Grenfell, Joyce.
Darling Ma: Letters to her Mother, 1932-1944
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).
Edited by James Roose-Evans. Hardback. Ex lib with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in creased dw. xxii + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4643
Keywords: 0340423684, Joyce Grenfell, mothers, daughter, letters, 1930s, World War II, Second World War, history, correspondence, woman, women, actresses, drama, actress, theatre, interwar, inter war, inter-war
Price £8.00.
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Stapleton, Michael.
The Sadler's Wells Opera: A Pictorial Record
(A and C. Black, 1954).
With ninety-five photographs. Hardback. Good+ in rather torn dustwrapper. 66pp. Order No. NSBK-A11783
Keywords: B0000CJ0IY, opera, Sadler's Wells, dancing, singing, theatre, entertainment, leisure, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, singers, Sadler's Wells Opera Company
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Stowell, Sheila.
A Stage of their Own: Feminist Playwrights of the Suffrage Era
(MUP, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. vi + 170pp. Order No. NSBK-C200
Keywords: 0719036771, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, feminism, playwright, drama, theatre, women writers, woman writer, Women's Movement, Edwardian, women's history, plays, New Woman, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage
Price £28.00.
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Bentley, Eric.
Bernard Shaw:
(Methuen, 2nd British edition, 1967).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf; ex-library with usual library stamps & stickers, a good working copy in slightly yellowed, creased dustwrapper. xviii + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-A7591
Keywords: B0000CNJNK, George Bernard Shaw, biography, biographies, history, literature, literary, politics, religion, drama, theatre, plays, Shavian, stage
Price £5.00.
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Smith, Lucy Toulmin.
York Plays: the Plays Performed By the Crafts Or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries
(Clarendon, Oxford, 1885).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps. Light wear to cloth, especially at edges, with a few small tears at top of spine - otherwise a good, solid copy. lxxviii + 557pp. Order No. NSBK-A14260
Keywords: B001P8J49E, York, Yorkshire, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, mystery plays, early modern, late medieval, Middle Ages, theatre, plays
Price £45.00.
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Gardner, Viv, editor.
Sketches from the Actresses' Franchise League:
(Nottingham Drama Texts, Nottingham University, 1985).
Paperback. Ex library. Covers soiled, usual library stamps and markings, minor scorings to text, otherwise good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C13914
Keywords: 0906129095, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, theatre, plays, theatrical, suffragette writers, playwrights, Edwardian, Pankhursts, actresses, acting, Actresses' Franchise League, Beatrice Harraden, Cicely Hamilton, Gertrude Jennings, Bessie Hatton, Inez Bensusan
Price £40.00.
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De Hempsey, Sidney.
Practical Punch and Judy:
(Arcady Press [John Alexander], Reprint, 2004).
This useful guide to starting Punch and Judy first appeared in 1953 as a series of articles published in the monthly magic magazine "The Wizard", which is now, sadly, defunct. Reprinted 2004. Booklet. Fine. 28pp. Order No. NSBK-F12597
Keywords: Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Punch and Judy, puppets, puppet, puppetry, theatre, marionette, marionettes, puppeteer, puppetteer, puppet master, professor, professors, hand puppet, hand puppets, scripts, script, show, seaside, sea side, humour, humor, street theatre, street theatres, street entertainment, social history, social historian, traveller, travellers, magic, illusions, conjuring, history, showmen, showman, shows, show, Sidney De Hempsey, Sidney de Hempsey's, booklet
Price £16.95.
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Brereton, Geoffrey.
French Comic Drama from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century:
(Methuen, 1977).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly faded dustwrapper. x + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A7244
Keywords: 0416782205, French, France, Europe, European, literature, comedy, comic, drama, entertainment, Renaissance, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth century, dramatists, playwrights, stages, theatres, history, farce, romantic, burlesque, bourgeois
Price £12.00.
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Punch and Judy Poster, Reproduction of a Rare 1880 Image.
The True Story of Punch and Judy: Royal Polytechnic. New Entertainment by Damer Cape. Humourous, Musical, Pictorial, Tragical, Comical. New Views by A. Mayhew & J. Green. New Music, by Edouard Frewin & Alfred Lee. New songs by Damer Cape & New Effects by the Institution. Twice Daily
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 reproduction of 1880 poster).
A reproduction of an attractive poster which promoted a Punch and Judy show at the Royal Polytechnic, Westminster, London, England in 1880. PAPER: A3 sized = 297mm x 420mm or 11.7 inches x 16.5 inches. IMAGE: 250mm x 400mm or 10 inches x 16 inches [approx]. 100 GMS matte poster paper, coated and treated. In full glossy colour: brownish-red, white and black. The online image is lessened in quality for speedy loading and watermarked to deter image theft. Fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A13093
Keywords: Victorian, Punch and Judy, Punch & Judy, entertainment, leisure, posters, poster, reproductions, Portrayer Publishers, nineteenth century, London, 19th century, Britain, British, England, English, social history, magic, Punch and Judy shows, ventriloquists, ventriloquism, theatre, English theatre, music halls, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, Damer Cape, Edouard Frewin, Alfred Lee
Price £7.00.
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Harris, Frank.
Joan la Romee: a Drama
(Imprimerie Nicoise, Nice, 1926).
Paperback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Some foxing and soiling to paper covers, and chipping to spine ends, otherwise good. 91pp. Order No. NSBK-A14442
Keywords: B00085LP7O, Joan of Arc, Jeanne d'Arc, history, social history, religion, France, French, martyrs, dramas, dramatic, play, plays, theatre
Price £14.00.
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