Search Results: Theater and Drama from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket, 245 pages with footnotes, 2 appendices, illustrations, and index. Part of the Oxford Shakespeare series. A good edition of this play along with an examination of its content and stage history.

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in tan cloth binding without dust jacket. Revision of thesis from 1981(Princeton University). Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel and, less so, on head of spine with minor scuffing to covers including light red mark on front covers lower edge. Bumping and mark on upper corners of boards. Pencil notes, underlining, and marks in margins of front free endpaper and text from former owner, a professor. 324 pages with illustrations, index of plays studied, tables, figures, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at pre-Revolutionary theater in France and the impact of the French Revolution on it. Letter from editor asking the professor to review he book laid in. Section B

Ann Arbor: George Wahr, Publishers, 1924. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good without dust jacket. Duodecimo (small book) . Slight wear to edges and corners of boards.Top corner bumped. 105 p. w/ b&w photographic illustrations from University of Michigan stagings of the play. A somewhat uncommon work from the press of Geoge Wahr, local Ann Arbor publisher and bookseller. An edited editon of one of Goldoni's popular comedic plays (orig. Un curioso accidente, 1760), fitted for performance by classes at the University of Michigan, based on the 1892 English edition by Zimmern. Goldoni was an 18th c. Italian playwright who created some of Italy's most-recognized and enjoyed plays. The play is the story of a poor French lieutenant, a Dutch merchant's daughter, mistaken identity, and elopement.

Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more to dust jacket. Spine of dj slightly faded. Name of former owner on pastedown and flyleaf. (8) 475 p. w/notes, and text & variants section. Adaptations of Macbeth, The Tempest, King Lear, Richard III, and the Merchant of Venice (the Jew of Venice here called) are included here, from 1674 through 1701.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x, 190 p. w/ endoes, select bibliography, index. A look at the theater as a place for young men to challenge authority via how they wore their clothes, more than what they wore.

Oxford University Press, 1993.. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with some light scuffing to covers. 552 pages with illustrations, list of works of Lew Fields, endnotes, bibliography, and index.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket, 263 pages with footnotes, 4 appendices, illustrations, and index. Part of the Oxford Shakespeare series. A good edition of this play along with an examination of its content and stage history.

Atlanta, GA.: Pinchpenny Press, 1963. Probable later printing. Pamphlet. Very Good. Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Some fading to edges as well. Staples a bit rusty. 51 p. An overview of various carnival magic acts, with tips on performance, "patter" or grinding, clothing, and general working advice. An interesting window into an unusual profession.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 257 p. w/ notes, bibliography, index. A detailed look at the use of language in theater in numerous ways, from style and comminication to cultural and social operations.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Head and heel of spine bumped. Small spot on flyleaf. xiv, 319 p. w/chronology, endnotes, bibliography, index. Examines the transition of French theatre from an elite art form to a more widepread role as a unique industry.