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• Oratory

• Elocution
• Expression

• Della Eloquenza: Dialogo del Reverendiss Monsignor Daniel Barbaro, Eletto Patriarca d'Aquileia (in Italian; Venice: V. Valgrisio, 1557), by Daniel Barbaro, contrib. by Girolamo Ruscelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Nature and Uses of Eloquence: An Oration, Pronounced Before the Philorhetorian Society, of the Wesleyan University, August 25th, 1835 (Middletown, CT: Printed by W. D. Starr, 1835), by John Dempster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Orator's Manual: A Practical and Philosophical Treatise on Vocal Culture, Emphasis and Gesture, Together With Selections for Declamation and Reading (Boston et al.: Silver, Burdett and Co., c1897), by George Lansing Raymond
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Practical Elocution: For Use in Colleges and Schools and by Private Students (Philadelphia: J. W. Shoemaker and Co., 1878), by J. W. Shoemaker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Practice Book, Leland Powers School (1909), by Leland Powers (Gutenberg text)
• Principes de Diction (second edition, in French; Paris: P. Ollendorff, 1882), by Henri Dupont-Vernon
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Speaking: Principles and Practice, by Irvah Lester Winter (Gutenberg text)

• The Art of the Theatre (London: G. Bles, ca. 1924), by Sarah Bernhardt, trans. by H. J. Stenning, contrib. by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Drama, by Henry Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shakespearean Representation: Its Laws and Limits (London: E. Stock, 1908), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)

• The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Analog Game Studies (full serial archives)

• Nordic Larp (Stockholm: Fea Livia, c2010), ed. by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola (PDF in Finland)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)
• Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Joseph Litvak (HTML at UC Press)

• Principles of Drama-Therapy (New York: Sopherim, 1917), by Stephen F. Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer (in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1890), by Karl Sittl
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der Römische Mimus (in German; extracted from K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna; 1854), by Karl Joseph Grysar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reframing Screen Performance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Cynthia Baron and Sharon Marie Carnicke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Roberta E. Pearson (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Eloquent Gestures: The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph Films (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Roberta E. Pearson (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Stage Costuming (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Agnes Brooks Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate (New York et al.: Ivison and Phinney, 1855), by James N. McElligott (multiple formats at Google)
• The Art of Controversy (in German and English), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by T. Bailey Saunders
  • HTML at coolhaus.de
  • Gutenberg text

• Delsarte System of Oratory (fourth edition; new York: E. S. Werner, 1893), by Delaumosne, Angélique Arnaud, François Delsarte, and Marie Delsarte Geraldy, trans. by Frances A. Shaw and Abby Langdon Alger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Installation of a Speaker and Accompanying Exhibits (New Museum series #3; Woodstock, VT: Elm Tree Press, 1918), by John Cotton Dana (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book (New York: The Century Co., 1916), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by John R. Neill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Chautauqua Idyl (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1887), by Grace Livingston Hill
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Voice: How to Use It; With Exercises for Tone and Articulation (revised edition; Boston: Expression Co., c1938), by Sarah T. Barrows and Anne E. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ventriloquism Explained: and Juggler's Tricks, or Legerdemain, Exposed; With Remarks on Vulgar Superstitions, in a Series of Letters to an Instructor (Amherst, MA: J. S. and C. Adams, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Speaking as a Woman (third edition; Lionville, PA: Creative Design Services, c2005), by Alison Laing (PDF at Digital Transgender Archive)
• Speaking as a Woman: A Guide for Those Who Desire to Communicate in a More Feminine Manner (first edition; King of Prussia, PA: Creative Design Services, c1989), by Alison Laing (PDF at Digital Transgender Archive)
• The Voice: How to Use It; With Exercises for Tone and Articulation (revised edition; Boston: Expression Co., c1938), by Sarah T. Barrows and Anne E. Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training of the Voice: An Explanation of the Fundamentals of the Theory and Practice of Voice Development, Together With Adequate Exercises (Chicago: American Correspondence School of Law, c1914), by R. E. Pattison Kline
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Garcia's New Treatise on the Art of Singing: A Compendious Method of Instruction, With Examples and Exercises for the Cultivation of the Voice (revised edition; Boston: O. Ditson company; et al., ca. 1870), by Manuel Garcia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philosophy of Voice: Showing the Right and Wrong Action of Voice in Speech and Song, With Laws for Self-Culture (8th edition; London: Balliere, Tindall and Cox, 1895), by Charles Lunn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Vocal Organ: Its Mechanism (Explaining a New Discovery) (4th edition; Chicago: Perfect Voice Institute, c1915), by Eugene Feuchtinger
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• The Art of Voice-Production, With Special Reference to the Methods of Correct Breathing (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882), by Ange Albert Pattou (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else, You Can Smile (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (in German; Detmold: Klingenberg, 1867), by Theodor Piderit (multiple formats at archive.org)

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