Search Results: DRAMA from Chilton Books

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1986.. 1st ed. "The aim of this book...is to inspire those who would like to make more use of drama in churches - whether in the form of complete plays and musicals, or simply as short interludes in the service - and to provide a handbook for those wishing to start a drama group and who need the encouragement and knowhow of professionals." PP.134. Pbk. VG.

London: The Society For the Propagation of the Gospel. 1951.. The play covers a long period. Two hundred and fifty years have brought great changes of life and manners of thought. There is a great contrast between the men who saw the need of British Colonists in South Carolina for Spiritual ministrations, and the experiences of a young Doctor in the jungle warfare of 1943 in Burma". Pp 104, 3 b/w illustrations, 1 sketch map. P/b, slight scuffing to spine, illustrated cover. G+.

London: A & C Black Ltd, nd.. Contents includes: 1. What Can I Give Him? and 2.The Baby Smiled. by Frances M.Clarence; 3. Before Him Bow by the Reverend Richard Tydeman; 4. Christmas Carillon by A.H.Naylor. Also includes: Before the Play Begins; Reading Plays; A Note for Producers; Suggestions for Costumes; and Acting Notes. Pp.63/1(list of others in this series), black & white head and tail pieces by E.Nicholson, scuffing to inside front cover. Green illustrated cover, slightly rubbed. G+.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1937.. 1st. ed. The play is written in regular blank verse, interspersed with prose and lyric. Pp. 151. Inscrip. to fep. Pink cloth, d/w rubbed and chipped at edges. G+/G.

London: Epworth Press, 1946.. 1st ed. A series of dramatic readings interpreting incidents and people of the New Testament. Pp. 108. Light blue cloth, d/w with slight chippings to edges. G/G.

London: Faber and Faber, 1978.. Reprint. Drama. "Dirty Linen eavesdrops on a Select Committee investigating the moral standards of the House of Commons." Pp.75. Paperback, black & white photos of the original cast (including Peter Bowles, Edward de Souza, and the rear view of Luan Peters as Maddie wearing stockings and frilly knickers) to front. VG.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1944.. 3rd impression. A Play in Three Acts. Pp.180, ownership details of literary scholar Howard Henry Erskine-Hill to front free endpaper, another owner's name to front free endpaper. Red cloth, rubbed. G+.

Swindon: Bible Society. 1989.. From a wide range of Christian writers, each sketch is linked to a framework of ideas and suggestions for getting the most out of it, and developing your own material for teaching, worship and evangelism". Pp 115. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1972.. rep. "The author takes for his central theme the changing relations between dramatic forms and methods of performance in the long history of European drama. He analyses actual productions with reference to their social setting in such works as Sophocles' 'Antigone, Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra, Chekhov's 'The Seagull' and Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries'. Pp.9/194 with 5 figures +13 b/w plates. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2011.. As Ann Loades makes cl+ear in her extremely informative introduction, Dorothy L. Sayers' plays arguably the place where she did her best theological work." Pp.212. Paperback. VG.

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1927 (8th ed. revised).. 8th revised ed. English Miracle plays. Pp. 71/250, b/w illustd. frontis, 8 illustns. Inscrip. to fep. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w sunning to spine, toning and losses. G/G-.

Essex Review, 1927.. Reprinted from the Essex Review, Vol.XXXVI. April 1927. Summary of a Miracle Play, written by Dr E.P.Dicken, produced at Brightlingsea in 1926. Pagination runs pp.53-60, four black & white photo illustrations showing scenes from the play. Brown card covers. VG.

London: Macmillan and Co.Limited, 1923.. 3rd impression. A New Version of an Old Story, Arranged as a Play for Mummers. In One Act, Requiring No Theatre or Scenery. 21cms x 16cms. Pp.78, 2 line drawing illustrated plates by the author, date notation to front free endpaper. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, gilt roundel illustration to front board, minor wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. VG.

London: Religious Drama Society, 1948.. Religious play. Pp.24, owners name to inside front cover. Pbk, slightly rubbed. G+.

London: National Society/Church House, 1996.. 1st.ed. "The twenty-seven sketches, raps, mimes, poems and prayers provide plenty of material for your group to perform in church, school, or in a youth group." Pp.89. Paperback. VG

London: Samuel French Limited, 1958.. French's Acting Edition. Pp.89, frontispiece photograph by Angus McBean. Stiff card covers, slightly rubbed, crease to rear top corner. G+.

London: SPCK. 1960.. Persons of the play:- Michael, The Archangel: Satan: Moses: The Chorus, representing the Israel of God: Another Chorus of four women, including Zipporah, wife of Moses: A Chorus of Angels. Pp 45. P/b. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.. The dialogue's chief interest lies, not in Gorgias' courteous outline of his art, but in the clash between Socrates, the true philosopher, and Callicles." Pp, 149, pages browning. Pbk. G.

London: Delisle, 1963.. Won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play re-tells the Old Testament and was a landmark in American drama, produced with the first all-black Broadway cast. Pp.123, 8 b/w photo plates, introduction and conclusion by Vincent Long and Postscripts by The Very Rev. Dr W.R.Matthews, Prof. John MacMurray and Sir Henry Self. Green cloth, d/w top edge slightly rubbed. VG/VG.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1971.. 1st edition. "In a provocative interpretation of the greatest play in the English language, Professor Fisch shows how the idea of a covenant is inherent in the imagery and design of the play. In tthe tradition of a Hellenic tragedy, Hamlet is swept toward an inevitable doom, t in the tradition of the biblical covenant, he harnesses his instinctual fury and becomes the divine instrument of a moral purging." Pp.viii/248, owner's details to title page and final page of index. Red cloth, dustwrapper slightly rubbed with small edge tears and chipping to top and tail of spine. VG/G+.