African American Humor - The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today
~ Mel Watkins (ed) - foreword Dick Gregory - HARDBACK - 1556524307

The black view of America has always been most vividly expressed in humor. This Collection of anecdotes, tales, jokes, toasts, rhymes, satires, riffs, poems, stand-up sketches, ... more

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Arabian Nights
~ adapted Dominic Cooke - 1854594613

Wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning the new queen is to be put to death, like a thousand young ... more

$14.95 (€10.07)

Aspects of Folk Dance In Europe
~ Helen Wingrave & Robert Harrold

An introduction to European folk dance, providing a survey of traditional dance styles, with background information on music, costume, and folk customs ... more

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Filled with the raging conflict between Good and Evil, this is an hilarious melodrama about Desperate Daniel Desmond and his vile attempts to betray Bertha, the ... more

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British Music Hall - An Illustrated History
~ Richard Anthony Baker - HARDBACK - 9780750936859

Music-hall lies at the root of all modern popular entertainment

It grew from the songs that people sang for their own entertainment in taverns at ... more

$39.95 (€26.92)

Cabaret Performance - Vol One - Europe 1890-1920 - Songs, Sketches, Monologues, Memoirs
~ edited Laurence Senelick - 1555540430

This collection brings together over three-dozen sketches, songs, memoirs, shadow and puppet-plays, literary and political satire from France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Poland, Sweden, and Russia

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$15.95 (€10.75)

Chekhov - The Vaudevilles and Other Short Works - On the High Road & On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco & Swan Song & The Bear & The Proposal & Tatyana Repina & The Tragedian in Spite of Himself & The Wedding & The Jubilee & The Night Before the Trial in Moscow
~ Anton Chekhov trans Carol Rocamora - 1575251272

The first complete American translation of Chekhov's ten vaudevilles

The comedic one-act farces are ...

The famous murder in 1910 by Dr Crippen of his wife, a Music-Hall artiste, followed by his escape on board ship with his secretary, disguised ... more

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And still the villain pursues her!

Not only pursues her but threatens to have her committed to an asylum if she does not renounce our ... more

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This is a mirthfully tear-jerking story of Nellie Lovelace, an innocent country girl and the dastardly Munro

Munro has a wife, Ida Rhinegold, the dastardly ... more

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