Mitchell Ronald Elwy (12 results)

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket; Contents are tight and clean; Ex-Library; Hard Cover; Univ of Wisconsin Pr; 1970; 0.

Mitchell, Ronald Elwy, 1905-1986. Opera: dead or alive : production, performance, and enjoyment of musical theatre. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972, xii, 322pp., PAPERBACK, very good copy but with mild crease starting on spine. Playwright, director, and critic Ronald E. Mitchell offers general readers a richer understanding of traditions, terms, styles, and staging techniques of musical theater, including an introduction to operas and musicals, from baroque and romantic operas to Gilbert & Sullivan, from proletarian dramas to Broadway shows like Oklahoma! - CONTENTS: 1. Audiences and theatres -- 2. Systems and subsidies -- 3. Singers and actors -- 4. Staging : Staging, good and poor ; Interruption ; Dance and divertissement ; Singers in costume ; Elaborateness and simplification ; Realism and detail -- 5. The stage director's hand : Figaro: a matter of clarity ; The ring: a matter of illusion, symbol, and light ; Der Rosenkavalier: a matter of taste and proportion - 6. Drama for music : The story of Orpheus -- 7. Baroque opera : Dido and Aeneas ; Dido Deserted -- 8. Ballad opera : The beggar's opera -- 9. Comic opera: Rococo and Biedermeier : Cosi fan Tutte ; Tsar and Carpenter -- 10. Romantic melodrama : II Trovatore -- 11. Comic opera: Victorian : H.M.S. Pinafore -- 12. Verismo and Viennismo : La Boheme ; The merry widow -- 13. Proletarian music drama : Wozzeck -- 14. Musical comedy : Oklahoma! ; Kiss me, Kate -- 15. Contemporary opera : A midsummer night's dream. 9780299058142 ISBN 029905814X.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Secondhand. Spine lightly creased. Light colour coves have some faint marks and shelf wear. Very good book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A comedy in one act, 3 w, 4 m. Stapled booklet, covers worn and marked, no inscriptions, sound, good.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. Small quarto. 482-576pp. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. Toned spine, small stains on wraps, very good. Includes the plays: *The Pilgrim* by Charles Vildrac, *A Husband for Breakfast* by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, and *Transit* by Philip Stevenson.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. First printing with "first published 1951" on verso of title page. A bright clean copy, no fraying, a little rubbing along bottom edge, faded bookseller's stamp on front pastedown. Dustjacket illustrated with three figures in color; some edgewear, a 1/4" chip at each upper spine corner, 1" closed tear bottom front panel near foredge, severely price-clipped with some loss of text on front flap and a vertical crease near edge, flaps immaculate but white rear panel dusty.…

Paperback. Condition: nrVG. ACTING EDITION. Copyright 1936. Revised price sticker for 1/3 on front cover. Buff card covers with black and red decoration and blck lettering to front cover. Advert for other publications on back cover. Some annotations. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.…

First Edition. "Three Plays chosen for Professional Production by the International One-Act Play Theatre," including "The Royal Inn," by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, "The Widow of Ephesus," by Vincent Godefroy, and "The Boy of Bisley," by J. R. Clemens. Near Fine with foxing to fore edges, in an Almost Near Fine dustjacket, with spine faded and small instances of soiling to front panel.…

First edition, first printing. The publisher's retained copy. Original blue cloth with dark blue titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very nice copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and with the publisher's "Archive Copy" stamp to the title page otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the bright and attractive original dustwrapper. Provenance: From the archive of the publisher Victor Gollancz. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…