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Theater -- Production and direction

Here are entered works on the production and direction of theatrical performances. Works on written or printed descriptions or directions in a play are entered under Stage directions.

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• Directing Beckett (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), ed. by Lois Oppenheim (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)
• Stage Costuming (New York: Macmillan, 1939), by Agnes Brooks Young (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)

• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Michael Shapiro
  • multiple formats at fulcrum.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (16 volumes; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, c1973-1993), by Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans (page images at HathiTrust)

• Henslowe's Diary (2 volumes; London: A. H. Bullen, 1904-1908), by Philip Henslowe, ed. by W. W. Greg
  • Part I (text): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (commentary): multiple formats at archive.org

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

• The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park: or, The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1913), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• 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)

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