Drama/Theater from GlobalAcademics

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1936. Scholarly two-volume complete text presents a detailed study of French plays that were written between 1652-1672, the period in which Moliere wrote his plays may be considered the most important in the history of French drama. Text contains discussions of 301 of the plays written during the period of 1652-1672, including coverage of… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1932. Scholarly two-volume complete text presents a detailed study of French plays that were written between 1635-1651, ranging in value from obscure productions that continue the traditions of the Middle Ages, of the sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries, to comedies and tragedies that foreshadow the work of Moliere and Racine, and to tregedies in… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1929. Scholarly two-volume complete text presents a detailed study of French plays that were written after the death of Henri IV and no later than Mairet's Sophonisbe, excluding works that may have been acted for the first time before May, 1610, and after the autumn of 1634, and plays in dialect and in Provencal,… Read more about this item

Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke, and Company, 1887. Selina Dolaro (1849-1889) was an operatic singer, manager, playwright, and novelist. She made her first appearance on the London stage in "Chilperic" (Lyceum, 1870). The vocalist became Director of London's Royal Theatre in 1875, while starring in "La Perichole." Dolaro joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1875 and again in… Read more about this item

Paris, France: La Librairie Illustree, 1880. Classic text- "Tricks and Decorations" by renown author-historian Georges Moynet, presents a detailed study of the theatrical technology of the late nineteenth century, including various stage mechanicals, optical-illusion apparatuses; theater props; lighting and special effects; architectural and decorative construction; various theatrical machinery; applications of vapor, electricity and hydraulics; theatrical tricks and decorative effects; joinery… Read more about this item

New York: Russell & Russell Inc., 1961. Classic rare two-volume set contains the following complete plays including introductions and notes: The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, An Humourous Day's Mirth, All Fools, May-Day, The Gentleman Usher, Monsieur D'Olive, The Widow's Tears, The Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, Eastward Ho, The Ball, and Sir Giles Goosecap. 911 pgs. total… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1990. Founded in 1932, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo was the brainchild of Colonel Wasily de Basil (Vassily Grigorievitch Voskresensky) and Rene Blum, who assembled and directed the company in the wake of critical changes in the world of classical dance: the deaths of Serge Diaghilev and Anna Pavlova (in… Read more about this item