Preface by Peter Brook (7 results)

Softcover. xi, 308 pp. Softcover. Good condition; on covers: touches of wear on edges, and previous owner's name on front; on inside covers and on adjoining pages: very light yellowing, and touches of light browning; pen underlining through page 25.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Second edition. 5 x 8 in. Cloth borads. Condition is NEAR FINE ; corners a touch worn, otherwise covers like new. Binding tight and text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; edges chipped with some tears and loss. Drama. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First. No dj. Bindin blue cloth withy title on spine. Lettering slightly dulled with age. Some very light foxing to opening page only, which has a previous owner's name inscribed on the top right hand corner dated May 22nd, 1950. Translated by Christopher Fry, with a preface by Peter Brook. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket after Oliver Messel (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping, short closed tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, some slight overall dust and time staining. Not price clipped (6s), previous owner's name in pencil to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 104pp. Frederic who is shy and sensitive, and Hugo who is heartless and aggressive. Frederic is in love with a hussy who is in love with Hugo. To save Frederic from an unhappy marriage, Hugo tries to distract him by bringing to a ball a beautiful dancer who masquerades as a mysterious personage and becomes the triumph of the occasion. She is a susceptible maiden in her own right. She not only breaks up all the cynical romances that have been going on before she arrived, but loses her own heart as well. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (1910-87), was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Petain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. Hardback in jacket 1953. 4th edition. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. JACKET SPINE LETTERING IS FADED. Front flap is not price-clipped: 7s 6d. Jacket is now under clear removable protective covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SmUSR. Ring Round the Moon. A Charade with Music by Jean Anouilh. Translated By Christopher Fry. Preface by Peter Brook. Published in 1953 by Methuen, London.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage conceptions. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary has been translated into 19 languages since it appeared in 1961, and readers all over the world have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xi + 308. no Dust Jacket as published. Black titles spine. Includes chronological Table of Shakespeare in the World & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Theatre & Plays; Literature & Literary; Shakespeare; Shakespeare Plays; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 4769. Member of the P.B.F.A.

Methuen and Co Ltd. London. 1964. First edition. Pages browned to margins otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is price-clipped and browned to margins. SCARCE.