Search Results: Theatre and Drama from Focloir

Gaelic 283 Ni Nuadhain, Noirin, editor. 33 Dramai Gaeilge do Ghasuir Scoile. Conamara: Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1989, 410p, paperback. $30.00

Ireland hhta Hunt, Hugh.The Abbey. Ireland's National Theatre, 1904-1978. NY: Columbia University Press, 1979, xiii, 306 pages, appendix, notes, index, black and white plates. Very good in very good dust jacket. $12.50 Box 8080

Ancient world 304 Aeschylus. Aeschyli septem quae supersunt tragoediae, recensuit Gilbertus Murray ... Accedunt tetralogiarum ad has fabulas pertinentium fragmenta, elegiae, poetae vita, operum catalogus, Suidae et Marmoris parii testimonia. Oxonii: Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1937, xv p., 2 l., [350] p. Gilt lettering and spine. Old name in pencil, few pencillings in text. $15.00

Ancient world 318 Alfred, William. Agamemnon. New York: Knopf, 1954, 88p. A verseplay. "Originally published in the English language in Botteghe oscure XI." Cover dull, some light soiling. Cover little dull, good copy. $6.50 William Alfred was a much-beloved professor of English literature at Harvard University.

Ancient world 607Euripides, c. 480 – c. 406 BC. The Alcestis of Euripides. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. New York: Oxford University Press; [etc., etc.] 1915, xvi, 82 p. Nice, clean bright copy. Lettering on spine darkened, very good otherwise. Inscription on front free endpaper signed "G. M", pretty sure it is from Gilbert Murray –I have a book from his library with his bookplate and signature. $14.50

Gaelic480 Rosenstock, Gabriel.
Amanathar. Conamara: Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1989, paperback. Good copy. Plays $17.50

Ancient World 1085 O'Sheel, Shaemas, 1886-1954. Antigone: a new redaction in the American language. Brooklyn: Privately printed, 1931, 57p, errata slip pasted onto front lining paper. 1 of 499 copies. Nice copy. Inscribed to Samuel Louis V. Ledoux: "Inscribed for Louis V. Ledoux at the request of Edith Nurick and with the greetings of Shaemus O'Sheel, January 11, 1932". $15.00

Ancient world 3790a (Aristophanes)Croiset, Maurice. Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens. Translated by James Loeb. London: Macmillan, 1909, 192 pages, index. There is a preface by the author as well as an introduction to the English translation by John Williams White of Harvard University. Nicely produced in blue cloth and gilt lettering on the spine. Very attractive book, has some German pencilling in margins of some pages, in small hand. They are obviously notes on what the English words mean. The signature of a well-known classical scholar on front free endpaper. He taught in Germany for a while and maybe bought the book there. $21.50

Ancient world rka (Aristophanes).Reckford, Kenneth J. Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy: Volume l: Six Essays in Perspective. The University of North Carolina Press, 1987, xiv, 567 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Signature of collector on front free endpaper, fine copy in dust jacket. $18.50

Ancient world 1564 (Aristophanes)Croiset, Maurice. Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens. Translated by James Loeb. London: Macmillan, 1909, 192 pages, index. There is a preface by the author as well as an introduction to the English translation by John Williams White of Harvard University. Nicely produced in blue cloth and gilt lettering on the spine. This volume came from the library of a major museum, the gift of Loeb, the translator -so noted in pencil on front free endpaper. Has typical library markings. Even with the library processing, one questions how often, if at all, that the book was consulted. Good condition. $13.50

Ancient world 349 Aristophanes.
Aristophanis Ranae. Emendavit et interpretatus est Franz Volkmar Fritzsche. Turici: Sumtu Meyeri et Zelleri, 1845, 61p, 459p, corrigenda. Ex-library copy. Bound in black boards with gilt lettering. Cover is worn. Rubbed and chipped edges. Bumped extremities. Binding and text block are intact. Pages are lightly toned but clean. The front free endpaper is missing the upper corner. The side paper edge, from about page 333 to 355, are ruffled. The commentary runs for 459 pages, in Latin. Greek text 61 pages. For more on the editor see his edition of Lucianus Samosatensis in this collection. $25.00

Ireland 8004 (Behan, Brendan). The Art of Brendan Behan. Edited by E.H. Mikhail. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1979, 189p, index. As new in dust jacket. Fine selection of critical writings. $10.00

Ireland dvas Dowling, Vincent. Astride the moon: a theatrical life. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2000, 365 pages, [16] p. of plates. Good copy. Advance reading sticker on front lining paper. $5.50 Box 8080

Gaelic 327 O Conaire, Padraic Bairbre Rua agus dramai eile. Edited by Padraig O Siadhail. Conamara: Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1989, 224p, paperback. Good. $20.00

France btcf The Baptism and Temptation of Christ: The First Day of a Medieval Passion Play. The baptism and temptation of Christ; the First Day of a Medieval French Passion Play. Edited and translated by John R. Elliott, Jr. and Graham A. Runnalls.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, ix, 153p., b/w front., notes, bib. Has remains of an old pencilled price on front free endpaper, good to very good copy. $11.50 Box a114

Ireland 8277 (Yeats, William Butler). Beltaine: the organ of the Irish Literary Theatre; number one to number three, May 1899-April 1900. Edited by W. B. Yeats. Reprinted in one volume with an introductory note by B. C. Bloomfield. (Series: English little magazines, no. 15). London: Cass, 1970. Good copy in dust jacket. Previous owner has written his name very large!!! on front free endpaper. $20.00 Box 70

Ancient world 346 Aristophanes. Birds, Lysistrata, Assembly-Women, Wealth. A new verse translation, with introduction and notes by Stephen Halliwell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, lxxxi, 297p, notes, index. Fine copy in dust jacket. $12.50

GE 1000 (Brecht, Bertolt). Willett, John. Brecht in context: comparative approaches. London and New York: Methuen, 1984, 274p, notes, index. Some pretty faint light spotting on top paper edge, blind stamp of well-known theatre scholar on title page else very good in dust jacket. Study by the outstanding Brecht scholar. $9.50

Ireland 7876c (Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989). Morrison, Kristin. Canters and chronicles: the use of narrative in the plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pages, bib, index. Some light spotting to top paper edge else fine in fine dust jacket, which is in turn protected by a mylar dust jacket. $8.50

Ancient world 1023Plautus, Titus Maccius, c. 254 – 184 BC. The Captivi of T. Maccius Plautus. With introduction and notes by Archibald R.S. Hallidie. [Macmillan's classical series [for colleges & schools]; First edition 1891, reprinted 1895, 1900 ..."]. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967, lix, 215p, notes, index. Signature of previous owner on front free endpaper, else a good to very good copy, clean, tight, no marks. $13.50
Titus Maccius Plautus, commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety.