Drammaturgia e teatro

Comic Dramas in Three Acts

Maria Edgeworth · 1817 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, R. Hunter, 1817. First edition. Leather. A fantastic first edition of three comic plays by Maria Edgeworth. A very original near fine copy.Bound without publisher's advertisments. Containing her plays Love and Law, The Two Guardians and The Rose, Thistle and Shamr...

Collection of British Authors: Tauchnitz Edition, Vol 2317: Becket; the Cup; the Falcon; Harold & Queen Mary

Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 1809 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz , c1885. Leather. Tauchnitz's Collection of British Authors - Vol 2317. The volume includes Tennyson's dramatic works: Becket; The Cup; The Falcon; Harold; & Queen Mary. Alfred Tennyson, (1809 ? 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and...

Easter a Play for Singers

John Masefield · 1929 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.70 | ¥5,063)

London , William Heinemann, 1929. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this poetic play by John Edward Masefield. Masefield (1878 – 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the a...

All at Sea a Social Tragedy in Three Acts for First-Class Passengers Only

Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell · 1927 · Rooke Books

£23.99 (€28.76 | $31.70 | ¥5,063)

London , Duckworth , 1927. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this theatrical work, designed for the higher classes. To which is added "A Few Days in an Author's Life", a humorous autobiographical account, used as an introduction to his play, and full of satirical p...

The Way of the World an Unexpurgated Edition Including an Original Signed Etching

William Congreve; Malcolm C Salaman · 1928 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London, The Haymarket Press, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition print of William Congreve's famous play 'The Way of The World&apos. With a signed engraved frontispiece by A R Middleton Todd. Todd was a painter and etcher of figure subjects and portraits. He was a member ...

Andrea of Hungary and Giovanna of Naples

Sir Walter Savage Landor · 1839 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Richard Bentley, 1839. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this collection of two plays by Walter Savage Landor: 'Andrea of Hungary' and 'Giovanna of Naples&apos. Walter Savage Landor was an English poet and writer best remembered for his prose...

The Partiall Law a Tragi-Comedy

Bertram Dobell (Ed) · 1908 · Rooke Books

£69.00 (€82.72 | $91.17 | ¥14,561)

London, Published by the Editor, 1908. Cloth. A nice copy of the sole reprint of this scarce play with half title page and publisher's works to the rear. A tragi-comedy by an unknown playwright, circa 1615-30. This volume is printed from the original manuscript. Edited by...

Oeuvres de Shakespeare Tomes I and II

Francois-Victor Hugo · 1903 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1903. Leather. A part set of two volumes of the Oeuvres de Shakespeare. Translated into French by Francois-Victor Hugo. The set consists of Volume I: The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Volume II consis...

Theatre Complet Eugene Labiche

Eugene Labiche · 1883 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1883-94. Leather. A collection complete in ten uniformly bound volumes of the theatrical works of Eugene Labiche, in the original French. A copy of Eugne Labiche's Thatre Complet.  With an introduction by Emile Augier.  A French literature writer a...

Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand · 1939 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Paris, Editions Pierre Lafitte, 1939. Paperback. A uncommon decorative limited edition of Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' in French. An uncommon decorative limited edition of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, in French. With decorative colour plates, vignettes...

Theatre de Jean Racine, En Trois Volumes, Et Precede D&Apos;Une Preface Par V. Fournel

Jean Racine · 1873 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

Paris, Librarie de Bibliophiles, 1873-74. Leather. A uniformly-bound collection of the dramatic works of Jean Racine. A uniformly-bound collection of the dramatic works of Jean Racine. In the original French. Including works such as La Thebaide, Britannicus, Andromaque, Alexan...

Theatre de Beaumarchais

Pierre Beaumarchais · 1851 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, 1851. Leather. A collection of the plays of Pierre Beaumarchais. A collection of the plays of Pierre Beaumarchais. Preceded by a Notice on his life and works by M. Auger. In the original French. With a Frontispiece. Re-bound in a red ha...

IL Toscanismo E la Crusca

Anon · 1740 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Naples, Muziana, 1740. Leather. A piece of Italian theatre concerning the Italian and Tuscan languages in a contemporary vellum binding. This work is often attributed to Francesco Arizzi or Benedetto Marcello.Despite pagination, text is continuous. In a vellum binding. Extern...

The Chiswick Shakespeare

W Shakespeare ;John Dennis · 1899 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

London, George Bell and Sons, 1899-1902. Leather. This is an attractive set of the works of William Shakespeare. One of two hundred copies bound in Japanese vellum, though this set is unnumbered. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor widely regarded as...

The Duke of Guise. A Tragedy. Acted by Their Majesties Servants

John Dryden; Nathaniel Lee · 1687 · Rooke Books

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

London, R. Bentley , 1687 . Cloth. An early book edition of 'The Duke of Guise', a controversial tragedy by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee. An early book edition of The Duke of Guise. First printed in 1683.In a later quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper covered b...

The Tempest

William Shakespeare; Joseph Moorat · 1908 · Rooke Books

£249.00 (€298.51 | $329.02 | ¥52,546)

London, Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1908. Cloth. Delicately illustrated 1908 edition of The Tempest with 20 colour plates from Paul Woodroffe and multiple songs by Joseph Moorat. In publisher's original green cloth binding.With a frontispiece and 19 further colour plates, includ...

Touch & Go

D. H. Lawrence · 1920 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, C. W. Daniel, Ltd. 1920. First edition. Paperback. A first edition of D. H. Lawrence"s Touch and Go, a post-war drama of class conflict and alienation inspired by the 1919 coal strikes. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. First edition.Complete with...

Drawing-Room Duologues

Fred M. Simpson · 1894 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this very scarce illustrated collection of short drawing room plays by Fred M. Simpson, smartly bound in modern half calf. The first edition.A very scarce work. Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen wi...

Les Chef-D&Apos;Oeuvres de P. Corneille

P. Corneille [Pierre Corneille] · 1746 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.73 | $310.52 | ¥49,592)

Oxford , Jacques Fletcher , 1746 . Leather. A collection of the key theatrical masterpieces of seventeenth-century French tragedian, Pierre Corneille, written in the original French. Bound in full calf, rebacked. Nouvelle Edition. A collection of the Chef-D'Oeuvres, or ma...

The Iron Chest: A Play in Three Acts

George Colman the Younger · 1796 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Cadell and Davies, 1796. Leather. A scarce second edition of this play in three acts from British writer George Colman the Younger. Second edition. Scarce work. A play composed after the novel Things as They Are by William Godwin. A melodrama, following the villain is ...