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Play Genre
Books in the Play genre:
The Crown of Violet (1952)
Author(s):
Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Mrs. McThing (1952)
Author(s):
Mary Chase
Illustrator(s):
Madeleine Gekiere
Helen Sewell
Strangers in a Strange Land: A Migrant Play (1952)
A play that follows a mining family from Kentucky as they move to Arkansas to pick cotton.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
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
Life of King Henry the Fifth (1957)
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
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
The Uplift of Lucifer (1963)
A play written by L. Frank Baum in 1915 for the Los Angeles social club, "The Uplifters." It is filled with his trademark puns and includes songs.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
None
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
The History of the Theater (1964)
A short history of the theater based on theater buildings and set design.
Author(s):
Hannelore Marek
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Lois Lenski’s Christmas Stories (1968)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1968)
The autobiography of a British clown who was active in the early nineteenth century.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Joseph Grimaldi
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
W. Greatbach
Bernard Schleifer
The Player’s Boy (1970)
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
John Holder
The Players and the Rebels (1971)
This is the second part of Antonia Forest’s historical romance of Shakespeare’s time.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
John Holder
America! (1975)
Nicola Bayley supplied the cover painting for this fundraiser for the Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1975)
Author(s):
Thomas Dekker
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
America! (1976)
Nicola Bayley supplied the cover painting for this Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council fundraiser.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
None
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream (1977)
Calligraphy by Graily Hewitt accompanies the Rackham illustrations.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Spanish Tragedy (1983)
Author(s):
Thomas Kyd
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Comedy of Errors (1988)
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Valentine & Orson (1989)
Twins separated at birth, one raised by a bear, the other by the King of France recognize each other on the field of honor.
Author(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
The Fields and the Hills: Book 1, The Journey Once Begun (1992)
Weyr, a thirteen year old orphan joins a troupe of traveling players in this fantasy version of a familiar story.
Author(s):
Harald Bakken
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner