Amoureuse & L'Infidele par Georges de Porto-Riche avec illustrations d'apres les dessins de Paul Thiriat - beautifully bound Modern-Theatre edition circa 1911
Georges de Porto-Riche
Used Copy
$55
Plays by Nation - French Plays
Les Affaires sont les Affaires & Le Portefeuille par Octave Mirbeau avec illustrations d'apres les dessins de Renefer - beautifully bound Modern-Theatre edition circa 1911
Octave Mirbeau
Used Copy
$55
Becket or The Honour of God
Jean Anouilh trans Lucienne Hill
Methuen
5 Female
Henry II appoints his friend Becket to be Archbishop of Canterbury, but then forces him to choose between his life and his God
$15.99
The Bungler
Moliere trans Richard Wilbur
Dramatists Play Service
7 Male 2 Female
Molière's THE BUNGLER (1655) takes place in the Sicilian city of Messina, and is a fresh, zestful verse treatment of the familiar elements of Italian popular comedy. A beautiful young woman named Célie ha...
$13
The Barber of Seville & Marriage of Figaro
Beaumarchais
Penguin
A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis ...
$18.99
The Respectable Prostitute & Lucifer the Lord - Penguin p/b
Jean Paul Sartre
Penguin
$14.99
Beaumarchais - A Biography
Frederic Grendel
Used Copy
$29.99
Legend of Lovers
Jean Anouilh
Used Copy
First Printing - Coward-McCann Inc - New York 1952 - with d/j - trans Kitty Black
$55
Britannicus
Jean Racine adapt/trans Robert David MacDonald
Absolute Classics
6 Male 3 Female
This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero's tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos Includes an Introduction by director Ni...
$16.99
Paolo Paoli
Arthur Adamov
Used Copy
$19.99
Le Bonheur Mesdames & La Bonne Intention par Frances de Croisset avec illustrations d'apres les aquarelles de A. Supparo - beautifully bound Modern-Theatre edition circa 1912
Frances de Croisset
Used Copy
$55
The Marriage of Figaro
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais trans & adapt Robert Cogo-Fawcett & Braham Murray
Oberon
First produced at the Odéon in 1784 The Marriage of Figaro, the second play of Beaumarchais trilogy was an instant success and ran for an unprecedented 116 performances Written six years earlier the play ha...
$14.99
Feydeau Plays 2 - The Girl from Maxim's & She's All Yours & A Flea in Her Ear & Jailbird
Georges Feydeau trans Kenneth McLeish
Methuen
Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce-writers His series of dazzling hits matched high-speed actio...
$26.99
Frontline Drama 6 - New French Plays
David Bradby ed - trans Nigel Gearing & Martin Crimp & Gillian Hanna & Annabel Arden & Mark Ravenhill
Methuen
One More Wasted Year by Christophe Pellet & Agnes by Catherine Anne & The Northern Fox by Noelle Renaude & Mickey the Torch by Natacha de Pontcharra & A Desire to Kill on the Tip of the Tongue by Xavier Durr...
$28.99
13 Rue de L'Amour
Mawby Green & Ed Feilbert from Georges Feydeau
Samuel French Inc
7 Male 4 Female
This is the hilarious frolic which launched Feydeau in Paris as the Neil Simon of his day Take one philandering husband, add his virtuous wife set on revenge, a doctor determined to be her instrument of rev...
$10.99
The Island of Slaves
Pierre Marivaux trans Neil Bartlett
Absolute Classics
2 Male 3 Female
Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the...
$17.99
Rabelais - a Dramatic Game in Two Parts
Barrault trans Robert Baldrick
Used Copy
Taken from the Five books of Francois Rabelais
$18.99
Later Queens of the French Stage
H Noel Williams
Used Copy
Features Sophie Arnould & Madame Guimard & Madame Raucourt & Madame Dugazon & Madame Contat & Mme Saint-Huberty - pub 1910
$70
Monologues From Moliere
Dick Dotterer (ed)
Dramaline Publications
For men and women. The first available collection of speeches from Moliere's plays rendered into contemporary prose. "Tartuffe," "The Misanthrope," "The Miser," "The Imaginaary Invalid," and others. 80 pages...
$12.99
Iphigenia & Phaedra & Athalia
Jean Racine
Penguin
Themes of ruthless and unrelenting tragedy are at the heart of these plays. The first two are based on Greek legend, while Athaliah depicts the vengeance and the power of the Old Testament Jehovah
$18.99