English drama -- History and criticism
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- English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
- Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage, and of the Economy and Usages of the Ancient Theatres in England (Basel, Switzerland: J. J. Tourneisen, 1800), by Edmond Malone, contrib. by George Steevens
- Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by William W. Demastes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce
- The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce
- The English Moralities From the Point of View of Allegory (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie
- Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Joanne Klein (PDF at Ohio State)
- Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Printed for W. Hone, 1823), by William Hone, illust. by George Cruikshank
- Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles (London: A. Moring, 1914), by W. W. Greg
- Stage Properties, Costumes, Scenery and Music of the English Miracle Plays (University of Illinois masters thesis, 1906), by Allie V. Parks
- After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Materialist Critique of English Romantic Drama (Gainesville et al.: University Press of Florida, c1993), by Daniel P. Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- Prometheus Unbound (University of Michigan Publications, Language and Literature, v27; Ann Arbir: University of Michigan Press, 1957), by Bennett Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
- Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
- The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Contemporaries of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise (HTML at Indiana)
- Gothic Drama From Walpole to Shelley (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1947), by Bertrand Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Drama of Sensibility: A Sketch of the History of English Sentimental Comedy and Domestic Tragedy, 1696-1780 (Harvard Studies in English v3; Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1915), by Ernest Bernbaum
- Jewish Characters in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction and Drama (Groningen, Netherlands: J. B. Wolters, 1935), by Harm Reijnderd Sientjo van der Veen (page images at delpher.nl)
- A Materialist Critique of English Romantic Drama (Gainesville et al.: University Press of Florida, c1993), by Daniel P. Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Theatre of Shelley (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2010), by Jacqueline Mulhallen
- Gothic Drama From Walpole to Shelley (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1947), by Bertrand Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
- After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William B. Worthen (HTML at UC Press)
- Through the Fourth Wall (New York: Brentano's; London: Chapman and Hall, 1922), by W. A. Darlington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2013), by Chloe Porter
- The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Mary Beth Rose (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship: An Essay in Literary History and Method (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1966), by S. Schoenbaum (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Dramatic Publication in England, 1580-1640: A Study of Conditions Affecting Content and Form of Drama (Modern Language Association of America monograph #2; New York: D.C. Heath; London : Oxford University Press, 1927), by Evelyn May Albright (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)
- The Age of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne (HTML at Indiana)
- Contemporaries of Shakespeare, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise (HTML at Indiana)
- Literary Criticism From the Elizabethan Dramatists: Repertory and Synthesis (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1910), by David Klein (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Shakespeare Symphony: An Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama (London: Chapman and Hall, 1906), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Euphorion: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance (2 volumes), by Vernon Lee
- The Relations of Shirley's Plays to Elizabethan Drama (Columbia PhD thesis; New York: Columbia University Press, 1914), by Robert S. Forsythe
- A Sketch of the Pre-Shakspearian Drama (O. U. Miscellanies #7; London: C. W. H. Wyman, 1885), by Frank Ireson
- The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare, and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration (3 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1831), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (Oxford, UK: Horace Hart, printer to the University, 1906), by W. W. Greg (Gutenberg text)
- Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, With Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England (London: A. H. Bullen, 1906), by W. W. Greg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Ulster Theatre in Ireland (University of Pennsylvania dissertation; 1931), by Margaret McHenry (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1987), by Phoebe S. Spinrad (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- A Sketch of the Pre-Shakspearian Drama (O. U. Miscellanies #7; London: C. W. H. Wyman, 1885), by Frank Ireson
- Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Printed for W. Hone, 1823), by William Hone, illust. by George Cruikshank
- Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles (London: A. Moring, 1914), by W. W. Greg
- The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare, and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration (3 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1831), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
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