Drammaturgia e teatro

The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens, & Reed. With Glossarial Notes, Life, Etc. Volumes I - IV; the Supplementary Works of William Shakespeare, Comprising His Poems and Doubtful Plays; with Glossarial and Other Notes.

William Shakespeare; William Hazlitt · 1881 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, George Routledge and Sons, c1850. Leather. A uniformly bound, half-calf collection of this Hazlitt edition containing the complete plays of William Shakespeare, supplemented by his poetry and doubtful plays. Complete in five volumes, including the supplementary works. ...

Punch and Judy: A Tragical Comedy or a Comical Tragedy Opera in One Act

Stephen Pruslin, [music. Harrison Birtwistle] · 1968 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Universal Edition, 1968. Paperback. The scarce libretto of a tragicomical opera based around the traditional English puppet show, written by accomplished English composer Harrison Birtwistle. The scarce libretto for Punch and Judy: A Tragical Comedy or a Comical Traged...

A Collection of Works by J.M. Barrie: The Little Minister the Twelve-Pound Look and Other Plays the Old Lady Shows Her Medals Dear Brutus

J M Barrie · 1930 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London, Hodder and Stoughton/Cassell and Company, Ltd. c1920-1930. Cloth. A collection of four uniformly bound works by the Scottish author and dramatist J. M. Barrie. Including the novel The Little Minister published by Cassell, and three collections of Barrie's plays pu...

The Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · 1904 · Rooke Books

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

Stratford-on-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1904-1906. Leather. The Shakespeare Head Press's limited edition of Shakespeare's works, in attractive bindings and printed on handmade paper. With a different tissue-guarded frontispiece in every volume. Includes the Co...

Cassell&Apos;S Illustrated Shakespeare. The Plays of Shakespeare.

Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke · 1616 · Rooke Books

£780.00 (€935.09 | $1,030.66 | ¥164,603)

London, Petter and Galpin Cassell, c1875. Leather. The beautifully illustrated complete Plays of Shakespeare illustrated by Selous and edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. Volumes I - III, complete. The three volumes are seperated into Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. W...

Collection of Plays

Various · 1762 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, J. and R. Tonson, 1762. Leather. A scarce collection of plays from 1762, bound as one. Including "The Distrest Mother" volume four of the English Theatre collection, by Ambrose Philips, "The Fair Penitent" by Nicholas Rowe, "The London Merchant, or the History of Georg...

The Jew Speed the Plough Mahomet the Imposter John Bull

Richard Cumberland; Thomas Morton; Mr. Miller; George Colman · 1782 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London; Edinburgh, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme; Bell; P. Byrne, 1782-1803. Leather. A collection of four Georgian plays, performed at theatres across the UK. A lovely example of the popular theatre of Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century. This volume contains: The J...

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1900 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1900. Leather. An assortment of the plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Bound by the Relfe Brothers (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free-endpaper). Containing School for Scandal, St Patrick's Day; Or the Scheming Lieutenant, The Rivals...

Miscellaneous Plays

Joanna Baillie · 1804 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1804. Leather. A collection of three plays (two tragedies and one comedy) from playwright Joanna Baillie. Joanna Baillie (1762 – 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intende...

Collected Plays of Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland · 1789 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London , C. Dilly, 1789-1797. Leather. A collection of seven plays by Richard Cumberland bound in one volume. Plays include: The Imposters, Second Edition. The West Indian, Second Edition First Love, Third Edition Days of Yore, First Edition Wheel of Fortune, Fourth Edition Th...

The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

Philip Massinger, John Ford, Hartley Coleridge · 1839 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, Edward Moxon, 1839. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this theatrical anthology from Philip Massinger and John Ford. Featuring a frontispiece of Philip Massinger and vignette title page. With an introduction by Hartley Coleridge. Rebound in a calf binding with gilt desi...

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare · 1910 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London , William Heinemann, 1910. Cloth. A illustrated edition of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. With partially adhered colour plates throughout, this decorative edition titles each plate with segments of the play, and is illustrated by Hugh Thomson, noted else...

The Dog Beneath the Skin or, Where Is Francis?

W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood · 1935 · Rooke Books

£54.00 (€64.74 | $71.35 | ¥11,396)

London , Faber and Faber, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this play in three acts by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This play was the first Auden-Isherwood collaboration and an important contribution to English poetic drama in the 1930s. It was first per...

The Darling of the Gods

Raymond Blathwayt · 1903 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London , J. Miles & Co, 1903. Cloth. A stunningly coloured theatre souvenir from David Belasco and John Luther Longs' hit production 'The Darling of the Gods&apos. Contains a cast list, scene list, two page exposition on the plot, and an impressive eight page folding...

Epsom-Wells. A Comedy

Thomas Shadwell · 1704 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London , Wellington at the Dolphin, 1704. Cloth. A later edition of Thomas Shadwell's play Epsom-Wells Pages are misnumbered, jumping from 48-57, although the play is complete and catch word follows. With a page of publisher's catalogue to the rear. Uncommon, usually...

The Man from Blankley&Apos;S (a Comedy of the Early Nineties)

F. Anstey · 1927 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London , Hodder and Stoughton, 1927. Cloth. A signed copy of The Man from Blankley's (A Comedy of the Early Nineties) by F. Anstey in unclipped dustwrapper. With an ink inscription to front free endpaper 'To Alban Dobson With Best Wishes from F. Anstey Dec. 1927&apos...

The Well of the Saints. A Play in Three Acts.

J. M . Synge · 1905 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Dublin, A. H. Bullen, 1905. First edition. Leather. A handsomely rebound copy of Synge's play, with original pictorial paper wraps bound in. The Well of the Saints is a three-act play written by Irish playwright J. M. Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre by the Iri...

Wilhelm Tell, Die Zauber, and Kabale Und Liebe. Three Works by Schiller.

Friedrich Schiller · 1847 · Rooke Books

£35.99 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

Stuttgart , J. G. Cotta, 1847-64. Leather. Three mid-nineteenth century plays from Friedrich Schiller, in the original German. Kabale und Liebe is dated 1847. Die Zauber is dated 1851. Wilhelm Tell is dated 1864. Bound by G. Watson, with an ink stamp to the front pastedown. In...

Oeuvres de Piron

Alexis Piron · 1857 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,770)

Paris, G. Charpentier et Cie, 1857. Leather. A collection of plays, poems, and sonnets by Alexis Prion, written in the original French. A collection of works by Alexis Piron (July 1689 January 1773), a French epigrammatist and dramatist, with an introduction about the author b...

Le Barbier de Seville

Beaumarchais · 1772 · Rooke Books

£36.99 (€44.34 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

Paris, Delarue, c1900. Leather. A smartly bound copy of Beaumarchais' play 'Le Barbier de Séville&apos. Le Barbier de Séville was initially conceived as a comic opera, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie Italienne. The play as it is now known was writt...