Search Results: Theatre Studies from Minotavros Books

London: James Bell, 1791. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. [1791-1797]. 4 Volumes. Brown half calf over marbled boards, x, [3], 14-106pp; vii, [3], 10-147, [1]; vii, [2]10-99, [3];iv, [3], 8-128pp; vi, [3], 10-142; v, [3], 8-120pp; viii, [3], 12-112; viii, [3] 12-109pp; xii, [1], 14-115pp; v, [2], 8-112pp; vii, [2], 10-90;v, [2],8-117; v, [2], 3-38pp, viii, [3] 12-92pp, iv, [3],72; xiii, [2] 16-110pp. Illustrated with [19] b/w engraved plates. Light foxing throughout, wear to corners and boards, otherwise very good. Vol. 1: Tammerlane, The Way to Keep Him, Tancred and Sigismanda, All in the Wrong; Vol. 2: Love for Love, Love Makes a Man, The Orphan or the Unhappy Marriage; Vol. 3: The Choleric Man, School for Guardians, The Foundling, The City Wives of Confederacy; Vol. 4: Mariamne, The Royal Convert, Merope, and the Double Dealer.

New York, NY: Continuum, 2006. Soft cover. As New. Softcover. Very small bump on one corner, otherwise as new. A very nice copy.

New York: New Directions Books, 1968. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo (tall). Original red cloth, green lettering to spine. 94 p.p. Light rubbing to extremities, else fine. Dust jacket is price clipped and has small spot of wear to front joint, some light chafing, else fine.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Text in Greek and Latin. Full navy cloth. xvi, 375 pp. Light rubbing to spine ends. Small damp stains to top edge of text block. Dust jacet is age toned to spine and edges, a few short tears and small chips.

Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Nea Fine. 8vo. Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Volume Two. Soft cover. xxii, 130 p.p. Light curling and rubbing to corners, else fine. Interior is clean. A collection of essays providing commentary and analysis of the history of Black Canadian dramatic writers.

London: William Hone, 1823. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Leather spine over red and blue marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Title on spine in gilt. x, [2], 13-299 p.p. [4] wood and copper engravings [1 folding], plus frontis. Boards rubbed. Light wear to edges and spine. Spine yellowed. Endpapers browned. Tear to edge of p. 15, but not affecting text. Previous repair to tear to top of p. 59 with tape. Pages lightly foxed, otherwise a very good copy.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Full red paper boards. 251 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Light rubbing to extremities of boards and dust jacket, else fine.

St. Catharines, ON: Vanwell Publishing Limited, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Vanwell Voices of War. Soft cover. 224 pp. B&W photos in text. Light bumping and bubbling to lamination at edges. Remainder mark to tail edge. Interior age toned.

Toronto: Longman's Canada Ltd, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. SIGNED by author to title page. Full orange buckram. 198 pp. With twelve pages of B&W photos of the Festival's ninth season. Rubbing to spine ends and corners, small spot of wear to tail edge of rear board, slight sunning to spine. Dust jacket chipped at spine foot, a few short tears, age toning to edges of flaps. Some light bumping to edges and damp staining to front cover. From the enviable vantage point of staff writer for two seasons, Joan Ganong has written this graphic, humorous, and warmly enthusastic account of how the beauty and magic of Stratford's productions are conjured up.

Toronto: Samuel French (Canada) Limited, 1956. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 18mo. Orig. tan card wrappers, staple bound. 29 pp. Damp staining to lower edge, text not affected. Ink ownership inscription to head of front cover.

Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2010. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Paperback, xxx, 290. Light wear on covers o/w near fine.

London: John Bell. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 18mo. Vols. 2,4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21. 1791-1793. Half calf, marbled paper boards. Engraved titles and frontispieces to each play. Leather is scuffed and worn, wear to corners, boards rubbed. Front joint to vol. 21 is cracked and loose. Bell's British Theatre was originally published by John Bell, Bookseller to HRH The Prince of Wales, between 1776-1778. It contains 140 plays across 21 books, of which 7 are offered here with 28 plays, including: Boadicea, Oroonoko, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Lady Jane Gray, The Suspicious Husband, The Carmelite, She Stoops to Conquer, Alzira, The Discovery, The Revenge, Theodosius, The Rival Queens, The Earl of Essex, Jane Shore, Edward the Black Prince, The Conscious Lover, King Charles I, The Siege of Damascus, The Provok'd Wife, The Funeral, The Tender Husband, Beaux Strategem, The Spanish Fryar, The Distrest Mother, Amphitryon, The Foundling, The Good Natured Man, The Brothers. 0.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 18mo. Full green cloth. 124 pp. B&W frontis. portrait of O'Casey. Dust jacket is sunned to extremities, else fine.

New York: Samuel French, 1941. Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. grey card wrappers, staple bound. 96 pp. Toning to extremities, yellow stain to front cover, wear to spine. Perforation at lower staple.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good+. Softcover. A near fine copy.

Cornwall: Dyllansow Truran, 1988. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. A verse translation of Beunans Meriasek. x, 11-197. Paperback. This edition was prepared for a performance under the direction of Jerry Finch for the Cornwall Drama Association at the Cornish Eisteddfod, 1986. Printed primarily on coloured paper (pink, green, and goldenrod). Light bumping to spine ends and corners. Offset panel and price sticker to rear cover. Small damp stain to fore edge. Ink ownership inscription to FFEP. Beunans Meriasek (English: The Life of Saint Meriasek) is a Cornish play completed in 1504. Its subject is the legends of the life of Saint Meriasek or Meriadoc, patron saint of Camborne, whose veneration was popular in Cornwall, Brittany, and elsewhere.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Soft cover. Near Fine. Softcover. A near fine copy.

Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1990. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 20. Soft cover. 126 p.p. The first English version of a 16th century play by Portuguese author and lawyer Antonio de Ferreira.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. xii, 253 p.p. Light scuffing to covers and fore-edge. Covers tight. A near fine copy.

Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. vii, 191 p.p. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. B&W frontis + illustrations throughout. Bumping to corners and spine ends, some damp staining to top and fore edge of text block. Light age toning to edges of pages but text is clean. Light glue marks to p.p. 23 & 26. Dust jacket has offset panels to covers and flaps. The fourteenth-century Cornish Ordinalia is not quite an undiscovered masterpiece; it has long been known to linguists and had a recent stage revival, but until this study literary critics have virtually ignored it. The Ordinalia richly repays serious literary consideration.The unknown playwright of the Cornish Rounds has created a trilogy as fine as any Corpus Christi cycle, a work intensely medieval and local but also timeless and universal.