Diminutive dramas / by Maurice Baring
1925. London : W. Heinemann. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #440801
Physical description: vii, 183 pages ; 21 cm. Contents: Catherine Parr -- Drawback -- Pious Aeneas -- Death of Alexander -- Greek vase -- Fatal rubber -- Rehearsal -- Blue Harlequin -- Member for literature -- Caligula's picnic -- Aulis difficulty -- Don Juan's failure -- Calpurnia's dinner-party -- Lucullus's dinner-party -- Stoic's daughter -- After Euripides' "Electra" -- Jason and Medea -- Medea goes shopping -- King Alfred and the Neat-Herd -- Rosamund and Eleanor -- Ariadne in Naxos -- Velasquez and the "Venus" -- Xantippe and Socrates. Subject: One-act plays.
Price: €21.95