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EIGHT GREAT COMEDIES

By: Barnet, Sylvan; Morton Berman; and William Burto (eds)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NY, New American Library / A Mentor Book: 1958

Seller ID: 5116

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Publisher's glossy wraps. 12mo. 469, (3) pp. Includes The Clouds by Aristophanes; Manfragola by Niccolo Machiavelli; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare; The Miser by Moliere; The Beggar's Opera by John Gay; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde; Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov; and Amrs and the Man by George Bernard Shaw; as well as several essays on Comedy. This is a new, unopened copy, with a former owner's name written on the fep, else fine. NEAR FINE.. Mass Market Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Translation With a Critical Essay

By: Euripides; Donald Sutherland (trans)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press: 1968

Seller ID: 6711

ISBN: 0803251947

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's glossy wraps. 8vo. 142 pp. This is an unmarked, unread copy. There are old bookstore labels on the rear panel and spine, else fine. VERY GOOD. This new translation of The Bacchae, that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse, is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The achievement of this aim involves a restoration of the 'great lacuna' at the climax and the discovery of several primary stage effects very likely intended by Euripides. These effects and controversial questions o...
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ENGLISH COMEDIES

By: Gassner, John (Ed)

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Eau Claire, WI, E. M. Hale And Company:

Seller ID: 3135

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Hardcover without dust jacket. Publisher's full blue cloth, blind-stamped decoration on cover, gilt lettering and borders on spine. Gilt on spine faded, spine sunned. Former owner's initial in red on ffep, else fine. NEAR FINE. This is an anthology of Restoration English comedies, including: ·Restoration Comedy, an essay by William Makepeace Thackeray;·The Country Wife by William Wycherley; The Way of the World by William Congreve; The Begger's Opera by John Gay; The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Songs, Verses, Prologues and Epilog...
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SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

By: Goldsmith, Oliver

Price: $17.95

Publisher: NY, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1902

Seller ID: 6189

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt and white lettering and decoration on cover, t.e.g. 8vo. 204 pp. Illustrated with B&W plates and drawings by F. C. Gordon. Printed on thick, glossy stock. Covers rubbed, front hinge starting, else near fine. Unmarked except for very light gift inscription dated Dec. 24, 1906 on preliminary page. VERY GOOD. She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Brit...
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The Servant in the House

By: Kennedy, Charles Rann

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York,and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1908

Seller ID: 21156

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

8x51/2. 152 pp
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC

By: Rostand, Edmond

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Bantam Books: 1966

Seller ID: 6384

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Rebound in full laminated pictorial boards. 16mo. 196, (6) pp. VERY GOOD.. Ex-Library with fewer than the usual markings. Pages lightly tanned but still supple, else fine. VERY GOOD.. Ex-Library. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. vi,196 pp
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Category: Plays

EIGHT GREAT COMEDIES

The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Translation With a Critical Essay

ENGLISH COMEDIES

SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

The Servant in the House

CYRANO DE BERGERAC