Drammaturgia e teatro

Gypsy Dorelia

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , John Lane The Bodley Head , 1932. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of this story play by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, with illustrations throughout. A first edition copy of Gypsy Dorelia, which is a story-play in three acts by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe.  Dorothy Una Ratcli...

The Passing of the Essenes, a Drama in Three Acts

George Moore · 1930 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930. Leather. A signed, limited edition copy of this Biblical play by George Moore. This edition was limited to 775, of which 750 were for sale and 25 were for presentation. This copy is number 257. Signed by the author to the limitations page. ...

Moonlight

Harold Pinter · 1993 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London , Faber and Faber, 1993. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition, first impression of the play Moonlight by Harold Pinter. A first edition, first impression copy of the play Moonlight. Moonlight had its world premier at the Almeida Theatre London in September ...

The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts

W. H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood · 1936 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Faber & Faber, 1936. First edition. Cloth. First edition, first impression of this successful Auden-Isherwood play, complete with unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. The most successful of the W. H Auden and Christopher Isherwood&a...

The Apostle a Drama

George Moore · 1923 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London , William Heinemann , 1923. First edition. Hardback. A limited edition, signed copy of George Moore's religious play The Apostle. A limited edition of this work. This edition was limited to one thousand and thirty copies printed from hand-set type on Van Gelder pap...

End and Beginning

John Masefield · 1933 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.50 | $116.28 | ¥18,571)

London , William Heinemann , 1933. First edition. Cloth. A lovely limited and signed first edition copy of John Masefield's play End and Beginning, with the original slipcase and glassine wrap. A limited edition, signed copy of this play by John Masefield. This edition wa...

Melloney Holtspur

John Masefield · 1922 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London , William Heinemann , 1922. Vellum. A lovely signed, limited edition copy of John Masefield's tragically romantic play, Melloney Holtspur. A limited edition, signed copy of this play by John Masefield. This edition was limited to five hundred and thirty copies, of...

The Rehearsal

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; Montague Summers [ed.] · 1914 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)

Stratford-upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1914. Cloth. A bright facsimile edition of George Villiers's satirical play, one of five-hundred and ten copies. A satirical play addressed specifically to John Dryden and the pretentious theatre of the Restoration tragedy....

Sylvia, or the May Queen

George Darley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.50 | $116.28 | ¥18,571)

London, J. M. Dent, 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The Limited Edition, first edition thus, of George Darley's 1827 play about the May Queen. The Limited Edition large paper copy of the first edition thus of this 'lyrical drama' from Irish novelist, critic and pla...

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse

Thomas Hardy · 1923 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Macmillan and Co , 1923. Cloth. A lovely copy of an early impression of this single act historical tragedy from Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy. The third impression of Thomas Hardy's one-act play, published in the same month as the first edition, and illustrated ...

Noah and the Waters

Cecil Day Lewis · 1936 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A bright copy of the first trade edition of Cecil Day Lewis's morality play inspired by the Biblical story of Noah's ark. The first trade edition of this work, issued together with a...

Now Barabbas...

William Douglas Home · 1947 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1947. First edition. Cloth. The first edition copy of this theatrical work by William Douglas Home, with an inscription from the author to the front paper and eight illustrated plates. First Edition. With an inscription from the author to the f...

The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith Together with the Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith · 1950 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Oxford University Press, 1950. Leather. A beautiful and finely bound copy of the plays of Oliver Goldsmith, strikingly bound by Bayntun Riviere. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in a blue calf with gilt decoration.Oliver Goldsmith's most celebrated plays including The Vic...

The Master of Santiago and Four Other Plays

Henry de Montherlant; Jonathan Griffin [trans.] · 1951 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1951 . First edition. Leather. The first English language edition of this volume of selected plays by H. de Montherlant, in a charming Henry Sotheran signed binding. A collection of five plays by Henry de Montherlant. The first English language...

King Solomon, a Mystic Drama in Five Acts and an Epilogue

Mary, Princess Karadja · 1912 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Truber & Co. Ltd. 1912. First edition. Cloth. A signed, presentation copy of this theatrical work, 'King Solomon', written by Mary, Princess Karadja, and given to her friend, Lydia Yavorska, or Princess Bariatinsky. Presenting King Solomo...

The River Line, a Play

Charles Morgan · 1952 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1952. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of Charles Morgan's play set in occupied France, complete with a clipped dust wrapper. This work follows a group of officers as they flee their enemy, aided by Marie Chassaigne, member of ...

The Sophy

John Denham · 1667 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, J. M. for H. Herringman, 1667. Cloth. A tragic blank verse play by the Stuart poet John Denham, a fascinating tragedy set in Persia. Originally bound in 'Poems and Translations', here extracted to include only this poem. The poem was issued with a separate ti...

Les Tragedies de Shakespeare

William Shakespeare; Suzanne Bing [trans.]; Jacques Copeau [trans.] · 1939 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

Paris, Union Latine D'Editions, 1939 . Paperback. Ten tragic plays from Shakespeare bound in five volumes and translated into French. Illustrated throughout with the evocative plates of painter Edy-Legrand. Translated into French by Suzanne Bing and Jacques Copeau, and wi...

Design in the Theatre

George Sheringham; James laver · 1927 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, The Studio, Limited, 1927. Cloth. A fascinating supplement from 'The Studio', this volume focusing on the beautiful designs used within theatres across history, illustrated throughout including in colour. A special number published by 'The Studio' w...

Oeuvres de Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille · 1866 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie. 1866. Fine Binding. A beautiful Zaehnsdorf-bound collection of the works of important French dramatist Pierre Corneille. Richly illustrated with plates. Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian and dramatist writing in the seventeenth century. Along...