Drama

[Johannes de Witt: The Swan (1596)]

A Bibliography of my Collection

Sections:

Theatre
Anthologies & Secondary Literature

[Theatre of the World (Hobart)]

Theatre

[153 books]

Authors:

1. Alan Bennett (1934- )
2. Edward Bond (1934- )
3. George Chapman (c.1559–1634)
4. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
5. Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
6. John Gay (1685-1732)
7. W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) & Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
8. Tony Harrison (1937- )
9. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
10. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
11. Spike Milligan (1918-2002)
12. John Mortimer (1923-2009)
13. Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950)
14. Joe Orton (1933-1967)
15. John Osborne (1929-1994)
16. Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
17. Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)
18. Peter Shaffer (1926- )
19. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
20. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
21. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
22. R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975)
23. Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938)
24. Tom Stoppard (1937- )
25. John Webster (c.1580-c.1634) & Cyril Tourneur (1575-1626)
26. Anthologies & Secondary Literature

---

Alan Bennett (1934- )


1. Bennett, Alan. The Uncommon Reader. 2006. Profile Books Ltd. 2007. London: Faber, 2008.


2. Bennett, Alan, & Nicholas Hytner. The History Boys: The Film. Adapted from the Original Stage Play by Alan Bennett. 2004. London: Faber, 2006.


Edward Bond (1934- )


3. Bond, Edward. Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Comedy. 1968. London: Eyre Methuen, 1973.


4. Bond, Edward. Plays: Two. Lear / The Sea / Narrow Road to the Deep North / Black Mass / Passion. The Master Playwrights. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1978.


George Chapman (c.1559–1634)


5. Chapman, George. The Works of George Chapman: Poems & Minor Translations. Introduction by Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: Chatto & Windus, 1875.


6. Chapman, George. The Works of George Chapman: Plays. Ed. Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Chatto & Windus, 1874.


7. Chapman, George. The Works of George Chapman: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Ed. Richard Herne Shepherd. London: Chatto & Windus, 1924.


8. Chapman, George. The Poems. Ed. Phyllis Brooks Bartlett. 1941. New York: Russell & Russell, 1969.


9. Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica. Volume One: The Iliad. Bollingen Series XLI. New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1956.


10. Nicoll, Allardyce, ed. Chapman's Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Lesser Homerica. Volume Two: The Odyssey & the Lesser Homerica . Bollingen Series XLI. New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1956.


Colley Cibber (1671-1757)


11. Cibber, Colley. An Apology for His Life. 1740. Appreciation by William Hazlitt. Everyman’s Library, 668. London: J. M. Dent & Co. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1914.


Christopher Fry (1907-2005)


12. Fry, Christopher. Three Plays: The Firstborn; Thor, with Angels; A Sleep of Prisoners. 1951, 1952, 1958. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.


13. Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts. Trans. Christopher Fry. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.


John Gay (1685-1732)


14. Faber, G. C., ed. The Poetical Works of John Gay, including ‘Polly’. ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ and Selections from the other Dramatic Work. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1926.


15. Gay, John, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot with the Confederates & the Two Keys. Three Hours after Marriage. 1717. Ed. Richard Morton & William M. Peterson. Lake Erie College Studies, 1. Painesville, Ohio: Lake Erie College Press, 1961.


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) &
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842–1900)


16. Gilbert, W. S. The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard. Illustrated by the Author. 1904. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. / New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1964.


17. Gilbert, W. S. Original Plays. In Four Series. 4 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1911 & 1917.
    • First Series: The Wicked World (1873); Pygmalion and Galatea (1871); Charity (1874); The Princess (1870); The Palace of Truth (1870); Trial by Jury (1875); Iolanthe (1882)
    • Second Series: Broken Hearts (1875); Engaged (1877); Sweethearts (1874); Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith (1876); Gretchen (1879); Tom Cobb (1875); The Sorcerer (1877); H.M.S. Pinafore (1878); The Pirates of Penzance (1879)
    • Third Series: Comedy and Tragedy (1884); Foggerty's Fairy (1881); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1874); Patience (1881); Princess Ida (1884); The Mikado (1885); Ruddigore (1887); The Yeomen of the Guard (1888); The Gondoliers (1889); Utopia, Limited (1893)
    • Fourth Series: The Fairy's Dilemma (1904); The Grand Duke (1896); His Excellency (1894); "Haste to the Wedding" (1892); Fallen Fairies (1909); The Gentleman in Black (1870); Brantinghame Hall (1888); Creatures of Impulse (1871); Randall's Thumb (1871); The Fortune-Hunter (1897); Thespis (1871)


18. Gilbert, W. S. The Savoy Operas: Being the Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1896. 1926. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1927.


19. The Plays & Poems of W. S. Gilbert: Including the Complete Text of the Fourteen Gilbert and Sullivan Operas, Three Other Gilbert Plays, and All the Bab Ballads. With Illustrations by the Author. [Thespis (1871); Trial by Jury (1875); The Sorcerer (1877); H.M.S. Pinafore (1878); The Pirates of Penzance (1879); Patience (1881); Iolanthe (1882); Princess Ida (1884); The Mikado (1885); Ruddigore (1887); The Yeomen of the Guard (1888); The Gondoliers (1889); Utopia Limited (1893); The Grand Duke (1896); with The Palace of Truth (1870); The Mountebanks (1892); His Excellency (1894)]. Preface by Deems Taylor. New York: Random House, 1932.


20. Bradley, Ian, ed. The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan [Trial by Jury (1875); The Sorcerer (1877); H.M.S. Pinafore (1878); The Pirates of Penzance (1879); Patience (1881); Iolanthe (1882); Princess Ida (1884); The Mikado (1885); Ruddigore (1887); The Yeomen of the Guard (1888); The Gondoliers (1889); Utopia Limited (1893); The Grand Duke (1896)]. 1982, 1984, 1996. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.


21. Haining, Peter, ed. The Lost Stories of W. S. Gilbert. Illustrated by ‘Bab’. 1973. London: Robson Books Ltd., 1982.


22. Pearson, Hesketh. Gilbert and Sullivan: A Biography. 1935. Penguin Books, 791. Harmondsworth: Penguin / London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd., 1950.


23. Baily, Leslie. The Gilbert & Sullivan Book: Revised Edition. 1952. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1956.


24. Baily, Leslie. Gilbert & Sullivan and Their World. 1973. London: Book Club Associates / Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1974.


Tony Harrison (1937- )


25. Harrison, Tony. Selected Poems. 1984. 2nd edition. Penguin International Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.


26. Harrison, Tony. Theatre Works 1973-1985. 1985. King Penguin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.


27. Harrison, Tony. The Mysteries. 1985. London: Faber, 1988.


28. Harrison, Tony. Under the Clock: New Poems. Pocket Penguin 38. London: Penguin, 2005.


Ben Jonson (1572-1637)


29. Jonson, Ben. The Works. Memoir by William Gifford. The Old Dramatists. London: George Routledge, 1838.


30. Jonson, Ben. Masques and Entertainments. Ed. Henry Morley. The Carisbrooke Library, 9. London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1890.


31. Jonson, Ben. Selected Writings. Ed. Harry Levin. New York: Random House, Inc., 1938.


32. Jonson, Ben. The Oxford Jonson. Volume VIII: The Poems / The Prose Works. Ed. C. H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson. 1947. 11 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.


33. Jonson, Ben. Poems. Ed. Ian Donaldson. Oxford Paperbacks. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.


34. Jonson, Ben. The Complete Poems. Ed. George Parfitt. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.


Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)


35. Marlowe, Christopher. The Complete Plays: Dido, Queen of Carthage; Tamburlaine the Great; Doctor Faustus; The Jew of Malta; Edward the Second; The Massacre at Paris. Ed. J. B. Steane. 1969. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.


36. Marlowe, Christopher. The Complete Poems and Translations. Ed. Stephen Orgel. Penguin English Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.


37. Marlowe, Christopher. Complete Plays and Poems. Ed. E. D. Pendry and J. C. Maxwell. Everyman’s Library. London: Dent, n.d.


38. Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. 1992. Picador. London: Pan Books Limited, 1993.


Terence Alan ['Spike'] Milligan (1918-2002)


39. Milligan, Spike. Puckoon. 1963. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.


40. Milligan, Spike. The Goon Show Scripts. Drawings by Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan. 1972. London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1973.


41. Milligan, Spike. More Goon Show Scripts. Drawings by Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan. 1973. London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1974.


42. Carpenter, Humphrey. Spike Milligan: The Biography. A Hodder & Stoughton Book. London: Hodder Headline, 2003.


Sir John Clifford Mortimer (1923-2009)


43. Mortimer, John. Charade. 1947. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987.


44. Mortimer, John. A Voyage Round My Father / The Dock Brief / What Shall We Tell Caroline?. 1971 & 1958. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.


45. Mortimer, John. Collected Plays, Volume One: A Voyage Round My Father / Collaborators / The Dock Brief / What Shall We Tell Caroline? / Lunch Hour. 1971, 1973, 1958 & 1960. London: Oberon Books, 2001.


46. Mortimer, John. Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life. 1982. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.


47. Grove, Valerie. A Voyage Round John Mortimer: The Biography. 2007. London: Penguin, 2008.


Vatslav Fomich Nizhinskiy [Vaslav Nijinsky] (1890-1950)


48. Nijinsky, Romola, ed. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. 1936. Cal 152. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973.


49. Acocella, Joan, ed. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition. Trans. Kyril Fitzlyon. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.


50. Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky. 1933. Penguin Books 1410. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1960.


51. Nijinsky, Romola. The Last Years of Nijinsky. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1952.


52. Buckle, Richard. Nijinsky. 1971. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980.


John Kingsley [Joe] Orton (1933-1967)


53. Orton, Joe. The Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane / Loot / What the Butler Saw / The Ruffian on the Stair / The Erpingham Camp / Funeral Games / The Good and Faithful Servant. 1964, 1967, 1969, 1967, 1970. Introduction by John Lahr. Methuen Paperbacks. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1976.


54. Orton, Joe. The Orton Diaries: Including the Correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and Others. Ed. John Lahr. 1986. A Minerva Paperback. London: Methuen / Mandarin, 1989.


55. Lahr, John. Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. 1978. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.


John James Osborne (1929-1994)


56. Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger: A Play in Three Acts. 1957. London: Faber, 1971.


57. Osborne, John. The Entertainer: A Play. 1957. London: Faber, 1957.


58. Osborne, John. Luther: A Play. 1961. London: Faber, 1965.


59. Osborne, John. Tom Jones: A Film Script. Ed. Robert Hughes. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964.


60. Osborne, John. Inadmissible Evidence: A Play. London: Evans Plays, 1966.


61. Osborne, John. A Better Class of Person. An Autobiography: 1929-1956. 1981. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.


62. Osborne, John. Almost a Gentleman. An Autobiography, Vol II: 1955-1966. London: Faber, 1991.


Harold Pinter (1930-2008)


63. Pinter, Harold. Plays: One. The Birthday Party / The Room / The Dumb Waiter / A Slight Ache / A Night Out / The Black and White / The Examination. 1976. The Master Playwrights. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1980.


64. Pinter, Harold. Plays: Two. The Caretaker / The Dwarfs / The Collection / The Lover / Night School &c. The Master Playwrights. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1977.


65. Pinter, Harold. Plays: Three. The Homecoming / Tea Party / The Basement / Landscape / Silence &c. The Master Playwrights. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1978.


66. Pinter, Harold. Plays: Four. Old Times / No Man’s Land / Betrayal / Monologue / Family Voices. The Master Playwrights. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1981.


67. Pinter, Harold. The Hothouse. 1980. A Methuen Modern Play. London: Methuen London Ltd., 1982.


68. Pinter, Harold. One for the Road. 1984. With Production Photos by Ivan Kyncl and an Interview on the Play and Its Politics. London: Methuen London Ltd., 1985.


69. Pinter, Harold. Five Screenplays: The Servant / The Pumpkin Eater / The Quiller Memorandum / Accident / The Go-Between. 1971. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1973.


70. Pinter, Harold. The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Other Screenplays: Langrishe, Go Down / The Last Tycoon. 1971. A Methuen Paperback. London: Methuen London Ltd., 1982.


71. Pinter, Harold. Poems and Prose 1949-1977. London: Eyre Methuen Ltd., 1978.


Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911-1977)


72. Rattigan, Terence. The Winslow Boy with Two Other Plays: French without Tears & Flare Path. 1946, 1937, 1942. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1950.


73. Rattigan, Terence. The Deep Blue Sea with Three Other Plays: Harlequinade; Adventure Story & The Browning Version. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1955.


Sir Peter Levin Shaffer (1926- )


74. Shaffer, Peter. The Royal Hunt of the Sun: A Play Concerning the Conquest of Peru. 1964. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1969.


75. Shaffer, Peter. Equus. 1973. Penguin Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.


William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Works:


76. Mr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: A Facsimile Edition. 1623. Ed. Helge Kökeritz. Introduction by Charles Tyler Prouty. 1954. New York: Yale University Press, 1955.


77. Hinman, Charlton, ed. The First Folio of Shakespeare. The Norton Facsimile. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1968.


78. Allen, Michael J. B., & Kenneth Muir, ed. Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntingdon Library. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.


79. Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works: The Text and Order of the First Folio with Quarto Variants & a Choice of Modern Readings Noted Marginally: To Which are added Pericles and the First Quartos of Six of the Plays with Three Plays of Doubtful Authorship: Also the Poems according to the Original Quartos and Octavos. 4 vols. Ed. Herbert Farjeon. 1929. Introduction by Ivor Brown. London & New York: The Nonesuch Press & Random House, 1953:
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The First of Four Volumes: Comedies, with the Prefatory Matter from the First Folio, the Note on the Text by Herbert Farjeon and a New Introduction by Ivor Brown.
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The Second of Four Volumes: Histories, and Troylus and Cressida, According to its Placing in the First Folio.
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The Third of Four Volumes: Tragedies, and Pericles. With Three Plays of Doubtful Authorship Namely: Two Noble Kinsmen; Edward III; Sir Thomas Moore.
    • The New Nonesuch Shakespeare: The Last of Four Volumes: Poems: Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; The Sonnets; A Lovers Complaint; The Passionate Pilgrime; Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musicke; The Phoenix and the Turtle.


80. Craig, W. J., ed. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. 1905. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1949.


81. Evans, G. Blakemore, ed. The Riverside Shakespeare. General Introduction by Harry Levin. With Notes and Introductions by Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Hallett Smith, Marie Edel & Charles H. Shattuck. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.


82. Shakespeare, William. The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete. Ed. A. L. Rowse. 3 vols. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1978.
    1. The Annotated Shakespeare - Complete Works Illustrated: Comedies
    2. The Annotated Shakespeare - Complete Works Illustrated: Histories and Poems
    3. The Annotated Shakespeare - Complete Works Illustrated: Tragedies and Romances


83. Shakespeare, William. The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete. Ed. A. L. Rowse. 3 vols. 1978. 2nd ed. London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1979.
    1. Comedies
    2. Histories and Poems
    3. Tragedies and Romances


84. Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works. Ed. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.


85. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, with a Life of the Poet by Charles Symmons, D. D., A Glossary and Fifty Embellishments. London: Ramboro Books, 1993.


86. Greenblatt, Stephen, & Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard & Katharine Eisaman Maus, ed. The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition. Ed. Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett & William Montgomery. 1986 & 1988. With an Essay on the Shakespearean Stage by Andrew Gurr. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997.


87. The Handy-Volume Shakspeare. Ed. Q. D. 13 vols. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., n.d.


88. Brooke, C. F. Tucker, ed. The Shakespeare Apocrypha: Being a Collection of Fourteen Plays Which Have Been Ascribed to Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
    1. Arden of Faversham
    2. Locrine
    3. Edward III
    4. Mucedorus
    5. Sir John Oldcastle
    6. Thomas Lord Cromwell
    7. The London Prodigal
    8. The Puritan
    9. A Yorkshire Tragedy
    10. The Merry Devil of Edmonton
    11. Fair Em
    12. The Two Noble Kinsman
    13. The Birth of Merlin
    14. Sir Thomas More


89. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeares Werke in Fünf Bänden. Trans. August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Dorothea und Ludwig Tieck, & Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin. Rev. ed. 1908-1923. 5 vols. Campe Klassiker. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Kampe, 1966.

Comedies:


90. Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night or, What You Will. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1901. New York: Dover, 1964.

Tragedies:


91. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1877. 2 vols. New York: Dover, 1963.


92. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet: The First Quarto, 1603. Ed. Albert B. Weiner. Foreword by Hardin Craig. New York: Barrons’ Educational Series, Inc., 1962.


93. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1880. New York: Dover, 1963.


94. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1873. New York: Dover, 1963.


95. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1871. New York: Dover, 1963.

Romances:


96. [Mr William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published According to the True Original Copies. The Third Impression. And Unto this Impression is added Seven Playes, never before printed in Folio, viz, Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Ld Cromwell. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A York-shire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. 1664. London: Methuen, 1905. “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” pp. 1-20.]


97. [Allen, Michael J. B., & Kenneth Muir, ed. Shakespeare’s Plays in Quarto: A Facsimile Edition of Copies Primarily from the Henry E. Huntingdon Library. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. “The Play of Pericles Prince of Tyre,” pp.751-86]


98. [Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works: Original Spelling Edition. Ed. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. “Pericles Prynce of Tyre,” pp. 1169-1200.]


99. [Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works: Original Spelling Edition. Ed. Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. “A Diplomatic Reprint of ‘Pericles’,” pp. 2102-21; Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor. William Shakespeare. A Textual Companion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. “Pericles,” pp. 130-31 & 556-92


100. Shakespeare, William. The Winter’s Tale. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Ed. Horace Howard Furness. 1898. New York: Dover, 1964.


101. Shakespeare, William, & John Fletcher. The Two Noble Kinsmen. Ed. N. W. Bawcutt. 1977. The New Penguin Shakespeare. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

Sonnets & Poems:


102. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. Martin Seymour-Smith. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1963.


103. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Ed. W. G. Ingram & Theodore Redpath. 1964. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978.


104. Shakespeare, William. The Poems. Ed. F. T. Prince. 1960. The Arden Shakespeare. University Paperbacks. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1976.

Secondary:


105. Boyce, Charles, & David White, ed. The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life and Times, and More. Foreword by Terry Hands. A Roundtable Press Book. New York: Facts on File, 1990.


106. Clarke, Mary Cowden. The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines. 1850-1852. 3 vols. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. / New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., n.d.


107. Duffin, Ross W. Shakespeare’s Songbook. Foreword by Stephen Orgel. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.


108. Gordon, Giles, ed. Shakespeare Stories. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982.


109. Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2004.


110. Greg, W. W. The Shakespeare First Folio: Its Bibliographical and Textual History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.


111. Halliday, F. E. A Shakespeare Companion. 1952. Penguin Shakespeare Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.


112. Halliday, F. E. The Cult of Shakespeare. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1957.


113. Hotson, Leslie. The First Night of Twelfth Night. 1954. London: Mercury Books, 1961.


114. Schoenbaum, S. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. New York: Oxford University Press, in association with The Scolar Press, 1975.


115. Schoenbaum, S. William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. 1975. Revised Edition with a New Postscript. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.


116. Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives: New Edition. 1970. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.


117. Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber, 2005.


118. Shapiro, James. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.


119. Shapiro, James. 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. London: Faber, 2015.


120. Sher, Antony. Year of the King. London: Methuen, 1985.


121. Spencer, T. J. B., ed. Shakespeare’s Plutarch: The Lives of Julius Caesar, Brutus, Marcus Antonius, and Coriolanus in the translation of Sir Thomas North. Peregrine Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.


122. Spurgeon, Caroline. Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us. 1935. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.


123. Taylor, Gary. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. London: The Hogarth Press, 1990.


George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


124. Shaw, George Bernard. Cashel Byron’s Profession. 1886. Novels of My Nonage. London: Constable, 1914.


125. Shaw, George Bernard. An Unsocial Socialist: A Novel. 1887. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. Virago modern Classics. London: Virago Press, 1980.


126. Shaw, George Bernard. Love Among the Artists. 1900. Novels of My Nonage. London: Constable, 1914.


127. Shaw, George Bernard. The Black Girl in Search of God, and Some Lesser Tales. 1932. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.


128. Shaw, George Bernard. Plays Pleasant. 1898. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.


129. Shaw, George Bernard. Plays Unpleasant. 1898. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.


130. Shaw, George Bernard. Three Plays for Puritans. 1901. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.


131. Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara: A Screen Version. 1907. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1949.


132. Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts. 1916. Illustrated by Felix Topolski. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1947.


133. Shaw, George Bernard. The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza. 1930. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956.


134. Shaw, George Bernard. The Doctor’s Dilemma: A Tragedy. 1908. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.


135. Shaw, George Bernard. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy. 1903. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948.


136. Shaw, George Bernard. Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch. 1921. Rev ed. The World’s Classics, 500. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1945.


137. Lerner, Alan Jay. My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts Based on Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw. 1956. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.


138. Shaw, George Bernard. The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw. 1931. Preface by the Author. Sydney: The Sunday Sun, [c.1950].


139. Shaw, George Bernard. The Complete Bernard Shaw Prefaces. 1934. London: Paul Hamlyn Ltd., 1965.


140. Shaw, George Bernard. The Complete Prefaces. Volume 1: 1889-1913. Ed. Dan H. Laurence & Daniel J. Leary. 3 vols. London: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press, 1993.


141. Shaw, George Bernard. The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Vol. 6 of 7. ['Saint Joan' (1924); 'The Apple Cart' (1930); 'The Millionairess' (1936); 'Village Wooing' (1934); 'On The Rocks' (1934); 'The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles' (1936); 'The Six of Calais' (1936)]. London: Max Reinhardt / The Bodley Head, 1973.


142. Shaw, George Bernard. The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with Their Prefaces. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Vol. 7 of 7. ['Geneva' (1939); 'Buoyant Billions' (1949); 'Cymbeline Refinished' (1938); 'In Good King Charles's Golden Days' (1939); 'Farfetched Fables' (1951); 'Shakes versus Shav' (1950); & Uncollected Works, including 'Passion Play' (1878), 'The Cassone' (1889), 'The Gadfly' (1898) & 'Why She Would Not' (1957); Index]. London: Max Reinhardt / The Bodley Head, 1974.


143. Shaw, George Bernard. Major Critical Essays: The Quintessence of Ibsenism / the Perfect Wagnerite / The Sanity of Art. 1891, 1898 & 1895. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.


144. Shaw, George Bernard. The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism. 1928. A Pelican Book. 1937. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.


145. Shaw, George Bernard. Sixteen Self-Sketches. Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw. London: Constable, 1949.


146. Shaw, George Bernard. My Dear Dorothea: A Practical System of Moral Education for Females Embodied in a Letter to a Yong Person of That Sex. Illustrated by Clare Winsten. Note by Stephen Winsten. London: Phoenix House, Ltd., 1956.


147. Wilson, Edwin, ed. Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw’s Writings on the Plays and Production of Shakespeare. 1961. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1962.


148. Dent, Alan, ed. Bernard Shaw & Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence. London: Victor Gollancz, 1952.


149. Shaw, George Bernard. Bernard Shaw’s Letters to Granville-Barker. Ed. C. B. Purdom. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1957.


150. Pearson, Hesketh. Bernard Shaw. 1942. Rev. ed. 1961. A Four Square Book. London: The New English Library Ltd., 1964.


Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)


151. Sheridan, R. B. Dramatic Works. Ed. Joseph Knight. The World’s Classics. 1906. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1923.


Robert Cedric Sherriff (1896-1975)


152. Sherriff, R. C. Journey’s End: A Play in Three Acts. 1929. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930.


153. Sherriff, R. C. Journey’s End. 1929. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2000.


Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski (1863-1938)


154. Stanislavsky, Constantin. My Life in Art. 1924. Trans. J. J. Robbins. 1948. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.


155. Stanislavsky, Constantin. An Actor Prepares. Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1936.


156. Stanislavsky, Konstantin. Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stage. Trans. David Magarshack. 1950. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1967.


157. Stanislavsky, Constantin. Creating a Role. Trans. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. 1961. NEL Mentor. London: The New English Library Limited, 1968.


Tomáš Straussler [Sir Tom Stoppard] (1937- )


158. Stoppard, Tom. Lord Malquist & Mr Moon: A Novel. 1966. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1980.


159. Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 1967. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1978.


160. Stoppard, Tom. The Real Inspector Hound. 1968. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1979.


161. Stoppard, Tom. Enter a Free Man. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1968.


162. Stoppard, Tom. Albert’s Bridge: A Play. 1969. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1970.


163. Stoppard, Tom. If You’re Glad I’ll be Frank: A Play for Radio. 1969. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1976.


164. Stoppard, Tom. After Magritte. 1971. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1975.


165. Stoppard, Tom. Jumpers. 1972. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1979.


166. Stoppard, Tom. Travesties. 1975. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1975.


167. Stoppard, Tom. Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land. 1976. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1978.


168. Stoppard, Tom. Night and Day. 1978. Faber Paperbacks. London: Faber, 1979.


John Webster (c.1580-c.1634)
& Cyril Tourneur (1575-1626)


169. Symonds, John Addington, ed. John Webster and Cyril Tourneur (Four Plays). A Mermaid Dramabook. New York: Hill & Wang, Inc. 1956.




[Theatre Royal (Northampton)]


Anthologies & Secondary Literature

[26 books]



Anthologies & Secondary Literature


170. Bentley, Eric, ed. The Classic Theatre. Volume I: Six Italian Plays. A Doubleday Anchor Original. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959.


171. Bentley, Eric, ed. The Classic Theatre. Volume II: Five German Plays. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959.


172. Bentley, Eric, ed. The Classic Theatre. Volume III: Six Spanish Plays. A Doubleday Anchor Original. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959.


173. Berry, Cicely. Voice and the Actor. Foreword by Peter Brook. New York: Macmillan, 1973.


174. Browne, E. Martin, ed. Four Modern Verse Plays: The Family Reunion, by T. S. Eliot; A Phoenix Too Frequent, by Christopher Fry; Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury, by Charles Williams; Happy as Larry, by Donagh MacDonagh. 1939, 1946, 1936, 1946. Penguin Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.


175. Chambers, E. K. The English Folk-Play. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933.


176. Cherkasov, N. Notes of a Soviet Actor. 1953. Trans. G. Ivanov-Mumjiev & S. Rosenberg. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.


177. Cawley, A. C. ed. Everyman. 1961. Old and Middle English Texts. Ed. G. L. Brook. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1974.


178. Craig, Edward Gordon. Scene. Foreword & Introductory Poem by John Masefield. Lndon: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1923.


179. Duncan, Isadora. My Life. 1928. London: Sphere Books, Ltd., 1968.


180. Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. 1961. Rev. ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.


181. Gresham, William Lindsay. Houdini: The Man Who Walked through Walls. 1959. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1960.


182. Happé, Peter, ed. English Mystery Plays: A Selection. Penguin English Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.


183. Muir, Frank & Simon Brett, ed. The Penguin Book of Comedy Sketches. 1982. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992.


184. New English Dramatists, 1: Each His Own Wilderness, by Doris Lessing; The Hamlet of Stepney Green, by Bernard Kops; Chicken Soup with Barley, by Arnold Wesker. Ed. E. Martin Browne. Penguin Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.


185. New English Dramatists, 6: A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt; The Devils, by John Whiting; Nil Carborundum, by Henry Livings. Ed. Tom Maschler. Introduction by Harold Hobson. Penguin Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.


186. O’Connor, Gary. Darlings of the Gods: One Year in the Lives of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984.


187. Olivier, Laurence. Confessions of an Actor. 1982. Coronet Books. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983.


188. Plays of the Sixties. Volume One: Ross, by Terence Rattigan; The Royal Hunt of the Sun, by Peter Shaffer; Billy Liar, by Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall; Play with a Tiger, by Doris Lessing. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1966.


189. Rhode, Eric, ed. Novelist’s Theatre: Nigel Dennis: August for the People / Muriel Spark: Doctors of Philosophy / Angus Wilson: The Mulberry Bush. 1961, 1963 & 1956. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.


190. Stars of the Russian Ballet. New Zealand: The Royal New Zealand Ballet, 1992.


191. Taylor, John Russell. Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama. 1962. Rev. ed. A Pelican Book. 1963. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.


192. Tynan, Kenneth. Oh! Calcutta! An Entertainment with Music. Directed by Jacques Levy. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1969.