Search Results: Plays 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: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes' play in 1993, almost completing it then, but breaking off to fulfill commissions for English versions of Oresteia and Racine's Phedre, and for the book that came to be called Tales from Ovid. As was true of the other works, Hughes' Alcestis goes beyond mere translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering. His additions to the text include an expanded burlesque treatment of Hercules' drunk scene and an episode involving Prometheus and his vulture. Hughes took up the play agan and finished work on it a few months before his death in 1998.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black and grey paper boards. 103 pp. Fine in fine jacket.

London: Faber & Faber, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo (tall). Full burgundy paper boards. 83 pp. Fine condition. Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes began his translation of Euripedes' play in 1993, almost completing it then, but breaking off to fulfill commissions for English versions of Oresteia and Racine's Phedre, and for the book that came to be called Tales from Ovid. As was true of the other works, Hughes' Alcestis goes beyond mere translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering. His additions to the text include an expanded burlesque treatment of Hercules' drunk scene and an episode involving Prometheus and his vulture. Hughes took up the play agan and finished work on it a few months before his death in 1998.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Black and grey paper boards. 103 pp. Fine in fine jacket.

New York: Harper and Row, 1981. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. black paper boards. 104 pp. Foxing to edges of text block. Dust jacket is foxed, a few short tears to top and tail edges of front cover.

London: Constable and Company, 1932. Hardcover. Fine. 16mo. Pocket Edition. Dark blue cloth, gilt on spine and cover, TEG, xxix, 78pp. Bookplate of Robert Murray Bell. Light wear to tips, o/w about fine.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 18mo. The Loeb Classical Library #502. ix, 559 p.p. Green cloth boards. Dust jacket chafed to covers, joints and corners. The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his 40-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE. But the Athenians knew much more of his work: over 40 plays by Aristophanes were read in antiquity, of which nearly a thousand fragments survive. These provide a fuller picture of the poet's ever astonishing comic vitality and a wealth of information and insights about his world. Henderson's new, widely acclaimed Loeb edition is completed by this volume.

Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press & Heinemann. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 18mo. 1978, 1968, 1979. The Loeb Classical Library #178, 1789, 180. Green cloth boards. xvi, 555; vi, 443; vi, 471 pp. Volume II toned to interior. Dust jackets price clipped, sunned to spine, light worn and chipped to extremities. The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his 40-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BCE. 0.

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.

New York: Grove Press, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 8vo. Evergreen Playscript No. 10. Fifth printing. Paperback. 62pp. Name on first page, wrappers somewhat soiled and rubbed with tape marking to upper front cover but still a good copy. "The Baptism, a viciously comic assault on divers hypocrisies-religious, social, sexual-which inform conteporary American life, and The Toilet, a tough, relentless study of tenderness crushed and destroyed by n adolescent code of violence, comprise a pair of the most powerful one-act plays to be produced in New York in years.

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.