Drammaturgia e teatro

Harvest-Home Consisting of Supplementary Gleanings; Original Dramas and Poems, Contributions of Literary Friends and Select Re-Publications Including Sympathy, a Poem

Mr Pratt · 1805 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Richard Phillips, 1805. Leather. A three volume set of the dramatics works and poetry of Samuel Jackson Pratt 'Harvest-Home consisting of Supplementary Gleanings; Original Dramas and Poems , Contributions of Literary Friends and Select Re-publications including Sy...

The Ascent of F6

W. H. Auden; Christopher Isherwood · 1937 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Faber and Faber, 193. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, third impression of this play by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This play was the second and most successful Auden-Isherwood collaboration and was first produced by the Mercury Theatre in 1937. In a c...

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1901 · Rooke Books

£37.99 (€45.54 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1901. Leather. A collection of the plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Including: The Rivals, The Duenna, The Critic, Pizarro and others. Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term o...

Edwin the Fair: An Historical Drama

Henry Taylor · 1842 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London, John Murray, 1842. Leather. A very good edition of Henry Taylor's play 'Edwin The Fair: An Historical Drama&apos. Henry Taylor (1800 - 1886) was a nineteenth-century English dramatist and poet, official, and man of letters. He was very well-connected during h...

The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1908 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1908. Leather. A handsomely bound collection of the plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Including The Rivals, The School for Scandal, Pizarro and others. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1751. His most famous works includes &a...

Plays from English History

Charles Grindrod · 1883 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1883. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of plays by Charles Grindrod, in a lovely leather binding. First Edition. Containing six historical plays featuring Kings of England. In an attractive binding by Ramage. Charles Grindrod was ...

Representative Actors

W Clark Russell · 1888 · Rooke Books

£44.99 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1888. Leather. A Victorian history of British actors since the 1500s. 'A collection of criticisms, anecdotes, personal descriptions, etc etc&apos. 'Referring to many celebrated British actors from the sixteenth to the present century; ...

The Recruiting Officer

George Farquhar · 1926 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London , Peter Davies, 1926. Cloth. An illustrated limited edition of this play by George Farquhar. George Farquhar was an Irish dramatist noted for his contributions of late Restoration comedy. The Recruiting Officer is one of this most famous plays, and follows the social an...

Harold a Drama

Alfred Tennyson · 1877 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,660)

London , Henry S. King & Co. 1877. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this drama by Alfred Tennyson. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and re...

Constantine; a Tragedy

Philip Francis · 1754 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London , A. Miller, 1754. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of Philip Francis' play 'Constantine', a short lived tragedy which was produced at covent garden and expired on the fourth night in theatre. Philip Francis (1708?–1773) was an Anglo-Irish cle...

Le Theatre Chez Madame and la Souris

Edouard Pailleron · 1881 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1881. Leather. A lovely copy of the works of this French poet and dramatist. Includes the plays Le Chevalier Trumeu and Le Narcotique and numerous poems. With La Souris, a comedy in three acts bound in. n a half morocco bindings with marbled boards. Extern...

La Marquis de Priola Les Beaux Dimanches

Henri Lavedan · 1898 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

Paris, Ernest Flammarion & Calmann Levy, 1898-1902. Leather. Two dramatic works by French playright Henri Lavedan, La Marquis de Priola and Les Beaux Dimanches. Henri Leon Emile Lavedan (1859 - 1940), French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orleans, the son of Hubert ...

Chefs-D&Apos;Oeuvre de T. Corneille

Thomas Corneille · 1830 · Rooke Books

£39.99 (€47.94 | $52.84 | ¥8,439)

Paris, Librairie de L'Ecointe, 1830. Leather. A selection of the plays of Thomas Corneille in French. Corneille (20 August 1625 – 8 December 1709) was a French dramatist. Includes Ariane (1672), Le Comte d'Essex (1678), and Le Festin de pierre (1677). With a presenta...

The Works of William Shakespeare the Cambridge Shakespeare Edition Edited by William Aldis Wright

William Aldis Wright · 1891 · Rooke Books

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

London, Macmillan, 1891-3. Leather. The second edition of the well regarded 'Wright' edition of Shakespeare. 1891 (Vols I - IV) 1892 (Vols V - VIII) 1893 (Vol IX). Finely bound volumes in half leather with gilt decoration to the spines, marble paper pastedowns and ma...

The Cocktail Party

T. S. Eliot · 1950 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of T. S. Eliot's renowned comedy, featuring a page of sheet music towards the rear. The first edition, first state of T. S. Eliot's verse comedy, with the misprint of 'her...

The Lawyer&Apos;S Fortune: Or, Love in a Hollow Tree

William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston · 1684 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Bernard Lintott , c1705. Leather. A very scarce early edition of the sole play published by William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston, most copies of which he had bought up and destroyed. The second edition. Only copies presently found as early as this are held instituti...

Plays for an Irish Theatre

W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, A. H. Bullen, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this significant collection of Irish plays for the theatre, from Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats. First edition.In the original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards.Illust...

The Shadowy Waters

W. B. Yeats · 1901 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

New York , Dodd, Mead and Company , 1901. First edition. Hardback. The first U.S. edition of this haunting poetic drama from celebrated Irish poet W. B. Yeats. First U.S. edition. In the publisher's paper covered boards, with paper title label to the front board. Several ...

The Land of Heart&Apos;S Desire

William Butler Yeats · 1909 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

Portland Maine, Thomas B Mosher, 1909 . Hardback. An exceptionally bright example of the limited edition alternate printing of the revised edition of Yeats's celebrated early play. Wade 13A. A first edition thus, being an 'alternate printing' of the first revise...

The School for Scandal and the Rivals

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 1896 · Rooke Books

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

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1896 . Leather. A first Macmillan edition of Sheridan"s two major comedies, illustrated throughout by E. J. Sullivan, in a lovely red full morocco binding by Bumpus. In a handsome full red morocco binding by Bumpus. The first Macmillan edition. I...