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First World War Plays
Mark Rawlinson
From Night Watches by Allan Monkhouse, published in 1916, to Abigail Docherty's Sea and Land and Sky (2010), this collection of seven plays shows how the war has been represented through the 'traditions, forms and economies of the theatre' over the last century. The other works are Alice Dunbar-Nelson's Mine Eyes Have Seen (1918); Tunnel Trench (1924) by Hubert Griffith; Noël Coward's Post Mortem (1930); Oh What a Lovely War! (1963) by Theatre Workshop; and The Accrington Pals (1981) by Peter Whelan.

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Exit, pursued by a bear
An A–Z Guide to Shakespeare's Plays, Poems and Stagecraft
Louise McConnell
In a simple A–Z format, this guide to the plays, poems and the world of Shakespeare explains all the terms used in Shakespearean study, from GCSE to degree level. It describes the role of every character, from non-speaking cameos to Hamlet, and gives half-page synopses of each play. Other entries cover Shakespeare's sources, literary terms, critics and editors, contemporary playwrights and actors; and there is a 'filmography' of film and TV productions.

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Barry Cryer Comedy Scrapbook
Barry Cryer;Philip Porter
Barry Cryer has been a stalwart of British comedy since the 1950s. Beginning his career at the famous Windmill Theatre in Soho, he has since written for, worked with and often become friends with most of the greats of the post-war era, among them Tommy Cooper and Eric Morecambe. This memoir is presented as a scrapbook of his personal photographs, illuminated by Cryer's observations about his life and the stars he has worked with, and by their comments about him.

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The Pocket Guide to Ballroom Dancing
Maureen Hughes

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Hello Again...
Nine Decades of Radio Voices
Simon Elmes
Published to mark the 90th anniversary of the BBC's first ever broadcast and the beginning of the British love affair with radio, this book presents a radio history, from the first tentative programmes in 1922, up to the present. Above all, it celebrates the famous voices of radio, including the pioneering radio gardener, Marion Cran; Churchill during wartime; the Goons and Kenneth Horne in the 1950s; the pirates of Radio Caroline; and the stars of BBC radio today.

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John Gielgud
Matinee Idol to Movie Star
Jonathan Croall
A matinee idol in his twenties, John Gielgud went on to become the greatest classical actor of the 20th century. This entertaining but critical biography charts the ups and downs of his life, his stage roles, his rivalry with Olivier, his personal relationships – and the arrest that nearly wrecked his career. Drawing on Gielgud's own frank correspondence and on interviews with colleagues and friends, Croall draws an intimate, often startling portrait of this great and much-loved actor. Slightly off-mint.

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The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II
William Shakespeare;Ed. Anthony B Dawson;Ed. Paul Yachnin
This well-annotated text of Shakespeare’s Richard II includes a highly extensive series of introductory essays on the play’s history of performance, criticism and adaptation, studies of its key characters and a full, detailed textual analysis.

£94.00

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Loves Labour's Lost
A Facsimile from the First Folio
William Shakespeare
No jacket.

£14.95

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George Cole: My Autobiography
The World Was My Lobster
George Cole
George Cole was adopted as a baby by a South London couple, and then again at 15 when the comic actor Alastair Sim took him in as an evacuee. This autobiography reflects on Cole's childhood and relationships as well as the long career during which he worked with many legends of the stage and screen and created such memorable characters as Flash Harry in the St Trinian's films and Arthur Daley in Minder.

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Harold Pinter: Four Plays
Harold Pinter
This finely produced set of three volumes, each bound in black linen, is a celebratory collection of four plays to mark Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. The chosen plays are The Birthday Party, first performed in 1958; No Man's Land (1975); Mountain Language (1988); and Celebration, first performed (in a double bill with The Room) at the Almeida Theatre in 2000. Slipcased.

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights
Martin Middeke;Peter Paul Schnierer
This Methuen Drama Guide introduces 25 writers whose work shaped and defined Irish theatre between 1960 and 2010, with biographical sketches, discussions of the most important John B Keane.

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One Leg Too Few
The Adventures of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
William Cook
Beginning with their Behind the Fringe programme notes on each other, this dual biography not only tells the story of one of the most celebrated and complicated partnerships in British comedy, but also brings together 36 short memoirs by friends and colleagues, and was written with the full co-operation of both comedians' estates. The result is a thorough exploration of how their 'doomed romance' brought laughter to so many.

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Jack Duckworth and Me
Bill Tarmey;Alan Hart
Bill Tarmey (1941–2012) played the lovable rogue Jack Duckworth in Coronation Street for 31 years until his character was killed off during the show's 50th anniversary in 2010. His story of growing up in post-war Manchester, singing in working men's clubs, and then finding his niche playing a rascal whose life uncannily mirrored his own will be cherished by all fans of Britain's longest-running soap.

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Thunderbirds: The Comic Collection
Volume Two
Gerry Anderson
This second volume of Thunderbirds adventures contains the first twelve comic strips from the 1960s, beginning with Blazing Danger, which introduced Lady Penelope and Parker to International Rescue, and including the great classics, Talons of the Eagle and Atlantic Tunnel. All the strips in this volume were illustrated by the legendary Frank Bellamy. (Please note two pages are duplicated in the book due to an editorial error.)

£25.00

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Absolute Pandemonium
A Memoir
Brian Blessed
There's no one quite like Brian Blessed: actor, storyteller, mountaineer and coffin-maker. In this frank, riotous memoir he recalls his childhood in a Yorkshire mining town, his breakthrough on Z Cars, falling for Katharine Hepburn, raising hell with Peter O'Toole, meeting the love of his life, the actress Hildegard Neil – and punching Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs. ‘No long dramatic pauses this time, Harold; he got one right on the side of the jaw. Wham!’

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The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte:
The Complete Libretto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
One of three ‘jocular dramas’ which Mozart created with librettist Da Ponte, Cosí fan tutte used to be considered implausible and scandalous, since two sisters marry strangers who are really their disguised fiancés – but its unsettling paradoxes now make it feel a very modern comedy.

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The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's La Bohème: The Complete Libretto
Giacomo Puccini
The Met has staged Puccini’s passionate tale of tenderness and tragedy more than any other opera. The short essays complementing this libretto explain why it is so loved, why its Parisian setting is important and how it reveals the emotional significance of everyday things.è

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Just Me
Sheila Hancock
Unearthing secrets in Budapest, getting arrested in Thailand, exalting in the art of Venice or facing down airline staff... life is anything but dull with Sheila Hancock. Following on from The Two of Us, this book describes life on her own, after the death of her husband John Thaw. Having heeded a piece of Quaker advice - 'live adventurously' - she faced the future with characteristic wit, gusto and curiosity.

£18.99

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Cinema
The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of A Century
Youssef Ishaghpour;Jean-Luc Godard
Off-mint

£45.00

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Teaching with Shakespeare
Critics in the Classroom
McIver
Slightly off-mint.

£34.50

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£4.99
The Second Part of King Henry VI: Part 2
The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Michael Hattaway

£8.99

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£1.99
Blame Canada!
South Park and Contemporary Culture
Toni JohnsonWoods

£60.00

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£5.99
A Woman at War
Marlene Dietrich Remembered
J David Riva;Guy Stern
An icon of Hollywood's golden era, Marlene Dietrich first made her name in the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in the 1920s. The most famous German performer of the 1930s, Dietrich was a vocal critic of the Nazi regime, bravely denouncing it and later working to promote the American war effort. Recalling the great star during this turbulent period, this book is a collection of interviews with a range of people who knew her, from GIs to well-known fellow entertainers.

£42.50

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The Birth Of Theatre
Philip Freund
Volume 1 traces the development of theatre from its origins in Egyptian and Middle Eastern religious ritual, to Greek and Roman drama.

£35.00

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The First Part of King Henry VI
The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Michael Hattaway

£8.99

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£3.99
Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators
Lukas Erne
This volume shows that collaborations between Shakespeare and his modern editors can shape people’s reading experiences and response to his work in a positive way.

£14.99

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£2.99
Shakespeare: The Basics
Sean McEvoy
Intended as first introductions for students new to a subject, each of these guidebooks gives an overview of the fundamental principles of a subject area in an accessible format and jargon-free language.

£14.99

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£7.99
Cheshire
(including Chester) (Records of Early English Drama)
Elizabeth Baldwin;Lawrence M. Clopper;David Mills
Off-mint

£412.95

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£50.00
Bullfight
The Pas de Seux
Ricardo B. Sanchez: Rosa Olivares: Joseph Campbell

£37.50

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£4.99
Into the Woods (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Stephen Sondheim;James Lapine
Slightly off-mint

£15.99

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£5.99
Grindhouse
The Sleaze-filled Saga of an Exploitation Double Feature
Quentin Tarantino;Robert Rodriguez
Slightly off-mint

£17.99

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£7.99
Medea (Student Editions)
Slightly off-mint

£10.99

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£3.99
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