Drammaturgia e teatro

Everyman, a Morality

Anonymous · 1909 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1909 . Cloth. A very scarce edition of the fifteenth century morality play 'Everyman', illustrated throughout by Ambrose Dudley. The third impression of this very scarce work.Printed circa 1530, 'Everyman' is an anonymously authored...

The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer; Thomas Morell · 1737 · Rooke Books

£1,495.00 (€1,792.25 | $1,975.44 | ¥315,489)

London, J. Walthoe; W. Bickerton; O. Payne, 1737. Leather. A scarce edition of Chaucer's magnum opus, Thomas Morell's edition, which includes only the prologue and 'Knight's Tale&apos. Frontispiece is present.A scarce and very sought after edition of '...

Riverside Nights

A. P. Herbert; Nigel Playfair; John Galsworthy · 1926 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1926. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this humorous drama from A. P. Herbert and Nigel Playfair. First edition. Illustrated with three plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A humorous drama written as "an entertainment" for th...

The Modern British Drama;

Various · 1811 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, William Miller, 1811. Leather. A smart calf-bound set of the first four volumes from this 'Modern British Drama' series, offering a pleasing selection of comedies and tragedies. A brilliant selection of British plays, including tragedies, comedies, operas and...

Collected Poems and Plays

Wyndham Lewis; Alan Munton [ed.] · 1979 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Manchester , Carcanet , 1979. Cloth. A lovely work of collected poems and plays from British writer and co-founder of the Vorticist movement, Wyndham Lewis. The first thus of this collection. With the original unclipped dust wrapper.This collection includes Wyndham Lewis&apos...

A Bold Stroke for a Wife, the Earl of Essex, the Fair Penitent, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, the Orphan

Susanna Centlivre; Henry Jones; Nicholas Rowe; Beaumont; Fletcher; Thomas Otway · 1776 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, T. Sabine; John Bell; T. Caslon; T. Lowndes; W. Nicoll; S. Bladon; C. Etherington; Seakspeare Pree, 1776-87. Leather. A sammelband of five plays, tragedies and comedies, all written by leading playwrights of the eighteenth century. A sammelband containing five eighteen...

Le Souper Interrompu: Avec Cinq Dessins Rehausses D&Apos;Aquarelle

Pierre-Jean Toulet · 1922 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Paris, Le Divan, 1922. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition play by the French poet and writer Paul-Jean Toulet, signed and beautifully illustrated with hand enhanced watercolour paintings by Louis Suire, and in the original, very scarce glassine dust wrapper. A limited...

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1908 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1908. Leather. A collection of classic Sheridan plays, from the library of English film and stage actor, David Horne. The forth impression of this Macmillan Library of English Classics edition. In signed full calf binding by Bickers and Son...

Werner, a Tragedy

Lord Byron · 1823 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, John Murray, 1823 [1822]. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first issue copy of this lesser known tragic play by Lord Byron. The first edition, first issue, without 'The End' or an imprint to page 188.Though dated 1823 to the title page, this work was a...

A Play Toward: A Note on Play Production

Ngaio Marsh · 1946 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Christchurch, Caxton Press, 1946. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A smart first edition of this guide to play production from New Zealand theatre director Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh. First edition. A detailed guide to play production, with reference to staging, voice and sound, ...

The Whole Historical Dramas of William Shakspeare

1811 · Rooke Books

£1,300.00 (€1,558.48 | $1,717.77 | ¥274,338)

London, Edward Jeffery, 1811 . First edition. Leather. An exceptionally scarce, first edition of this profusely illustrated work surrounding Shakespeare's works, including numerous biographies of Shakespearean characters. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work....

The Works of Douglas Jerrold

Douglas Jerrold; W. Blanchard Jerrold · 1863 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Bradbury, Evans, and Co, 1863-1864 . Leather. A beautifully bound four volume edition of the works of English dramatist and writer Douglas Jerrold, published within a decade of his death. Volumes I-IV of the works of Jerrold are present here. A fifth volume, which was ...

The Grecian Daughter a Tragedy

Arthur Murphy · 1787 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, W. Lowndes, 1787. Disbound. An early copy of this tragic play from Irish writer Arthur Murphy. A tragic play, marked with the variations in the Manager's Book at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, London. A widely performed piece, set in Sicily, which opens with the...

Sacrifice or the Daughter of the Sun

W. W. Strickland [Walter Strickland] · 1920 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, Guy A. Aldred, 1920 . First edition. Paperback. The vanishingly scarce first edition of Walter Strickland's 'prehistoric artic tragi-comedy for screen and cinamatograph&apos. The very scarce first edition of this drama.The work of W. W. Strickland, 9th Barone...

Tiger

Witter Bynner · 1913 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

New York , Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition copy of this one-act play set in New York City, the second work by the author. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Bynner's second book, a one-a...

The Gentle Shepherd

Allan Ramsay · 1867 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Edinburgh , Adam & Charles Black , 1867. Cloth. An excellent copy of this Scottish pastoral comedy with monochrome plates throughout. The very scarce fourth edition of this work.With a photograph frontispiece and seven monochrome plates. Collated complete.This edition includes...

The Family Reunion

T. S. Eliot · 1939 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Faber & Faber, 1939 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of T. S. Eliot's blank verse drama, in the second state dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the price unclipped second state dust wrapper.Eliot's work incorporates el...

Armoured Train 14-69

Vsevolod Ivanov; Gibson-Cowan [trans.]; A. T. K. Grant [trans.] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Martin Lawrence Ltd. 1933. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition copy of Ivanov's critically acclaimed, and now very scarce, play 'Armoured Train 14-69&apos. The first edition of this very scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial paper...

Oeuvres de Theatre de M. De Marivaux, de L&Apos;Academie Franãƒâ§Oise

Pierre de Marivaux · 1758 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.90 | $2,378.45 | ¥379,853)

Paris, N. B. Duchesne, 1758. Leather. A new edition of this five-volume set of the works of the important French playwright Pierre de Marivaux. A five-volume set in full mottled calf bindings with marbled end papers.Ink inscription to the title page of each volume. Bookplate o...

Four Eighteenth Century Comic Plays

Colley Cibber; George Farquhar; Isaac Bickerstaff · 1766 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, J. and R. Tonson; T. Lowndes; John Bell, 1766-1781 . Leather. A charming volume of four comic plays, from Colley Cibber, George Farquhar and Isaac Bickerstaff, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. The first two plays in this volume are the work of popular Re...