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• Moralities, English
• English drama -- History and criticism
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• The English Moralities From the Point of View of Allegory (Boston and London: Ginn and Co., 1914), by W. Roy Mackenzie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• The Castle of Perseverance: A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Alexandra F. Johnston, contrib. by David M. Parry (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
• Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays, With Some Others: Comprising Mankind; Nature; Wit and Science; Respublica; Wealth and Health; Impatient Poverty; John the Evangelist; Note-Book and Word-List (facsimile reprint of Early English Drama Society edition; London: C. W. Traylen, 1966), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (Gutenberg text)
• Six Anonymous Plays, First Series (c. 1510-1537): Comprising Four Elements; The Beauty and Good Properties of Women (Usually Known as Calisto and Melibaea); Every Man; Hickscorner; The World and the Child; Thersites; Note-Book and Word-List (facsimile reprint of Early English Drama Society edition; London: C. W. Traylen, 1966), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Castle of Perseverance (London and Edinburgh: Issued for subscribers by T. C. and E.C. Jack, 1908), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Castle of Perseverance, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
• Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays, With Some Others: Comprising Mankind; Nature; Wit and Science; Respublica; Wealth and Health; Impatient Poverty; John the Evangelist; Note-Book and Word-List (London: Priv. print. for subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1907), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Miracle Plays, Moralities, and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama (fifth edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), ed. by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Macro Plays: 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475); 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460); 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425) (EETS extra series #91; London: Early English Text Society, 1904), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Six Anonymous Plays (Second Series): Comprising Jacob and Esau; Youth; Albion, Knight; Misogonus; Godly Queen Hester; Tom Tyler and His Wife; Note-Book and Word-List (London: Priv. print. for subscribers by the Early English Drama Society, 1906), ed. by John Stephen Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Everyman," With Other Interludes, Including Eight Miracle Plays (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., reprinted 1914), contrib. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Castle in the Circle (Ball State Monograph #6; Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1967), by Merle Fifield (PDF at bsu.edu)

• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, by Colley Cibber
  • volume 1: illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: illustrated HTML at Virginia

• 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
  • page images in Germany
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• 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
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bibliographical and Textual Problems of the English Miracle Cycles (London: A. Moring, 1914), by W. W. Greg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Stage Properties, Costumes, Scenery and Music of the English Miracle Plays (University of Illinois masters thesis, 1906), by Allie V. Parks
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF 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)
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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
  • multiple formats at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google
• 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
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• The Relations of Shirley's Plays to Elizabethan Drama (Columbia PhD thesis; New York: Columbia University Press, 1914), by Robert S. Forsythe
  • multiple formas at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Sketch of the Pre-Shakspearian Drama (O. U. Miscellanies #7; London: C. W. H. Wyman, 1885), by Frank Ireson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

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