction’. Also includes Great Catherine and ‘Playlets of the War’.
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Inadmissable Evidence
- £30.00
- I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight for his sanity. John Osborne's poignant, witty and…
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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Look Back In Anger
- £40.00
- Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. 'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it…
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Luther: a Play
- £25.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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Luther: a Play (PROOF)
- £45.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
- £500.00
- Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp…
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
- £20.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors…
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Meurtre dans la Cathédrale
- £75.00
- Meurtre dans la cathédrale. Traduit de l?anglais et présenté par Henri Fluchère. Collection Des Cahiers du Rhône. / Translation by Henri Fluchère whose introductory essay is included after the play's text. The essay is dated July 1939.
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £300.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £25.00
- 2nd edition (2nd impression) of Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral first published 1935 - with some alterations made for 2nd impression as TSE indicates in preface dated Jan 1936.
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £50.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral (with SIGNED Letter)
- £1,000.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Oak Leaves and Lavender, or a Warld on Wallpaper
- £20.00
- Born John Casey (1880-1964), Séan O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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On The Frontier, a Melodrama in three acts
- £50.00
- One of three plays that Auden and Isherwood co-wrote. It tells of the conflict between the fictional countries of Ostnia and Westland—one representing freedom and one that does not.In Act Two, an Ostnian household occupies the left half of the stage, and a Westland household occupies the right half. Some…
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Paolo & Francesca, a tragedy in four acts
- £10.00
- Stephen Phillips dramatisation of the famous tale of Francesca di Rimini and her affair with Paolo Malatesta ca 1283-6.
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Paolo Paoli, The Years of the Butterfly
- £25.00
- Arthur Adamov (1908-1970) provoked great hostility after the opening night of this 1957 play, and even demonstrations. It was a savage satire on middle class society in the French Edwardian era. Translated by Geoffrey Brereton.
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Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (vols I & II)
- £40.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works Originally published in 1898, this set of George Bernard Shaw's plays Vol. 1. Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer, a Topical Comedy; Mrs Warren's Profession Vol. 2. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, a comedy; Candida, a Mystery; The Man of Destiny, a Trifle; You Never Can…
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Present Indicative
- £8.00
- "I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and…
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Restoration & Eighteenth Century Comedy (2nd ed.)
- £15.00
- The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of ÒContexts.Ó The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: ÒOn Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1660Ð1775,Ó ÒThe Collier Controversy:…
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Robert’s Wife, a comedy in three acts
- £20.00
- St John Greer Ervine (1883-1971) was an Irish biographer, novelist, critic, dramatist, and theatre manager. He was the most prominent Ulster writer of the early twentieth century and a major Irish dramatist whose work influenced the plays of W.B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey. The Wayward Man was among the first…
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Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
- £25.00
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The Royal National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft…
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Saint Joan: A Chronical Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
- £15.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: 1st edition (1924) of one of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN, he reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's…
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Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (Folio)
- £100.00
- Folio 3-volume set of Wilde's work: includes 'Essays and Letters'; 'Stories', and 'Plays and Poems'.
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Tales from Shakespeare
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays for children.
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The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza
- £15.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: 1st edition (1930) of perhaps the most pointed critique of parliamentary democracy in the entire Shavian canon.
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The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £50.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
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The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £65.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
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The Brass Butterfly
- £100.00
- Golding's only play set in Roman times which he would later rework into a novella (Envoy Extraordinary).
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £15.00
- Eliot’s play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £25.00
- Eliot’s play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made.
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £17.00
- Elements of the play are based on Alcestis, by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, Murder in the Cathedral, is better remembered today. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the…
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £100.00
- EliotÕs play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made.
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £15.00
- EliotÕs play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £25.00
- EliotÕs play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Collected Plays (3 vols)
- £150.00
- Maugham's plays were first published togheter in 1931. This reprint version was published to conform to the style of Complete Short Stories & Selected Novels. Vol 1 - Lady Frederick / Mrs Dot / Jack Straw / Penelope / Smith / The Land of Promise; Vol II - Our Betters…
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The Complaisant Lover – A Play
- £50.00
- Consisting of two acts (each of two scenes), the play revolves around an affair between Mary Rhodes and Clive Root, the book seller friend of her husband, Victor. The play takes place in the Rhodes family home and an Amsterdam guesthouse. It's first production was produced by John Gielgud in…
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The Complaisant Lover – A Play
- £50.00
- Consisting of two acts (each of two scenes), the play revolves around an affair between Mary Rhodes and Clive Root, the book seller friend of her husband, Victor. The play takes place in the Rhodes family home and an Amsterdam guesthouse. It's first production was produced by John Gielgud in…
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The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw (1 volume)
- £45.00
- George Bernard Shaw was a satirical genius, ruthlessly exposing hypocrisy, and creating moral dilemmas for the reader to mull on. These are biting, witty, sometimes rude, highly intelligent plays. This collection of thirty-four of his plays is an Omnibus that will give hours of pleasure to the reader.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £45.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. It is a drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. It is a drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Cornerstones, a conversation in Elysium
- £14.00
- An imaginary conversation between Confucius, Lincoln, Lenin, a British airman and a soldier in which they demand that humanity in the present crisis be given a nobler purpose and more certain aim. Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-1974) was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as…
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The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed
- £10.00
- Small, pocket edition (135cm x 105cm) of Sheridan's masterpiece. It was first staged at Drury Lane Theatre in 1779, and is a burlesque on stage acting and play production conventions, and Sheridan considered the first act to be his finest piece of writing. One of its major roles, Sir Fretful…
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The Devil to Pay
- £180.00
- Being the Famous History of John Faustus the Conjurer of Wittenberg in Germany; How he Sold His Immortal Soul to the Enemy of Mankind, and Was Served XXIV Years By Mephistopheles, and Obtained Helen of Troy
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The Doctor and the Devils
- £12.00
- This dramatic and gripping story is based on the grisly careers of the murderers Burke and Hare and is in the form of a film scenario. This infamous pair came to trial in Edinburgh over a century ago, and Dylan Thomas was fascinated by their grim tale. Thomas Rock, a…
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The Doctor’s Dilemma et al
- £15.00
- Shaw’s plays: The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet
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The Duchess of Padua
- £50.00
- Written in 1882-83 and first produced in 1891. The first edition consisted of twenty prompt copies.
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The Elder Statesman: a play
- £40.00
- T. S. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, his Antigone. The dialogue in the love scenes in particular contain some of…
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The Elder Statesman: a play
- £40.00
- T. S. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, his Antigone. The dialogue in the love scenes in particular contain some of…
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The Entertainer
- £30.00
- Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment. First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, the…
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The Entertainer, a play
- £15.00
- Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment, a role made famous by Sir Laurence Olivier. First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after…
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £5.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £15.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £250.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Hiding Place
- £35.00
- The Stage Adaptation by A. S. Peterson from the book by Corrie ten Boom (with Elizabeth and John Sherrill). World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe. On a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, one family chooses to resist. Corrie ten Boom, along with her father and sister, hide…
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The History Boys: The Film
- £12.00
- An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room…
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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The Living Room – a play in two acts
- £50.00
- Greene's first play. London in the 1950s: a mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets, and a love affair turns to tragedy. Graham Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based this play on his own passionate, doomed…
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The Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three Acts
- £15.00
- Ustinov was a comic master and polymath. This play was set in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, in the Austrian village of Herzogenburg, in the HQ of the Allied Military Administration (UK, USA, France, USSR). Cover design by Ustinov.
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The Man Born to be King: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- £60.00
- Presented by the BBC, Dec. 1941-Oct. 1942, producer: Val Gielgud: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back: an idle fancy
- £50.00
- First published in the UK in 1908, Jerome wrote both a short story and this play about the various small-minded inhabitants of a London building and ways they are affected by the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work was adapted into two films (in 1918…
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The Return of A.J. Raffles: An Edwardian Comedy
- £30.00
- First staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company the play has as its chief characters A. J. Raffles, the literary creation some seventy odd years ago of E. W. Hornung. The cool daring of the impeccable Amateur Cracksman, always torn between the rival claims of burglary and cricket, ensured his popularity…
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The Silver Tassie – A Tragi-comedy in 4 acts
- £25.00
- Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry…
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The Wind and the Rain
- £10.00
- Hodge (1903-1958) was a an accomplished actor and playwright as well as medical doctor from New Zealand. His play The Wind and The Rain won great international acclaim, first performed in London in 1933 (with 1000 performances) and then for 6 months on Broadway. It was translated into 9 languages.
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The Works of Shakespere Vol III: Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets – revised from the best authorities
- £60.00
- III of 3-vol set with a memoir and essay by Barry Cornwall. Illustrated throughout with vignette illustrations by Kenny Meadows. Also containing annotations and introductory remarks on the plays by many distinguished writers.
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The Works of William Shakespeare (vol XII)
- £20.00
- Contains the classical works: Pericles, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; plus A lover's complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to sundry notes of music; Phoenix and the Turtle.
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Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; the Voysey Inheritance; Waste
- £12.00
- Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. In The Voysey Inheritance, a…
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Tom Stoppard: Plays I (SIGNED) ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, ‘Dirty Linen’, ‘Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth’, ‘After Magritte’
- £200.00
- The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece,…
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Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- This autobiography chronicles the career and life of one of Britain's leading actresses, telling of her performances on stage and screen, her political beliefs and her family, up until 1991.
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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“Now BarabbasÉ”
- £30.00
- Douglas Home's first play, its original West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre lasted for 130 performances from 7 March to 28 June 1947. It concerns a variety of inmates at a British prison, including new arrivals, old hands and a convicted murderer sentenced to hang. The original cast included…
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A Better Class Of Person: Autobiography 1929-1956 (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This is the first instalment of John Osborne's autobiography that tells of his early life up to the writing of "Look Back in Anger". 'It's a classic' Melvyn Bragg
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A List Of Plays For Young Players And Others
- £15.00
- Endorsed by 'the Junior Drama Committee of the British Drama League', this small book lists plays thought suitable for children to perform - each provides characters, scenes, brief synopsis, performance difficulty etc.
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A Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: An Anthology of Plays from the 17th Century to the Present
- £30.00
- Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher / The History…
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Alleluia (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. As Dr Valentine and Sister Gilchrist attend…
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Androcles and the Lion (with Overruled, Pygmalion)
- £150.00
- These three plays were all written in 1912 and premiered in the next two years. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the story of a slave saved by the requiting mercy of a lion as he was with many Christians being led to the Colosseum to die. He…
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Arms and the Man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- £12.00
- The Dramatic Works of Bernard Shaw, No IV: "Youth is wasted on the young.” A comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroine is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.
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Backing into the Limelight: The Biography of Alan Bennett
- £15.00
- Alan Bennett is one of Britain's most successful and popular living writers. He is also one of the last survivors of a generation of rule-breakers and radicals that first found its voice with "Beyond the Fringe" in 1961. Since then, he has gone on to huge success with his plays…
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Becket or The Honour of God
- £25.00
- First published in France in 1959, this was quickly translated into English. When the Archbishop of Canterbury died, Henry II forced his companion and political lieutenant, Thomas Becket to take his place. Becket told his King: 'If I become archbishop, I shall cease to be your friend.' Becekt, who with…
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Ben Jonson (English Men of Letters)
- £10.00
- Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- £80.00
- The Pulitzer Prize Play of 1955 )the year first published in the U.S.)
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Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy
- £20.00
- From the perspective of the 1990s O'Casey stands out as Ireland's greatest playwright of the century. He it was who most passionately, most powerfully and most memorably dramatized the traumatic birth of the nation. He it was who gave to the twentieth-century theatre a greater range of vivid and original…
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Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
- £15.00
- This edition first published in 1954. Contents: The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé / The Duchess of Padua / Vera, or the Nihilists / A Florentine Tragedy / La Sainte Courtisane or The Woman Covered…
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Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women (LAMDA)
- £9.00
- Contemporary Monologues for Young Men and Women contains a collection of speeches from plays written since 1985, suitable for both teenagers and young adults. The selections vary in content, tone and style, and are accompanied by a brief outline of the context and the setting. The compilation will provide any…
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Curlew River: A Parable for Church Performance
- £40.00
- Libretto for Benjamin Britten’s Nō Play
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Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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Epitaph for John Dillon: a play in 3 acts
- £30.00
- Epitaph for George Dillon absorbs and fascinates because it is that rarest of theatrical phenomena, a realistic modern drama which is not bourgeois in its underlying assumptions. It is like a familiar building caught at an angle which suddenly makes it look like something never seen before.' Harold Hobson, Sunday…
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Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles
- £12.00
- The original text of Samuel Beckett's play which would be translated and performed in English in the same year as Endgame.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Four Sacred Plays
- £25.00
- Originally published in 1937, this is Gollancz's 'first cheap edition'. Includes: The Devil to Pay; The Just Vengeance; He That Should Come; The Zeal of thy House.
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Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
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Heartbreak House et al
- £20.00
- Shaw’s Chekhovian tragicomedy set just before the 1st World War as ‘cultured and leisured Europe was drifting towards destruction’. Also includes Great Catherine and ‘Playlets of the War’.
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Inadmissable Evidence
- £30.00
- I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those closest to him draw away, he puts himself on trial to fight for his sanity. John Osborne's poignant, witty and…
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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Look Back In Anger
- £40.00
- Anyone who's never watched someone die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity. Look Back in Anger premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1956. 'John Osborne didn't contribute to British theatre: he set off a landmine called Look Back in Anger and blew most of it…
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Luther: a Play
- £25.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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Luther: a Play (PROOF)
- £45.00
- Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne depicting the life of Martin Luther, one of the foremost instigators of the Protestant Reformation. Albert Finney created the role of Luther, which he performed with the English Stage Company in Nottingham, Paris, the Royal Court Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre, London,…
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Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
- £500.00
- Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp…
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
- £20.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors…
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Meurtre dans la Cathédrale
- £75.00
- Meurtre dans la cathédrale. Traduit de l?anglais et présenté par Henri Fluchère. Collection Des Cahiers du Rhône. / Translation by Henri Fluchère whose introductory essay is included after the play's text. The essay is dated July 1939.
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £300.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £25.00
- 2nd edition (2nd impression) of Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral first published 1935 - with some alterations made for 2nd impression as TSE indicates in preface dated Jan 1936.
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £50.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Murder in the Cathedral (with SIGNED Letter)
- £1,000.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury CathedralProvenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Oak Leaves and Lavender, or a Warld on Wallpaper
- £20.00
- Born John Casey (1880-1964), Séan O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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On The Frontier, a Melodrama in three acts
- £50.00
- One of three plays that Auden and Isherwood co-wrote. It tells of the conflict between the fictional countries of Ostnia and Westland—one representing freedom and one that does not.In Act Two, an Ostnian household occupies the left half of the stage, and a Westland household occupies the right half. Some…
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Paolo & Francesca, a tragedy in four acts
- £10.00
- Stephen Phillips dramatisation of the famous tale of Francesca di Rimini and her affair with Paolo Malatesta ca 1283-6.
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Paolo Paoli, The Years of the Butterfly
- £25.00
- Arthur Adamov (1908-1970) provoked great hostility after the opening night of this 1957 play, and even demonstrations. It was a savage satire on middle class society in the French Edwardian era. Translated by Geoffrey Brereton.
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Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (vols I & II)
- £40.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works Originally published in 1898, this set of George Bernard Shaw's plays Vol. 1. Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses; The Philanderer, a Topical Comedy; Mrs Warren's Profession Vol. 2. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, a comedy; Candida, a Mystery; The Man of Destiny, a Trifle; You Never Can…
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Present Indicative
- £8.00
- "I was photographed naked on a cushion very early in life, an insane, toothless smile slitting my face and pleats of fat overlapping me like an ill-fitting overcoat. Later, at the age of two, I was photographed again. This time in a lace dress, leaning against a garden roller and…
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Restoration & Eighteenth Century Comedy (2nd ed.)
- £15.00
- The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of ÒContexts.Ó The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: ÒOn Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1660Ð1775,Ó ÒThe Collier Controversy:…
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Robert’s Wife, a comedy in three acts
- £20.00
- St John Greer Ervine (1883-1971) was an Irish biographer, novelist, critic, dramatist, and theatre manager. He was the most prominent Ulster writer of the early twentieth century and a major Irish dramatist whose work influenced the plays of W.B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey. The Wayward Man was among the first…
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Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
- £25.00
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. The Royal National Theatre production in April 1967 made Tom Stoppard's reputation virtually overnight. Its wit, stagecraft…
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Saint Joan: A Chronical Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue
- £15.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: 1st edition (1924) of one of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN, he reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's…
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Stories; Plays and Poems; Essays and Letters (Folio)
- £100.00
- Folio 3-volume set of Wilde's work: includes 'Essays and Letters'; 'Stories', and 'Plays and Poems'.
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Tales from Shakespeare
- £20.00
- A pocket edition of the classic retelling of Shakespeare's plays for children.
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The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza
- £15.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: 1st edition (1930) of perhaps the most pointed critique of parliamentary democracy in the entire Shavian canon.
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The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £50.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
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The Blood Knot: a play in seven scenes
- £65.00
- Blood Knot is an early play by South African playwright, actor, and director Athol Fugard. Its single-performance premier was in 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the playwright and Zakes Mokae playing the brothers Morris and Zachariah. The only two characters in the two-hander play are the brothers Morris and…
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The Brass Butterfly
- £100.00
- Golding's only play set in Roman times which he would later rework into a novella (Envoy Extraordinary).
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £15.00
- Eliot’s play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £25.00
- Eliot’s play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made.
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £17.00
- Elements of the play are based on Alcestis, by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, Murder in the Cathedral, is better remembered today. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the…
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £100.00
- EliotÕs play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made.
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £15.00
- EliotÕs play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £25.00
- EliotÕs play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Collected Plays (3 vols)
- £150.00
- Maugham's plays were first published togheter in 1931. This reprint version was published to conform to the style of Complete Short Stories & Selected Novels. Vol 1 - Lady Frederick / Mrs Dot / Jack Straw / Penelope / Smith / The Land of Promise; Vol II - Our Betters…
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The Complaisant Lover – A Play
- £50.00
- Consisting of two acts (each of two scenes), the play revolves around an affair between Mary Rhodes and Clive Root, the book seller friend of her husband, Victor. The play takes place in the Rhodes family home and an Amsterdam guesthouse. It's first production was produced by John Gielgud in…
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The Complaisant Lover – A Play
- £50.00
- Consisting of two acts (each of two scenes), the play revolves around an affair between Mary Rhodes and Clive Root, the book seller friend of her husband, Victor. The play takes place in the Rhodes family home and an Amsterdam guesthouse. It's first production was produced by John Gielgud in…
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The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw (1 volume)
- £45.00
- George Bernard Shaw was a satirical genius, ruthlessly exposing hypocrisy, and creating moral dilemmas for the reader to mull on. These are biting, witty, sometimes rude, highly intelligent plays. This collection of thirty-four of his plays is an Omnibus that will give hours of pleasure to the reader.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £45.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. It is a drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. It is a drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £25.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Confidential Clerk: A Play
- £40.00
- Eliot's penultimate play first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1953. A drawing room farce of mistaken identity.
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The Cornerstones, a conversation in Elysium
- £14.00
- An imaginary conversation between Confucius, Lincoln, Lenin, a British airman and a soldier in which they demand that humanity in the present crisis be given a nobler purpose and more certain aim. Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-1974) was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as…
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The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed
- £10.00
- Small, pocket edition (135cm x 105cm) of Sheridan's masterpiece. It was first staged at Drury Lane Theatre in 1779, and is a burlesque on stage acting and play production conventions, and Sheridan considered the first act to be his finest piece of writing. One of its major roles, Sir Fretful…
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The Devil to Pay
- £180.00
- Being the Famous History of John Faustus the Conjurer of Wittenberg in Germany; How he Sold His Immortal Soul to the Enemy of Mankind, and Was Served XXIV Years By Mephistopheles, and Obtained Helen of Troy
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The Doctor and the Devils
- £12.00
- This dramatic and gripping story is based on the grisly careers of the murderers Burke and Hare and is in the form of a film scenario. This infamous pair came to trial in Edinburgh over a century ago, and Dylan Thomas was fascinated by their grim tale. Thomas Rock, a…
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The Doctor’s Dilemma et al
- £15.00
- Shaw’s plays: The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet
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The Duchess of Padua
- £50.00
- Written in 1882-83 and first produced in 1891. The first edition consisted of twenty prompt copies.
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The Elder Statesman: a play
- £40.00
- T. S. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, his Antigone. The dialogue in the love scenes in particular contain some of…
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The Elder Statesman: a play
- £40.00
- T. S. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later. Lord Claverton, an eminent former cabinet minister and banker, is helped to confront his past by the love of his daughter, his Antigone. The dialogue in the love scenes in particular contain some of…
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The Entertainer
- £30.00
- Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment. First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger, the…
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The Entertainer, a play
- £15.00
- Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment, a role made famous by Sir Laurence Olivier. First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after…
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £5.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £15.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £250.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946.Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Hiding Place
- £35.00
- The Stage Adaptation by A. S. Peterson from the book by Corrie ten Boom (with Elizabeth and John Sherrill). World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe. On a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, one family chooses to resist. Corrie ten Boom, along with her father and sister, hide…
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The History Boys: The Film
- £12.00
- An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's screenplay, staff room…
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The Judgment of Dr Johnson: a comedy in three acts
- £100.00
- As well as accomplished and prolific essayist, journalist and novelist, Chesterton wrote a number of plays, of which this was his 2nd to be published.
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The Living Room – a play in two acts
- £50.00
- Greene's first play. London in the 1950s: a mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets, and a love affair turns to tragedy. Graham Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based this play on his own passionate, doomed…
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The Love of Four Colonels, a play in Three Acts
- £15.00
- Ustinov was a comic master and polymath. This play was set in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, in the Austrian village of Herzogenburg, in the HQ of the Allied Military Administration (UK, USA, France, USSR). Cover design by Ustinov.
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The Man Born to be King: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- £60.00
- Presented by the BBC, Dec. 1941-Oct. 1942, producer: Val Gielgud: a Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back: an idle fancy
- £50.00
- First published in the UK in 1908, Jerome wrote both a short story and this play about the various small-minded inhabitants of a London building and ways they are affected by the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work was adapted into two films (in 1918…
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The Return of A.J. Raffles: An Edwardian Comedy
- £30.00
- First staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company the play has as its chief characters A. J. Raffles, the literary creation some seventy odd years ago of E. W. Hornung. The cool daring of the impeccable Amateur Cracksman, always torn between the rival claims of burglary and cricket, ensured his popularity…
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The Silver Tassie – A Tragi-comedy in 4 acts
- £25.00
- Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry…
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The Wind and the Rain
- £10.00
- Hodge (1903-1958) was a an accomplished actor and playwright as well as medical doctor from New Zealand. His play The Wind and The Rain won great international acclaim, first performed in London in 1933 (with 1000 performances) and then for 6 months on Broadway. It was translated into 9 languages.
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The Works of Shakespere Vol III: Historical Plays, Poems & Sonnets – revised from the best authorities
- £60.00
- III of 3-vol set with a memoir and essay by Barry Cornwall. Illustrated throughout with vignette illustrations by Kenny Meadows. Also containing annotations and introductory remarks on the plays by many distinguished writers.
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The Works of William Shakespeare (vol XII)
- £20.00
- Contains the classical works: Pericles, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, the Sonnets; plus A lover's complaint, The Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to sundry notes of music; Phoenix and the Turtle.
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Three Plays: The Marrying of Ann Leete; the Voysey Inheritance; Waste
- £12.00
- Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. In The Voysey Inheritance, a…
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Tom Stoppard: Plays I (SIGNED) ‘The Real Inspector Hound’, ‘Dirty Linen’, ‘Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth’, ‘After Magritte’
- £200.00
- The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. The author rounds off his brief introduction, giving the genesis of each piece,…
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Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- This autobiography chronicles the career and life of one of Britain's leading actresses, telling of her performances on stage and screen, her political beliefs and her family, up until 1991.
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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