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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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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,…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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)
- Add to basket
-
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)
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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)
- Add to basket
-
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)
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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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