Drammaturgia e teatro

La Princesse Lointaine and L&Apos;Aiglon

Edmond Rostand · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

Paris, Charpentier and Fasquelle, 1900. Cloth. Two French plays by Rostand, performed in Paris in 1900, starring Sarah Bernhardt. In French. La Princesse Lointaine 'shown for the first time in Paris, April 5, 1895 in the Theatre de la Renaissance. L'Aiglon 'show...

Les Academiciens

Saint Evremont (Saint Evremond) · 1879 · Rooke Books

£47.99 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Paris, Charavay Freres, 1879. Paperback. A French comic play in three acts concerning Richelieu's creation of the French Academy. Featuring a hand coloured tissue guarded frontispiece, and a frontispiece to the play. With a preface by Robert de Bonnieres, and notes to the...

Oeuvres de Racine in Five Volumes

Jean Racine · 1813 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

Paris, De L'Imprimerie de P. Didot L'Aine, 1813. Leather. A collection of the Works of Jean Racine. Complete in five volumes. In the original French. With a Frontispiece to volume I. From the Collection of the Best Works in the French Language Printed on fine paper. ...

The Immortal Hour: A Drama in Two Acts

Fiona Macleod [William Sharp] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Edinburgh and London, T. N. Foulis, 1908. Cloth. A limited edition T. N. Foulis edition of 'The Immortal Hour', a play by Fiona Macleod loosely based on the Irish myth 'The Wooing of Etain&apos. Limited edition of five hundred copies. First published complete in...

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse; a New Version of an Old Story Arranged As a Play for Mummers

Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this this play for amateurs in one act by Thomas Hardy. A one-act play by Thomas Hardy, one of the only two pieces of drama written by this author.The first edition.In the original green cl...

The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral

T.S. Eliot · 1938 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

New York; London, Harcourt, Brace and Company; Faber and Faber, 1938-1950 . Cloth. A lovely set of plays by leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry T.S. Eliot. A lovely two volume set of plays by T.S. Eliot.T.S. Eliot was a leading figure in English-language Mod...

The Green Helmet, a Heroic Farce

W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, 1911 . First edition. Paperback. An attractive example of the first theatre edition of W. B. Yeats's entertaining short play in which three Irish heroes complete for the titular 'Green Helmet&apos. The 'first theatre ...

Oeuvres de J.B. Poquelin de Moliere

Moliere [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Paris, Theodore Dabo, 1820 . Leather. Uniformly bound in full morocco, this is a charming six volume edition of the plays of Moliere, in the original French. In the original French. The works of Moliere, complete in six volumes.An impressive collection of the plays of Jean-Bap...

The Plays of Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock, [ed. by A.B. Young] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, David Nutt, 1910. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of a collection of uncovered plays written by nineteenth century satirical author Thomas Love Peacock. The first edition of the Plays of Thomas Love Peacock, Now Published for the First Time, edited by A.B. Youn...

Le Faust de Goethe; Suivi Du Second Faust

Goethe; Gerard De Nerval [trans.]; · 1868 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Paris, Michel Levy Freres, 1868 . Leather. An illustrated French translation of notable German writer Goethe's most successful play. The illustrated edition of the work.Translated to French by Gerard de Nerval.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and 9 further plates by Tony ...

The Old Play-Goer

William Robson · 1846 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Joseph Masters, 1846 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this fascinating series of letters describing the British stage at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, in the publisher's original cloth. The first edition in the publisher's original clot...

Daly&Apos;S: The Biography of a Theatre

D. Forbes-Winslow · 1944 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, W. H. Allen & Co. 1944 . First edition. Cloth. A good first edition of Forbes-Winslow"s richly illustrated history of Daly"s Theatre, the Leicester Square home of Edwardian musical comedy In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with pictorial paper boar...

Beaumont and Fletcher; or, the Finest Scenes, Lyrics, and Other Beauties of Those Two Poets

Leigh Hunt [ed.] · 1862 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1862. Cloth. A very scarce copy of this work, in original cloth binding, in lovely condition. A very scarce copy of the second edition, in its original green pictorial cloth. A compilation of works by the Jacobean dramatist pair Francis Beaumont and John...

The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan with an Introduction by Joseph Knight

Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Joseph Knight [intro.] · 1924 · Rooke Books

£136.00 (€163.04 | $179.71 | ¥28,700)

London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924 . Leather. A lovely copy of an illustrated edition of Sheridan's dramatic works, in full calf bound by Bickers and Son. An illustrated edition of The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in full calf with gil...

Paradise

Kae Tempest · 2021 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Picador, 2021. First edition. Paperback. A first edition, first impression of Tempest"s bold reimagining of Philoctetes, signed by the author. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps.The first edition, first impression, complete with the full number line...

The Works of Shakespear. In Six Volumes.

William Shakespeare; Sir Thomas Hanmer [ed.] · 1745 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, J. and P. Knapton, S. Birt, T. Longman et al. 1745 . Leather. An impressive complete mid 18th century edition of the dramatic works of William Shakespeare, from somewhat controversial Shakespearian editor Sir Thomas Hanmer. Complete in six volumes.Illustrated with a po...

The Pine Tree (Matsu) a Drama Adapted from the Japanese

Takeda Izumo; M. C. Marcus · 1916 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, The Iris Publishing Company , 1916 . First edition. Leather. An illustrated English translation of 'The Pine-Tree', a single act from Takeda Izumo's historical tragedy. The first UK edition. Bound in modern quarter calf, with cloth boards. With an intr...

Crossings: A Fairy Play

Walter De La Mare · 1923 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing in the publisher's original blue cloth with decorative gilt, with sheet music by C. Armstrong Gibbs, and twelve full-page plates and further illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop.  Th...

A Collection of London Theatre Programmes Bound Together

Various · 1935 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Whitehall Theatre; Theatre Royal; Shaftesbury Theatre et. al. 1935-1936. Cloth. A generous collection of mid-20th-century London theatre programmes, presented here in a single volume. Twenty-five programmes bound together in one volume. This unique volume offers a fan...

Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · 1883 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

Edinburgh , William Paterson, 1883. Leather. A very scarce complete limited edition set of William Shakespeare's works, illustrated with etched plates and presented here in half morocco. One of five hundred and fifty copies printed, of which this is number 404. Very scar...