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• A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin it is Shewed, That They Are as it Were Accessories and Dependants (or Thynges Annexed) to Whoredome: Where Also by the Way is Touched and Proued, That Playes are Ioyned and Knit Togeather in a Rancke or Rowe With Them (1581) (Gutenberg text)
• Plays and Puritans, and Other Historical Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg texts)

• The Actors Remonstrance, or Complaint, for the Silencing of Their Profession, and Banishment From Their Severall Play-Houses (London: Printed for Edw. Nickson, 1643) (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Article Geneve de l'Encyclopédie; Profession de Foi des Ministres Genevois, Avec des Notes d'un Théologien, et Réponse a la Lettre de M. Rousseau, Citoyen de Geneve (in French; Amsterdam: Z. Chatelain, 1759), by Jean Le Rond d' Alembert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• J.J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève, a Mr. d'Alembert, sur son Article Genèe dans le VIIme Volume de l'Encyclopédie, et Particulierement sur le Projet d'Établir un Théatre de Comédie en Cette Ville (in French; Amsterdam: M. Rey, 1758), by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage: Together with the Sense of Antiquity Upon This Argument (second edition; London: Printed for S. Keble et al., 1698), by Jeremy Collier (page images at Utah)
• Wits Common Wealth, the Second Part (London: Printed by W. Stansby for R. Royston, 1634), ed. by Francis Meres (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Playes Confuted in Five Actions, by Stephen Gosson (page images here at Penn)
• Pierce Penilesse: His Supplication to the Divell, by Thomas Nash (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• The Schoole of Abuse, by Stephen Gosson (HTML at Renascence Editions)

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• Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Drama, by Henry Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Popular Theatre (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by George Jean Nathan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• The Children's Educational Theatre (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901), by Alice Minnie Herts Heniger (page images at Google; US access only)
• How's Your Second Act? (New York: P. Goodman Co., 1918), by Arthur Hopkins, contrib. by George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Merry-Go-Round (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
• Through the Fourth Wall (New York: Brentano's; London: Chapman and Hall, 1922), by W. A. Darlington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Over the Footlights (and other fancies; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quizziology of the British Drama (London: Pub. at the Punch Office, 1846), by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
• Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #19; Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1975), ed. by J. I. Crump and William P. Malm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Complete History of the English Stage (5 volumes; London: Printed for the author, ca. 1800), by Charles Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court: A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes Mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. (Oxford: Printed for the Walpole and Malone Societies at the University Press, 1924), by Inigo Jones, ed. by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Back to Lilac Land: A Theatrical Novel (London: Greening and Co, 1902), by C. Ranger Gull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Painted Scene, and Other Stories of the Theater (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1916), by Henry Kitchell Webster, illust. by Arthur William Brown and Herman Pfeifer (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way" (1908), by Kenneth McGaffey (Gutenberg text)
• Broadway Interlude (New York: Payson and Clarke, 1929), by Achmed Abdullah and Faith Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Adam: A Story of Adventure (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1913), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
• The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

• Weltkrieg und Schaubühne (Deutsche Erneuerung bd. 1, in German; Munich: J. F. Lehmann, 1916), by Artur Dinter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)
• From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Das Theater von Priene, als Einzelanlage und in Seiner Bedeutung für das Hellenistische Bühnenwesen (in German; Munich et al.: F. Schmidt, 1921), by Armin von Gerkan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Griechischen Sakralaltertümer; und Das Bühnenwesen der Griechen und Römer (in German; Munich: C. H. Beck, 1890), by Paul Stengel and Frank Oehmichen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
• Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music; With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients (3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1748), by abbé Dubos, trans. by Thomas Nugent
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Over the Footlights (and other fancies; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Kathryn Hansen (HTML at UC Press)

• Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1913), by Lady Gregory (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Revels in Jamaica, 1682-1838: Plays and Players of a Century, Tumblers and Conjurors, Musical Refugees and Solitary Showmen, Dinners, Balls and Cockfights, Darky Mummers and Other Memories of High Times and Merry Hearts (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1937), by Richardson Little Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Billboard (partial serial archives)
• Theatre Arts (partial serial archives)
• Variety (partial serial archives)
• The Green Book (American theater magazine) (partial serial archives)
• New York Clipper (1853-1924) (partial serial archives)
• Theatre Magazine (partial serial archives)

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