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Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets. (New York, G. R. Routledge and sons, [c1865]), by John William Stanhope Hows (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative American plays, (New York, The Century co, 1922), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
Twenty contemporary one-act plays (American) Selected and edited by Frank Shay. (Cincinnati, Stewart Kidd Company, [c1922]), by Frank Shay (page images at HathiTrust)
The avenger; or, The Moor of Sicily; a melo-drama in three acts, With original casts of characters, costumes, and all the stage business. (Boston, W. V. Spencer, [1859?]), by Herbert Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
Commercial courtship and unselfish union [electronic resource] : a tale of the borders. (Toronto : A.S. Irving, 1888), by Oliver Leigh (page images at HathiTrust)
Smith College theatre workshop plays : an anthology (1918-1921) / (Northampton, Mass. : Theatre Workshop, Smith College, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club ... series 1-2 (New York, Brentanos, 1919-1921), by Harvard University. Dramatic Club (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative American plays / (New York : Century Co., 1919, 1917), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative American plays, (New York, Century co., 1921), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
Julietta Gordini : the miser's daughter. A play in five acts. Written for Miss Sarah Hildreth. (New York : Not published, 1839), by Isaac C. Pray (page images at HathiTrust)
Two ways of dying for a husband : I. dying to keep him, or Tortesa the usurer : II. dying to lose him, or Bianca Visconti / by N. P. Willis. (London : Hugh Cunningham, 1839), by Nathaniel Parker Willis (page images at HathiTrust)
Percy's masque, a drama, in five acts. (New York, C.S. Van Winkle, 1820), by James Abraham Hillhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative one-act plays by American authors, (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1922), by Margaret Mayorga (page images at HathiTrust)
Portmanteau plays. (Cincinnati, Stewart and Kidd, 1919 [c1917]), by Stuart Walker and Edward Hale Bierstadt (page images at HathiTrust)
Azon, the invader of Eden; or, Immortality snatched from the Tree of life ... (New York, The author, 1858), by George Van Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
Play and poems, (Boston Harbor, Mich., [1916]), by William Watts (page images at HathiTrust)
Plays of today. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1949-), by Cornelia Spencer Love (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Drama : its history, literature and influence on civilization / (London : The Athenian Society, 1903), by Alfred Bates and England) Athenian Society (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The easiest way : an American play concerning a particular phase of New York life, in four acts and four scenes / ([New York] : Printed for the author, 1909), by Eugene Walter (page images at HathiTrust)
Dramatic compositions copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 / (New York : Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968), by Library of Congress Copyright Office and Henry S. Parsons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Provincetown plays : second series. (New York : F. Shay, 1916), by Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Hutchins Hapgood, Neith Boyce, and John Reed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Pa's new housekeeper; a farce in one act, (Boston, W.H. Baker & Co., [c1912]), by Charles S. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
The Drama; its history; literature and influence on civilization. (London, The Athenian society, 1903 [c1906]), by John Porter Lamberton, James P. Boyd, Alfred ed Bates, and England) Athenian Society (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
New plays survey. (New York, National Service Bureau, [1938]), by Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) and Converse Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
National Service Bureau publications : a catalog. (New York : National Service Bureau, Federal Theatre Project, Works Progress Administration, 1937), by Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
An Arizona cowboy : a comedy-drama of the great Southwest in four acts / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., [c1918]), by Sheldon Parmer (page images at HathiTrust)
At the village post office : a musical play in two acts / (Franklin, Ohio : Eldridge Entertainment House, c1906), by Seymour S. Tibbals (page images at HathiTrust)
Brief list of English and American plays / (Saint Louis : Mangan Printing Co., 1917), by St. Louis Mercantile Library Association and Clarence E. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
Dramatic compositions copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ... (Washington : Govt. print. off., 1918), by Library of Congress Copyright Office and Henry S. Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
May Blossom [electronic resource] : a comedy in four acts / (New York : S. French [etc.,etc.], c1883), by David Belasco (page images at HathiTrust)
Later American plays, 1831-1900 : being a compilation of the titles of plays by American authors published and performed in America since 1831 /, by Robert F. Roden and Oscar Supplement to (work): Wegelin (page images at HathiTrust)
The Dutch recruit : or, The blue and gray ; an original allegorical drama of the Civil war of 1861-66, in five acts / (Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, Publisher, 1879), by J. T. Vegiard (page images at HathiTrust)
Aunty : a farce / (Chicago : T.S. Denison & Co., c1912), by John M. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
Uncle : a comedy in three acts / (Philadelphia : Penn, 1900), by Henry J. Byron (page images at HathiTrust)
A rank deception : a farce in two acts / (Boston : Walter H. Baker & co., 1899), by Lilli Huger Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
A chance at midnight; a dramatic episode in one act ... (New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, ©1912), by Charles Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
The Lady from Philadelphia, a farce in one act ... (Philadelphia, Penn Pub. Co., 1912), by Helen Hoyt Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
That rascal Pat : a farce, in one act / (New York ; London : Samuel French, [approximately 1868]), by J. Holmes Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
And all about nothing; a pathetico-comical drama in one act, (New York, E.s. WErner, 1895), by Garrett W. Owens (page images at HathiTrust)
The Darkey drama : a collection of approved Ethiopian acts, scenes and interludes. (London ; New York : S. French, [18]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The New York drama, a choice collection of tragedies, comedies, farces, etc. (New York, Wheat & Cornett, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
The realistic presentation of American characters in native American plays prior to eighteen seventy, (Columbus, The University, [1918]), by Perley Isaac Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
Don Patrick; an original romantic drama in four acts, (Edinburgh [T. and A. Constable, Printers], 1907), by Lloyd Osbourne (page images at HathiTrust)
The Provincetown plays. (New York : Frank Shay, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A literary autobiography of Mordecai Manuel Noah / (S.l. : American Jewish Historical Society, 1897), by George Alexander Kohut and M.M. Noah (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of the library of the late Thomas Jefferson McKee : ... to be sold at auction ... by John Anderson, Jr. ([New York, N.Y. : John Anderson, Jr., 1900-1906]), by Jr. John Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
The theatrical independent movements, (Boston, Mass., 1907), by Allen Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)
Eris; a dramatic allegory, (New York, Moffat, Yard and company, 1914), by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff (page images at HathiTrust)
Hazel Kirke : a drama in four acts / (New York : S. French, c1908), by Steele MacKaye (page images at HathiTrust)
The Drama : its history; literature and influence on civilization / (London : The Athenian society, 1903), by Alfred Bates and England) Athenian Society (London, ed. by John Porter Lamberton, James P. Boyd, and Alfred Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Out on the world : a drama in three acts. (Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, c1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
Greek costume plays for school or lawn performance, (Boston, Walter H. Baker & Co., 1914), by Ella Skinner Bates, English Sophocles. Antigone, Mary L. Gaddess, and M. Nataline Crumpton (page images at HathiTrust)
The cigarette : a comedy, in one act / (Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, 1884), by Newton Chisnell (page images at HathiTrust)
Husbands on approval : a comedy in three acts / (Boston : W.H. Baker, 1914), by William M. Blatt (page images at HathiTrust)
The black teacher and the drama. Report on an Institute in Repertory Theatre operated under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education for potential teachers of disadvantaged youth in cooperation with the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ([Santa Barbara, Calif. : University of California, 1969?]), by William R. Reardon and Santa Barbara. Department of Dramatic Art. Institute in Black Repertory Theatre University of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Early American plays, 1714-1830; being a compilation of the titles of plays by American authors, published and performed in America previous to 1830, (New York, Dunlap Society, 1900), by Oscar Wegelin and John Malone (page images at HathiTrust)
The Best plays of 1920-21 and the year book of the drama in America / (Boston : Small, Maynard, & Co., c1921), by John Galsworthy, Eugene O'Neill, Porter Emerson Browne, Rachel Crothers, J. M. Barrie, Ferenc Molnár, William Archer, Dorothea. Enter Madame Donn-Byrne, Gilda Varesi. Enter Madame Archibald, Frank Craven, Sacha Guitry, and Burns Mantle (page images at HathiTrust)
Saul of Tarsus; a religious drama, (Boston, Sherman, French & Company, 1914), by John Fielding Crigler (page images at HathiTrust)
The hollow head of Mars; a modern masque in four phases, (London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1915), by Herman George Scheffauer (page images at HathiTrust)
Crowding the season: a comedy in three acts, (New York, S.French, [c1870]), by E. Trueblood Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
A masque of sibyls, (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by Florence Converse (page images at HathiTrust)
Contemporary American plays, (New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's Sons, [c1923]), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
The junior play book, (New York, Harcourt, Brace, [c1923]), by Helen Louise Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
Shouts and murmurs : echoes of a thousand and one first nights / (London : L. Parsons, 1923), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
Standard drama. (New York : [s.n., 18-?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
The hero in American drama, 1787-1900; a critical appraisal of American dramas through a consideration of the hero. (New York, 1950), by Blanche Elizabeth Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
National Service Bureau publications; a catalogue. (New York, 1938), by Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). National Service Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
National Service Bureau publications: a catalogue. (New York City, NY : National Service Bureau, 1937), by Federal Theatre Project (U.S.). National Service Bureau and United States. Works Progress Administration (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Signing the Declaration of Independence; or, Scenes in Congress, July 4th, 1776; a national sketch in one act, (New York, French, 1866), by Charles E. B. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
Viola; a play in four acts. (New York, S. French, c1858), by Edward Maturin (page images at HathiTrust)
Ireland as it is; a drama, in three acts. (New-York, Samuel French, [1856?]), by J. H. Amherst (page images at HathiTrust)
Witchcraft; a tragedy in five acts. (New York, S. French, 1852), by Cornelius Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets. (New York, Bruce and Huntington, [c1865]), ed. by John W. S. Hows (page images at HathiTrust)
Voices of life / (Paris : Printed by E. Brière, 1862), by Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the American theatre / (New York : J. & J. Harper, 1832), by William Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
The sons of Baldur; a forest music drama by Herman Scheffauer; the music by Arthur Weiss. This being the thirty-first annual Midsummer Festival known as the "High Jinks" of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, as enacted and sung by the members of the Club at the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County, California, on the eighth night of August, nineteen hundred and eight. ([San Francisco, Press of the Hansen Co., 1908]), by Herman George Scheffauer, Arthur. Sons of Baldur Weiss, and Calif.) Bohemian Club (San Francisco (page images at HathiTrust)
Plays and pageants of citizenship, (New York, London, Harper & brothers, [c1920]), by F. Ursula Payne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Atlantic book of modern plays / (Boston : Atlantic monthly press, c1922), by Sterling Andrus Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative one-act plays by American authors / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1922), by Margaret Mayorga (page images at HathiTrust)
Later American plays, 1831-1900; being a compilation of the titles of plays by American authors published and performed in America since 1831, (New York, Burt Franklin, [1900]), by Robert F. Roden and Oscar Wegelin (page images at HathiTrust)
The Play-book. (Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Dramatic Society, 1913-1915), by Wisconsin Dramatic Society (page images at HathiTrust)
The flying islands of the night. (New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904), by James Whitcomb Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
The interchange of plays between London and New York, 1910-1939; a study in relative audience response. (New York, King's Crown Press, 1948), by Alice Katharine Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The English and American stage. (New York : Published by David Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery, 1803-<1812>) (page images at HathiTrust)
The characterization of George Washington in American plays since 1875. (Easton, Pa. [J.S. Correll Co.], 1949), by Samuel Blaine Shirk (page images at HathiTrust)
The British and American drama of to-day; outlines for their study: suggestions, questions, biograhies and bibliographies for use in connection with the study of the more important plays, (Cincinnati, Stewart & Kidd company, [c1921]), by Barrett H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Latin America through drama in English [a bibliography] (Washington, Division of Philosophy, Letters and Sciences, Pan America Union, 1950), by Willis Knapp Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern drama. ([New York] : [French], [1848-between 1850 and 1859?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
The scarlet women : and other sonnets from "Scorpio, " "Scorpio I, " "Scorpio II, " together with four dramas in blank verse: The hazard of the die, " "Saul, " "Saul and David, " and "The serpent of old Nile, " / (New York : The Palmetto Press, 1924), by John Armstrong Chaloner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Gonzalvo : or, The corsair's doom, a tragedy in five acts ; The elopement, a petit comedy, in two acts ; Neoma, in three cantos ; and other poems / (Philadelphia : T. K. and P. G. Collins, printers, 1848), by Charles Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club . (New York : Brentanos, 1924), by Harvard University. Dramatic Club (page images at HathiTrust)
The Minor drama: a collection of the most popular petit comedies, vaudevilles, burlettas, travesties, etc.; with critical remarks, also the stage business, casts of characters, costumes relative positions, etc., and each drama embellished with an illustrative engraving. (New York, W. Taylor & co. ; Samuel French, [1854?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
Mr. James Joyce and the modern stage : a play and some considerations / (Chicago : Drama League of America, 1916), by Ezra Pound (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The masque of judgment; a masque-drama in five acts and a prelude. (Boston, New York, Hougthon Mifflin Co., [1902]), by William Vaughn Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
"Lafayette", or "The maid and the marquis"; an original burlesque in three acts. (New York [Press of A.E. Chasmar & co.], 1890), by George Austin Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
The nun of Kent; a drama in five acts, (New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1911), by Grace Denio Litchfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
American drama. (London [etc.] Historical Pub. Co., [c1906]), by John Porter Lamberton and James P. Boyd, ed. by Alfred Bates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Vagabond plays ... (Baltimore, The Norman, Remington Co., 1921-) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Left turn for American drama, (Brookfield, Conn., The Brookfield players, inc., 1934), by Virgil Geddes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Wisconsin plays. (New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1922), by William Ellery Leonard, Zona Gale, and Wisconsin dramatic society, ed. by Thomas H. Dickinson and Thomas Herbert Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets / (New York : F. J. and Huntington, 1867, c1865), by John W. S. Hows (page images at HathiTrust)
The fool; a play in four acts, (New York, Brentano's; [etc., etc., c1922]), by Channing Pollock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The American drama, 1930-1940; essays on playwrights and plays, (New York, The Modern chapbooks, 1941), by Joseph E. Mersand (page images at HathiTrust)
The Gibson play; a two-act comedy based on Mr. Charles Dana Gibson's series of cartoons "A widow and her friends" orginally printed in "Life," (New York, Life publishing company; Philadelphia, Curtis publishing company, [c1901]), by Marguerite Merington and Charles Dana Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
The drama of social significance, 1930-1940, (New York [The Modern chapbooks], 1940), by Joseph E. Mersand (page images at HathiTrust)
The dramatic authors of America. (Philadelphia, G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845), by James Rees (page images at HathiTrust)
The Emperor Jones, Diff'rent, The straw, (New York, Boni and Liveright, [c1921]), by Eugene O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
Hazel Kirke : a drama in four acts / (New York : S. French, 1908), by Steele Mackaye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Driven to the wall : or, true to the last ; a play in four acts / (Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, Publisher, [1877?]), by A. D. Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
Vagabond plays. (Baltimore, Md., The Norman, Remington company, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
The writing desk; [or, Youth in danger] / (New York : Printed for Charles Smith, 1801), by August von Kotzebue, Henry Willis Wells, and Charles Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
A book of one-act plays, (Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, [c1922]), by Barbara Louise Schafer (page images at HathiTrust)
Leah, the forsaken; a play in 5 acts. (New York, S. French, c1890), by Augustin Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
The woman who knows, a comedy-drama in three acts. ([Brooklyn, N.Y., The Author, c1922]), by Milton Herbert Gropper (page images at HathiTrust)
The old district school; a farce in two acts with music. New version. Music arranged by Geo. F. Rosche. (Chicago, G. F. Rosche, c1906), by William E. Danforth and Geo. F. Rosche (page images at HathiTrust)
Plays of the 47 workshop. (New York, Brentanos, 1918-), by 47 Workshop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
From newsboy and bellhop to playwright. ([San Francisco : s.n., 1925?]), by Garland Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
One act plays for stage and study; a collection of plays by well-known dramatists, American, English, and Irish, (New York, S. French; [etc., etc.], 1925) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A game at love, and other plays, (New York, Brentano's, 1906), by George Sylvester Viereck (page images at HathiTrust)
The flying stage plays for the little theatre. Nos. 1-4, 5-8. ([New York, E. Arens, 1918-19]) (page images at HathiTrust)
Day by day with American playwrights (Modesto, Calif., Adobe press, Commercial printing company, 1936), by Irene Hoch (page images at HathiTrust)
Playwrights of the new American theater, (New York, The Macmillan company, 1925), by Thomas H. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
American plays printed 1714-1830: a bibliographical record/ (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, [1934]), by Frank Pierce Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
Annals of the New York stage. (New York, Columbia University Press, 1927-49), by George Clinton Densmore Odell, Daniel Lace Quirk, Daniel Lace Quirk, and Princeton University (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Beggar on horseback, a play in two parts, (New York, Boni and Liveright, [©1924]), by George S. Kaufman, Paul Based on (work): Apel, and Marc Connelly (page images at HathiTrust)
Baker's anthology of one-act plays, selected and edited (Boston, The Baker international play bureau, 1925), by Leroy Phillips, ed. by Theodore Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Three centuries of English and American plays, a checklist. England: 1500-1800, United States: 1714-1830 / (New York : Hafner Publishing, 1963), by G. William Bergquist and Henry W. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
The American renaissance (New York, A.A. Knopf, 1928), by R. L. Duffus and Carnegie Corporation of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
Twentieth century dramas, presented as bibliography for graduation June 13, 1915, (New York, 1915), by Florence Elizabeth Foshay and New York Public Library. Library School (page images at HathiTrust)
Twenty contemporary one-act plays (American) (Cincinnati, Stewart Kidd company, [c1922]), by Frank Shay (page images at HathiTrust)
Our changing theatre, (New York, L. MacVeagh, Dial Press, inc.; Toronto, Longmans, Green & co., 1931), by Richard Dana Skinner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Books on early American drama & kindred works (New York, The Anderson Galleries, 1925), by Fred W. Atkinson and Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative American plays, 1767-1923; edited with introductions and notes (New York, The Century co., 1925), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
Indiana prize plays : as presented by The Little Theatre Society of Indiana during the season of 1922-23 / (Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative American dramas (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1925), by Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
A treasury of plays for men / (Boston : Little, Brown, and company, 1923), by Frank Shay (page images at HathiTrust)
Acting Jewish : negotiating ethnicity on the American stage & screen / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Henry Bial (page images at HathiTrust)
The Atlantic book of modern plays / (Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1921), by Sterling Andrus Leonard (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of the American drama, from the beginning to the civil war, (New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1923), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The elevator : farce / (Boston : James R. Osgood, c1885), by William Dean Howells (page images at HathiTrust)
Drama cyclopedia, a bibliography of plays and players, (Chicago : The author, [1944]), by Robert L. Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
One-act plays by modern authors / (New York : Harcourt, Brace, 1921), by Helen Louise Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
A queer sort of materialism : recontextualizing American theater / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003), by David Savran (page images at HathiTrust)
Early American comedy, ([New York] : The New York public library, 1919), by Elbridge Colby and New York Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative American plays, (New York, The Century co., 1921), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
Playing underground : a critical history of the 1960s off-off-Broadway movement / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Stephen J. Bottoms (page images at HathiTrust)
Longer plays by modern authors [American] (New York, Harcourt, Brace and company, [c1922]), by Helen Louise Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
Christ in the drama; a study of the influence of Christ on the drama of England and America. (New York, Macmillan, 1947), by Fred Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
Contemporary one-act plays of 1921. (American) / (Cincinnati : Stewart Kidd Company, 1922), by Frank Shay, ed. by Frank Shay (page images at HathiTrust)
Three centuries of English and American plays, a checklist. England: 1500-1800, United States: 1714-1830. (New York, Readex Microprint Corp., 1963), by G. William Bergquist and Henry W. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
Three short plays, (New York, The Macmillan company, 1917), by Mary Stanbery Watts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Clements Library presents an exhibition of early American drama from the Herbert C. Ely memorial collection, in honor of the Modern Language Association vist to the University of Michigan, December 31, 1947. ([Ann Arbor, 1947]), by William L. Clements Library and Herbert C Ely (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Check list of American drama published in the English Colonies of North America and the United States through 1865, (Philadelphia, 1951), by University of Pennsylvania Library and Albert Von Chorba (page images at HathiTrust)
A treasury of plays for women, (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1924), by Frank Shay (page images at HathiTrust)
Twentieth century dramas, (Boston, The Boston book co., [1915]), by Florence Elizabeth Foshay (page images at HathiTrust)
The Free company presents... a collection of plays about the meaning of America, (New York, Dodd, Mead & company, [c1911]), by New York Free company and Columbia Broadcasting System, inc., ed. by James Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
The play's the thing; enjoying the plays of today, (New York, The Modern chapbooks, 1941), by Joseph Mersand (page images at HathiTrust)
The theme of loneliness in modern American drama, (Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 1960), by Winifred L. Frazer (page images at HathiTrust)
Play for strolling mummers. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1926), by Frank Shay (page images at HathiTrust)
Revues; a book of short sketches, (New York, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1926), by Kenyon Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Representative plays by American dramatists / (New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, 1925-1926), by Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
Digests of great American plays; complete summaries of more than 100 plays from the beginnings to the present. (New York : Crowell, [1961]), by John Lovell (page images at HathiTrust)
The American dramatist. (Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1925), by Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
Freud on Broadway; a history of psychoanalysis and the American drama. (New York : Hermitage House, 1955), by Wieder David Sievers (page images at HathiTrust)
A book of one-act plays, (Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company, [c1922]), by Barbara Louise Schafer (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the American theatre, and anecdotes of the principal actors. (New York, Burt Franklin, 1963), by William Dunlap and John Hodgkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Rehearsal; the principles and practice of acting for the stage. (New York, Prentice Hall, inc., 1946), by Miriam Anna Franklin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Jew in English drama; an annotated bibliography, compiled by Edward D. Coleman, with a preface by Joshua Bloch. (New York, New York Public Library, 1943), by Edward Davidson Coleman, Joshua Bloch, Daniel C. Haskell, and New York Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
Footpaths & bridges : voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive / (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Rebecca Howard and Shirley Huston-Findley (page images at HathiTrust)
Early American plays, 1714-1830 : a compilation of the titles of plays and dramatic poems written by authors born in or residing in North America previous to 1830 / (New York : The Literary collector press, 1905), by Oscar Wegelin (page images at HathiTrust)
The magazine and the drama; an index / (New York : The Dunlap society, 1896), by James Harry Pence (page images at HathiTrust)
French's standard drama ... (New York : S. French, 1846-[18--?]), by Samuel French Ltd, Epes Sargent, Francis Courtney Wemyss, and John W. S. Hows (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the American theatre. (London, R. Bentley, 1833), by William Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
The grove plays of the Bohemian Club; (San Francisco, Printed for the Bohemian Club at the press of the H. S. Crocker Company, 1918), by Calif.) Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Porter Garnett, and H.S. Crocker & Co. Book producer (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative American plays, (New York, The Century co., 1917), by Arthur Hobson Quinn (page images at HathiTrust)
Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club. (New York : Brentanos, 1918-1919), by Harvard University. Dramatic Club (page images at HathiTrust)
Mr. George Jean Nathan presents. (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1917), by George Jean Nathan (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifty years of American drama, 1900-1950. (Chicago : Regnery, 1951), by Alan S. Downer (page images at HathiTrust)
The American drama since 1918; an informal history. (New York : G. Braziller, 1957), by Joseph Wood Krutch (page images at HathiTrust)
The Drama; its history; literature and influence on civilization. (London, The Athenian society, 1903), by John Porter Lamberton, James P. Boyd, Alfred Bates, and England) Athenian Society (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The off-Broadway theater. (New York : Scarecrow Press, 1962), by Julia S. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
One act plays for stage and study, first series ; a collection of plays by well-known dramatists, American, English, and Irish / (page images at HathiTrust)
Contemporary American playwrights / (New York : Dodd, Mead, 1939, ©1938), by Burns Mantle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern American playwrights, 1918-1945; a bibliography. (New York, 1946-47), by Joseph Abraham Weingarten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Drama; its history, literature and influence on civilization. (London : The Athenian Society, 1903-06. [v.1, 1906]), by John Porter Lamberton, James P. Boyd, Alfred Bates, and England) Athenian Society (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern American plays, (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by George Pierce Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
The British and American drama of to-day : outlines for their study : suggestions, questions, biographies, and bibliographies for use in connection with the study of the more important plays. (New York : Holt, 1915), by Barrett H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
The American dramatist, (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1911), by Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
Spencer's Boston theatre : a collection of scarce acting tragedies, comedies, dramas, farces and burlettas ... (Boston : W.V. Spencer, [1855-58]) (page images at HathiTrust)
Contemporary plays; sixteen plays from the recent drama of England and America, (Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Company, [c1925]), by Thomas Herbert Dickinson and Jack Randall Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
Recent plays by American authors, ([St. Louis] : St. Louis public library, 1925), by St. Louis Public Library and Irene Fisse (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalogue of the library of the late Thomas Jefferson McKee ... to be sold at auction ... by John Anderson, jr. ([New York, D. Taylor & co., 1900-06]), by Thomas Jefferson McKee and Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
Twelve one-act plays (London : Longmans, Green, [1926]), by Walter Prichard Eaton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern plays, short and long, (New York London, The Century co., 1924), by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The case of American drama, (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1915), by Thomas H. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Catalog of copyright entries. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1891-), by Library of Congress Copyright Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Publications. (New York : Dunlap Society, 1886-1891; 1896-1902), by Dunlap Society (page images at HathiTrust)
A list of American dramas in the New York public library. ([New York] New York public library, 1916), by New York Public Library and Daniel C. Haskell (page images at HathiTrust)
One-act plays for stage and study. (New York, S. French, 1925-) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Appleton book of short plays; actable short plays for amateurs, (New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company, 1926), by Kenyon Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
The New American drama, (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell company, [c1913]), by Richard Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
A treasury of plays for women, (Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1922), ed. by Frank Shay (page images at HathiTrust)
The American dramatist, (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1917), by Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative plays by American dramatists, (New York, E. P. Dutton & company, 1918-[25]), by Montrose Jonas Moses (page images at HathiTrust)
Representative one-act plays by American authors / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1919), by Margaret Mayorga (page images at HathiTrust)
The Quiet Hotel: A Farcical Sketch in One Act, by Frank Dumont (Gutenberg ebook)
Plays, by Susan Glaspell, contrib. by George Cram Cook (Gutenberg ebook)
Caliban by the Yellow Sands: A Community Masque of the Art of the Theatre, by Percy MacKaye, illust. by Robert Edmond Jones and Joseph Urban (Gutenberg ebook)
The Scarecrow; or The Glass of Truth: A Tragedy of the Ludicrous, by Percy MacKaye (Gutenberg ebook)
Plays and Lyrics, by Cale Young Rice (Gutenberg ebook)
Six One-Act Plays, by Margaret Scott Oliver (Gutenberg ebook)
Dr. Hardhack's Prescription: A Play for Children in Four Acts, by K. McDowell Rice and Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
Porzia, by Cale Young Rice (Gutenberg ebook)
Charles Di Tocca: A Tragedy, by Cale Young Rice (Gutenberg ebook)
Yolanda of Cyprus, by Cale Young Rice (Gutenberg ebook)
One-Act Plays by Modern Authors, ed. by Helen Louise Cohen (Gutenberg ebook)
The Sweet Girl Graduates: A Farce in Three Acts and an Epilogue, by H. Rea Woodman (Gutenberg ebook)
She Would Be a Soldier; Or, The Plains of Chippewa, by M. M. Noah, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
André, by William Dunlap, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
The Contrast, by Royall Tyler, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
The Politician Out-Witted, by Samuel Low, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
The Fall of British Tyranny; Or, American Liberty Triumphant, by John Leacock, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
The Battle of Bunkers-Hill, by H. H. Brackenridge, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
The Group: A Farce, by Mercy Otis Warren, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
Ponteach; Or, The Savages of America, by Robert Rogers, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
The Prince of Parthia: A Tragedy, by Thomas Godfrey, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1765-1819, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van: Winkle, by Charles Burke (Gutenberg ebook)
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea, by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame, by Clyde Fitch, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates, by Charles S. Brooks, contrib. by Gordon Hatfield, illust. by Julia McCune Flory (Gutenberg ebook)
Clair de Lune: A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes, by Michael Strange (Gutenberg ebook)
The Climbers: A Play in Four Acts, by Clyde Fitch (Gutenberg ebook)
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays, ed. by Sterling Andrus Leonard, contrib. by Gordon Bottomley, Harold Brighouse, Harold Chapin, Beulah Marie Dix, Lord Dunsany, J. A. Ferguson, John Galsworthy, Lady Gregory, Percy MacKaye, George Middleton, Eugene O'Neill, Winthrop Parkhurst, Louise Saunders, J. M. Synge, and W. B. Yeats (Gutenberg ebook)
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy, by Steele MacKaye, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini, by George H. Boker, ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses (Gutenberg ebook)
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura, by Augustus Thomas (Gutenberg ebook)

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