Directing the Play: A Source Book of Stagecraft
Published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York, 1953
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
AbeBooks seller since July 25, 1997
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 25.00
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Reprint. Octavo. 341pp. Edited and with an illustrated history of directing by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy. Illustrated with black and white plates. Ownership stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the front fly. Binding slightly cocked and lightly sunned at the spine and edges, tiny hole on upper shoulder, and a small bit of material bound in under the rear pastedown, very good in a lightly toned and edgeworn, very good or better dustwrapper. Contributors include George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Andre Antoine, Otto Brahm, David Belasco, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, Jacques Copeau, Vsevolod Meyerhold, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene Vakhtangov, Arthur Hopkins, Louis Jouvet, B.E. Zakhava, Tyrone Guthrie, Joshua Logan, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Max Reinhardt, Leopold Jessner, Jean-Louis Barrault, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Directing the Play: A Source Book of Stagecraft
- Author
- SHAW, George Bernard, Bertolt Brecht, Elia Kazan, and others
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1953
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
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