Drammaturgia e teatro

The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1821 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

London, John Murray, 1821. Leather. An early posthumous collection of the plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, bound in impressive full leather. 'The School for Scandal' is a satirical comedy play first performed at Drury Lane Theatre in 1777. Featuring widow Lady Sne...

A Sleep of Prisoners & the Dark Is Light Enough

Christopher Fry · 1951 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, New York and Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1951-54. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of two first editions of Christopher Fry's celebrated plays, each complete with a Ronald Searle illustrated dust wrapper. 'A Sleep of Prisoners' follows four...

The Rescue, a Melodrama for Broadcasting Based on Homer&Apos;S Odyssey

Edward Sackville-West; Benjamin Britten · 1945 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, Secker and Warburg, 1945. First edition. Cloth. A Limited Edition 'Odyssey' based melodrama from Edward Sackville-West, brightly illustrated by Henry Moore. The first edition of this work from music critic and novelist Edward Sackville-West , a Limited Editio...

Easter: A Play for Singers

John Masefield · 1929 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, William Heinemann, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this short lyrical play from a former Poet Laureate, signed by the author. The signed first edition of this work, a Limited Edition, no. 257 of 375 copies signed by the author. In the publisher's...

Love&Apos;S Mistress; or, the Queen&Apos;S Mask

Thomas Heywood · 1792 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, T. Wilkins, 1792. Paperback. A very scarce copy of this ancient comedy written by notorious playwright Thomas Heywood. Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early...

The Tempest

William Shakespeare · 1928 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Faber and Gwyer, [1928]. Cloth. A scarce facsimile edition of the First Folio text of William Shakespeare's comedy 'The Tempest,' in the extremely scarce dust wrapper. A scarce facsimile edition reproducing the original text of the First Folio of The Te...

The Provok&Apos;D Wife; a Comedy

[John Vanbrugh] · 1735 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

London, W. Feales, 1735. Disbound. An early edition of John Vanbrugh's comedic Restoration play, illustrated with a detailed frontispiece. ESTC citation number T707.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A fantastic comedic play by John Vanbrugh, as it was performed at the Theat...

On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts

W. H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood · 1938 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Faber and Faber , 1938. First edition. Cloth. W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's last collaborative play telling of an outbreak of war. The first impression in its unclipped dust wrapper. One W. H Auden and Christopher Isherwood's plays written in collab...

A Masque of May Morning

W. Graham Robertson · 1904 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London & New York, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Graham Robertson's brightly illustrated play, presented in the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Written and illustrated by W. Graham Robertson (1866-1948), a British ill...

The Marionettes

William Faulkner; Noel Polk · 1977 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia , 1977. First edition. Cloth. A charming first facsimile edition of William Faulkner's play, handwritten and illustrated by the author. A very charming first full facsimile edition published in 1977 of a play written by Willia...

Drama: Its Costume & Dãƒâ©Cor

James Laver · 1951 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, The Studio Publications, 1951 . First edition. Cloth. A fantastic presentation copy signed by James Laver of this volume exploring the theatrical scene from early Greek and Roman times to the twentieth century. The first edition. James Laver explores the theatrical sce...

The Indian Exiles

[August von Kotzebue] · 1800 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, J. Wright, 1800. Disbound. A disbound, scarce English edition of von Kotzebue's play. Die Indianer in England is a comic play, first published in 1790. Featuring such characters as Mr. Tradely, his sons Samuel and Robert, Saberdar, Ganem and Fazie, it is set in Mr...

The Plays of J.M. Barrie Quality Street

J. M. Barrie · 1918 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1918. Cloth. The author's presentation copy of one of his most popular plays, 'Quality Street', here inscribed by Barrie to an actress, Irenie Russell. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto to the front endpaper, &...

The Meeting of the Gallants at an Ordinarie

James Orchard Halliwell (ed.) · 1841 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, The Percy Society, 1841. Paperback. A scarce account of the great plague, originally published in 1604. A reprint of a scarce 1604 tract of which only one original copy is known to exist, preserved in the Bodleian library.Edited by Shakespearian scholar James Orchard H...

The Poetical Works of Edward Young, the Poetical Works of James Thomson and Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

James Thomson; Edward Young; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Lewis Filmore (trans.) · 1700 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Not Stated, Not Stated, c1880. Leather. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust bound together with the poetical works of Edward Young and James Thomson. Three volumes bound together in a half calf binding with cloth covered boards and decorative gilt detailing. All three work...

Journey&Apos;S End

R. C. Sherriff · 1929 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.86 | $1,288.33 | ¥205,754)

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. Paperback. A remarkably good example of the scarce first edition of this renowned play set in the trenches during the First World War, penned by R. C. Sherriff. Set towards the end of the First World War, the play is set in the dugout of a Br...

Adventures in the Skin Trade

Dylan THomas; Andrew Sinclair · 1967 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1967. Cloth. A stage adaptation of Thomas's comedic work, complete with an unclipped dust wrapper. This novel was originally left incomplete by Thomas, and is the story of Samuel Bennet, who leaves his home in Wales to seek greater things in...

Love in Its Extasie

ed. Robert Birley · 1981 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

Ilkley, The Roxburghe Club, 1981. Leather. A limited edition facsimile of this seventeenth century play attributed to a distant relative of Samuel Pepys, William Peaps. Contains an introduction by Robert Birley, followed by the facsimile of the 1649 play, which was written by ...

Quality Street

J. M. Barrie · 1901 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Hodder & Stoughton , c1913. Cloth. An early edition of this play written by J. M. Barrie, lavishly illustrated by Hugh Thomson. This work is a comedy complete in four acts, and predates his most famous work 'Peter Pan', and it tells the tale of two sisters wh...

Lithuania: A Play in One Act

Rupert Brooke · 1935 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Sidgewick & Jackson, 1935. Paperback. A first U.K edition of Rupert Brooke's play 'Lituania&apos. With the original yellow wraps in a bright condition. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an English poet remembered for his war poetry. He was a friend amongst the Bl...