Historical drama -- History and criticism
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Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Robert B. Pierce
- Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), by Barbara Simerka (PDF at PSU)
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Filed under: Historical drama- Leisure Hours: or, Entertaining Dialogues, Between Persons Eminent for Virtue and Magnanimity (fifth edition; London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1812), by Priscilla Wakefield (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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
- A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (third edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1918), by John Dryden, ed. by Thomas Arnold and William T. Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)
- European Theories of the Drama (Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd, 1918), ed. by Barrett H. Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Christian Rite and Christian Drama in the Middle Ages: Essays in the Origin and Early History of Modern Drama (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by O. B. Hardison (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Des Essais Dramatiques Imités de l'Antiquité au XIVe et au XVe Siècle (in French; Paris: A. Durand, 1852), by Alexis Chassang
- Miracle Plays and Sacred Dramas: A Historical Survey (London: Trübner and Co., 1880), by Karl von Hase, ed. by William Walrond Jackson, trans. by A. W. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: Printed for W. Hone, 1823), by William Hone, illust.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
- Records of Early English Drama: York (2 volumes; Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c1979), ed. by Alexandra F. Johnston and Margaret Rogerson
- The Staging of the "Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages" of MS. Cangé (New York: Institute of French Studies, Columbia University, c1933), by Dorothy Penn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (Melbourne: Re.press, 2016), by Hélène Cixous, ed. by Lara Stevens (PDF with commenrary at re-press.org)
- Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005), by Daniel O'Quinn (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Miracle Plays and Sacred Dramas: A Historical Survey (London: Trübner and Co., 1880), by Karl von Hase, ed. by William Walrond Jackson, trans. by A. W. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press of Hawaii, c2010), by Zhong Xueping (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)
- The Pursuit of Justice (free online edition; original edition published 2006), by Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick (HTML and PDF with commentary at annenbergclassroom.org)
- Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2018), by Youjeong Oh (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Tragic Vision: The Confrontation of Extremity (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Aspects of Modern Drama (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1914), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
- Modern Drama in Europe (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Storm Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern Drama in Europe (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Storm Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Aspects of Modern Drama (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1914), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
- Theft! A History of Music (2017), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (PDF with commentary at Duke)
- Music: Its Language, History, and Culture (c2014), by Ray Allen, Douglas Cohen, Nancy Barnes Hager, and Jeffrey Taylor (illustrated HTML with commentary at cuny.edu)
- An Outline-History of Music (New York: Barnes and Noble, c1947), by Hugh Milton Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art Melodious (third edition, augmented; London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Louis Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chopin, and Other Musical Essays (New Yor: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry T. Finck (Gutenberg text)
- The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students (New York: G. Schirmer, c1907), by Waldo Selden Pratt (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
- Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- The Politics of Shelley: History, Theory, Form (2015), ed. by Matthew C. Borushko (illustrated HTML at romantic-circles.org)
- Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (page images at HathiTrust)
- Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat (page images at HathiTrust)
- Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
- Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
- The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
- Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
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