Drammaturgia e teatro

Burlesque Giants and Dwarfs

1885 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London , J. R. Maxwell, 1885. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce pamphlet of illusions, with illustrations. A publication on transfiguration and stage tricks for Burlesque theatre. Transfiguration and stage tricks. Vanishingly scarce, not recorded on Copac only on...

The Select Works of Mr. John Dennis

John Dennis · 1718 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, John Darby; J.D.; D. Browne; W. Mears; et al, 1718-21. Cloth. A very scarce collection of the works of John Dennis, his dramatical works and essays. A very scarce work.Two title pages to Volume I, dated 1718 and 1721, however without the addition of 'The Invader o...

The Works of Monsieur de Moliere, Volume the Fifth

Moliere [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]; John Ozell [trans.] · 1714 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Bernard Lintott, 1714 . First edition. Leather. The fifth volume only of John Ozell's six volume prose translation of the works of French playwright Moliere. A smart single volume of the first collected English translation of Moliere's works. This fifth volum...

A Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage

Jeremy Collier · 1738 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, Samuel Birt; Thomas Trye, 1738 . Leather. A very smart copy of Jeremy Collier's influential argument against the English stage, which he believed undermined public morality and promoted vice. Theatre critic Jeremy Collier argues against the immorality and lack of ...

Hedda Gabler

Henrick Ibsen; John Osborne · 1972 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London , Faber and Faber, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this play, adapted by John Osborne. A first edition of this edition, adapted by John Osborne. Hedda Gabler is a play by Henrik Ibsen, which premiered in 1891. The play has been described as a master...

Four Comedy Plays by Sir Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele · 1730 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London, Linton, Tonson, Draper; Tonson; Lintot, 1730-1751. Leather. Five mid eighteenth century editions of humorous plays by Sir Richard Steele, bound together in a single volume. Four plays by Sir Richard Steele, the Irish writer, playwright, and politician who co-founded th...

The Death of Christopher Marlowe

J. Leslie Hotson · 1925 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925. Cloth. The second impression of this exploration into the death of playwright Christopher Marlowe. Second impression published 1925, originally published earlier the same year. Illustrated with a fold out plate to the front, and four plates. C...

First Impressions: Or Trade in the West

Horace Smith · 1813 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Printed for Thomas Underwood, 1813. First edition. Unbound. Scarce first edition of this comedy in five acts by Horatio Smith. The first edition of this work. A comedy in five acts by Horatio Smith, English novelist and poet. A scarce pamphlet containing the play as pe...

The Miser and Coxcombs in Petticoats

Moliere; George Graveley · 1953 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

St. Albans, W. Cartmel & Sons, 1953. Cloth. Two short plays by French playwright Moliere, translated by George Graveley. A signed presentation copy from the translator to British stage actress Edith Evans. Two comedies by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean-Baptiste Poq...

Almoran and Hamet, an Oriental Tale

Dr. John Hawkesworth · 1780 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Harrison and Co, 1780. Leather. Both volumes of Dr. Hawkesworth's tragic 'oriental tale' bound together in a lovely quarter morocco binding, and illustrated with two engraved plates. With both volumes bound in one, and with the title page to volume I onl...

Theatre de Moliere

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere · 1873 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

Paris, Libraire de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1873-81. Leather. A lovely collection of theatrical works by Moliere, published as part of a series with the Bibliotheque Nationale, bound in a contemporary quarter-leather binding. Published as part of Bibliotheque Nationale&apos...

Oeuvres de Jean Racine

Jean Racine · 1813 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Paris, Stereotype D'Herhan de l'Imprimerie de A. Belin, 1813. Leather. Complete collection of these charming pocket sized editions of the works of Jean Racine, in uniform full calf bindings. The complete theatrical works of J. Racine, complete in five uniform leather...

The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith · 1887 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1887. Cloth. An excellent copy of the collected poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith. Oliver Goldsmith was an important Anglo-Irish author in the eighteenth century. A later impression of his collected poems and plays, with the addition of his mo...

The Works of Shakspere

William Shakespeare; Barry Cornwall · 1843 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

London, Robert Tyas, 1843. Cloth. A lovely illustrated collection of the works of William Shakespeare, with wood engravings by Kenny Meadows. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout the text designed by Kenny Meadows.Ownership inscription of Charles M. Bishop to the front ...

Ulysses, a Drama

Stephen Phillips · 1902 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1902 . First edition. Hardback. A Limited Edition first UK edition copy of this drama from playwright Stephen Phillips. Printed on Japanese vellum. A Limited Edition of the first US edition of this play from English poet and dramatist Stephen P...

The Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Charles Knight · 0 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, George Routledge and Sons , c1890. Hardback. The works of William Shakespeare as edited by Charles Knight in one volume, in a decorative binding. An undated copy, dated from Jisc c1890. Charles Knight edited edition of the works of Avon bard, William Shakespeare, compl...

Theatre Complet de Emile Augier

Emile Augier · 1892 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Paris, Calmann Levy , 1892. Leather. A complete collection of the theatrical work of Emile Augier, in the original French. A collection complete in seven volumes of the works of Émile Augier, popular French dramatist in the nineteenth century. He was mainly known for his come...

The Plays of William Shakespeare: A Midsummer-Night&Apos;S Dream, Love&Apos;S Labour&Apos;S Lost, the Comedy of Errors, and As You Like It

William Shakespeare · 1868 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, [1868]. Hardback. A collection of four pocket sized plays by Shakespeare from the Bernhard Tauchnitz's series of 'The Plays of William Shakespeare in 37 Parts.' A collection of four plays by the national bard William Shakespeare, fro...

The Fall of Mortimer. An Historical Play. Reviv"D from Mountfort, with Alterations. As It Is Now Acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market.

[William Hatchett] · 1732 · Rooke Books

£600.00 (€719.20 | $792.68 | ¥126,581)

London, Printed for J. Millan, 1732. Leather. A very scarce early eighteenth century historical play, from a prominent figure in the London theatrical scene of the day. A scarce work in all editions, very scarce in this fourth edition, which is actually a re-impression of the ...

A Midsummer Night&Apos;S Dream

William Shakespeare; William Heath Robinson · 1914 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.79 | $1,189.03 | ¥189,872)

London, Constable and Co, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A very smart example of William Shakespeare's famous play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream&apos. Scarce in the original dustwrapper. Very scarce in the original dustwrapper, which is in a lovely condition with only...