Drammaturgia e teatro

Plays and Poetry by John Drinkwater

John Drinkwater · 1916 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1916-1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart seven volume set of signed plays and poetry by John Drinkwater, from the author's library. A seven volume set of works by John Drinkwater.All volumes signed by the author.In the original red cloth bi...

The British Drama; Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language: Volume I Part I and Part II: Tragedies Volume II Part II: Comedies and Volume III: Operas and Farces

Various · 1804 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London, William Miller, 1804. First edition. Leather. A scarce set of The British Drama; Comprehending The Best Plays In The English Language with Volume I Part I and Part II: Tragedies; Volume II Part II: Comedies; and Volume III: Operas And Farces. With illustrated title pag...

English Comedy a Collection of the Most Celebrated Dramas Since the Commencement of the Reformation of the Stage

Sir Richard Steele; Colley Cibber · 1810 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.58 | $475.69 | ¥75,971)

London, John Sharpe, 1810. Leather. A collection of comedic plays by English writers. Volumes II, III, IV and VI of the original six volumes only, lacking volumes I and V. Edited by Richard Steele and Colley Cibber. Compiling of plays by authors such as Fielding, Macklin, Cumb...

Two Plays: The Three Arrows & the Servants and the Snow

Iris Murdoch · 1973 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1973. First edition. Cloth. Two plays by Iris Murdoch, originally published in 1970 (The Servants and the Snow) and 1972 (The Three Arrows), first published together in this volume. First edition thus. Dame Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 - 8 February...

Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts

Henry Taylor · 1849 · Rooke Books

£47.99 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

London, Edward Moxon, 1849. Leather. A tragic play which commemorates the life of this fourteenth century Flemish patriot. Fifth Edition. With a bookbinder's stamp for Budden to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Complete in two parts. In a full calf binding. Externall...

Alfonso, King of Castile, by M.G. Lewis the Minister, by M.G. Lewis the Manager in Distress, by George Coleman Songs Duets &C. &C. In the Musical Farce of Too Many Cooks

Various · 1780 · Rooke Books

£259.99 (€311.68 | $343.54 | ¥54,866)

London, Various Publishers, 1780-1805. First edition. Leather. Four entertaining plays bound as one. With two being first editions and two being second editions. Four plays bound in one. Being: Alfonso, King of Castile, By M. G. Lewis, 1802 - London - J. Bell The Minister, By ...

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Henry Morley · 1885 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, George Routledge and Sons, 1885. Leather. A nicely bound collection of Sheridan's plays. Leather bound copy with cloth boards and gilt title to spine. Collection of Sheridan's plays illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece Includes the following plays;...

Actors of the Century a Play-Lover&Apos;S Gleanings from Theatrical Annals

Frederic Whyte · 1898 · Rooke Books

£34.99 (€41.95 | $46.23 | ¥7,384)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1898. Cloth. A collection of biographies of eminent actor-directors of the 1800s. Illustrated throughout with many photographic plates. Including chaptes on the Kembles, Macready, Irving and many others. In a blue cloth binding with gilt detailing...

Four Plays

John M. Synge · 1911 · Rooke Books

£27.00 (€32.37 | $35.68 | ¥5,698)

Dublin , Maunsel and Company, Ltd, 1911. Cloth. A set of four plays by John M. Synge. An Irish playwright and poet, Synge was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. He earned notoriety for his play The Playboy of the Western World, wh...

Menschenhass Und Reue

August von Kotzebue · 1797 · Rooke Books

£119.99 (€143.85 | $158.55 | ¥25,321)

Leipzig, Paul Gotthelf, 1797. Leather. A late eighteenth century edition of Kotzebue's most popular work, Menschenhass und Reue, bound with the biography of German poet Theodor Korner. There is only a half title for Karl Theodor Korner's Biographie, the title page ha...

The King&Apos;S Threshold; on Baile&Apos;S Strand

W. B. Yeats · 1905 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

Dublin, Maunsel & Co. Ltd , 1905. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first Irish editions of these significant plays from Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, volumes issued for the publisher's 'Abbey Theatre Series&apos. The first Irish editions of these pl...

Maya

Simon Gantillon; Virginia Vernon; Frank Vernon · 1930 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Waltham Saint Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. Limited first-edition Virginia Vernon translation of Gantillon's classic controversial play, illustrated by acclaimed engraver Blair Hughes-Stanton. First edition of the Vernon & Vernon transl...

The Duke of Gandia

Algernon Charles Swinburne · 1908 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1908. Cloth. A lovely large paper limited edition of Swinburne's influential work 'The Duke of Gandia&apos. Limited edition of one hundred and ten copies, of which this is number eighty six. In publisher's original cloth.This compelling...

Oeuvres de Jean Racine

Jean Racine; L. S. Auger [ed.] · 1850 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Paris, Ancienne Librairie Furne, c1850 . Cloth. beautifully bound collection of plays by French dramatist, Jean-Baptiste Racine, edited and with an introduction by L. S. Auger, in red cloth binding with gilt decoration. A beautifully bound collection of plays by French dramati...

On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts

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

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Faber and Faber, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's last collaborative play, telling of an outbreak of war. First edition, first impression. A melodrama in three acts telling the story of the outbreak of the war ...

Barbarossa, the Lady&Apos;S Last Stake, and, Cyrus

John Brown; Colley Cibber; John Hoole · 1795 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, John Bell, 1795. Vellum. Three plays by John Brown, Colley Cibber, and John Hoole, bound together in one volume. Three plays published by John Bell in his 'British Theatre' series bound in one.Each play is illustrated with a frontispiece and an engraved title...

Penny Plain Two Pence Coloured

A. E. Wilson; Charles B. Cochran · 1932 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, George G. Harrap & Co LTD, 1932. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this study on the historical entertainments for children, illustrated with colour plates. The first edition.A concise history of the developments of juvenile drama, an interesting look at the t...

Toad of Toad Hall

A. A. Milne · 1929 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Methuen & Co, 1929 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of A. A. Milne's dramatic adaptation of beloved children's novel 'The Wind in the Willows&apos. The first edition, first impression.Retaining the rear wrap and rear flyleaf of the publisher&apo...

The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations

William Shakespeare; J. Payne Collier [ed.] · 1853 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Whittaker and Co. 1853. Leather. A smart leather-bound volume of John Payne Collier's edition of Shakespeare's plays, renowned for its controversial inclusion of forged revisions. This edition of Shakespeare's complete plays includes the supposed emendat...

Selected Plays of Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw · 1946 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Penguin Books, 1946. Leather. A smartly bound set of two volumes containing six of the plays of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, published in celebration of his ninetieth birthday. Six volumes bound in two. From a uniform set of ten volumes of Shaw's works sp...