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Online Catalogue:Stage & Screen:Theatre - Shakespeare

1623 - 1923 Studies in the First Folio

Price:  £18.00

Spielmann, M H; Wilson, J Dover; Lee, Sir Sidney; Rhodes, R Crompton; Greg, W W; Nicoll, Allardyce
Essays written for the Shakespeare Association to celebrate the first folio tercentenary. Ex academic library, minimal marking, blue cloth covers worn and marked, restored spine, pages yellowed, good. p182
Humphrey Milford/OUP

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Price:  £5.00

Shakespeare, William - edited by R A Foakes
In the series The New Cambridge Shakespeare. VG p148
Cambridge Univ Press

Commentary and Control in Shakespeare's Plays

Price:  £9.00

Bilton, Peter
About the characters who comment on the action in Shakespeare's plays, grouped according to genre, showing developments in Shakespeare's control of his audience. VG p247
Humanities Press

Elizabethan Popular Theatre - plays in performance

Price:  £25.00

Hattaway, Michael
The staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, with especial reference to The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedorus, Edward II, Doctor Faustus and Titus Andronicus. VG, very occasional minor marginal pencil annotation, in very slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ, not price-clipped. p234
Routledge & Kegan Paul

Engendering a Nation - a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories

Price:  £20.00

Howard, Jean E and Rackin, Phyllis
VG p248
Routledge

Essays on Shakespeare

Price:  £6.00

Smith, Gordon Ross (ed.)
Papers on Shakespeare by leading American scholars, covering Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV pt1, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, TheTempest, and staging the plays. Ex-lib, minimal marking, good, no DJ. p249
Pennsylvania State Univ. Press

Four Quarto Editions of Plays by Shakespeare

Price:  £7.00

Lee, Sidney
A description of the Quarto editions of Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and Merry Wives of Windsor Covers edge-worn, marked and sunned, pages yellowed, good. p63
Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace

Hamlet

Price:  £5.00

Stratford-upon-Avon Studies No. 5
Criticism. VG, pages a little yellowed, in good but price-clipped DJ, slightly marked to the spine. p212
Edward Arnold

Measure for Measure - Harvester new critical introductions to Shakespeare

Price:  £5.00

Hawkins, Harriett
Sex and sin, justice and mercy - a provocative study. Very occasional pencil annotation and three instances of highlighting, o/w good in VG DJ. p152
The Harvester Press

Measure for Measure as Royal Entertainment

Price:  £7.00

Bennett, Josephine Waters
Considering the play as a Christmastide entertainment for James I. VG, no inscriptions, in edge-worn, price-clipped DJ. p208
Columbia University Press

Much Ado About Nothing

Price:  £5.00

Shakespeare, William - edited by F H Mares
In the series The New Cambridge Shakespeare. VG p161
Cambridge Univ Press

Myth, Emblem, and Music in Shakespeare's Cymbeline

Price:  £25.00

Simonds, Peggy Munoz
An iconographic reconstruction. VG, small name to ffep, very occasional minor marginal pencil annotation, in VG DJ. p393
University of Delaware

Person & Persona - Studies in Shakespeare

Price:  £6.00

Williams, Gwyn
This collection of essays is the product of a lifetime of studying and lecturing on Shakespeare, and considers aspects of the whole of his works. VG - corners lightly bumped. p141
Cardiff University of Wales Press

Shakespeare

Price:  £6.00

Murry, John Middleton
Blue cloth, a little worn and marked, no inscriptions, slight age-mottling, generally VG, no DJ. p448
Jonathan Cape

Shakespeare

Price:  £5.00

Raleigh, Walter
In the series English Men of Letters Covers a little marked and worn, generally VG. p232
Macmillan

Shakespeare and National Culture

Price:  £12.00

Joughin, John J ed.
A global perspective, with contributions by Francis Barker, Simon Barker, Curtis Breight, John Drakakis, Thomas Healy, Graham Holderness, John J Joughin, Ania Loomba, Willy Maley, Andrew Murphy, Martin Orkin, Robert Weimann, and Richard Wilson. Cover very slightly edge-worn, generally VG. p351
Manchester Univ. Press

Shakespeare Criticism 1935 - 1960

Price:  £5.00

Ridler, Anne selected by
Cover sunned, ffep missing, half title working loose, o/w good. p401
OUP

Shakespeare for Community Players

Price:  £5.00

Mitchell, Roy
With chapters on staging, lighting, costume and make-up. Illustrative boards a little marked and worn to spine top and bottom, small name plate to front paste-dawn, which has left a shadow to the browned ffep, some notes to back eps, pages yellowed, tight, sound and generally VG p142
J M Dent

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Price:  £9.00

Smith, D. Nichol
VG in good but price-clipped DJ. p91
Oxford Univ

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1956

Price:  £5.00

journal
B/W photographs of productions from this year. Cover design by James Bailey. Good. p


Shakespeare on Stage - Macbeth

Price:  £5.00

Male, David A
Part of the Shakespeare on Stage series. Each book looks at a particular play in performance, concentrating on the play as a piece of dramatic art rather than simply as text on the page. Large thin paperback, with many black and white photographs. Cover edgeworn and a little creased, else VG. p35
Cambridge University Press

Shakespeare Tercentenary Observance in the schools and other institutions

Price:  £10.00

n/a
The suggested programme to celebrate Shakespeare Day - readings and songs, and a speech - 'Shakespeare the patriot' by Prof I Gollancz. Handsomely printed in black and red, with decorated capitals etc. Stitched booklet, good - the cover is chipped and almost detatched, there is an attractive ownership plate pasted to the front cover verso, pages are yellowed with a very little age-mottling, internally the booklet is sound. p31
Geo. W. Jones

Shakespeare the Director

Price:  £40.00

Slater, Ann Pasternak
The stage directions in the First Folio as an indication of Shakespeare's dramatic intent. VG, small name to ffep, in very slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ. p244
Harvester Press

Shakespeare the Dramatist

Price:  £8.00

Ellis-Fermor, Una
VG in slightly edge-worn but generally VG DJ p188
Methuen

Shakespeare the Theatre-Poet

Price:  £15.00

Hapgood, Robert
VG in very slightly worn but generally VG DJ. p266
Clarendon Press

Shakespeare: A Celebration 1564 - 1964

Price:  £5.00

Spencer, T J B ed.
Good. p134
Pelican

Shakespeare: The Roman Plays

Price:  £5.00

Traversi, Derek
VG in slightly chipped DJ p288
Hollis & Carter

Shakespearean Comedy

Price:  £5.00

Charlton, H B
Fourth edition. Covers a little worn and sunned, number to spine, name to ffep, pages yellowed, clean, tight and sound, good, no DJ. p303
Methuen

Shakespearean Subversions - the trickster and the play-text

Price:  £20.00

Hillman, Richard
A study of subversive elements in Shakespeare's plays - fool, clown, villain - relating them to the Trickster theme in folklore. One corner a little bumped, pencil annotations especially to prelims, o/w VG in VG DJ. p284
Routledge

Shakespeare's Drama

Price:  £8.00

Ellis-Fermor
Edited by Kenneth Muir VG in VG DJ p169
Methuen

Shakespeare's England

Price:  £5.00

Nicolai, C L R
Undated. In the England of the Poets series. VG in slightly torn but generally good DJ. p64
Bruce & Gawthorne

Shakespeare's Festive World

Price:  £20.00

Laroque, Francois
Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the Professional Stage VG, some pencil annotation, in VG DJ p423
Cambridge Univ Press

Shakespeare's Histories; an anthology of modern criticism

Price:  £5.00

Armstrong, William A (ed)
Good - some wear on the cover, pages yellowed. p282
penguin Shakespeare Library

Shakespeare's Monarchs

Price:  £6.00

Stobart, J C
Undated, but based on schools broadcasts made by the BBC in 1925. Blue cloth cover a little worn and marked, neat contemporary inscription to front paste-down, some age-mottling throughout, tight and sound, good. p255
Hodder & Stoughton

Shakespeare's Sonnets - An Introduction for Historians and Others

Price:  £5.00

Wilson, J Dover
Sewn booklet, good. p88
Cambridge Univ Press

Shakespearian Comedy

Price:  £5.00

Charlton, H B
Good - spine worn and cocked, but text clean and clear - some pencil annotation. p303
Methuen

Shakespearian Criticism Vol. 1

Price:  £40.00

Harris, Laurie Lanzen and Mark W Scott (eds)
Excerpts from the Criticism ofShakespeare's plays and poetry, from the first published appraisals to current evaluations. In this volume: Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2, Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night, with bibliography and index. An important reference work. Postage extra, at cost. Some dusting to edges, top and bottom of spine slightly bumped, but generally vg p683
Gale Research Co.

Signifying Nothing - Truth's True Contents in Shakespeare's Texts

Price:  £5.00

Evans, Malcolm
Cover a little marked, page edges grubby, generally VG. p291
Harvester Press

The Breath of Clowns and Kings

Price:  £8.00

Weiss, Theodore
Shakespeare's early comedies and histories. VG in VG DJ. p339
Atheneum

The Immortal Memory - a new approach to the teaching of Shakespeare

Price:  £5.00

Hayden, Howard
Scenes from the life of Shakespeare and from some of the plays designed to enhance the teaching of Shakespeare in schools. Blue cloth a little worn and marked, no DJ, good. p87
J M Dent

The Poetry of Shakespeare's Plays

Price:  £5.00

Halliday, F E
Black cloth, a litle marked, very faded gold lettering to the spine, o/w VG p196
Gerald Duckworth % Co

The Shakespeare Exhibition 1564- 1964

Price:  £5.00

Richard Buckle, exhibition director
Part of the quatercentenary celebrations, with essays on aspects of the poet's work and a guide to the exhibition. Covers worn, good. p144
Arts Council of Great Britain

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1955

Price:  £5.00

journal
B/W photographs of productions from this year. cover design by Mariano Andreu. Good. p


The Shakespeare Myth

Price:  £6.00

Holderness, Graham ed.
In the series Cultural Politics. An anthology of specially-commissioned essays - by John Drakakis, Terry Eagleton, Ann Thompson and Alan Sinfield among others - and interviews with mediators of Shakespeare, including Terry Hands, Michael Bogdanov, Sam Wanamaker and Jonathan Miller Cover a little worn, some pencil annotation and very occasional marginal highlighting, an odd, blurring font to some pages, o/w VG. p215
Manchester Univ. Press

The Tragedy of King Lear

Price:  £6.00

Shakespeare, William - edited by Jay L Halio
A fully annotated, critical edition. In the series The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cover very slightly worn, VG p309
Cambridge Univ Press

The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, 1603

Price:  £10.00

Shakespeare, William
The First Quarto, with the text uncorrected, set down line for line, from the original text in the British Museum (C. 34. K.1) Ex-academic-library, boards a little worn, name to ffep, generally VG p73
The Bodley Head

Troilus and Cressida

Price:  £8.00

Adamson, Jane
In the series Harvester New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare. VG, occasional pencil annotation, in VG DJ. p174
The Harvester Press

Walking Shadows - Shakespeare in the National Film and Television Archive

Price:  £7.00

McKernan, Luke and Terris, Olwen eds.
An anthology of ninety years of parodies, borrowings, quotations, homages, documentaries, operas, ballets, newsfilms, etc VG p269
BFI
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