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• Terentius Christianus, sive Comœdiæ duæ, Terentiano stylo conscriptæ ad vsum scholarum seorsim excusæ. Tobaeus. Iuditha. His accessit pseudostratiotes, fabula iocosa ac ludicra. Authore Cornelio Schonaeo. (Londini : [Printed by Thomas Snodham] ex typographia Societatis Stationariorum, 1620), by Cornelis Schonaeus and Terence (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Baptistes, siue calumnia tragoedia, auctore Georgio Buchanano Scoto. (Londini : Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, typographus, M. D. LXXVII. [1577]), by George Buchanan (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Drames liturgiques du moyen âge (texte et musique) (V. Didron, 1861), by Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christmas prince. (Printed for the Malone society, by F. Hall at the Oxford university press, 1923), by W. W. Greg, Frederick S. Boas, and St. John's College (University of Oxford) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friedrich Hermann Flayders Moria rediviva und Die bedeutendsten vertreter des lateinischen schuldramas im 16. und 17. jahrhundert. (Buchdruckerei der Tübingen studentenhilfe, 1928), by Gunther Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruodlieb, der älteste Roman des Mittelalters, nebst Epigrammen. Mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Glossar. (Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1882), by Friedrich Seiler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tragoediae selectae Latinorum recentiorum. (typis J.G. Weiss, 1845), by Hugo Grotius, Charles Malapert, and Denis Petau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drames liturgiques du moyen âge (Impr. de H. Vatar, 1860), by Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jo. Ludovici Praschii Arminivs (Sumtibus Joh. Conradi Emrichs, 1678), by Johann Ludwig Prasch, E. Gordon Duff, James Maidment, Johann Konrad Emmerich, and Project Unica (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecerinide. Tragedia (N. Zanichelli, 1900), by Albertino Mussato and Luigi Padrin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melanthe : a Latin pastoral play of the early seventeenth century (Yale University press ;, 1928), by Samuel Brooke and Joseph S. G. Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)

• A dictionary of old English plays, existing either in print or in manuscript, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century; including also notices of Latin plays written by English authors during the same period. (J.R. Smith, 1860), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps and David Erskine Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographia dramatica : or, A companion to the playhouse containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes of British and Irish dramatic writers from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions ; among whom are some of the most celebrated actors: also an alphabetical account, and chronological lists, of their works, the dates when printed and observations on their merits: together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage, originally compiled to the year 1764 (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1812), by David Erskine Baker, Stephen Jones, and Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse: containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes, of British and Irish dramatic writers, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions; amongst whom are some of the most celebrated actors. Also an alphabetical account of their works, the dates when printed, and occasional observations on their merits. Together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage (Printed for Rivingtons [etc.], 1782), by David Erskine Baker and Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographia dramatica; or, A companion to the playhouse: containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes of British and Irish dramatic writers, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions ... (AMS Press, 1966), by David Erskine Baker, Stephen Jones, and Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographia dramatica; or, A companion to the playhouse: containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes of British and Irish dramatic writers, from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions ... (AMS Press, 1966), by David Erskine Baker, Stephen Jones, and Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesuiten-dramen der niederrheinischen ordensprovinz (O. Harrassowitz, 1896), by Paul Bahlmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse containing historical and critical memoirs, and original anecdotes, of British and Irish dramatic writers ... also an alphabetical account of their works, the dates when printed, together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage (Printed for Mess. Rivingtons, ... , T. Payne and Son, ... , [and 7 others], 1782), by David Erskine Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lateinischen Dramen von Wimphelings Stylpho bis zur Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, 1480-1550. Ein Beitrag zur Litteraturgeschichte (Verlag der Ragensberg'schen Buchhandlung, 1893), by Paul Bahlmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse : containing historical and critical memoirs and original anecdotes of British and Irish dramatic writers from the commencement of our theatrical exhibitions ... together with an introductory view of the rise and progress of the British stage (Printed by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown [etc.], 1812), by David Erskine Baker, Isaac Reed, and Stephen Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• A comedy called Susenbrotus (University of Michigan Press, 1997), by Connie McQuillen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monachopornomachia (Cosmopoli [i.e. Bruxelles?], 1866), by Simon Lemnius, Johann Eck, and Martin Luther (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Oster- und Passionsspiele bis zum XVI. Jahrhundert : Beiträge zur Geschichte des deutschen Dramas (M. Niemeyer, 1889), by Ludwig Wirth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Weihnachtsspiele (F. Schöningh, 1893), by Wilhelm Köppen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), by David Price (JSTOR ebook)

• The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), by David Price (JSTOR ebook)

• Das lateinische weihnachtsspiel (grundzüge seiner entwicklung) (R. Voigtländer, 1917), by Martin Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der geistlichen spiele in Deutschland. (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1872), by Ernst Heinrich Wilken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friedrich Hermann Flayders Moria rediviva und Die bedeutendsten vertreter des lateinischen schuldramas im 16. und 17. jahrhundert. (Buchdruckerei der Tübingen studentenhilfe, 1928), by Gunther Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Herodes-partien im lateinischen liturgischen drama und in den französischen mysterien (M. Niemeyer, 1912), by Isaak Sondheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speculum vitae humanae : ein Drama (Max Niemeyer, 1889), by Archduke of Austria Ferdinand II and Jacob Minor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friedrich Hermann Flayders Moria rediviva und Die bedeutendsten Vertreter des lateinischen Schuldramas im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert; zwei Beiträge zur Geschichte des lateinischen Schuldramas. (Buchdruckerei der Tübinger studentenhilfe, 1928), by Gunther Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das lateinische Weihnachtsspiel; Grundzüge seiner Entwicklung. (R. Voigtländer, 1916), by Martin Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• De N. Frischlini comoediis latine scriptis... (apud Cerf, 1898), by L. Roustan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lateinischen Osterfeiern. (Druck von C. Doelle, 1881), by Carl Lange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comoediae elegiacae. (Bonn, 1885), by Ernst Müllenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Oster- und Passionsspiele : literarhistorische Untersuchungen ueber den Ursprung und die Entwickelung derselben bis zum siebenzehnten Jahrhundert vornehmlich in Deutschland : nebst dem erstmaligen diplomatischen Abdruck des Kuenzelsauer Fronleichnamsspieles : I. Die lateinischen Osterfeiern (J. Zwissler, 1880), by Gustav Milchsack (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Una commedia latina del secolo X e una sacra rappresentazione del secolo XV, ovvero, Il gallicano di Rosvita e il Martirio dei santi Giovanni e Paolo di Lorenzo il Magnifico : studio comparativo (Stabilimento tipo-stereotipo del cav. A. Morano, 1880), by Luciano Loparco (page images at HathiTrust)

• Friedrich Hermann Flayders Moria rediviva und Die bedeutendsten vertreter des lateinischen schuldramas im 16. und 17. jahrhundert. (Buchdruckerei der Tübingen studentenhilfe, 1928), by Gunther Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Théâtre de Hrotsvitha, Religieuse Allemande du Xe Siècle: Traduit Pour la Première Fois en Français Avec le Texte Latin Revu sur le Manuscrit de Munich (in French and Latin; Paris: B. Duprat, 1845), by Hrotsvitha, ed. by Charles Magnin
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• Opera Hrosvite (Sub priuilegio Sodalitatis Celticae a Senatu Rhomani Imperii impetratae, 1501), by Hrotsvitha, Konrad Celtis, Hans von Kulmbach, Albrecht Dürer, and Sodalitas Celtica (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Plays of Roswitha (London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Hrotsvitha, trans. by Christopher St. John, contrib. by Francis Aidan Gasquet (Gutenberg text)

• Pedantius, by Edward Forset, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML with commentary at the Philological Museum)
• Friedrich Hermann Flayders Moria rediviva und Die bedeutendsten vertreter des lateinischen schuldramas im 16. und 17. jahrhundert. (Buchdruckerei der Tübingen studentenhilfe, 1928), by Gunther Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorabilia Bibliothecae publicae Elisabetanae Wratislaviensis : à fundatore celeberrimo Rehdigerianae dictae, quae A. O. R. M.DC.XCIIX. die xv Maji, in actu gymnastico à studiosa Gymnasii Elisabetani juventute (Apud Johannem Georgium Steck, 1699), by Gottlob Krantz and Johann Georg Steck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tragoediae selectae Latinorum recentiorum. (typis J.G. Weiss, 1845), by Hugo Grotius, Charles Malapert, and Denis Petau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il collegio Mamertino e le origini del teatro gesuitico : con l'aggiunta di notizie inedite sulla drammatica conventuale messinese nei secoli XVI, XVII, XVIII e con publicazione della Giuditta del P. Tuccio (E. Loescher, 1908), by Benedetto Soldati and Etienne Tucci (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pietas victrix (In officina typographica Matthaei Cosmerovij, sacrae Caesareae majestatis typogr., 1659), by Nicolaus von Avancini, P. P. van Mildert, Jacob Bruynel, and Gerard Bouttats (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epaminondas : drama : exhibitum in aula collegii Neapolitani Societatis Jesu, in sollemni praemiorum distributione anno MDCCXXXXVII (Excudebat regius typographus Seraphinus Porsile, 1748), by Giovanni Spinello and Stefano Ferrante (page images at HathiTrust)

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