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BECKETT, SAMUEL
Waiting for Godot Author Writes He Had More to Say about an Idea, (1906-89) Irish author, awarded Nobel Prize in 1969.
$1500

Jazz meets Shakespeare

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[African Americana][Jazz]
Vintage Playbill, “Swingin’ the Dream”, 1939. Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, African-American cast
SOLD

A NATIVE BOSTONIAN ACTRESS IN BOSTON

$100 or less
(Theater Program)
The Charles Playhouse, a Project on Playhouse Boston: Betty Field in "The Glass Menagerie"
$35

142d to 252d printings!

A. A. Milne
An A.A. Milne Trio, inscribed by Paul Newman and both wives
$225

Source for Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona

MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de (c. 1521-1561)
Diana
$2975

Extremely rare sammelband of plays from the 1650s

SHIRLEY, James (1596-1666)
The Brothers (1652), The Doubtful Heir (1652), The Imposture (1652), The Cardinal (1652), The Court Secret (1653), and The Sisters (1652)
$6500

Cesare Borgia's copy of Seneca?

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 BCE-65 CE)
Tragoediae (1513) owned by the Borgia family
$8000

Play written for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor

IONESCO, Eugene (1909-1994)
Highly important manuscript of L’Impromtu pour la Duchesse de Windsor (1957) performed before Salvador Dali
$15000

Shakespeare's source for The Comedy of Errors

PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (c. 254 - 184 BCE)
Comoediae (1510) bound in original pigskin and wood
$9350

George Sand manuscript translation of Shakespeare

SAND, George (1804-1876)
Manuscript of Comme Il Vous Plaira (1856)
$6500

Earliest reference to staging a Shakespeare play

BACON, Sir Francis (1561-1626)
A Declaration (1601)
$3500

Printer of Shakespeare's Hamlet

JONSON, Benjamin (1572 -1637)
King James his Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through his Honorable Cittie of London (1604)
$9500