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• Magicians
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• Doctor Faustus (multiple versions), by Christopher Marlowe (HTML at Perseus)
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (based on the 1604 quarto, with some later amendments and footnotes), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
• The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 quarto), by Christopher Marlowe, ed. by Alexander Dyce (Gutenberg text)
• The Tempest, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• The Tempest (Old-Spelling Shakespeare series; London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by F. W. Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tempest (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Tempest (with annotations and scene index), by William Shakespeare, ed. by Philip Weller (HTML at shakespeare-navigators.com)
• The Tempest (1674 edition), by William Shakespeare (frame- and cookie-dependent page images here at Penn)

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• The Lives of the Conjurors (London: Tinsley Bros., 1876), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé, by Harry Houdini
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Lives of the Necromancers: or, An account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power (London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)
• Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memorias e Confidencias do Popular Illusionista Faure Nicolay (in Portuguese; Rio De Janeiro: Typ. Villas-Bôas, 1901), by Nicoláu Faure Nicolay
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Romance of Sorcery (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Sax Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth: Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., 1890), by Harry Kellar (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hermes Beckons: A Tale of Alchemy and Magic (c2006), by John Caris (HTML at Westgate House)
• The King of the Conjurors (London: J. Blackwood and Co., n.d.), by James Skipp Borlase (multiple formats at Google)
• Beyond World's End (included on a Baen CD image), by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB

• Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror (second edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1860), by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, trans. by Lascelles Wraxall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (New York: Publishers Printing Co., 1908), by Harry Houdini (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• M-U-M, by Society of American Magicians (partial serial archives)

• Houdini, the Man Who Walked Through Walls (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1959), by William Lindsay Gresham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini (revised edition, with movie stills; New York: Audubon Printers, 1922)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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 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)
• 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)

• 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 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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