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biblio & books "Dramatic Literature from Chekhov to Beckett and After"
The Directorial Image: The Play and the Director by Frank McMullan; Shoe String Press, 1962
European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and Criticism from Aristotle to the Present Day by Barrett H. Clark; Stewart & Kidd, 1918 : - Greek Dramatic Criticism - Latin Dramatic Criticism - Dramatic Criticism of the Middle Ages - Italian Dramatic Criticism of the Renaissance - French Dramatic Criticism of the Renaissance - Spanish Dramatic Criticism of the Golden Age - Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Elizabethan Dramatic Criticism - French Dramatic Criticism of the Seventeenth Century - Restoration and Eighteenth Century Dramatic Criticism - Italian Dramatic Criticism of the Seventeenth Century - Italian Dramatic Criticism of the Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries - German Dramatic Criticism from the Beginnings To Lessing - French Dramatic Criticism of the Eighteenth Century - Modern German Dramatic Criticism - French Dramatic Criticism of the Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries - English Dramatic Criticism of the Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
World War I through World War II
Adler, Thomas. American Drama, 1940-1960: A Critical History. New York: Twayne, 1997.
Babcock, Francis Granger. “Rewriting the Masculine: The National Subject in Modern American Drama.” Diss. Louisiana State U, 1993. DAI 54 (1994): 3433A.
Bach, Gerhard. “Provincetown Drama: Rereading American Modernism.” Democracy and the Arts in the United States. Ed. Alfred Hornung et al. München: Fink, 1996. 227-243.
Bach, Gerhard. Susan Glaspell und die Provincetown Players. Die Anfänge des modernen amerikanischen Dramas und Theaters. Frankfurt: Lang, 1979.
Bigsby, Chris. Bigsby, C.E.W. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982-85.
Bisgby, Chris. “The Drama, 1940-1990.” The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume 7: Prose Writing 1940-1990. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. 1-100.
Bigsby, Chris. Modern American Drama 1945-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Brater, Enoch and Ruby Cohn, ed. Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1992.
Deutsch, Helen, and Stella Hanau. The Provincetown: A Story of the Theatre. New York: Russell, 1931.
Duffy, Susan. The Political Left in the American Theatre of the 1930s: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow 1992.
Dukore, Bernard. American Dramatists 1918-1945. London: Grove, 1984.
Egan, Leona Rust. Provincetown as a Stage: Provincetown, the Provincetown Players, and the Discovery of Eugene O`Neill. Orleans, MA: Parnassus, 1994.
Fearnow, Mark. The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque. New York: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Fleche, Anne. Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1997.
Goldman, Arnold. “The Culture of the Provincetown Players.” Journal of American Studies 12 (1978): 291-310.
Grabes, Herbert. Das amerikanische Drama des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Klett, 2003.
Gruber, William E. Missing Persons: Character and Characterization in Modern Drama. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994.
Herget, Winfried. “Montage und Parteilichkeit: Zur Theaterreform der Living Newspapers.” Montage in Theater und Film. Ed. Horst Fritz. Tübingen: Francke, 1993. 83-96.
Hodin, Mark Mitchell. “Legitimate Theater and the Making of Modern Drama in America.” Diss. U of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995. DAI 56 (1996): 4773A.
Innes, Christopher. “Modernism in Drama.” The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Ed. Michael Levenson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 130-156.
Jerz, Dennis G. Technology in American Drama, 1920 – 1950: Soul and Society in the Age of the Machine. Westport: Praeger, 2003.
Kaufmann, A.S. and D.C. Franklin. Modern Drama in America: Realism from Provincetown to Broadway, 1915-1929. New York, 1982
Kindelan, Nancy Anne. Shadows of Realism: Dramaturgy and the Theory and Practices of Modernism. Westport: Greenwood P, 1996.
McConachie, Bruce A. American Theater in the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947 – 1962. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2003.
McGuckin, Sheila O’Brien. “The Theater of the Absurd in Europe and America: Sartre, Beckett, Pinter, Albee and Drama Criticism.” Diss. U of New Hampshire, 1996. DAI 57 (1996): 1613A.
Miller, Jordan and W. Frazer. American Drama Between the Wars: A Critical History. Boston: Twayne, 1997.
Müller, Kurt. Konventionen und Tendenzen der Gesellschaftskritik im expressionistischen Drama der zwanziger Jahre. Frankfurt: Lang, 1977.
Papa, Lee. “Staging Communities in Early Twentieth Century American Labor Drama.” Diss. U of Tennessee, 1995. DAI 56 (1996): 4399A.
Plessow, G.L. Das amerikanische Kurzschauspiel zwischen 1910 und 1930. Halle, 1933.
Roudané, Matthew C. American Drama Since 1960: A Critical History. New York: Twayne, 1996.
Sarlos, R. Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players: Theatre in Ferment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1982.
Schlueter, June, ed. Modern American Drama: The Female Canon. Rutherford, NJ.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990.
Smiley, Sam. The Drama of Attack: Didactic Plays of the American Depression. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1972.
Tancheva; Kornelia Vassileva. “‘The Old Expressions Are with Us Always, and There Are Always Others‘: The Modern Paradigm in Early-Twentieth-Century American Drama and Theatre.” Diss. Cornell U, 1996. DAI 57 (1996): 2277A.
Wainscott, Ronald H. The Emergence of the Modern American Theater, 1914-1929. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.
Wilmeth, Don B., and C.E.W. Bigsby, ed. The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Volume II: 1870 -- 1945 Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Wilmeth, Don B., and C.E.W. Bigsby, ed. The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Volume III: Post-World War II to the 1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Textbooks (and plays):
David Ball, Backwards and Forwards
James Thomas, Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designer, 2nd ed.
J. M. Synge, Riders to the Sea (any edition)
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (DPS ed.)
Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (in Four Major Plays, Signet; tr. Fjeld)
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Cambridge; ed. Braunmuller)
Sam Shepard, Buried Child (DPS ed.)
Recommended references:
Clay, James H., and Daniel Krempel. The Theatrical Image
Ball, William. A Sense of Direction
Barry, Jackson G. Dramatic Structure
Benedetti, Robert. The Director at Work
Catron, Louis E. The Director’s Vision
Gross, Roger. Understanding Playscripts
Grote, David. Script Analysis
Hodge, Francis. Play Directing
Hornby, Richard. Script into Performance
Ingham, Rosemary. From Page to Stage
Jones, Robert Edmond. The Dramatic Imagination
Kahn, David, and Donna Breed. Scriptwork
Longman, Stanley Vincent. Page and Stage
O’Neill, R. H. The Director as Artist
Payne, Darwin Reid. The Scenographic Imagination
Sweet, Jeffrey. The Dramatist’s Toolkit
Waxberg, Charles S. The Actor’s Script
Film-North * Anatoly Antohin. "Dramatic Literature from Chekhov to Beckett and After"