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Theater & Drama Research Guide

Selected resources for theater & drama classes

Find resources about the history of theater

The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre by John Russell Brown (Editor)
Call Number: Reference 792.09 O98

ISBN: 019212997X

Publication Date: 1995
History of the North American Theater by Felicia H. Londre; Daniel J. Watermeier; Felicia Hardison Londré
Call Number: 792.097 L847h

ISBN: 0826410790

Publication Date: 1998
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre by Marianne McDonald (Editor); J. Michael Walton (Editor)
Call Number: 882.0109 C178

ISBN: 0521834562

Publication Date: 2007

The Art of Ancient Greek Theater (Getty Villa Exhibitions)
Didaskalia - The Journal for Ancient Performance
An open sources peer-reviewed journal about theater in ancient Greece and Rome.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle (Editor)
Call Number: 792.09420902 C178

ISBN: 0521366704

Publication Date: 1994

medieval drama in Europe from The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
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The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 by Andrew Gurr
Call Number: 792.0942 G981s

ISBN: 9780521729666

Publication Date: 1970

England from The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
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Shakespeare Documented
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The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre by Deborah Payne Fiske (Editor)
Call Number: 822.409 C178

ISBN: 0521582156

Publication Date: 2000
Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1789-1860 by Donald Roy (Editor)
Call Number: 792.09409 R759

ISBN: 0521250803

Publication Date: 2003
A History of African American Theatre by Errol G. Hill & James V. Hatch.
Call Number: 792.08996 H645h

ISBN: 0521624436
The Commedia Dell'Arte in the Twentieth Century by John Rudlin
Call Number: 792.2309 R916c

ISBN: 0415047706

Publication Date: 1994

commedia dell'arte from The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
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Theater: An Overview from Encyclopedia of American Studies
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Theater from Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
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Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
Coast to Coast: The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939

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