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• Due discorsi filosofici, e politici : l'uno sull'influenze degli spettacoli nelle nazioni : l'altro su quelle de' viaggi nell'educazione (Presso la Società tipografica, 1789), by Idelfonso Valdastri (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Nicholas Peter Ridout
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
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  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Performance in the American theater of cruelty (University of Michigan Press, 2002), by Anthony Kubiak (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theater und Revolution : ihre gegenseitigen Beziehungen und Wirkungen im achtzehnten, neunzehnten u. zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (Oesterheld, 1920), by Wilhelm Widmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women and theatres (Carleton ;, 1870), by Olive Logan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2025), by Anita Gonzalez (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Řeč dra. Karla Sladkovského : při slavném položení základního kamena národního divadla v Praze dne 16. května 1868. (Nákladem slavnostního výboru, 1868), by Karel Sladkovský (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
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• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
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• Le théâtre de M. Sardou (E. Dentu, 1875), by Maria Deraismes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wille und Werk : Bühnenvolksbund Almanach 1928 (Berlin : Bühnenvolksbundesverlag, 1928., 1928), by Wilhelm Karl Gerst (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Katrin Sieg
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• Race, gender, Renaissance drama (Manchester University Press ;, 1989), by Ania Loomba (page images at HathiTrust)

• Repertoire, grand opéra, opéra comique, drame, vaudevílle, comédie, Année 1791 (Imprimerie G. Muller, 1906), by Joseph Gabriel de Baroncelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Complete History of the English Stage (5 volumes; London: Printed for the author, ca. 1800), by Charles Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyträge zur Historie und Aufnahme des Theaters. (J.B. Metzler, 1750), by Titus Maccius Plautus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Christlob Mylius, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato completo, formale e materiale del teatro (Stamperia di Pietro q. Gio. Batt. Pasquali, 1794), by Francesco Milizia, Giovanni Battista Pasquali, and Pietro Pasquali (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'apologie du théâtre (Chez Augustin Courbé, 1639), by M. de Scudéry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della forza comica. (Appresso Giuseppe Braglia .., 1782), by Giambattista Gherardo D'Arco (page images at HathiTrust)

• Habitus praecipuorum populorum, tam virorum quam foeminarum [sic] Singulari arte depicti. Trachtenbuch; darin fast allerley und der fürnembsten Nationen, die heutigs tags bekandt sein, Kleidungen beyde wie es bey Manns und Weibspersonen gebreuchlich, mit allem vleiss abgerissen sein, sehr lustig und kurtzweilig zusehen. (Hans Weigel, 1969), by Hans Weigel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Habiti antichi : (Per Combi, & LaNoù ; appresso capo Francesco Bodio, 1664), by Cesare Vecellio and Francesco Bodio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le navigationi et viaggi nella Turchia, di Nicolo de Nicolai del Delfinato ... : con diuerse singolarità in quelle parti dall' autore viste & osseruate. (Apresso Guiglielmo Siluio stampatore regio., 1576), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Willem Silvius, Jean Croissant, Geeraard Jansen van Kampen, Cornelis Muller, Arnaud Nicolai, Assuerus van Londerseel, and François Flory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Omnium fere gentium nostrae aetatis habitus ... (Ferdinando Bertelli Æneis typis excudebat, 1563), by Ferando Bertelli and Enea Vico (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les costumes et sur les théatres de toutes les nations, tant anciennes que modernes : ouvrage utile aux peintres, statuaires, architectes, décorateurs, comédiens, costumiers, en un mot aux artistes de tous les genres : non moins utile pour l'etude de l'histoire des temps reculés, des mœurs des peuples antiques, de leurs usages, de leurs loix, et nécessaire à l'education des adolescens (Chez M. Drouhin, éditeur dudit ouvrage ..., 1790), by Jean Charles Levacher de Charnois, Pierre-Michel Alix, and Philippe Chéry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Tvrchia, di Nicolo de'Nicolai del Delfinato, signor d'Arfevilla (Presso Francesco Ziletti, 1580), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Antoine van Leest, and François Flory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mascarades ([publisher not identified], 1597), by Jean Jacques Boissard and Robert Boissard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de la diuersité des habits, : qui sont de present en vsage, tant es pays d'Europe. Asie, Affrique & Isles sauuages, le tout fait apres le naturel. (Par François des prez ..., 1567), by François Desprez (page images at HathiTrust)
• De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diuerse parti del mondo libri dve (Presso Damian Zenaro, 1590), by Cesare Vecellio and Cristoforo Chrieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Habiti antichi, overo, Raccolta di figure delineate dal gran Titiano, e da Cesare Vecellio suo fratello (Per Combi, & LaNoù, 1664), by Cesare Vecellio and Cristoforo Chrieger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quatre premiers livres de navigations et peregrinations orientales. English (Imprinted at London : [At the cost of John Stell] by Thomas Dawson, 1585), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Thomas Washington, and John Stell (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Commentatio de personis uulgo laruis seu mascheris, von der carnavals-lust (Apvd Georg. Marc. Knochivm Bibliopol Vitembergensem, 1723), by Christoph Heinrich Berger, George Marcus Knoch, and Johann Georg Wolffgang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true discription of a royall masque Presented at Hampton Court, vpon Sunday night, being the eight of Ianuary. 1604. And personated by the Queenes most excellent Majestie, attended by eleuen ladies of honour. (London : Printed by Edward Allde, and are to be solde at the Long Shoppe, adjoyning vnto S. Mildreds Church in the Poultrye, 1604), by Samuel Daniel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The characters of two royall masques The one of blacknesse, the other of beautie. personated by the most magnificent of queenes Anne Queene of great Britaine, &c. With her honorable ladyes, 1605. and 1608. at White-hall: and inuented by Ben: Ionson. (Imprinted at London : [by G. Eld] for Thomas Thorp, and are to be sold [by L. Lisle] at the signe of the Tigers head in Paules Church-yard, [1608]), by Ben Jonson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Hymenaei: or The solemnities of masque, and barriers magnificently performed on the eleventh, and twelfth nights, from Christmas; at court: to the auspicious celebrating of the marriage-vnion, betweene Robert, Earle of Essex, and the Lady Frances, second daughter to the most noble Earle of Suffolke. By Ben: Ionson. (At London : Printed by Valentine Sims for Thomas Thorp, 1606), by Ben Jonson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Loues triumph through Callipolis Performed in a masque at court 1630. By his Maiestie with the lords, and gentlemen assisting. The inuentors. Ben. Ionson. Inigo Iones. (London : Printed by I[ohn] N[orton] for Thomas Walkley, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Eagle and Child in Brittains-burse, 1630. [i.e. 1631]), by Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Masquarade du ciel presented to the great Queene of the little vvorld. A celestiall map, representing the true site and motions of the heavenly bodies, through the yeeres 1639, 1640, &c. Shadowing the late commotions, between Saturn and Mercury, about the northern Thule. With the happy peace and union, through the whole little world, made by the goodnesse of Phebus and his royall Phebe. By J.S. (London : Printed by R[ichard] B[adger] for S[amuel] C[artwright], 1640), by John Sadler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Albions triumph Personated in a maske at court. By the Kings Maiestie and his lords. The Sunday after Twelfe Night. 1631 (London : Printed by Aug: Mathewes for Robert Allet [i.e. Allot] at the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1631 [i.e. 1632]), by Aurelian Townshend (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Tempe restord A masque presented by the Queene, and foureteene ladies, to the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall on Shrove-Tuesday. 1631. (London : Printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes] for Robert Allet [i.e. Allot], and George Bakek [i.e. Baker], 1631 [i.e. 1632]), by Aurelian Townshend, Inigo Jones, and Baltasar de Beaujoyeulx (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The masque of the Inner Temple and Grayes Inne Grayes Inne and the Inner Temple, presented before his Maiestie, the Queenes Maiestie, the Prince, Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth their Highnesses, in the Banquetting house at White-hall on Saturday the twentieth day of Februarie, 1612. (At London : Imprinted by F[elix] K[ingston] for George Norton, and are to be sold at his shoppe neere Temple-bar, [1613]), by Francis Beaumont (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The description of a maske: presented in the Banqueting roome at Whitehall, on Saint Stephens night last at the mariage of the Right Honourable the Earle of Somerset: and the right noble the Lady Frances Howard. Written by Thomas Campion. Whereunto are annexed diuers choyse ayres composed for this maske that may be sung with a single voyce to the lute or base-viall. (London : Imprinted by E. A[llde and Thomas Snodham] for Laurence Li'sle, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Tygers head, 1614), by Thomas Campion, Robert Carr Somerset, and Frances Howard Carr Somerset (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Louers made men A masque presented in the house of the Right Honorable the Lord Haye. By diuers of noble qualitie, his friends. For the entertaynment of Monsieur Le Baron de Tour, extraordinarie ambassador for the French King. On Saterday the 22. of February. 1617. ([London : s.n.], 1617), by Ben Jonson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The maske of flowers· Presented by the gentlemen of Graies-Inne, at the court of VVhite-hall, in the Banquetting House, vpon Twelfe night, 1613. Being the last of the solemnities and magnificences which were performed at the marriage of the right honourable the Earle of Somerset, and the Lady Francis daughter of the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberlaine. (London : Printed by N[icholas] O[kes] for Robert Wilson, and are to be sold at his shop at Graies-Inne new gate, 1614), by John Coperario (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The masque of augures With the seueral antimasques. Presented on Twelfe night. ([London : s.n.], 1621), by Ben Jonson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The masque of queenes celebrated from the house of fame: by the most absolute in all state, and titles. Anne Queene of Great Britaine, &c. With her honourable ladies. At VVhite Hall, Febr. 2. 1609. Written by Ben: Ionson. (London : By N. Okes. for R. Bonian and H. VVally, and are to be sold at the Spred Eagle in Poules Church-yard, 1609), by Ben Jonson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triumph of peace· A masque, presented by the foure honourable houses, or Innes of Court. Before the King and Queenes Majesties, in the Banquetting-house at White Hall, February the third, 1633. Invented and written, by James Shirley, Gent. (London : Printed by Iohn Norton, for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, neere Furnivals-Inne-gate, in Holborne, 1633 [i.e. 1634]), by James Shirley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A proposition for advancement of moralitie, by a new way of entertainment of the people (London : [s.n.], printed in the yeer 1654) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Statuts de la Confrérie de la Passion de l'Église Saint-Patrice de Rouen : manuscript. (Columbia University Libraries, 1374), by France) Confrérie de la Passion (Rouen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Den dramatiske journal (I kommission hos G.E.C. Gad, 1915), by Peder Rosenstand-Goiske, Carl Johannes Behrens, and Selskabet for Dansk Teaterhistorie (page images at HathiTrust)

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