Dramatic Criticism
Critical Survey of Drama by Call Number: REF PN1625 .C74 2003 (8 vols)Publication Date: 2003Link goes to 3rd edition online
American Drama Criticism: Interpretations, 1890-1977 by Call Number: REF Z1231.D7 P3 1979 (plus 2 supplements)Publication Date: 1979
Theatre Biography
Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage by
Call Number: REF PN2285 .Y6 (2 vols.)Publication Date: 1975
Notable Women in the American Theatre by Call Number: REF PN2285 .N65 1989ISBN: 9780313272172Publication Date: 1989This reference book has entries for some 300 women in American theater, ranging from actors, directors, choreographers, playwrights, and designers, to critics, agents, and managers.
International women stage director by Call Number: PN1590.W64 I59 2013Publication Date: 2013Link is to Online Version.
Designed primarily for use by students and theatre generalists, this volume contains biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of over 300 individuals distinguished for their stage directing. It includes both contemporary directors and those who are no longer working.
Theatre History
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama by Call Number: PR651 .C36 1990Publication Date: 1990Factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580–1642.
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre by Call Number: PR691 .C35 2000Publication Date: 2000This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time.
Medieval English Theatre. Volume 41 by Call Number: PN2152 .W5 1987Publication Date: 2020This is a thoroughly revised edition of Glynne Wickham's important history of the development of dramatic art in Christian Europe. Professor Wickham surveys the foundations on which this dramatic art was built: the architecture, costumes and ceremonial of the imperial court at Byzantium, the liturgies of countires in the Eastern and Western Empires and the triumph of the Roman rite and the Romanesque style in Western art.McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama by
Call Number: REF PN1625 .M3 (4 vols.)Publication Date: 1973
