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Play Genre
Books in the Play genre:
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream (1939)
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Ring of the Niblung (1939)
This edition of the complete libretto to “The Ring” contains only forty-eight of the original color illustrations.
Author(s):
Richard Wagner
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
A Christmas Interlude (1942)
A collection of Christmas stories, plays, pictures and poems.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Adam of the Road (1943)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Stories from the Great Metropolitan Operas (1943)
Author(s):
Helen Dike
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Hey Nonny Yes (1947)
Selections from the Bard, illustrated by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
There’s a Porpoise Close Behind Us (1948)
A “book about the theatre proper; tinged with bitter, brittle wit and hard philosophy” (sic). Dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Adam of the Road (1949)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Enter David Garrick (1951)
A biography of the eighteenth century British actor-manager.
Author(s):
Anna Bird Stewart
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Showmen and Suckers (1951)
A survey of popular entertainment from high class to low.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mrs. McThing (1952)
Author(s):
Mary Chase
Illustrator(s):
Madeleine Gekiere
Helen Sewell
An Actor’s Life For Me (1953)
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
Songs of the City (1956)
Songs about life in the city.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Comedies (1958)
The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and we have just covered the T’s. The greatest master of English in his most appealing work.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
When Wendy Grew Up an Afterthought (1958)
What followed Peter Pan.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
D. Michael Leonard
Miracle Plays: Seven Medieval Plays for Modern Players (1959)
Seven miracle plays adapted for modern performance.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anne Burnett Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Eleanor Farjeon’s Book: Stories, Verses, Plays (1960)
An anthology of works by Eleanor Farjeon.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: The Story of the Play (1962)
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: The Story of the Play (1963)
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Five Plays from Shakespeare (1964)
Abridged versions for performance by young people, including The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward