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• Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce
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• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
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• The queen's progress, and other Elizabethan sketches (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place of Eden Phillpotts in English peasant drama ... (Philadelphia, 1924), by Charles William Meadowcroft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare to Shaw; studies in the life's work of six dramatists of the English stage (Mills & Boon, limited, 1913), by Cecil Ferard Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die ersten Deutschen Übersetzungen englischer lustspiele im achzehnten Jahrhundert. (L. Voss, 1906), by Jacob Newton Beam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le théâtre anglais à Paris sous la restauration. (Hachette et cie, 1913), by Joseph L. Borgerhoff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nights at the play; a view of the English stage (Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Dutton Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christ in the drama; a study of the influence of Christ on the drama of England and America. (Macmillan, 1947), by Fred Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the drama, with a view to its more beneficial effects on the morals and manners of society. In three parts. (Printed for Cadell and Davies, 1803), by Edward Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bote und Botenbericht im englischen Drama bis Shakespeare (O. Schneider, 1911), by Wilhelm Grosch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A brief history of the English drama from the earliest to the latest times (Welch, Fracker company, 1890), by William Echard Golden (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian and patentee of the Theatre Royal (W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822), by Colley Cibber and Edmund Bellchambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• English miracle plays and moralities (Sherratt & Hughes, 1907), by E. Hamilton Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English stage, its origins & modern developments. A critical & historical study (J. Ouseley, 1912), by D. E. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Picaresque dramas of the 17th and 18th centuries. (Mayer & Müller, 1910), by Marie Pabisch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The observer (Printed for J. Richardson [and 12 others], 1822), by Richard Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English dramatic literature to the death of Queen Anne. (Macmillan and co., 1875), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old drama and the new; an essay in re-valuation (Dodd, Mead & company, 1926), by William Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old drama and the new; an essay in re-valuation (Small, Maynard and company, 1923), by William Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The future of the theatre. (Folcroft Library Editions, 1973), by John Palmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dramatic values (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tragedy (Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1908), by Ashley Horace Thorndike (page images at HathiTrust)
• The court masque : a study in the relationship between poetry & the revels. (Russell & Russell, 1962), by Enid Welsford (page images at HathiTrust)
• English drama (Dent ;, 1926), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of English dramatic literature to the death of Queen Anne (Macmillan and Co., limited;, 1899), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dramatic censor; or, Critical companion ... (J. Bell; [etc., etc.], 1770), by Francis Gentleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• English tragicomedy, its origin and history (The Columbia university press, 1910), by Frank Humphrey Ristine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and notes on Shakspere and other English poets (G. Bell and sons, 1908), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and T. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The influence of the "Celestina" in the early English drama (Berlin, 1903), by A. S. W. Rosenbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (J. C. Nimmo, 1889), by Colley Cibber, Anthony Ashton, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British drama, a handbook and brief chronicle. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1950), by Alan S. Downer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English chronicle play : a study in the popular historical literature environing Shakespeare. (Macmillan, 1902), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of English drama on the stage (American library association, 1927), by Walter Prichard Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth, delivered at the Surrey Institution. (J. Warren, 1821), by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and notes on Shakespeare and other English poets (George Bell and Sons, 1883), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and T. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and explanatory notes with various readings illustrative of the works of W. Shakspeare, from Johnson, Steevens, Malone ... &c., &c. To which are prefixed: A history of the stage (Baudry's European library, 1839), by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, and Edmond Malone (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an historical view of the stage during his own time. (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1756), by Colley Cibber (page images at HathiTrust)
• English sentimental drama. (Michigan State University Press, 1957), by Arthur Sherbo (page images at HathiTrust)
• English dramatists of to-day. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Revington, 1882), by William Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sailor in English fiction and drama, 1550-1800 (Columbia University Press, 1931), by Harold Francis Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colley Cibber. (Grolier Society, 1900), by Colley Cibber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of the English drama (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masques and phases (R. Cobden-Sanderson, 1926), by Ivor John Carnegie Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plays of our forefathers and some of the traditions upon which they were founded / by Charles Mills Gayley. (Duffield, 1907), by Charles Mills Gayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the stage as set out in Lamb's dramatic essays (Remington and co., 1885), by Charles Lamb and Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• British drama : an historical survey from the beginnings to the present time. (Crowell, 1925), by Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The future of the theatre (G. Bell & sons, ltd., 1913), by John Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war of the theatres. (Boston, Ginn & company; [etc., etc.], 1897), by Josiah Harmar Penniman (page images at HathiTrust)
• English tragicomedy : its origin and history. (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Frank Humphrey Ristine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low comedy as a structural element in English drama ; from the beginnings to 1642 (Folcroft Press, 1969), by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ben Jonson's Wirkung auf zeitgenössische Dramatiker und andere Studien zur inneren Geschichte des englischen Dramas (C. Winter, 1906), by Emil Koeppel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Roman and English comedy consider'd and compar'd. : With remarks on The suspicious husband. And an examen into the merit of the present comic actors. (Printed for T. Waller ..., 1747), by Samuel Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new world of the theatre, 1923-1924 (M. Hopkinson & co., ltd., 1924), by J. T. Grein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le théâtre français et anglais; ses origines grecques et latines (drame, comédie, scène et acteurs) précédé d'une lettre de m. Victorien Sardou ... (Firmin-Didot et cie, 1900), by Charles Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The court masque : a study in the relationship between poetry & the revels (University Press, 1927), by Welsford,Enid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die lustige person im älteren englischen drama (bis 1642). (Mayer & Müller, 1902), by Eduard Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in English drama. First series. (University of Pennsylvania;, 1917), by Allison Gaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Judith in German and English literature. (H. Champion, 1927), by Edna Purdie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dramatic criticism. (Greening., 1899), by James Thomas Grein and Jacob Thomas Grein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The journal of a London playgoer from 1851-1866. (George Routledge & sons, 1891), by Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief view of the English drama, from the earliest period to the present time: (C. Mitchell, 1840), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Machiavelli and the Elizabethan drama. (E. Felber, 1897), by Edward Stockton Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic values (Methuen & co. ltd., 1911), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for his life (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1914), by Colley Cibber and William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the prologue and epilogue in English literature from Shakespeare to Dryden (Kegan Paul, Trench & co., 1884), by George Spencer Bower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The drama (D. Bogue, 1884), by Madge Kendal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day (Harvard University Press; [etc., etc.], 1922), by Alwin Thaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous plays : their histories and their authors. (Ward & Downey, 1888), by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• English drama (E.P.Dutton & company, 1914), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (AMS Press, 1966., 1966), by Colley Cibber and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan drama. Notes and studies (W. Brooks & co., ltd., 1909), by J. Le Gay Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations : English drama. (s.n., 1862), by Max Wagner, Friedrich Möller, Heinrich Hoffschulte, Ficke, A. Böhck, Eduard John, and Leopold Bahlsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 19]. (s.n., 1890), by G. Stanley Hall, H.S. Jennings, E. W. Scripture, Lane Cooper, Ewald A. Boucke, Anna Augusta Von Helmholtz-Phelan, Henry A. Sanders, George Ellsworth Dawson, Clarence Linton Meader, George Hempl, Walter Bagehot, Chauncey Wetmore Wells, Otto Eduard Lessing, Roger Wells, Claud Howard, Orestes Pearle Rhyne, C. M. Woodward, James Geddes, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Merle Harrold Thorpe, Carl Schurz, Fred Newton Scott, Edward Cary, J. H. De Forest, S. Millett Thompson, National Education Association of the United States. Department of Superintendence, University of Michigan, Societas Rugbiana Colloquii Latini Graecique, University of Illinois. College of Engineering, and University of Michigan. Dept. of English (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 17] (s.n., 1897), by Harold Prell Breitenbach, Richard E. Helbig, Thomas P. Johnson, Clarence Linton Meader, James Rowland Angell, John Hays Gardiner, Mary Elizabeth Laing, Warren Washburn Florer, Charles Horton Cooley, Francis Barton Gummere, Edward Everett Hale, Raymond Macdonald Alden, Elmer Edgar Stoll, Ferdinand Brunetière, James Lane Allen, Irving Babbitt, William J. Shearer, Rollo Ogden, A. D. Lindsay, Ernest Sutherland Bates, Arlo Bates, Maurice Maeterlinck, William Warner Bishop, R. M. Wenley, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, John Dewey, Walter Avenel, William Eleroy Curtis, Fred Newton Scott, Otto Jespersen, W. P. Ratigan, C. B. Moulinier, John C. Stevens, William Shakespeare, Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson, Raymond Durbin Miller, Palmer Cobb, James Finch Royster, Oliver Towles, Michigan Schoolmasters' Club. German Section, Boston Public Library, New England Association of Teachers of English, and Rochester Equestres Party (East High School (page images at HathiTrust)
• English drama (AMS Press, 1975), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Machiavelli and the Elizabethan drama. (Burt Franklin, 1967), by Edward Stockton Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A view of the English stage : or, a series of dramatic criticisms (John Warren, 1821), by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• British drama; an historical survey from the beginnings to the present time (G.G. Harrap, 1925), by Allardyce Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The relation of Lord Byron to the drama of the romantic period (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht;, 1914), by Samuel Claggett Chew (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world of the theatre; impressions and memoirs, March 1920-1921. (W. Heinemann, 1921), by J. T. Grein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The evolution of the British drama from the earliest times; historical survey. A lecture given before the Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Institute at the opening of the winter session, 1909-10. (Liverpool Booksellers, 1910), by Edward Powell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The journal of a London playgoer from 1851-1866. (George Routledge, 1866), by Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien über das englische Theater (Laupp, 1862), by Moriz Rapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous plays with a discourse by way of prologue on the playhouses of the restoration. (Ward & Downey, 1886), by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the drama in England during the last three centuries (Imprynted at the Chiswick press, 1890), by Walter Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic values (Macmillan, 1911), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeremy Collier's Angriff auf die englische Bühne; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des englischen Dramas. (N.G. Elwert, 1910), by Johannes Ballein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Crime and the drama; or, Dark deeds dramatized (S. Paul, 1927), by H. Chance Newton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geschichte der englischen Literatur mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der politischen und Sitten-Geschichte Englands (Kober & Markgraf, 1859), by Stephan Gätschenberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old drama and the new; an essay in re-valuation (Small, Maynard, 1924), by William Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colley Cibber (Athenæum Press, 1888), by Colley Cibber, Anthony Aston, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth : and Characters of Shakespear's plays (G. Bell and sons, 1909), by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report from a select committee on dramatic literature, with minutes of evidence ([London, 1832), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Select Committee on Dramatic Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• The drama and dramatists of England. Eine abhandlung vom oberlehrer dr. John. (Gedruckt bei F. Fritsch, 1848), by Eduard John (page images at HathiTrust)
• Low comedy as a structural element in English drama from the biginnings of 1642 (G. Banta, 1926), by Ola Elizabeth Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and notes on Shakspere and other English poets (G. Bell and sons, 1900), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and T. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Miscellanies in prose and verse; including Remarks on English plays, operas, and farces, and on a variety of other modern publications. (Printed by J. Robertson, 1792), by Francis Garden Gardenstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic values (Methuen & co., ltd., 1911), by C. E. Montague (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Archaelogic and historic fragments. Containing, inter alia, a facsimile of a rare ms. page dated 1638, having reference to two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, with notes thereon. (Whiting & co., 1887), by George Robert Nicol Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the drama. (J.W. Parker and son, 1858), by William Bodham Donne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Verwendung des biblischen Stoffes von David und Bathseba im englischen Drama. (G. Peele: David and Bethsabe; Ch. W. Wynne: David and Bathshua; St. Phillips: The sin of David.) ... (Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, 1905), by Max Dannenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Figuren des Teufels und des Vice in den Ernsten englischen bis auf Shakespeare ... (Göttingen, 1900), by L. W. Cushman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English miracle plays and moralities (AMS Press, 1969), by E. Hamilton Moore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A brief view of the English drama, from the earliest period to the present condition of the art, and of its professors. (C. Mitchell, 1840), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Det engelske drama før Shakespeare af Torben Lundbeck ... (G. E. C. Gad, 1890), by Torben Lundbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English dramatic literature to the death of Queen Anne (Macmillan, 1899), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections. (Printed for the Malone Society by the University Press], 1907), by Malone Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studien über die dramatische behandlung der geschichte von Herodes und Mariamne der englischen und deutschen litteratur (Massinger, Fenton, Hebbel, Stephen Phillips) ... (Hugo Jaeger, 1901), by Walter Grack (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Verwendung des Reimes in dem Blankverse des englischen Dramas zur zeit Shakspere's (1561-1616) Teil 1: Der Reim in dem fünffussigen Jambus der vorshakspereschen Dramen (G. Fock, 1889), by Hermann Krumm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and notes on Shakespeare and other English poets (G. Bell and sons, 1902), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and T. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and notes on Shakespeare and other English poets (G. Bell, 1914), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the causes of the decline of the drama and the means by which its reputation may be vindicated, with a letter addressed to the manager of the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh (Douglas, 1834), by Frederick Maitland Innes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabethan dramatists (s.n.], 1906), by J. Le Gay Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excursions in art and letters. (Blackwood, 1891), by William Wetmore Story (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war of the theatres (Ginn & company; [etc., etc.], 1897), by Josiah Harmar Penniman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern English drama: an outline (National Home-reading union, 1921), by Patrick Kirwan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The past and present state of dramatic art and literature (C. Mitchell, 1839), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• English tragicomedy : its origin and history (Columbia University Press, 1970), by Frank Humphrey Ristine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English drama (S. Chand, 1963), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shakspere to Sheridan; a book about the theatre of yesterday and to-day. (B. Blom, 1963), by Alwin Thaler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien über das englische Theater (H. Laupp, 1862), by Karl Moritz Rapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief view of the English drama : from the earliest period to the present time, with suggestions for elevating the present condition of the art, and of its professors. (C. Mitchell, 1840), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal dramatic record (Printed by Chapman, 1849), by John Kemble Chapman, John Absolon, Telbin, T. Grieve, and Finden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic criticism . (E. Nash, 1905), by Jack Thomas Grein (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for his life (J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.;, 1930), by Colley Cibber (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Angleterre au seizième siècle. (G. Charpentier, 1879), by Philarète Chasles (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (J.C. Nimmo, 1889), by Colley Cibber, Anthony Ashton, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth about the stage (Wyman, 1885), by Corin (page images at HathiTrust)
• English tragicomedy, its origin and history (Columbia University Press, 1910), by Frank Humphrey Ristine (page images at HathiTrust)
• English drama (J.M. Dent & Sons ltd.;, 1914), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Marriage of Wit and Wisdom, an ancient interlude. (Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1849), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber (AMS Press, 1966), by Colley Cibber, Tony Aston, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colley Cibber. (Athenaeum Press, 1888), by Colley Cibber, Robert William Lowe, Tony Aston, and James Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, comedian. (Hunt and Clarke, 1830), by Colley Cibber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the present state of the English drama (Hailes Lacy, 1851), by F. G. Tomlins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government regulation of Elizabethan drama. (Columbia University press, 1908), by Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve and Charles Alexander Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des englischen Drama's. (T.O. Weigel, 1876), by J. L. Klein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and notes on Shakspere and other English poets (G. Bell and sons, 1884), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and T. Ashe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dramatic unities in England. ([Urbana, Ill.], 1911), by Louis Sigmund Friedland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die lustige person im älteren englischen drama (bis 1642). (Mayer & Müller, 1902), by Eduard Eckhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Collections (printed for the Malone Society by Vivian Ridler at the University Press, 1907), by Malone Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Colley Cibber. (Athenœum Press, 1900), by Colley Cibber, Anthony Aston, James Wright, and Robert William Lowe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The queen's progress, and other Elizabethan sketches (Houghton, Mifflin, 1904), by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evans's Supper Rooms. ([London, 1863), by Evans's Music and Supper Rooms (London) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English drama. (Folcroft Library Editions, 1973), by A. S. Rappoport (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Machiavelli and the Elizabethan drama (B. Franklin,), by Edward Stockton Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Syllabus for English 131 (Chicago, Distributed by the University of Chicago Bookstore, 1933., 1933), by University of Chicago and Gerald Eades Bentley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English tragicomedy: (Russell & Russell, 1963), by Frank Humphrey Ristine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short view of tragedy it's original, excellency and corruption : with some reflections on Shakespear and other practitioners for the stage / by Mr. Rymer ... (London : Printed and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin ..., 1693), by Thomas Rymer (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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