Amateur plays

Here are entered collections of plays, skits, recitations, etc. for production by nonprofessionals. Works about, including history and criticism of, such plays are entered under Amateur theater.

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• Amateur theater
• Drama

• Amateur theater
• Bible plays
• Charades
• Children's plays
• College and school drama
• Pageants
• Tableaux

• Amateur theatricals
• Drama for amateurs
• Plays for amateurs
• Women in amateur theatricals

• Drawing-Room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes (London: S. River and Co., 1870), ed. by Clement Scott, contrib. by E. L. Blanchard, J. Palgrave Simpson, W. S. Gilbert, Tom Hood, Charles Smith Cheltnam, Robert Reece, Arthur Sketchley, Alfred Thompson, Thomas Archer, John C. Brough, J. Ashby-Sterry, Sidney Daryl, and A. B. (multiple formats at Google)
• Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces for New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a Child's Birthday (New York: Duffield and Co., 1913), by Marguerite Merington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia (revised edition, c1905), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strolling Players: A Harmony of Contrasts (London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893), by Charlotte M. Yonge and Christabel R. Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Ancient Cornish Drama (translation of the Ordinalia plays; 2 volumes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1859), ed. by Edwin Norris
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
• The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
• The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy's Century of Charades (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)

• Historical Acting Charades: or, Amusements for Winter Evenings (new edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1858), by Julia Charlotte Maitland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: A Reader for the Fourth Grade (1908), by Augusta Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Trickster's Famous Deeds: A Trilogy of Theatrical Plays For Children, by Florentin Smarandache (HTML at UNM)

• Pedantius, by Edward Forset, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML with commentary at the Philological Museum)

• The Coming of the Mayflower: A Pilgrim Pageant (c1920), by Rosamond Kimball and Youth's Companion (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pageantry and the Pilgrim Tercentenary Celebration (1620-1920): With Sample Pilgrim Pageants, Suggestions for Programs, Bibliographies, etc., for the State of Utah (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1920), by B. Roland Lewis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Path of Progress: A Pageant Drama of the Nation (Memphis: Press of Early Printing Co., c1920), by Annah Robinson Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (enlarged edition, 1903), by Joseph Strutt and J. Charles Cox (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England: Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (new edition; London: Printed for W. Reeves, 1830), by Joseph Strutt and William Hone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Between the Acts (1941), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• How the Pilgrim Spirit Came to Illinois: A Pageant Written and Presented by the Students and Faculty of the New Trier Township High School in Commemoration of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims (1921), by New Trier Township High School (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Pilgrim Spirit: A Pageant in Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 21, 1620 (pageant script by Baker, with poems by others; Boston: Marshall Jones Co., c1921), by George Pierce Baker, contrib. by Robert Frost, Hermann Hagedorn, Josephine Preston Peabody, and Edwin Arlington Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Plymouth Tercentenary: Illustrated, With a Brief History of the Life and Struggles of the Pilgrim Fathers (with program for a pagaent by Baker; 1921), by Harry Bloomingdale, contrib. by George Pierce Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "The Pilgrim Spirit", Shown in the Pilgrim Pageant Staged at Plymouth, Massachusetts, July and August, 1921; Supplemented by an Illustrated Portrayal of the Separatists' Struggles From Spiritual and Bodily Bondage to Freedom (New York: Century History Co., c1921), by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Spirit Of The Roanoke: A Pageant of Halifax County History (Roanoke Rapids, NC: Herald Publishing Co., 1921) (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Coronations: Medieval and Early Modern Monarchic Ritual (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by János M. Bak (HTML at UC Press)

• The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II (London, 1687), by Francis Sandford and Gregory King (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)

• Masques and Entertainments (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1890), by Ben Jonson, ed. by Henry Morley
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Discription of a Maske, Presented before the Kinges Maiestie at White-Hall, on Twelfth Night last, in Honour of the Lord Hayes, and his Bride (London: John Windet for John Brown, 1607), by Thomas Campion (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lords' Masque, by Thomas Campion (HTML at luminarium.org)

• The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Peace Egg and a Christmas Mumming Play (London; Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E and J. B. Young & Co., 1887), by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, illust. by Gordon Browne (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Creation of the World, With Noah's Flood, Written in Cornish in the Year 1611 (London: Printed for J. B. Nichols, 1827), by William Jordan, ed. by Davies Gilbert, trans. by John Keigwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Cornish Drama: With Illustrations From Ancient Cornish Sacred Poems and Miracles Plays of Other Lands (A Lecture) (London: E. Stock, 1906), by Thurstan C. Peter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Chester Plays: A Collection of Mysteries Founded Upon Scriptural Subjects, and Formerly Represented by the Trades of Chester at Whitsuntide (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1843-1847), ed. by Thomas Wright
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Collection of English Miracle-Plays or Mysteries: Containing Ten Dramas from the Chester, Coventry, and Towneley series, With Two of Latter Date; To Which is Prefixed, An Historical View of This Description of Plays (Basel: Schweighauser and Co., 1838), ed. by William Marriott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama (fifth edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Harrowing of Hell: A Miracle-Play Written in the Reign of Edward the Second, Now First Published From the Original Manuscript in the British Museum, With an Introduction, Translation, and Notes (London: John Russell Smith, 1840), ed. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (multiple formats at Google)
• Ludus Coventriae: A Collection of Mysteries, Formerly Represented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi (London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1841), ed. by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ludus Coventriae: or, The Plaie Called Corpus Christi, Cotton Ms. Vespasian D. VIII, (London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by H. Milford, Oxford University press, c1922), ed. by K. S. Block (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
• The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
• A Rosary of Mystery Plays: Fifteen Plays Selected from the York Cycle of Mysteries Performed by the Crafts on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries (Albany, NY: Press of F. H. Evory, 1915), trans. by Margaret S. Mooney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Shepherds' Play, Everyman, and Other Early Plays (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1910), ed. by Clarence Griffin Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Chester Whitsun Plays (Chester: Phillipson and Golder, 1906), ed. by Joseph Cox Bridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Towneley Plays, ed. by George England (HTML at Michigan)
• The Towneley Plays (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, 1897, reprinted 1952), ed. by George England, contrib. by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York, on the Day of Corpus Christi, in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries (reprint, originally published 1883; New York: Russell and Russell, 1963), ed. by Lucy Toulmin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

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