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A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett

Price:  £6.00

Kenner, Hugh
A lucid analysis of the Enlish versions of Beckett's novels, stories, filmscripts and plays VG p208
Thames & Hudson

American Drama and its Critics

Price:  £6.00

Downer, Alan S
A collection of essays by different critics on aspects of US drama and dramatists 1897-1964 VG p258
University of Chicago press

An Introduction to Drama

Price:  £6.50

Whitfield, G J Newbold
Essays on Greek drama, Everyman, Dr Faustus, Macbeth, Every Man in His Humour, The Way of the World; The London Merchant; Maria Marten; Strife; The Insect Play and Saint Joan. VG - small signature from previous owner on bottom right corner of FFEP, three small tape marks on front and rear pastedown. p187
Oxford University Press

Anger and After

Price:  £5.00

Taylor, John Russell
A Guide to the New British Drama. Illustrated VG p391
Methuen

As the Curtain Rises

Price:  £8.00

Colby, Douglas
'To analyze in depth the use of the opening visual metaphor as the interpretive key to three different British plays':- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Stoppard; The Philanthropist by Hampton; Old Times by Pinter Near fine in near fine dj p103
Associated University Presses

Audience

Price:  £5.00

Havel, Vaclav
Translated by Vera Blackwell. One of the Vanik plays. Stapled booklet, stamped 'review copy' to cover, o/w VG p24
Samuel French

British Theatre 1950/70

Price:  £10.00

Hinchcliffe, Arnold P
The changes wrought by dramatists such as Osborne, Wesker, Pinter and Arden, and then by directors such as Joan Littlewood, Peter Hall and Peter Brook. VG in VG DJ p205
Basil Blackwell

Contemporary Theatre 1953-56

Price:  £9.00

Williamson, Audrey
Detailed reviews of the major productions of the three years following the coronation. Illustrated with production photos VG+. Dedication signed by the author p195
Rockliff

Drama from Ibsen to Eliot

Price:  £5.00

Williams, Raymond
A critical account and revaluation of drama between the years 1850 and 1950. VG - reading crease on spine, small closed tear at base of front cover. p315
Penguin

Drama in The Sixties; Form and Interpretation

Price:  £5.00

Kitchin, Laurence
Frontis. British Council lib stqamp on fep p226
Faber

Elizabethan and Early Stuart Drama

Price:  £5.00

Cunningham, John E
Good p128
Evans Brothers

Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama - Critical Essays

Price:  £8.00

Ure, Peter
Edited by J. C. Maxwell. This volume falls into three sections: three essays on Shakespeare, eight on other Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, and three not exclusively on the drama. VG (page yellowing on pastedowns) in Good DJ (lightly marked and worn, priceclipped). p258
Liverpool University Press

Elizabethan Drama

Price:  £6.00

Kaufmann Ralph J (ed.)
Critical essays on the poetic dramas of Shakespeare's contemporaries, inc. Lyly, Marlowe, Marston, Jonson, Webster, Middleton and others. Contributors inc. T S Eliot, Wilson Knight, Empson lib. Stamp on fep, o/w VG, cover sl. worn, some neat pen annotation. p372
OUP

English Drama; A Critical Introduction

Price:  £5.00

Salgado, Gamini
English theatre from medieval times to 1970 Good p234
Arnold

Euripides and Shaw

Price:  £12.00

Norwood, Gilbert
Includes Euripides and Shaw: a comparison: Present renaissance of English drama: the Nature and Methods of drama Good - slightly worn cover, a little foxed. p226
Methuen

First Plays - Wurzel-Flummery; The Lucky One; The Boy Comes Home; Belinda; The Red Feathers

Price:  £5.00

Milne, A A
Reprint. Cover a little worn and marked, front hinge weak, no inscriptions, pages slightly yellowed, good. p222
Chatto & Windus

Jacobean City Comedy

Price:  £8.00

Gibbons, Brian
Second edition - fully revised and amplified. A study of satiric plays by Jonson, Marston and Middleton. VG, some marks to ffep as of erased pencil, in DJ that is a little edge-worn but generally VG. p190
Methuen

Mid-Century Drama

Price:  £5.00

Kitchin, Laurence
Frontis. VG p238
Faber

Modern Drama

Price:  £5.00

Marriott, J W
Undated - 1930's. In the 'Little Theatre' series. The dates for this 'modern drama' are 1864 - 1934. There are discussion questions on the chapters at the end. Cover marked and sunned, internally VG, no DJ p327
Thomas Nelson & Sons

Our Theatres in the Nineties Vol I

Price:  £5.00

Shaw, Bernard
Vol One only of three. Occasional journalism on theatre. Red cloth cover slightly worn and marked, pages yellowed, generally VG, no inscriptions, no DJ p288
Constable

Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian England

Price:  £8.00

Loftis, John
VG in sunned and very slightly edge-worn, price-clipped, DJ. p174
Basil Blackwell

Shooting Stars - Plays and Players 1975-1983

Price:  £5.00

Morley, Sheridan
A collection of theatre reviews written for Punch VG in VG DJ p383
Quartet

Stratford-upon-Avon studies 6: Restoration Theatre

Price:  £6.50

anthology
A collection of papers by Norman Suckling, Anne Righter, Kenneth Muir and others on drama in the Restoration. VG p240
Edward Arnold

Strindberg - an introduction to his life and work

Price:  £5.00

Mortensen, Brita and Downs, Brian
A biography and a critical survey. Good p234
Cambridge Univ Press

The Cambridge History of English Literature Vol. V the Drama to 1642 pt. 1

Price:  £7.00

Ward and Waller (eds.)
Good+ some wear and fading to spine p380
Cambridge Univ Press

The Cambridge History of English Literature Vol. VI the Drama to 1642 pt 2

Price:  £8.00

Ward and Waller (eds.)
VG spine bumped at top and faded p380
Cambridge Univ Press

The Dramatic Technique of Thomas Middleton in his Comedies of London Life

Price:  £14.00

Dunkel, Wilbur Dwight
First published in 1925 Brown cloth, gold lettering to spine, pages a little yellowed, VG, no DJ p126
Russell and Russell

The Enjoyment of Drama

Price:  £6.00

Marx, Milton
Cover a little worn but generally VG p167
Appleton-Century-Crofts

The Present Stage; new directions in theatre

Price:  £5.00

Kershaw, John
Essays on Pinter, Osborne, Wesker, Frisch, Ionesco, Beckett VG, cover a little worn p142
Fontana

The Technique of Bernard Shaw's Plays

Price:  £10.00

Hamon, Augustin
Cover worn, marked and faded; small name stamp to ffep, pages roughly cut, resulting in some pages being chipped and torn; good. p70


The Theatre since 1900

Price:  £14.00

Trewin, J C
Includes b & w photos of several leading productions. An overview of theatre from Sir Henry Irving to Emlyn Williams VG. Faded to the spine. Owner's name on title page. p339
Dakers

The Theory of Drama

Price:  £5.00

Nicoll, Allardyce
Also published as "An Introduction to Dramatic Theory", this is a longer, revised edition Ex lib - good p262
George G Harrap & Co

The Twentieth-Century Theatre

Price:  £5.00

Vernon, Frank
With an introduction by John Drinkwater. Red cloth cover a little marked, some age-mottling, generally VG p159
George G Harrap & Co

Theatre 1954-5

Price:  £5.00

Brown, Ivor
An analysis of british theatre in 1955, with articles by Priestley on shakespeare, Ustinov on the playwright, George Devine on training, etc. Ex lib, good p200
Reinhardt

Tom Stoppard

Price:  £5.00

Hunter, Jim
A Faber Critical Guide. Detailed analysis of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties and Arcadia. Cover a little creased, clip to half title, generally VG p240
Faber

Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Duchess of Malfi

Price:  £5.00

Rabkin, Norman
Contributors include Rupert Brooke and T S Eliot. Cover rather worn and marked, pages yellowed, generally VG p120
Prentice-Hall

What is a Play?

Price:  £6.00

Brown, Ivor
Ex-lib with the usual blemishes, good p159
MacDonald
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