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Shakespeare on Love: A Personal Selection by Simon Callow by Simon Callow 9780711215351
Booksplease Price: £2.14A selection of Shakespeare's work focusing on the theme of love. From the passion of the sonnets, the poignant balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet to the bewitched love scene between Titania and Bottom... -
The Night of the Hunter by Simon Callow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.85This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford,... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the... -
Being an Actor by Simon Callow 9780312422431
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312422431Author Simon CallowFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
London's Great Theatres by ,Simon Callow
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.26This richly illustrated exploration of the most remarkable London theatres features witty and engaging texts by actor Simon Callow, whose knowledge of the city's dramatic venues is intimate and... -
Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will by Simon Callow 9780008105716
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22The perfect introduction to the Master. Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner's music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction:... -
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor by Simon Callow
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton's career spans 50 films and 40 stage roles. This entralling biography follows him from his parents' hotel in... -
Acting in Restoration Comedy by Simon Callow 9781557831194
Booksplease Price: £16.21The art of acting in restoration comedy the buoyant often bowdy romps which celebrated the reopening of the English theatres after Cromwell's dour reign is the subject of Simon Callow's bold... -
My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Biography by Simon Callow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography. In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through... -
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow 9780345803238
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345803238Author Simon CallowFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the... -
Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.57The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the... -
Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band by Simon Callow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.30In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the... -
Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived by Simon Callow 9780525436188
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436188Author Simon CallowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Juvenalia by Peter Green 9781783191789
Booksplease Price: £14.45And now for something completely different - Simon Callow, theatrical treasure extraordinaire, reprises a success from early in his career. The writer, Juvenal born circa 55AD, wrote sixteen satires... -
The Man Jesus / Believe by Matthew Hurt 9781783192021
Booksplease Price: £14.24'The effect of the entire creation is perhaps best measured by occasional involuntary gasps coming from the audience...' The StageBELIEVE - Traitor, adulteress, widow and martyr: a contemporary... -
Merchant-Ivory: Interviews Laurence Raw 9781496853707
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together, for the first time, interviews made over a span of fifty years with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter... -
Merchant-Ivory: Interviews by Laurence Raw 9781617032370
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.25Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together for the first time interviews made over the past five decades with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.41A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner 9780241422281
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic... -
Orson Welles: Volume 2 by 9780140275179
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.00"Unfailingly intelligent and well written . . . Vivid and three-dimensional."-VarietyThe first volume of Simon Callow's magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a "splendidly... -
Jacques and his Master by Milan Kundera
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining 'variation' on Diderot's novel Jacques le fataliste, written for Milan Kundera's 'private pleasure' in the aftermath of the Russian... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148398
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church... -
The Amazing Mr Blunden by Antonia Barber
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A TIMELESS CHRISTMAS SKY ORIGINAL FILM, STARRING MARK GATISS, SIMON CALLOW AND TAMSIN GREIG'Charming, magical and life-affirming, Antonia Barber's clever and moving tale has become a much-loved... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.43The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church... -
Break a Leg: A memoir, manifesto and celebration of amateur theatre by Jenny Landreth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'With spot-on injections of humour and a frequently raised sardonic eyebrow, joy and warmth shine from this fascinating and funny book' Jo BrandA joyful celebration of amateur theatreFrom the Mystery... -
Ian McKellen: The Biography by Garry O'Connor
Booksplease Price: £4.41Few actors achieve in their lifetime what Sir Ian McKellen has. A repertoire of vast commercial success coupled with critically acclaimed and authoritative Shakespearian roles. A man whose gargantuan... -
Ian McKellen: The Biography by Garry O'Connor 9781474608534
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'[A] fascinating voyage round McKellen' Simon Callow, Guardian'Surely the definitive McKellen biography' Alexander Larman, Observer'A well-researched, eminently readable book' Benedict Nightingale,... -
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"Through the Leaves" by Franz Xaver Kroetz 9780413773791
Booksplease Price: £14.61The first major English language version of a contemporary German classic A study of the frail, flawed relationship between a middle-aged woman tripe butcher and a loud-mouthed factory worker. Since... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal 9781840027686
Booksplease Price: £53.26Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive... -
Arguments with England by Michael Blakemore
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Some of the most exhilarating writing about theatre ever committed to paper, a beady and original analysis of Britain (and incidentally British theatre) in the 50s and 60s, a profound account of the... -
Macbeth by Alistair McCallum 9781566633604
Booksplease Price: £14.24In this handbook for Macbeth, Alistair McCallum guides readers through the difficulties of plot and language, leaving them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's work. It is a... -
Charles Dickens Jane Smiley 9781474619806
Booksplease Price: £9.68Superb, highly accessible biography of one of the giants of English literature by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A THOUSAND ACRES'Engaging and stimulating' Simon Callow'Jane Smiley, in her... -
A Life Remembered: A Memoir of Anew McMaster by Mary-Rose Aranson 9781788746847
RRP: £26.75Booksplease Price: £25.05«Perhaps the greatest actor-manager of his time», wrote the distinguished playwright Harold Pinter, whose first job in the theatre was with Anew McMaster’s classical theatre company and whose little... -
Not What We Were Expecting by Alistair McGowan 9781739623173
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02A debut collection of poetic snapshots written between 1986 and 2024. "All the wit you'd expect and yearn for but with a really surprising and delicious sensitivity." Joanna Lumley "Alistair's sense... -
Sherman Plays: 2: Onassis; Passing By; The Miser by Martin Sherman
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Onassis portrays the last years of the life of the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who, after a notorious affair with Maria Callas, married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John... -
Orson Wells: The Road to Xanadu by 9780140254563
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.79As a man and an artist, Orson Welles was larger-than-life--vivid, energetic, unpredictable, and riveting. But in this first volume of his masterful, highly acclaimed biography, Simon Callow finally... -
The Tempest by William Shakespeare 9781509889761
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.17The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized... -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history... -
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity...