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Hamlet by Anthony Dawson 9780719046254
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $20.37Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign productions and pays much attention to the role of... -
The Woodhead Route by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53The Woodhead Route from Manchester to Sheffield has achieved almost mythical status, not only thanks to the Woodhead Tunnels, but also because of the unique EM1 and EM2 electric locomotives. Inspired... -
North Staffordshire Railway by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53The 'Knotty' was one of the most beloved of Britain's pre-grouping companies. Centred on Stoke-on-Trent, at one time it carried two-thirds of the country's pottery, as well as partaking in the... -
Steam Across The Pennines by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.88The Pennine ridge - 'England's backbone' - has provided a dramatic backdrop to the steam locomotive for nearly 180 years. Armies of navvies, commanded by engineers such as George... -
The Rainhill Trials by Anthony Dawson 9781445669755
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.93During seven days in October 1829 world history was made and travel would never be the same again. Organised by the directors of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway to find the best form of motive... -
Rainhill Men: Railway Pioneers by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53George and Robert Stephenson are well known names in the canon of railway history. Henry Booth (who designed Rocket's boiler) was the world's first railway manager and was instrumental in the... -
A Day in the Life of an Engine Driver by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.88In the age of steam it seemed that every little boy had an ambition to be an engine driver - even the notoriously anti-railway Charles Dickens thought there was something alluring about the role... -
The Early Railways of Leeds by Anthony Dawson 9781445667805
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53The city of Leeds in West Yorkshire was once one of the busiest railway centres in Britain and had the largest concentration of railway engine builders in the country. The surrounding area has many... -
The Grand Crimean Central Railway by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.88The Crimean War, fought by the alliance of Great Britain, France, and the tiny Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia alongside Turkey against Tsarist Russia, was the first 'modern' war, not only for... -
Early Railways of Scotland Anthony Dawson 9781398123199
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53Scottish railway history began in 1722 when William Dickson commenced work on the Tranent-Cockenzie Waggonway. Built entirely in wood and designed to carry coal from pits at Tranent to salt pans at... -
Lion: The Story of the Real Titfield Thunderbolt by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.53Best known as the Titfield Thunderbolt, Lion is one of the most beloved locomotives in railway preservation - transformed from humble luggage engine to film star, this is a Cinderella story. Built in... -
Locomotives of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway by Anthony Dawson 9781526763983
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $49.85The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain's first mainline, inter-city railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineered by George Stephenson and his team... -
Locomotives of the Victorian Railway: The Early Days of Steam by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.02In the quarter of a century between 1830 and 1855, the railway locomotive developed from the small sisters of Rocketto the broad gauge monsters of Daniel Gooch, with a boiler pressure nearly three... -
The Planet and Samson Locomotives: Their Design and Development by Anthony Dawson 9781399092647
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.14Robert Stephenson's Planet class locomotive was the first true design of mainline express passenger locomotive. Delivered less than a year after Rocket it was one of the most successful early... -
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway: An Operating History by Anthony Dawson 9781473899124
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $41.01Much has been written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, especially how it came into being and the Rainhill Trials, but very little has been said about what happened after the grand opening on... -
Travelling on the Victorian Railway: Travel in the Early Days of Steam by Anthony Dawson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.88'The most striking result produced by the completion of this Railway, is the sudden and marvellous change which has been effected in our ideas of time and space. What was quick is now slow; what was... -
Shakespeare and Character: Theory, History, Performance and Theatrical Persons by Paul Yachnin 9780230572621
Booksplease Price: $190.18Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at... -
Watching Shakespeare: A Playgoers' Guide by Anthony B. Dawson 9780333438169
Booksplease Price: $98.15Here is a book written primarily for playgoers. Looking closely at eighteen plays, Anthony Dawson examines key decisions that actors and directors have to make, and shows how different... -
Indirections: Shakespeare and the Art of Illusion by Anthony B Dawson
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters. In Shakespeare's plays the... -
Conversion Machines: Apparatus, Artifice, Body by Bronwen Wilson 9781399516006
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $199.52Conversion machines are apparatuses, artfully-fashioned preparations, arrangements and things that demonstrate processes of change. They are paradoxical - at once intent on verifying what was...