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• American drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Arthurian romances -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Ballet -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Ballets -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Benvenuti, Tomaso, 1838-1906 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Children's literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Chinese drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Christian life -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Christian literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Commedia dell'arte -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Dance -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• English drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• English fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Epic poetry -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Fiction -- Stories, plots, etc.
• French drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• German drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Greek drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Historical fiction, American -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Intermedi -- Italy -- 16th century -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Italian drama (Tragedy) -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Italian poetry -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Japanese drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Kabuki plays -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Latin drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Literature, Medieval -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Musicals -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Nō plays -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Opera -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Operas, Comic -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Russian ballet -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Russian drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Stories, plots, etc.
• Wayang plays -- Stories, plots, etc.

• Chaucer : Studien zur Geschichte seiner Entwicklung und zur Chronologie seiner Schriften (A. Russell, 1870), by Bernhard ten Brink (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from Shakespeare (Educational Publishing Company, 1890), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare : exhibited in a series of outline plates illustrative of the story of each play. (T. Cadell, 1833), by Frank Howard and William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essais littéraires sur Shakspeare; ou, Analyse raisonnée, scène par scène, de toutes les pièces de cet auteur. (C. Le Tellier fils, 1828), by Paul Duport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shaksperian synopses : outlines or arguments of the plays of Shakspere (T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1902), by J. Walker McSpadden and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from Shakespeare (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1930), by Charles Lamb, Arthur Rackham, Mary Lamb, and William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wagnerian romances (John Lane Co.;, 1907), by Gertrude Hall Brownell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Operas every child should know : descriptions of the text and music of some of the most famous masterpieces (Grosset & Dunlap, 1911), by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from Shakespeare (David McKay company, 1922), by Charles Lamb, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Mary Lamb, and William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of the middle ages : narrated with special reference to literature and art (American Book Co., 1896), by H. A. Guerber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Führer durch die Oper des Theaters der Gegenwart, Text, Musik und Scene erläuternd. (A. G. Liebeskind, 1890), by Otto Neitzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operas that every child should know; descriptions of the text and music of some of the most famous masterpieces (Doubleday, Page & company, 1911), by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operas: their writers and their plots. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1882), by Fanny E. Carleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operatic tales (Ward and Downey, 1889), by F. R. Chesney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera stories ... in few words, the stories (divided into acts) of over 100 operas, also portraits of leading singers, and of the managing directors of the Boston opera company, the Metropolitan opera company and the Chicago opera company. (H. L. Mason, 1910), by Henry Lowell Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of a hundred operas. (F. Mendelsohn, 1915), by Felix Mendelsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to modern opera; description & interpretation of the words & music of famous modern operas (Dodd, Mead & company, 1909), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wagner stories (McClure, Phillips, 1907), by Filson Young and Richard Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from the Italian poets : being a summary in prose of the poems of Dante, Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso with comments throughout, occasional passages versified, and critical notices of the lives and genius of the authors (Putnam, 1851), by Leigh Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• World-famous operas / by William Edlin (New York City : Hebrew Publishing Company, [1907?], 1907), by Ṿillyam Edlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales from the dramatists. (Griffith, Farran & Co., 1892), by Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of operas, their histories, their plots, and their music (The Macmillan company, 1919), by Henry Edward Krehbiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frog opera, with pollywog chorus : a burletta founded upon the nursery tale and old song of "A frog he would a wooing go." (Providence Press Co., printers to the state, 1873), by Charles Thurber Miller and George Lewis Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Victrola book of the opera; stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records (Victor Talking Machine Company, 1917), by Samuel Holland Rous and Victor Talking Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Operatic tales (Hatch music company, 1903), by Frederic S. Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hänsel and Gretel; a guide to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera (Dodd, Mead and company, 1913), by Lewis Montefiore Isaacs and Kurt Julian Rahlson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard operas, their plots, their music, and their composers; a handbook (McClurg, 1888), by George P. Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opera-glass: or, A clear view of 100 popular operas. With an introductory essay; history of Her Majesty's Theatre; singers' first appearance in London; list of operas, dates, composers; and numerous portraits. (D. Bogue, 1881), by Louis Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard operaglass; detailed plots of the celebrated operas, with critical and biographical remarks, dates, etc., etc. By Charles Annesley (Brentano's, 1904), by Charles Annesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard operaglass; containing the detailed plots of one hundred and twenty-three celebrated operas, with critical and biographical remarks, dates, etc., etc. By Charles Annesley (Brentano's, 1899), by Charles Annesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard operaglass : detailed plots of one hundred and fifty-five celebrated operas, with critical and biographical remarks, dates, etc. (Brentano's, 1913), by Charles Annesley and James Huneker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard-operaglass; containing the detailed plots of one hundred and twenty-three celebrated operas, with critical and biographical remarks, dates, etc. (Low, Marston, 1898), by Charles Annesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elektra : by Richard Strauss. A guide to the opera with musical examples from the score (G. Schirmer ;, 1910), by Ernest Hutcheson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opera guide; a concise description of plot and incidents of the principal operas, with brief biographical notices of eminent singers. (Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh, 1887), by Edward Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new opera glass; containing the plots of the popular operas and a short biography of the composers. (Pfau, 1887), by J. E. Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagner, Bayreuth, and the festival plays (Jarrold & sons, 1901), by Frances A. Gerard, Empire Press, and Jarrold and Sons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories of famous operas (Dodd, Mead, 1913), by H. A. Guerber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from Wagner (T. Y. Crowell & co., 1905), by Richard Wagner and J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opera goers' complete guide; comprising two hundred and nine opera plots with musical numbers and casts (Dodd, Mead & company, 1908), by Leo Melitz and Rudin Salinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera stories... Contains, in few words, the stories (divided into acts) of 174 operas, 6 ballets and one mystery play; also portraits of leading singers (Boston, Mass., 1913), by Henry Lowell Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opera goers' complete guide; comprising two hundred and sixty-eight opera plots with musical numbers and casts (Dodd, Mead and company, 1921), by Leo Melitz, Louise Wallace Hackney, and Rudin Salinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera stories ... in few words, the stories (divided into acts) of 132 operas, also portraits of leading singers ... (Boston, Mass., 1911), by Henry Lowell Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The standard operas : their plots, their music, and their composers ; a handbook (McClurg, 1903), by George P. Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Alexander Moring Ltd. ;, 1913), by Wakeling Dry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the Wagner operas (Dodd, Mead, 1895), by H. A. Guerber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the Wagner operas (Dodd, Mead, 1898), by H. A. Guerber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opera goers' complete guide; comprising two hundred and nine opera plots with musical numbers and casts (Dodd, Mead & company, 1909), by Leo Melitz and Richard Salinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descrizione dell'apparato, e degl'intermedi (Per Anton Padouani, 1589), by Bastiano de' Rossi, Antonio Padovani, and Ottavio Rinuccini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand opera with a viotrola; containing the stories, the most popular music and the Victor record numbers of Aid̈a, Rigoletto, Faust, II trovatore, Carmen, The Bohemian girl, Tannhaüser, Tales of Hoffman, Lohengrin, Hansel and Gretel, Cavalleria rusticana, Lucia di Lammermoor (D. Appleton and company, 1916), by Albert E. Wier and Victor Talking Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's plots; a study in dramatic construction (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1902), by William Hansell Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespearian synopses; outlines or arguments of the plays of Shakespeare (Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1930), by J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Victrola book of the opera : stories of the operas : with illustrations & descriptions of Victor opera records (Camden, New Jerey : [Victor Talking Machine Company], [1919], 1919), by Samuel Holland Rous and Victor Talking Machine Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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