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• Annual Magazine Subject-Index (including a dramatic index for most years) (partial serial archives)

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)
• Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at belgacom.net)
• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• 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 Dramatic Index (partial serial archives)

• 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 ufl.edu)

• The Social Significance of the Modern Drama, by Emma Goldman (HTML at pitzer.edu and Berkeley)

• The Science of Playwriting (New York: Brentano's, c1925), by Moses L. Malevinsky, contrib. by Owen Davis (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)
• 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 Thomas Whitfield Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)

• Plotto: A New Method of Plot Suggestion for Writers of Creative Fiction (Battle Creek, MI: Ellis Pub. Co., c1928) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• The Universal Plot Catalog: An Examination of the Elements of Plot Material and Construction, Combined with a Complete index and a Progressive Category in Which the Source, Life, and End of All Dramatic Conflict and Plot Master are Classified (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1920), by Henry Albert Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plotting the Short Story: A Practical Exposition of Germ-Plots, What They are and Where to Find Them; The Structure and Development of the Plot; and the Relation of the Plot to the Story (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), by Seymour Cunningham Chunn
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Shakuntala, by Kālidāsa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Translations of Shakuntala, and Other Works (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; London: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1914), by Kālidāsa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Translations of Shakuntala, and Other Works (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; London: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1914), by Kālidāsa, trans. by Arthur W. Ryder (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice (original spelling; London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1577), by Théodore de Bèze, trans. by Arthur Golding (HTML at elizabethanauthors.org)
• A Tragedie of Abraham's Sacrifice (modernized spelling, based on 1577 edition), by Théodore de Bèze, trans. by Arthur Golding (HTML at elizabethanauthors.org)

• A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Suppliants, by Euripides, trans. by Edward P. Coleridge (HTML at Adelaide)

• The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts (original manuscript at the Library of Congress; 1931), by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at loc.gov
• Fifty Years of Freedom, or, From Cabin to Congress: A Drama in Five Acts (Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Concern, c1910), by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)

• Agamemnon, by Aeschylus, trans. by Robert Browning (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Agamemnon, by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (HTML at Bartleby)
• Agamemnon, by Aeschylus, trans. by Herbert Weir Smyth (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• The House of Atreus: Agamemnon; The Libation-Bearers; The Furies, by Aeschylus, trans. by E. D. A. Morshead (Gutenberg text)
• The Oresteia, by Aeschylus, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • HTML with commentary in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent Flash with commentary at Richer Resources Publications

• The History of King Lear: Acted at the Duke's Theatre. Reviv'd with Alterations (1681), by William Shakespeare and Nahum Tate
  • HTML at Rutgers
  • frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn
• King Lear, by William Shakespeare (HTML at MIT)
• King Lear (second quarto, 1619 printing), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• King Lear (from the first folio of 1623), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• King Lear (1728 edition), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Alexander Pope (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)
• King Lear (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)

• Ajax, by Sophocles, trans. by R. C. Trevelyan (HTML at eserver.org)
• Ajax, by Sophocles, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)
• Ajax, by Sophocles, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent Flash with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)

• Aladdin, or, The Wonderful Scamp! An Original Burlesque Extravaganza, in One Act (London: T. H. Lacy, ca. 1861), by Henry J. Byron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Patrie! An Historical Drama in Five Acts (Eight Scenes) (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1915), by Victorien Sardou, trans. by Barrett H. Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)

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