drama
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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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The Zeal of Thy House (SIGNED)
- £240.00
- First published in 1937, this play was written for presentation by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury Festival in June 1937". Sayers had been recommended to Babington by the FestivalÕs playwright of 1936, the poet Charles Williams. In 1934 the Festival began honoring various professions each year, and the…
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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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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…
- Add to basket
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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.
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
The Zeal of Thy House (SIGNED)
- £240.00
- First published in 1937, this play was written for presentation by the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury Festival in June 1937". Sayers had been recommended to Babington by the FestivalÕs playwright of 1936, the poet Charles Williams. In 1934 the Festival began honoring various professions each year, and the…
- Add to basket
-
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…
- Add to basket
-
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,…
- Add to basket
-
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.
- Add to basket
-
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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