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• American children's plays

• Tit for Tat: A Play for Little Folks (Chicago and New York: Dramatic Pub. Co., c1906), by Marjorie Benton Cooke (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Leslie Elaine Frost (PDF at Ohio State)

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

• Representative Plays by American Dramatists (3 volumes originally published out of order; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1918-1925), ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (1765-1819): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1815-1858): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1856-1911): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Robert Vorlicky
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Leslie Elaine Frost (PDF at Ohio State)
• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by James F. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William B. Worthen (HTML at UC Press)
• Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Jordan Schildcrout (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)
• Arena (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, c1940), by Hallie Flanagan (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by James F. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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)
• Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Taylor Hagood (PDF at Ohio State)

• Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (revised edition, 1988), by Travis Bogard (HTML at archive-it.org)

• The Kukkurrik Fables: 44 Mini-Plays for All Media (second edition, revised and augmented; 2008), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)

• Folk Plays of Eastern Carolina (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1940), by Bernice Kelly Harris (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• The Kukkurrik Fables: 44 Mini-Plays for All Media (second edition, revised and augmented; 2008), by Oscar Mandel (PDF at Caltech)
• The People; and Close the Book: Two One-Act Plays (New York: F. Shay, 1918), by Susan Glaspell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Twentieth Century Trilogy, by Martha Keltz (HTML and Word in the UK)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The House of Rimmon: A Drama in Four Acts (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Henry Van Dyke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (with the preface on censorship), by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• 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

• The Ancient Cornish Drama (translation of the Ordinalia plays; 2 volumes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1859), ed. by Edwin Norris
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google

• The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
• "Everyman," With Other Interludes, Including Eight Miracle Plays (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., reprinted 1914), contrib. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
• The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)

• 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)

• Trickster's Famous Deeds: A Trilogy of Theatrical Plays For Children, by Florentin Smarandache (HTML at UNM)