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• 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)

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)

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

• 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)
• A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Dramatic Index (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 ufl.edu)

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

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

• 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 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)
• 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), by William Wallace Cook (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 Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1921), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)

• 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)
• The Emperor Jones (Cincinnati, OH: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), by Eugene O'Neill (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 and RTF with commentary in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications

• King Lear, by William Shakespeare (multiple editions)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.