Drama, Plays, Theater

Privately Printed, New York, 1922, Ist edition.. 174 pp, small 4to (approx. 10 1/4" H), hard cover (medium blue boards with paper title labels on spine and front board and dark blue 'bee' device at bottom of front board) - no dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER - "TO __________ WITH COR. DIAL REGARDS DAVID BELASCO, JANUARY 27, 1930." Title page continues, "and Acted Under His Direction at the Lyceum Theatre, New York with David Warfield in the Character of Shylock, December 21, 1922". Includes preface, chapters titled, 'Concern. i n g Shylock', and 'The Elizabethan Stage', the playbill for the present production, along with 'The David Belasco Stage Arrangement of The Merchant of Venice'. Interior - pages browning lightly a little more on endpapers, small soft bump to top . co rn er of approx. pages 13-33, very light foxing to title page, dedication page, pages 29/30 and the two plates, clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - scattered tiny foxing marks on edges of textblock, two tiny marks on fr. ont bo ard title label, light rubbing - a few small scratches on rear board, area of faint color fading on rear board and on spine, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edge wear, very light rubbing and soiling. VG. more information

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Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1989.. 662 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. ISBN 0195406729 "Today more than 200 professional theatre companies span the country, and Canadian plays are produced around the world. (This) is the first . reference book to document the growth and development of Canadian drama and theatre....from the ritual ceremonies of its native peoples to the present day. It contains over 700 entries that include biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, and. designers, and that describe major theatres and companies - beginning in the eighteenth century - and major plays. There are also many entries on such diverse subjects as Acting, Burlesque, Censorship, Collective Creation, Directing, Feminist Th. e a tre, Multicultural Theatre, Musical Theatre, Radio and Television Drama, and Vaudeville; theatre in each province and territory is also covered. Ronald Bryden, Ray Conlogue, Robertson Davies, Timothy Findley, David Gardner, George Woodcock, Her. be rt Whittaker, Guy Beaulne, Gratien Gelinas, and Paul Herbert are among the 160 scholars, theatre practitioners, and critics who have contributed their special knowledge, original research, or experience to these entries." Fine/Fine. more information

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Mosaic Press, Oakville, ON, (1995).. 207 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H), soft cover. B&w photos. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR UNDER HIS PRINTED NAME ON TITLE PAGE, AND INSCRIBED & SIGNED AT THE TOP OF THE TITLE PAGE. "Tony van Bridge is one of Canada's most beloved and respected actors. He has been . an audience favourite at both the Shaw Festival and the Strafford Festival - North America's two largest repertory theatres - appearing for fifteen seasons with each company. In (this book), Tony tells his story of more than half a century in the p. rofessional theatre...hilarious theatre anecdotes are woven into a life of artistic challenge and occasional personal tragedy..." Interior - minor soiling to inside of front cover and first page, otherwise clean and tight with no previous owners. h i p marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, minor rubbing. VG+. more information

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Leslie Frewin, London, 1968, first edition.. 265 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "These superb plays are all scrupulously based on contemporary letters and documents. They run for approximately one hour each and are ideal for amateur dramatic societies, and school and co. llege drama clubs, because they can be quite effectively mounted against a simple backdrop. They also make very entertaining reading. Each of the three pairs of plays offers a superbly balanced and contrasted evening's entertainment. The intell. i g ent and determined Catherine of Aragon, who died a natural death, contrasts with the beautiful, tempestuous Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded; the gracious Jane Seymour, who died in childbirth, makes another contrast with the ugly and scheming Anne . of C leves ('The Flanders Mare'), who outlived the King; and finally the beautiful but flighty Catherine Howard, who lost her head, counterpoints most strikingly with the solid Catherine Parr, who managed to keep her head on her shoulders. But the. Ro yal ladies apart, there are first-class acting parts for even the most minor characters. These plays will also delight those who just want to sit back and be transported into the daily life of the most colorful monarch in our island's history.. " D ust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, three closed tears - one with associated crease. Very Good+/Very Good-. more information

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Clarke, Irwin, Toronto, 1977, 3rd printing.. 124 pp, mass market paperback. Ex-library "A Clarke Irwin Educational Paperback". "Rural Canada in this and the last century is wittily and entertainingly presented to us in two of Robertson Davies' most popular plays. An author's Epilogue on th. e two plays adds scholarship to pleasure in its examination of the relation between the two plays and of their individual dramatic character." Ex-library copy. Interior - pocket on inside of front cover, school stamp on first page, otherwise cle. a n and tight with no other library markings marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, minor rubbing, scattered tiny spots of discoloration on front cover, small soft corner crease on rear cover - migrates into last few pages. Very Good-. more information

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Copp Clark, Toronto, (c1921).. 96 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover (blue boards with black lettering on spine and front board) - no dust jacket. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, very light scattered color fading o. n spine. VG. more information

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1965.. 185 pp, mass market paperback. Interior - light browning to pages, small scoft bump to bottom corner of last 30 pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - previous owner's label on front cover, very light edge wear,. small corner crease on rear cover, spine is slightly concave. Very Good-. more information

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Avon, (New York, 1974).. 176 pp, PB. Interior - store stamp on title page, pages and inside of covers starting to brown, otherwise clean and tight. Exterior - minor edgewear/scuffing, light browning to cover edges, spine flat and uncreased. VG. more information

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Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1997.. 362 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0195411951 "....glimpses the world of actors as experienced by Canadian performers. In their own words, more than two hundred actors share shocking, funny, terrifying, sometimes poigna. nt stories of adventures, mishaps, gaffes, disasters, and moments of joy they have known in the course of their working lives on and off stage. The collection of over 450 stories begins with tales of 'The Audition' and early performing experience. s of some familiers faces, such as Wayne and Schuster, William Shatner, Robert Goulet, and Martin Short. It chronicles life on tour from Russia to the Ozarks to above the Arctic circle. It elucidates the trials of props, sets, and wardrobe that r. ef u se to function as intended, the agonies of surviving the unexpected, whether it be a four-legged cast member going into labour, an actor who has somehow forgotten an entrance, a sudden on-stage bout with very real food poisoning, or the often h. ila ri ous contributions from members of the audience...." Tiny bumps to bottom of spine, light waviness on spine. Minor edge wrinkling on dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good+. more information

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University of Toronto Press, Toronto, (1982), Ist edition.. 297 pp, 8vo, HC. This book has been rebound by a binder who worked at the University of Toronto in dark red half-leather, with five raised bands on spine, gilt lettering/design, marbled boards and tooling - making it an attractive gift copy. B&w p. hotos. "...a detailed chronological study of Kraus's intellectual activity as reflected in his work on the theatre. The results are presented in five chapters, each dealing with a different 'mask' adopted by Kraus during the period 1892-1936.. G r i mstad considers not only threatre and drama criticism in Die Fackel and Kraus's dramatic writing, but also biographical data, to help uncover the rationale of his work...This volume will be of particular interest to those working in the field. s o f th eatre criticism, comparative literature, German literature, and Jewish intellectual history." Faint marking to front endpapers, slight darkening to leather around author's name, tiny chip from edge of marbled paper on front board near sp. in e . VG. more information

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Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1969).. 188 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. "This is the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to different media - theater, film, and television - and to show how the art of acting, which . never stops evolving, has entered into a new phase of growth...This wide-ranging study of the actor at work is based partly on what outstanding actors have said about their methods, but chiefly on close anlysis of actual performances in plays, films. , and on television. Sir Laurence Olivier, Helene Weigel, Jeanne Moreau, and many others are both examined in close-up and viewed in perspective against such giants of the past as Bernhardt and Salvini." Includes chapters on Stanislavski and B. r e c h t. Dust jacket has minor edge wear, very light edge wrinkling, light browning to spine and flap-folds. VG/VG. more information

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Blandford Press, London,1954.. 75 pp, 7 1/4" H, soft cover. "The ideological struggle of the twentieth century is focussed in the home and plant of Daniel Ironbank." Interior - book is cracked in two places and slightly cracked at a third location - pages are held firmly, small. slight bump to bottom corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light wear at top/bottom of spine, small tear at bottom of front hinge - repaired, very light rubbing, small soft bump to bottom corner of. c overs. Good+. more information

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Charles Scribner, New York, (1982), Ist edition.. 150 pp, large 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "Drawing on years of experience in conducting writing and theater workshops, (the authors) show you how to discover ideas in your imagination and experience that can be turned into plays. Beginning with warm-u. ps, the kinds of exercises used by professional actors, and proceeding to improvisation and various kinds of writing and drama, such as adaptations of stories and one-person shows, the Judys guide the beginning playwriter and actor through the. s t a g i ng of a full-length scripted play." Small purple star stamped on rear pastedown, very minor edgewear to boards. Dj has light edgewear, light wrinkles at top/bottom of spine, two small tears/perforations at bottom of front panel. VG/VG-. more information

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Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966, reprint.. 270 pp, mass market paperback. "The three plays in this volume have a common theme - their central characters are at grips with a force infinitely greater than themselves. In Robert Bolt's 'A Man for All Seasons'....Sir Thomas More's refusal to ac. cept any false compromise leads him inevitably into conflict with Henry VIII over the royal divorce. 'The Devils' by John Whiting is based on a true story of lust and hysteria in a French town in the seventeenth century; in it the local priest pr. e f ers torture and martyrdom at the hands of the Church to confession of a crime he has not committed. Henry Living's 'Nil Carborundum' is a rip-roaring farce about an R.A.F. station during a mock invasion exercise; unlike the heroes of the other . tw o plays, Neville Harrison, the cook, remains uninvolved and uncommitted in the confusion that surrounds him." Interior - gift inscription on first page, light to moderate browning to pages, tiny soft crease at top corner of last 50 pages, otherw. ise c lean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - browning to edges of textblock, very light edge wear, very light rubbing, small corner crease on rear cover. Very Good-. more information

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Personal Library, Toronto, 1979.. 60 pp, 8 1/2" H, soft cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs. "(T)he fourth monodrama written by Maxim Mazumdar, tells the story of a Greek actor/dancer, Herakleon, living at the time of the great tragic playwright, Euripides. The play concerns it. self with the relationship between the creator and the interpreter of a work of art. In a series of scenes Herakleon's life unfolds: his early failures as an actor, his development as a dancer, and his deep love for his wife and son, Euri. 'The . c h aracter of Herakleon is pure invention,' Mazumdar writes in his introduction. 'For the first time I stepped aside from the rules and demands of the biographical monodrama which I ahd done for the life and times of Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud, and Diag. hi le v. I wanted to write about an ordinary touring actor-dancer living in Greece at the time of Euripides. And I did not want to be tied to classical exactitude. I wanted to be free to interpret the historical facts. So, Herakleon. A man who . lov es the simple securities of life: his family, his work. And in the background, Euripides, the giant social conscience of his age....A pair of opposites. But the play's conclusion is optimistic. The creator and the interpreter share the same e. nd; the y share the dance for gods'." Small bump to top corner of textblock, faint water marks at top/bottom edges of covers, soft crease at top corner of rear cover, minor soiling and browning. Dust jacket has minor edge wear, light to moderate s. oili ng, a few small soft creases. Very Good-/Good+. more information

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Dover, New York, (1975), reprint.. 96 pp, 4to, soft cover. Profusely illustrated with b&w drawing and diagrams. Contents: Before you begin; Scenery and the stage; Types of set; Nature of scenery; Model scenery; Designing with a model; Principles of design; Painting model scenery; . Exposition; Arena designs. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny scuff to top of front hinge, spine flat and uncreased. This is a new, unread book. VG+. more information

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Jonathan Cape, London, (1980), Ist edition.. 64 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Lovely, full color paintings by Patricia Neville. "Joseph Grimaldi was revered in his time for bringing to the London stage a unique comic genius that filled to capacity the vast old Covent Garden Theat. re night after night for months on end...Grimaldi's extraordinary hold on audiences lasted for thirty years - from the time of the French Revolution until after the death of George III...Giles Neville recounts with grace and wit the stories tha. t b e s t illustrate the great clown's lovable character. Indeed, the whole book provides not only a feast for the eye but also a hilarious and perceptive commentary on English style and manners in the early nineteenth century." Minor edgewear to. b o ar ds a nd tiny mark on free front endpaper. Dust jacket has minor edgewear and light rubbing. VG/VG. more information

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Methuen, (London, 1987).. 90 pp, PB. "A witheringly funny play about middle-aged failure; robust and sensitive, malicious and melancholy, and combining the virtues of the musical and the confessional with those of a cabaret by Pirandello and a sitcom by Strindberg..." Inte. rior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - crease to top of back cover, light edgewear, spine flat and uncreased. VG-. more information

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Press Porcepic, Toronto, (1979).. 163 pp, 8vo, soft cover. B&w photos. "...a tale of adventure, intrigue, mystery and love set in 1763 at the British forts of Detroit and Michilimackinac. The story was first told by Major John Richardson in a novel written in 1832. Within two ye. ars it had become an internationally famous romance, whose appeal has lasted down to the present day...Now James Reaney has taken this thrilling romance and reworked it with his own inimitable magic...Reaney shaped the story into a contemporary . d r a m a, filled with colour, adventure, comedy and the exaggerated passions of melodrama...Reaney provides not only the play itself, but an account of the workshops and the methods for co-operative playmaking which have created among others, his p. ri ze -w in ning drama, 'The Donnellys'. A bibliography of Richardson's works is also provided." Interior - scattered highlighting and margin notes. Exterior - light edge wear, tiny corner crease, tiny bump at top of spine, spine flat and uncreas. ed. G ood re ading copy.. more information

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Cornell University Press, Ithaca, (1991), Ist pb printing.. 239 pp, 8vo, soft cover. "Looking closely at works by such playwrights as Lyly, Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and Fletcher, (the author) compares Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality wi. th those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage. Rose maintains that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but actually contributed to creating and transforming them." Interior - . c l e a n and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear/rubbing, spine flat and uncreased. This is a new, unread book. NF. more information

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General, Toronto, (1991), 5th printing.. 236 pp, mass market paperback. Interior - book very lightly cracked at approx. page 35, inside of covers browning, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear with two tiny scuffs, tiny corner creases on . front cover, very light rubbing, spine has three light creases. G+. more information

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Gramercy, New York, (1995), Ist Gramercy printing.. 128 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover with illustrated front board and cloth spine (no dust jacket - as issued). Beautifully illustrated with color plates by Hugh Thomson, b&w pictorial endpapers, integral ribbon bookmark. A wonderful gift for the Sh. akespeare/Hugh Thomson fan! This is a new, unread book. Fine.. more information

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Athlone Press, London, 1974.. 184 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H), soft cover. ISBN 0485126028 "The important influence of the Tudor 'interlude' on later Elizabethan drama is now widely recognized and the inherent theatrical values of these short plays of the era which preceded the o. pening of permanent theatres have become increasingly apparent through modern productions and study. Largely written for performance by travelling players in a variety of situations, their dramatic technique and methods of staging provide valuabl. e clues to an understanding of Shakespearean theatre. The plays given here represent the interlude in its popular and courtly forms. All are newly edited from the earliest originals and the volume includes an introduction and full explanatory not. es . " Interior - four pages with small ink notations or underlining, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edge wear, very light rubbing, two small soft corner creases. Very Good-. more information

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Key Porter, Toronto, 1991, 1st edition.. 310 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE: "WITH BEST WISHES FROM THE AUTHOR HUGH WALKER OCT 4/92". "Since its opening in 1960, the O'Keefe Centre has been Canada's premier theatre: home of the National Ballet of . Canada and the Canadian Opera Company, the chief venue for Broadway musicals and plays, international artists, modern and classical dance companies - everything glorious in the performing arts. Almost 300 black-and-white photographs of distinguishe. d entertainers illustrate this lively history of the O'Keefe Centre from 1960 to 1990. The book includes the design and building of the centre, sections on the National Ballet of Canada, the Canadian Opera Company, musicals and revues, theatrical p. roductions and star performers who have played at the O'Keefe, from Harry Belafonte, Liza Minelli and Anne Murray to Sir Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn and Richard Burton. The author, who was manager of the centre for the first fifteen years, . describes personal encounters with a multitude of stars and directors, and his many amusing anecdotes make this a diverting and delightful tour through recent showbiz history.". more information

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Methuen, London, 1985.. 85 pp + b&w photograph section at rear, 7 1/4" H, soft cover. ISBN 0413577902 One of the Methuen Student Editions. "Expertly annotated editions....from the modern and classic repertoire. As well as the complete text of the play itself, each volu. me contains: A chronology of the playwright's life and work; An introduction giving the background to the play; A discussion of the various interpretations; Notes on individual words and phrases in the text; Photos from stage and film production. s . " Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two small line rub marks on front cover, very small surface paper pull at top of spine effecting author's name. Very Good-. more information

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Century Association, n.p., 1947, Ist edition, Copy No. 833 of an edition limited to 1,000 copies.. 20 pp, 12mo. (7 3/16" H), hard cover (dark blue cloth with gold and black label with white lettering on front board), in dark blue cloth-covered slipcase - no dust jacket. Very minor edge wear to boards, tiny faint mark on fore-edge of textblock. . Slipcase has very light edge wear and rubbing. VG+/VG+. more information

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New Directions, (New York, 1999).. 166 pp, Trade paperback. A play written by Williams while a student at the University of Iowa in 1938, and later disavowed by the author as "simply a study of Sex - a blind animal urge or force (like the regenerative force of April) gripping four l. ives and leading them into a tangle of cruel and ugly relations." Edited with an introduction by Dan Isaac. Interior - light wrinkles at top corner of last page, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very lig. h t e d g ewear/scuffing, spine flat with one very light crease (not affecting legibility). VG. more information

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