Burmese Drama: a Study, with Translations, of Burmese Plays
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957. Fourth impression (first published 1937). Octavo. Pictorial, stiff card wrappers; French flaps; xx,266pp. Very Good copy, with occasional faint pencil marks in margins. Bookseller stamp to title page ("City Book Club - Rangoon"). From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn, with his figural ink ownership stamp to front endpaper. History of classical Burmese drama, with translations to English of a dozen plays including "Mahaw," "Paduma," "The Water-Seller," and others.
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