Theatre Theory books - Theatre History books

Grand-Guignol - The French Theatre of Horror

Richard J Hand & Michael Wilson

University of Exeter

The Theatre du Grand-Guignol in Paris (1897-1962) achieved a legendary reputation as the Theatre of Horror, a venue displaying such explicit violence and blood-curdling terror that a resident doctor was e...

$29.99

Playwrights' Progress - Patterns of Postwar British Drama

Colin Chambers & Mike Prior

AmberLane Press

Established dramatists like Coward, Rattigan, and Priestley continued to write successful plays after the War yet without breaking new ground Experiment lay elsewhere - for example, in the work of Ewan MacC...

$29.99

The History of the National Theatre

John Elsom & Nicholas Tomalin

Used Copy

$29.99

The Stage Censor - An Historical Sketch 1544-1907

G.M.G.

Used Copy

Rare - poor condition

$29.99

The Other Theatre

Norman Marshall

Used Copy

Published 1947

$29.99

Celebration - 25 Years of British Theatre 1955-1979

Various Authors

Used Copy

Includes contributions by Charles Wintour & Sydney Edwards & Michael Billington & Michael Coveney & Michael Owen - foreword Richard Burton - with d/j

$39.99

Antebellum Charleston Dramatists

Charles S Watson - a Chronicle of Charleston Theater from 1800 to the Civil War - University of Alabama Press

Used Copy

$49.99

Drama - the Quarterly Theatre Review January 1980 - includes John Russell Taylor on Rattigan & John Allen on Drama as Learning

Quarterly Theatre Review

Used Copy

$19.99

The Footlights Flickered - The Story of the Theatre of the 1920s

W. MacQueen-Pope

Used Copy

$35

Emigrant in Motley

J M D Hardwick - ed

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Emigrant in Motley - the Unpublished Letters of Charles and Ellen Kean in Quest of Theatrical Fortune in Australia and America - pub 1954

$47.99

The Old Vic - A Century of Theatrical History 1816-1916

John Booth - published 1917

Used Copy

$35

Theatre Outlook

J. B. Priestley

Used Copy

Published 1947 - illustrated

$35

These were Actors

selected by James Agate

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Extracts from a Newspaper Cutting Book 1811-1833 - published 1943

$22.99

Theatre in the Twentieth Century

Robert W Corrigan - ed

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$19.99

The Gaiety Years

Alan Hyman

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$35

The Irish Dramatic Movement

Una Ellis-Fermor

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$39.99

Theory of the Modern Stage

Eric Bentley - ed

Penguin

This anthology presents the ideas about their art and about the future possibilities of drama of ten leading voices from the modern theatre - Appia, Artuad, Brecht, E. Gordon Craig, Pirandello, Shaw, Stanisl...

$18.99

London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror

Richard J. Hand & Michael Wilson

University of Exeter

London's Grand Guignol was established in the early 1920s at the Little Theatre in the West End It was a high-profile venture that enjoyed popular success as much as critical controversy On its side were...

$29.99

Medieval Theatre

Glynne Wickhan

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$18.99

The Liar

Carlo Goldoni

Used Copy

First Edition - very rare - published 1922 - trans Grace Lovat Fraser - with decorations by C Lovat Fraser & intro by Edward Gordon Craig

$185