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• Drama
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• Technique

• Playwriting

• Drama -- Technique -- Early works to 1800
• Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
• Setting (Literature)

• The Craftsmanship of the One-Act Play (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., c1923), by Percival Wilde (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)
• The Science of Playwriting (New York: Brentano's, c1925), by Moses L. Malevinsky, contrib. by Owen Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• 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 Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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

• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Motif-Index of Italian Novella in Prose (Indiana University Publications folklore series #2; c1942), by Dominic P. Rotunda (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Maiden King in Iceland (1938), by Erik Wahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fowles/Irving/Barthes: Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Theme (Columbus: Published for Miami University by the Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Randolph Runyon (PDF at Ohio State)
• Das Schlaraffenland in German Literature and Folksong: Social Aspects of an Earthly Paradise, With an Inquiry into its History in European Literature (University of Chicago dissertation, 1944), by Elfriede Marie Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• Poets on Place: Interviews and Tales From the Road (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by W. T. Pfefferle (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

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• Table-Talk of G. B. S.: Conversations on Things in General, Between George Bernard Shaw and His Biographer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Bernard Shaw and Archibald Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Frogs, by Aristophanes, trans. by Matthew Dillon (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Frogs, by Aristophanes, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• The Frogs, by Aristophanes, trans. by Benjamin Bickley Rogers
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text

• 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)
• Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice (Yale Studies in English #4; Boston et al.: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1898), by Margaret Pollock Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera and Drama, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• 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)
• Bibliography of Dramatic Literature (La Jolla, CA: World Drama Prompters, c1915), ed. by H. N. Clugston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Editing Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Dramatists (Philadelphia: Pub. for the Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation by the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1955), by Fredson Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, by August Wilhelm von Schlegel, trans. by John Black (Gutenberg text)
• The Scene is Changed (c1942), by Ashley Dukes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• 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 Jew in Drama (London: P. S. King and Son, 1926), by M. J. Landa
  • page images in Germany
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• The Drama (partial serial archives)
• The Dramatic Index (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin de la Société des Historiens du Théâtre (in French) (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 Florida)

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