Theatre Theory books - Theatre History books

Shadows of the Stage

William Winter

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Rare collection of 19C essays & reviews from The New York Tribune - its subjects include Mary Duff & John Brougham & William Wheatley & Lawrence Barrett & Ada Rehan & Henry Irving & Ellen Terry & Coquelin

$55

Stage Designs - the RIBA drawings series

Wynne Jeudwine

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$35

A Walk Around Charles Dickens' London

Louis London

The Walk lasts about 3 hours and starts at the Blackfriars Street Tube Station. Highlights include ... The site of the Blacking Factory where young Dickens worked The Roman Bath, where the boy Dickens ...

$4.95

Plays and Players in Modern Italy

Addison McLeod

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Being A Study of the Italian Stage as Affected by the Political and Social Life Manners and Character of Today - illustrations - First Edition 1912

$45

The Lady of Lyons or Love and Pride - A Play in Five Acts with Odes

Sir E Bulwer-Lytton

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A Play in Five Acts as Performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden & Richelieu - pub 1851

$55

W. S. Gilbert - A Classic Victorian and His Theatre

W. S. Gilbert

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$37.99

Dramatic Opinions and Essays - Volumes I & II

George Bernard Shaw

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First Edition - pub 1907 - price is for both Volumes

$65

The Mask and the Face - A Satire in Three Acts - A Curiosity - printed as MANUSCRIPT ONLY for private circulation - Produced Everyman Theatre London 1924 - seems to be Director's rehearsal copy - heavily notated with directions & notes & diagrams

C.B. Fernald

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$34.95

The Story of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith

Nigel Playfair

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$35

The Showcase - An Examination of the Beating Heart of Show Business

Roy Newquist

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Pub1965 - 25 Interviews - with d/j

$29.99

The Globe Restored - A Study of the Elizabethan Theatre

Leslie Hotson

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First Edition - pub 1960 - ex-lib - with d/j

$65

Shakespeare and Burbage

Martin Holmes

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Pub 1978 - with d/j

$47.99

Rachel and the New World - Tragedienne in America - The Life of Elisa Rachel Felix

Leon Beauvallet

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Early 19C

$35

Theatre Academique d'Art M. Gorky - de l'URSS decore de l'Ordre de Lenine / Moscou - Spectacles a l'Exposition Internationale de Paris - several photographs including Stanislavski

Moscou - Spectacles a l'Exposition Internationale de Paris - several photographs including Stanislavski

$35

Western Popular Theatre - The Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored Manchester University

David Mayer & Kenneth Richards (eds)

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$19.99

The Making of a National Theatre

Geoffrey Whitworth

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$35

The Britannia Diaries of Frederick Wilton

Jim Davis - ed

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1863-1875 from the original MS offering a rare insight into the daily running of this East End London theatre

$55

Tyrone Guthrie - A Biography

James Forsyth

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Pub 1976

$39.99

About the Theatre

William Archer

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Pub 1886 - includes a short letter from Archer

$49.99

The Twelve Seasons of the Edinburgh Gateway Company - 1953-1965

Various Authors

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$35