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Sidewinder by Edwin Booth 9781479478569
Booksplease Price: £13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479478569Author Edwin BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside... -
Edwin Booth by Charles Townsend Copeland 9781497974579
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £24.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497974579Author Charles Townsend CopelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Life And Art Of Edwin Booth by William Winter 9781498046213
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £32.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498046213Author William WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Lincoln and Shakespeare by Michael Anderegg 9780700632657
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Lincoln Prize Finalist It was the measure of Shakespeare's poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. "If this be so,"... -
Edwin Booth: A Bio-Bibliography by L. Terry Oggel 9780313261954
Booksplease Price: £66.89Edwin Booth was the foremost Shakespearean actor in late nineteenth-century America, enjoying almost mythic status. This comprehensive analysis and documentation of his career provides an aperture... -
Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom 9781476681269
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.99The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 1849 as a young teenager, following in his father's footsteps. This biography traces his life and career as a tragic... -
The Players' Elegy on the Death of Edwin Booth, Etc. by George Edward Woodberry 9781241027995
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241027995Author George Edward WoodberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint British Library,... -
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice: as Produced by Edwin Booth by Shakespeare Shakespeare 9780461486872
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461486872Author Shakespeare ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint HardPress... -
Between Actor and Critic: Selected Letters of Edwin Booth and William Winter by Daniel J. Watermeier 9780691620480
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.43Sarah Bernhardt, London, his own acting--Edwin Booth commented on these and hundreds of other subjects in letters to William Winter, friend of twenty years and drama critic for the New York Tribune... -
William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook Sean McEvoy (Varndean College, Brighton, UK and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9780415314336
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.26William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world... -
William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook Sean McEvoy 9780415314329
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £90.68William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world... -
Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914 Peter Rawlings 9781138324466
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Published in 1999. Shakespeare is 'the great author of America' declared James Fenimore Cooper in 1828. The ambiguous resonance of this claim is fully borne out in this collection of writings on... -
Shylock on the Stage by Toby Lelyveld
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Originally published in 1961, this book is a study of the ways actors since the time of Shakespeare have portrayed the character of Shylock. A pioneering work in the study of performance history as... -
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk 9781501199530
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.85Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Marfield Prize For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this... -
Othello: Critical Essays Susan Snyder 9781138854949
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Originally published in 1988. Selections here are organised chronologically looking at both theatrical commentary and literary criticism. The organisation brings out the shifts in emphasis as each... -
The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever... -
The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus 9780691210186
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus... -
Storied & Scandalous Kansas City: A History of Corruption, Mischief and a Whole Lot of Booze by Karla Deel 9781493042432
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44A toast to the wild parties, the wicked deeds, the streets and the characters who colored Kansas City history. Welcome to Kansas City-the best town this side of Hell. The Paris of the Plains. Home... -
Macbeth: Critical Essays by Samuel Schoenbaum 9781138887770
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Originally published in 1991. Collecting together commentary and critique on 'the Scottish play', this book showcases varied discussions of the text and the theatrical productions. From Samuel... -
On Playing Shakespeare: Advice and Commentary from Actors and Actresses of the Past by Leigh A. Woods 9780313278235
Booksplease Price: £76.51This compendium opens the stagedoor for those with little or no practical experience in acting. For actors and other theatre specialists grappling with the challenges posed by performing or staging... -
The Letters and Notebooks of Mary Devlin Booth by Mary Devlin Booth 9780313254680
Booksplease Price: £61.93This is the first complete edition of the letters and notebooks of actress Mary Devlin, Edwin Booth's first wife, and is the first reference of its kind in nineteenth-century American theatre... -
Edwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom 9781476677545
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.28Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of American, and specifically Jacksonian, themes made him popular in New York's Bowery Theatre. His rivalry... -
50 Specialty Libraries of New York City: From Botany to Magic by Terry Ballard 9780081005545
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.97Everyone knows that New York maintains one of the great library systems in the world - the two lions that guard the 42nd street library among the most important icons in the city. Less well known are... -
Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828-1865 by Karl M. Kippola 9780230340459
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.92Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear... -
Dead for a Spell by Raymond Buckland 9780425268032
Booksplease Price: £17.32Bram Stoker, business manager for London's Lyceum Theatre, is never surprised to find the supernatural waiting in the wings-especially when a chilling murder appears to have origins in the occult..... -
José Ferrer: Success and Survival by Mike Peros 9781496816627
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Jose Ferrer (1912-1992) became the first Puerto Rican actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for the 1950 film version of Cyrano de Bergerac.His portrayal of the lovelorn poet/swordsman had... -
Richard's Himself Again: A Stage History of Richard III by J. Scott Colley 9780313262937
Booksplease Price: £61.93One of a handful of great Shakespearean roles, the part of Richard of Gloucester has maintained its importance from the beginning of its performance history in the late 1690s and has assumed an... -
The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre by Benjamin McArthur 9780300122329
Booksplease Price: £67.63The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical... -
Charlotte Cushman: A Biography and Performance History by Arthur W. Bloom
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Charlotte Cushman, one of the great actors of 19th century American theatre, was a lesbian who kept her identity hidden by focusing her career on male characters (Romeo, Claude Melnotte, Wolsey),... -
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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells 9780198703297 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.71Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.01Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells 9780198769729
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.78Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler 9781931520485
Booksplease Price: £12.25World Fantasy Award Winner Shirley Jackson Awards shortlist Locus Award shortlist Story Prize Notable Books Frank O'Connor Award longlist "Beautifully written and subtly discomforting stories...