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Drama

Here are entered works on drama as a literary form. Works on drama as acted on the stage are entered under Theater. Works on facilities used to stage drama are entered under Theaters.

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Filed under: Drama

Of Dramatic Poesie, by John Dryden (HTML at Toronto)
Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at belgacom.net)
Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Drama -- Collections

Three Tragedies: Bertram; Bellamira; The Apostate (London:, 1818), by Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Drama -- History and criticism

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1910), by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Drama -- Indexes

Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Drama -- Psychological aspects

Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare (New York et al: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1966), by Norman Norwood Holland (page images at ufl.edu)
Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-Knowledge (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Rolf Soellner (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

Filed under: Drama -- Social aspects

The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, by Emma Goldman (HTML at pitzer.edu and Berkeley)

Filed under: Drama -- Technique

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship (1912), by William Archer (Gutenberg text)
Playwriting: A Handbook for Would-Be Dramatic Authors, by A Dramatist, by Jerome K. Jerome (HTML at Gaslight)
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1921), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray, contrib. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Amateur plays

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)

Filed under: Children's plays

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

Filed under: Christmas plays

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)

Filed under: Comedy

The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918), by Wilton W. Blancké (Gutenberg text)
An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Folk drama

Die Sezession in der Dramatischen Kunst und das Volksfestspiel, Mit Einem Rückblick auf die Passion von Oberammergau (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1911), by Georg Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Masques

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

Filed under: Melodrama

Comic Tragedies: Written by "Jo" and "Meg" and Acted by "The Little Women" (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893), by Louisa May Alcott and Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Monologue

The Joycean Monologue (revised edition, with added articles; 2010), by Constantin-George Sandulescu (PDF with commentary in Romania)

Filed under: Moralities

Everyman, ed. by A. C. Cawley (HTML at Michigan)
Everyman, ed. by John Skot (illustrated HTML at Renascence Editions)

Filed under: Motion picture plays

Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: Opera

The Art-Work of the Future, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at belgacom.net)
Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music and Certain Musicians, by John F. Runciman (Gutenberg text)
Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at belgacom.net)
The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by David Littlejohn (HTML at UC Press)

Filed under: Passion-plays

Die Sezession in der Dramatischen Kunst und das Volksfestspiel, Mit Einem Rückblick auf die Passion von Oberammergau (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1911), by Georg Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A Yaqui Easter (c1971), by Muriel Thayer Painter (illustrated HTML with commentary at Arizona)

Filed under: Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)

Plotting the Short Story: A Practical Exposition of Germ-Plots, What They are and Where to Find Them; The Structure and Development of the Plot; and the Relation of the Plot to the Story (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), by Seymour Cunningham Chunn
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Plotto: A New Method of Plot Suggestion for Writers of Creative Fiction (Battle Creek, MI: Ellis Pub. Co., c1928) (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1921), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray, contrib. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Universal Plot Catalog: An Examination of the Elements of Plot Material and Construction, Combined with a Complete index and a Progressive Category in Which the Source, Life, and End of All Dramatic Conflict and Plot Master are Classified (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1920), by Henry Albert Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Promptbooks

Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, by William Shakespeare and G. Blakemore Evans (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

Filed under: Radio plays

We Stand United, and Other Radio Scripts, by Stephen Vincent Benét (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

Filed under: Tragedy

Ecclesiastical Law in Hamlet: The Burial of Ophelia, by Rocellus Sheridan Guernsey (HTML at sourcetext.com)
Euripides and His Age (New York: Henry Holt and Company; London: Williams and Norgate, c1913), by Gilbert Murray (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
Hamlet and Orestes: A Study in Traditional Types (annual Shakespeare lecture, 1914), by Gilbert Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer (HTML at UC Press)
Shakspere and Montaigne: An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of "Hamlet" From Allusions in Contemporary Works, by Jacob Feis (Gutenberg text)
A Short View of Tragedy (1970 facsimile reprint; originally published 1693), by Thomas Rymer (multiple formats at Google)
Timon of Athens: Shakespeare's Pessimistic Tragedy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Rolf Soellner, contrib. by Gary Jay Williams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

Filed under: Śakuntalā (Hindu mythology) -- Drama

Shakuntala, by Kalidasa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (PDF at In Parentheses)
Translations of Shakuntala, and Other Works, by Kalidasa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

Filed under: Abraham (Biblical patriarch) -- Drama

A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice (original spelling; London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1577), by Théodore de Bèze, trans. by Arthur Golding (HTML at elizabethanauthors.org)
A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice (modernized spelling, based on 1577 edition), by Théodore de Bèze, trans. by Arthur Golding (HTML at elizabethanauthors.org)

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