Secondhand Drama & Plays Bargain Book Box SP4190

Secondhand Drama & Plays Bargain Book Box SP4190

Twenty plays and two volumes of Eliot: Miller, Williams, O’Neill, Shaw, Wilde, Brecht, Goethe’s Faust in both parts, Friel, and Australian work from Patrick White, Alan Seymour and Jane Harrison’s Stolen. The set text shelf for a drama student or anyone who reads plays for pleasure. Some covers may carry price stickers or sticker residue.

1. Selected Poems — T.S. Eliot — Prufrock, The Waste Land, Ash Wednesday, in the Faber paper-covered edition. The Eliot most people own.
2. The Plays — J.P. Donleavy — The Ginger Man and others adapted for the stage by the novelist himself. Rare in paperback.
3. Three Australian Plays — Alan Seymour, Douglas Stewart, Hal Porter — The One Day of the Year, Ned Kelly and The Tower in a Penguin Plays volume. Seymour’s Anzac Day play is still argued about.
4. Mother Courage and Her Children — Bertolt Brecht — A canteen woman follows the Thirty Years War and loses her children to it one by one. Methuen edition.
5. Faust Part One — Goethe — The pact, Gretchen, and the Walpurgis Night. Penguin Classics, Philip Wayne translation.
6. A Man for All Seasons — Robert Bolt — Thomas More refuses to swear to Henry’s marriage and goes to the block. The play behind the film.
7. Four Plays — Patrick White — The Ham Funeral, The Season at Sarsaparilla, A Cheery Soul and Night on Bald Mountain. The Nobel novelist’s theatre, in the Sun Books edition.
8. Stolen — Jane Harrison — Five Aboriginal children in a children’s home, and what the Stolen Generations did to them. Playbox edition; a landmark of Australian theatre.
9. Long Day’s Journey Into Night — Eugene O’Neill — The Tyrone family over one day, morphine and whiskey and blame. O’Neill’s own family, published after his death.
10. A View from the Bridge / All My Sons — Arthur Miller — Two plays in one Penguin: a longshoreman’s obsession with his niece, and a factory owner’s wartime crime.
11. Murder in the Cathedral — T.S. Eliot — Becket’s martyrdom in verse, with the knights’ justifications to the audience. Faber.
12. Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw — The original My Fair Lady, without the happy ending Shaw refused to write.
13. A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams — Blanche arrives at her sister’s in New Orleans and Stanley sets about destroying her. Methuen Student Edition with notes.
14. Brian Friel: Plays 1 — Brian Friel — Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Living Quarters, Aristocrats, Faith Healer and Translations. Ireland’s greatest living playwright at the time, in one volume.
15. Plays — Oscar Wilde — The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance and Salomé. Vintage orange Penguin.
16. Faust Part Two — Goethe — The sequel, where Faust goes to the Emperor’s court and Helen of Troy. Penguin Classics.
17. Knots — R.D. Laing — Not a play: the anti-psychiatrist’s book of tangled relationship patterns, written as verse. Fits a drama shelf oddly well.
18. Major Barbara — Bernard Shaw — A Salvation Army major, her arms-dealer father, and the question of whose money is clean. Shaw’s sharpest argument.
19. Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller — Willy Loman’s last day. Film tie-in edition with Dustin Hoffman.