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Shakespeare on Love: A Personal Selection by Simon Callow by Simon Callow 9780711215351
Booksplease Price: $4.17A 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.52This 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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32An 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... -
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor by Simon Callow
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.56The 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: $31.61The 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... -
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Being An Actor by Simon Callow 9780099471950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $4.70Few actors are more eloquent, honest or entertaining about their life and their profession than Simon Callow. Being an Actor traces his stage journey from the letter he wrote to Laurence Olivier that... -
My Life in Pieces: An Alternative Biography by Simon Callow
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97An 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... -
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Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.68An 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... -
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $31.02A 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: $40.93Booksplease Price: $32.31The 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.94In 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... -
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Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World by Simon Callow 9780007445301 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $7.16An entertaining biography of Charles Dickens by one of our finest actors Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that... -
Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived by Simon Callow 9780525436188
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $28.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436188Author Simon CallowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Gielgoodies! The Wit and Wisdom & Gaffes of John Gielgud by Jonathan Croall 9781849434485
Booksplease Price: $31.63'A glorious compendium of John's scintillating irreverences and fabulous faux pas... He was one of the greatest of all theatrical personalities, and these utterly characteristic throwaway squibs... -
The Man Jesus / Believe by Matthew Hurt 9781783192021
Booksplease Price: $27.77'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... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.90A 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.24A 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: $52.65Booksplease Price: $40.83"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... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148398
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42The 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: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.64A 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... -
Break a Leg: A memoir, manifesto and celebration of amateur theatre by Jenny Landreth
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88'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... -
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The Pleasure of my Company by Steve Martin 9780753817681 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $4.13From Steve Martin, one of our best-loved comedians, a fantastic new novel with an unforgettably weird, original and ultimately engaging character - Daniel Pecan Cambridge.'Makes you laugh out loud'... -
Ian McKellen: The Biography by Garry O'Connor 9781474608534
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'[A] fascinating voyage round McKellen' Simon Callow, Guardian'Surely the definitive McKellen biography' Alexander Larman, Observer'A well-researched, eminently readable book' Benedict Nightingale,... -
Arguments with England by Michael Blakemore
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'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... -
Charles Dickens Jane Smiley 9781474619806
Booksplease Price: $18.88Superb, 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... -
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The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 9780099518884 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $4.95Read Charles Dickens's first novel. ... -
Not What We Were Expecting by Alistair McGowan 9781739623173
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $15.64A 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... -
Beyond Stanislavsky: The Psycho-Physical Approach to Actor Training by Bella Merlin 9781854596130
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.32A guide to Psycho-Physical Acting, complete with games and exercises. When Stanislavsky died, he was working on a new system, Psycho-Physical Acting. Previously he had taught that truthful... -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $15.50'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: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06With 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... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780691210148
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.28From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
A Lion Was Learning to Ski, and Other Limericks by Ranjit Bolt 9781783340828
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.62When he came across an old-English limerick that made him laugh, playwright Ranjit Bolt started writing nonsensical verse to entertain his friends. On a whim he decided to staple some together and... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875806853
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition... -
With the Flow by Joris-Karl Huysmans 9781847498342
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small joys of food and the occasional embraces of a prostitute. But... -
Shakespeare, Sex, and Love by Stanley Wells 9780199643974
RRP: $26.31Booksplease Price: $23.15How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal... -
Tristan/Yseult by Harry Bonelle 9781911397908
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.99A duel on an empty island sets the course for one of the greatest romances ever told. As the lovers of legend meet, something new is born, and something eternal is revealed. Their names will forever... -
The Separate Heart by Simon Robson 9780099507581
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32If there is a thread running through Simon Robson's brilliant collection of stories it is the notion of separateness - of adults from each other, of children from adult knowledge, of adult... -
Story of the Century: Wagner and the creation of The Ring Michael Downes 9780571372003
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINEA colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's... -
Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts Merlin Holland 9781786782304
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him... -
Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847080080
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history:...