Playbill: A History of the Theatre in the West Country Tapa dura - 1980

Hardback. Good.

Macdonald and Evans, 1980. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0712120270

Macdonald and Evans, 1980. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0712120270

Northcote House Publishers, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

MacDonald & Evans , Plymouth, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 'Masterly survey of the theatrical history of Devon and Cornwall'. Presentable. clean, tight and sound copy. Wrapper not price clipped, usual amount of light wear. No inscriptions. Xiii + 290 pages, plates, bibliography, indexed. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; ISBN: 0712120270. ISBN/EAN: 9780712120272. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0022377. . 9780712120272

London: Book Club Associates,, 1974. An excellent reference book on the history and development of the theatre. 288pp with 262 illustrations, 34 in colour including notes on the illustrations, a bibliography and an index. No further postage charged ,our standard ABE rate applies. A Very Nice Copy.. Not Inscribed or Signed. This is a First Edition. Maroon Cloth. Fine/Very Good Not Price Clipped. Illus. by Colour, Black and White Photographs and Line Drawings . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hardback.

Great Britain: Macdonald and Evans, 1980. In this masterly survey of the theatrical history of Devon and Cornwall, the author begins the story with what he believes may be the very origins of British theatre, the Cornish ordinalia, or word books, on which the peasant and clerical players of the thirteenth century based their popular presentations of biblical and religious themes. Harvey Crane's wide sympathy and deep knowledge enable him to cover almost every aspect of the triumphs and disasters which mark the long struggle between the stern Puritanism of the South West and the pleasurable seductions of the stage: the success and the failures of the strolling players, the actor-managers, the speculative builders, and the stars of successive generations of theatre-goers. The history is brought right up to the immediate present, tracing the links between the West Country and the modern world of entertainment through such varied personalities as Agatha Christie, Paul Rogers, Danny La Rue and Angela… Leer más

Macdonald & Evans, 1980. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition hardback, 1980, with unclipped jacket. In overall near fine condition with only slight signs of handling and storage. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations clean and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book. A particularly nice copy, photographs available.

Plymouth: Macdonald and Evans Ltd , 1980. FINE usually indicates that a book is as new THIS book lives up to that description! In this masterly survey of the theatrical history of Devon and Cornwall, Harvey Crane begins the story with what he believes may be the very origins of British theatre, the Cornish ordinalia, or word books, on which the peasant and clerical players of the 13thC based their popular presentations of biblical and religious themes. As the narrative moves on, the author has a wealth of characters to introduce - such as the rough, tough young man, black-haired and with a wild eye, who trailed his wife and two children into Exeter looking for work on a cold December day in 1811 : and thus the strange, almost demonic, power of Edmund Kean was charged into the British theatre of the early nineteenth century : or Miss Eliza Emma Couch, of Caroline Place, Stonehouse, who left her native Plymouth far behind when she climbed to the pinnacle of the Parisian demi-monde as Cora… Leer más

Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 1980-03-24. Hardcover. Good.