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Puppet plays

Here are entered the texts of puppet plays and works treating of them from a literary point of view. General works on puppetry and works on the presentation of puppet plays are entered under Puppet theater. Works on facilities used to stage puppet plays are entered under Puppet theaters.

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• Puppets and puppet-plays

• The Tragical Acts, or Comical Tragedies of Punch and Judy (New York: Happy Hours Co., c1879), ed. by W. J. Judd, illust. by George Cruikshank
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Of Dramatic Poesie, by John Dryden (HTML at Toronto)
• Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice (Yale Studies in English #4; Boston et al.: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898), by Margaret Pollock Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliography of Dramatic Literature (La Jolla, CA: World Drama Prompters, c1915), ed. by H. N. Clugston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Viewpoints in Modern Drama: An Arrangement of Plays According to Their Essential Interest (Chicago: American library association, 1925), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)

• Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c1996), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; Published by University Press of New England, 1984), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Three Tragedies: Bertram; Bellamira; The Apostate (London:, 1818), by Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists (Philadelphia: Pub. for the Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1955), by Fredson Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• The Scene is Changed (c1942), by Ashley Dukes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1910), by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (Gutenberg text)
• The Jew in Drama (London: P. S. King and Son, 1926), by M. J. Landa
  • page images in Germany
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)

• The Drama (partial serial archives)
• The Dramatic Index (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société des Historiens du Théâtre (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acting like Men: Gender, Drama, and Nostalgia in Ancient Greece (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Karen Bassi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-Knowledge (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1972), by Rolf Soellner
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare (New York et al: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1966), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)

• The Social Significance of the Modern Drama (Boston: R. G. Badger; Toronto: Copp Clark Co., c1914), by Emma Goldman
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Drury's Guide to Best Plays (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1953), by Francis K. W. Drury (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Craftsmanship of the One-Act Play (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1923), by Percival Wilde (page images at HathiTrust)
• How's Your Second Act? (New York: P. Goodman Co., 1918), by Arthur Hopkins, contrib. by George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship (1912), by William Archer (Gutenberg text)
• Playwriting: A Handbook for Would-Be Dramatic Authors, by A Dramatist (second edition; London: The Stage Office, n.d.), by Jerome K. Jerome (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Science of Playwriting (New York: Brentano's, c1925), by Moses L. Malevinsky, contrib. by Owen Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere's Five-Act Structure: Shakspere's Early Plays on the Background of Renaissance Theories of Five-Act Structure From 1470 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1947), by T. W. Baldwin (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)
• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• Principles of Drama-Therapy (New York: Sopherim, 1917), by Stephen F. Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

• Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: A Reader for the Fourth Grade (1908), by Augusta Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Treasury of Plays for Children (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1921), ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses, illust. by Tony Sarg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dramatized Scenes From American History (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1916), by Augusta Stevenson, illust. by Frank T. Merrill
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Eager Heart: A Christmas Mystery-Play (London: Methuen and Co., 1904), by A. M. Buckton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy Night: A Yule-Tide Masque (New York: Sunwise Turn, 1919), by Hans Trausil, trans. by Leonora Speyer, illust. by Eric Gill (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Ewing, illust. by Gordon Browne (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
• The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918), by Wilton W. Blancké (Gutenberg text)
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)
• Retractatio in the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichus and Trinummus (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1911), by Cornelia Catlin Coulter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

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