Browse by Subject Category—Drama

An early edition of H V Esmond's play

Samuel French Limited, London, 1900

1926, the first UK edition of Sidney Howard's play

Chatto & Windus, London, 1926

1901, a rare first edition of Charles Aubert's book on mime

E Meuriot, Paris, 1901

with the lyrics given in English and an illustration by Caspar Neher

Deutsches Theater Berlin, Berlin, London, 1959

1924/1925, Il Piacere dell'Onestà; Pensaci, Giacomino!; and La Vita che ti Diedi

Bemporad & Figlio, Firenze (Florence), 1924

1923, the second UK printing of Karel Capek's play that gave us the word "robot"

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1923

1968, an unpublished stage adaptation by David Castillejo

Not Published, 1968

Signed by Edward Charles, a fragment from an unfinished pageant

Joiner and Steele Ltd, London, 1931

1914, a French edition of Claudel's The Tidings Brought to Mary, in a half-leather binding by Hachette

Nouvelle Revue Francaise, Paris, 1914

Robert Pennant Jones' guide to acting, imaging and learning Shakespeare, illustrated by actor Clive Francis

Printed for the Author(s), 2007

2005, Trevor Griffiths' script for the Life of Thomas Paine

Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 2005

An early play by Roy Plomley, his own copy with manuscript edits

Unpublished, 1954

An early printing of Karel and Josef Capek's play (1924)

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1924

1919, first UK edition, Maurice Maeterlinck's Fairy Play in Five Acts being a Sequel to The Blue Bird

Methuen, London, 1919

A Pictorial Record of the Theatrical Works of Noel Coward (2000, 2nd ed)

Oberon Books, London, 2000

1939, second printing of J B Priestley's play of a soul in limbo

William Heinemann, London, 1939

Signed and dedicated by A P Herbert

Methuen, London, 1931

A Great War play from German dramatist Eberhard Wolfgang Möller

Victor Gollancz, London, 1930

1912, hardback, a first edition on dancing, ballet, dancers, morris dancing...

Grant Richards, London, 1912

1917, first UK edition, containing four of Lord Dunsany's plays

T Fisher Unwin, London, 1917

David Hare's critically acclaimed play, this edition from The Faber Library

Faber & Faber, London, 1997

1924, a Great War play set in the Allied offensive of 1918

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1924

A Great War drama, Cecil Lewis's 1928 translation of Paul Raynal's anti-war play

Methuen, London, 1928

1812, in a Simier R. du Roi binding, and plates by Clement Marillier

P Didot L'Aine, Paris, 1812

1974 edition of Morley's account of theatre trips 1851–1866

Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1974