Recitations
Here are entered collections of material written or selected for oral presentation.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:Used for:- Declamation
- Speakers (Recitation books)
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The American Preceptor: Being a New Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Designed for the Use of Schools (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1794), ed. by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)- The American Union Speaker, by John D. Philbrick (Gutenberg text)
- Burglar Bill, and Other Pieces for the Use of the Young Reciter (London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., ca. 1888), by F. Anstey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1797), by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: J. H. A. Frost et al, 1832), by Caleb Bingham
- Natural-History Plays, Dialogues and Recitations for School Exhibitions (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1885), by Louisa Parsons Stone Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
- The American First Class Book: or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation (Boston : Charles Bowen, 1836, c1835), ed. by John Pierpont (page images at Pitt)
- Platform Pearls for Temperance Workers and Other Reformers: A Collection of Recitations and Other Selections for Entertainments and Public Meetings, Especially Adapted for Christian Endeavor Societies, Prohibition Clubs, Loyal Temperance Legions, Women's Christian Temperance Unions, Etc., Etc., Etc. (New York ;Toronto : Funk & Wagnall's, 1896), by Lilian M. Heath (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Distressing Dialogues (published as by Millay's "Nancy Boyd" persona; New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1924), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
- Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (EETS Extra Series #79; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
- Vices and Virtues, ed. by Ferdinand Holthausen (HTML at Michigan)
- Dialogues in French and English (Adapted From a Fourteenth-Century Book of Dialogues in French and Flemish) (EETS Extra Series #79; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and co., 1900), by William Caxton, ed. by Henry Bradley
- Lucian's Dialogues Prepared for Schools, With Short Notes in Greek (in Greek, with English introduction; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hiero, by Xenophon, trans. by Henry Graham Dakyns (Gutenberg text)
- The Select Dialogues of Lucian; To Which is Added, A New Literal Translation in Latin, With Notes in English (in Greek, Latin, and English; New York: G. Long, 1818), by Lucian of Samosata, ed. by Edward Murphy
- Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by David Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things (second edition; London: Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton, et al., 1733), by Desiderius Erasmus, trans. by N. Bailey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
- Imaginary Conversations (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881-1883), by Walter Savage Landor, contrib. by John Forster
- first series (Classical dialogues): page images at Google; US access only
- second series (Sovereigns and statesmen): page images at Google; US access only
- third series (Literary men): page images at Google; US access only
- fourth series (More literary men, famous women, miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
- fifth series (More miscellaneous): page images at Google; US access only
- Imaginary Conversations (with notes; 6 volumes; London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Walter Savage Landor, ed. by Charles G. Crump, contrib. by John Forster
- Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, by Walter Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames de Degré en Degré (in French), by Christine de Pisan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Heavenly Discourse (New York: Vanguard Press, c1927), by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, contrib. by Floyd Dell, illust. by Art Young and Hugo Gellert (page images at HathiTrust)
- 1601 (with commentary), by Mark Twain (HTML at archive.org)
- 1601, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
- Routledge's Comic Reciter (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1867), ed. by J. E. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Overton Reciter: Character Sketches for Recitation (tenth thousand; New York and Chicago: F. H. Revell, ca. 1889), by Robert Overton, ed. by Alfred H. Miles
- Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Jill Dolan (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Speeches, addresses, etc.- Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845 (Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1903), by Daniel Webster, ed. by Andrew Jackson George (Gutenberg text)
- The World's Famous Orations (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906), ed. by William Jennings Bryan and Francis W. Halsey (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1797), by Caleb Bingham (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces, Together With Rules, Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of Eloquence (Boston: J. H. A. Frost et al, 1832), by Caleb Bingham
- Extracts From a Review of the Parliamentary and Forensic Eloquence of the United States (Washington, 1834)
- Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
- Black-Belt Diamonds: Gems From the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. (New York: Fortune and Scott, 1898), by Booker T. Washington, ed. by Victoria Earle Matthews, contrib. by Timothy Thomas Fortune (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kings of the Platform and Pulpit (Chicago et al.: The Werner Co., 1896), by Melville D. Landon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (13 volumes, published 1938-1950), by Franklin D. Roosevelt, ed. by Samuel I. Rosenman (page images at Michigan)
- The Speeches, Addresses, and Messages of the Several Presidents of the United States at the Openings of Congress and at Their Respective Inaugurations; Also, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address to His Fellow-Citizens (Philadelphia: R. Desilver, 1825), contrib. by George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Negro Orators and Their Orations (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1925), ed. by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered (originally published 2005; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John Channing Briggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- American Orators and Oratory: Being a Report of Lectures Delivered by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, at Western Reserve University, Under the Auspices of the Western Reserve Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Cleveland: Imperial Press, 1901), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, contrib. by Charles W. Chesnutt
- Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy, 1738-1914 (c1914), ed. by Edgar R. Jones (Gutenberg text)
- Two Orations of the Emperor Julian, One to the Sovereign Sun and the Other to the Mother of the Gods (originally published 1793; reprinted Chicago: Hermetic Pub. Co., 1932), by Emperor Julian, trans. by Thomas Taylor (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Lysias: Selected Speeches XII, XVI, XIX, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXXII, XXXIV (speeches in Greek and notes in English; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1905), by Lysias, ed. by Charles Darwin Adams
- Two Orations of the Emperor Julian, One to the Sovereign Sun and the Other to the Mother of the Gods (London: Printed for E. Jeffrey, 1793), by Emperor Julian, trans. by Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Basic Call to Consciousness: The Hau De No Sau Nee Address to the Western World, by Six Nations (HTML at ratical.org)
- Cicero's Milo: A Rhetorical Commentary (Cicero's text in Latin, Donnelly's commentary in English; New York et al.: Bruce Pub. Co., c1935), by Marcus Tullius Cicero, ed. by Francis P. Donnelly (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Charge, Delivered May 17, 1757, at the First Anniversary Commencement in the College and Academy of Philadelphia, to the Young Gentlemen Who Took Their Degrees on That Occasion (Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1757), by William Smith (page images here at Penn)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.