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

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• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (second revised edition; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1922), by Frederick Palmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (series Y; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1920), by Frederick Palmer and Eric Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Photoplay Plots and Plot Sources (Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1920), by Eric Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of the Celebrated Operas With Critical and Biographical Remarks and Dates (revised edition; New York: Tudor Pub. Co, 1934), by Charles Annesley, contrib. by James Huneker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Opera Goer's Complete Guide: Comprising Two Hundred and Sixty-Eight Opera Plots With Musical Numbers and Casts (revised edition, c1921), by Leo Melitz, ed. by Louise Wallace Hackney, trans. by Richard Salinger (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Henry Edward Krehbiel (Gutenberg text)
• The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas, Together With 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), by Gustav Kobbé, contrib. by Katharine Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Mysteries of the Great Operas, by Max Heindel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Second Book of Operas, by Henry Edward Krehbiel (Gutenberg text)
• The Standard-Operaglass: Containing the Detailed One Hundred and Fifty One Celebrated Operas, With Critical and Biographical Remarks, Dates, &c. &c. (revised edition; London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., et al., 1911), by Charles Annesley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Two Hundred Opera Plots, by Gladys Davidson (PDF at mdc.edu)
• Gilbert and Sullivan Opera: A History and a Comment (London: F. V. White and Co., 1922), by H. M. Walbrook, contrib. by Henry J. Wood, illust. by H. M. Bateman and W. Herbert Holloway (illustrated HTML at Gilbert and Sullivan Archive)

• The Story of the Mikado (London: D. O'Connor, 1921), by W. S. Gilbert, ed. by Daniel O'Connor, illust. by Alice B. Woodward (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story of H. M. S. Pinafore (with some sheet music; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908), by W. S. Gilbert, contrib. by Arthur Sullivan, illust. by Alice B. Woodward (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• 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)

• Bad Ideas About Writing (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute, c2017), ed. by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF at oapen.org)
• A Vindication of the Press (1718) (Augustan Reprint Society publication #29; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Clinton Williams (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Writer's Book: A Compendium of Information Upon Matters Pertaining to the Trade of Authorship (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, c1922), by James Knapp Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
• The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Author's Year Book and Guide for 1904: Including Some 600 Names and Addresses of Publishers and Publications to Whom Manuscripts May be Sold (1904), ed. by W. E. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• If You Don't Write Fiction (New York: R. M. McBride Co., 1920), by Charles Phelps Cushing (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
• The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
• Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
• My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)

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