Theater
Research Guides
20th Century British Drama: History And Criticism
McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .A4
Contents: A cartel to modesty.--The decay of criticism.--Sarah Bernhardt; a postscript.--Big pugs and little--Swan and dragonfly.--A note on repertory.--Cackle and 'osses.--The art of the Guitrys.--A view of "The beggar's opera."--An evening at Collins's.--Incidental music and some Shakespeare.--Vesta ave atque vale.--Charlie Chaplin.--Heartbreak Shaw.--Scaramouch in seven dials.--The hound of Drinkwater.--A point of style.--Hippocamp-elephantocamelos.--For the purposes of revenue.--A happy commentator.
Anger and after: a guide to the new British drama
Taylor, John Russell. (2nd ed., revised, Methuen, 1969)McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .T3 1969
Angry theatre; new British drama
Taylor, John Russell. (Hill and Wang [1969])McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .T24
Notes: First published in England under title: Anger, and after: a guide to the new British drama. Includes index.
As the curtain rises : on contemporary British drama, 1966-1976
Colby, Douglas. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c1978)McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .C57
Subjects: Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead - Hampton, Christopher, 1946- Philanthropist - Pinter, Harold. Old times. Bibliography: p. 100-103.
At half-past eight; essays of the theatre, 1921-1922
Agate, James. (B. Blom [1969])McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .A26
British and Irish women dramatists since 1958 : a critical handbook
Griffiths, Trevor R.; Llewellyn-Jones, Margaret (eds.). (Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1993)McNichols Campus Library
PR 739 .F45 B75 1993
Series: Gender in writing Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Early stages : women dramatists 1958-68 / Lib Taylor -- Claiming a space : 1969-78 / Margaret Llewellyn-Jones -- Waving not drowning : the mainstream, 1979-88 / Trevor R. Griffths -- Sister George is dead : the making of modern lesbian theatre / Rose Collis -- Black women playwrights in Britain / Susan Croft -- On the margins : women dramatists in Wales / Margaret Llewellyn-Jones -- Irish women playwrights since 1958 / Anna McMullan -- Transformations and transgressions : women's discourse on the Scottish stage / Susan C. Triesman -- An alphabet of apocrypha : collaborations and explorations in women's theatre / Susan Croft, April de Angelis.
McNichols Campus Library
PR 731 .R65
Series: Crosscurrents: modern critiques. Contents: Bernard Shaw.--Oscar Wilde.--W. B. Yeats.--J. M. Synge.--Sean O'Casey.--T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry.--The moderns: Osborne, Arden, Pinter, Wesker, and Whiting.--Bibliography (p. 137)
Contemporary British drama : an outsider's view
Choudhuri, A. D.. (Arnold-Heinemann, 1976)McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .C35
Includes index. Bibliography: p. [213]-217.
McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .D5
Series: The contemporary drama series. Notes: "Bibliographical appendix": p. 241-281.
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1625 .V5 1993
Series: Contemporary writers of the English language. Includes title index.
McNichols Campus Library
PR 106 .V5 1977
Series: Contemporary writers of the English language. Includes index.
McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .A5
Year of coverage follows title. Check catalog to see which years are in the UDM collection.
Disrupting the spectacle : five years of experimental and fringe theatre in Britain
Ansorge, Peter. (Pitman, 1975)McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .A6
"Play list": p. 83-84. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drama in a world of science, and three other lectures
Wickham, Glynne William Gladstone. (University of Toronto Press, 1962)McNichols Campus Library
PN 2075 .W5 1962a
English drama, 1900-1930; the beginnings of the modern period
Nicoll, Allardyce. (University Press, 1973)McNichols Campus Library
PR 721 .N45
"Hand-list of plays, 1900-1930": p. [451]-1053. Includes bibliographical references.
English drama of the early modern period, 1890-1940
Chothia, Jean. (Longman, 1996)McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .C36 1996
Longman literature in English series. Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.
Henry Arthur Jones and the modern drama
Cordell, Richard Albert. (Long & R. R. Smith, inc., 1932)McNichols Campus Library
PR 4828 .C6
Interchange of plays between London and New York, 1910-1939; a study in relative audience response
Boyd, Alice Katharine. (King's Crown Press, 1948)McNichols Campus Library
PN 2596.L6 B6 1948a
Issued also as thesis, Columbia University. "Bibliographies": p. [116]-125.
Irish drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett
Worth, Katharine. (Humanities Press, c1978)McNichols Campus Library
PR 8789 .W6
Includes index. Bibliography: p. [267]-270.
J. M. Synge and the Irish dramatic movement
Bickley, Francis Lawrance. (Houghton Mifflin, 1912)McNichols Campus Library
PR 5533 .B58
Literature in the theatre, and other essays
Darlington, William Aubrey. (Books for Libraries Press [1968])McNichols Campus Library
PN 1655 .D27 1968
Reprint of the 1925 ed. Essays, with one exception, which appeared in their original form, either in the Fortnightly Review or in the Daily Telegraph.
Looking back : British theater, two wars later [videorecording]
(Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2001)McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .L66 2001
1 VHS videocassette (50 min.). Notes: Originally produced in 2000 as an episode of the BBC television program, Changing stages. Summary: "This program ... focuses on theater in London from the 1920s to the '60s, as self-expression struggled against rigid governmental censorship. The contributions of playwrights John Osborne, Noel Coward, Terence Rattigan, Rodney Ackland, Brendan Behan, and Shelagh Delaney are spotlighted, along with ... producers "Binky" Beaumont, George Devine, and John Littlewood."
Modern English drama : a survey of the theatre from 1900
Reynolds, Ernest Randolph. (University of Oklahoma Press, 1951)McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .R4 1951
Bibliography: p. 195-200.
Modern English playwrights; a short history of the English drama from 1825
Cunliffe, John William. (Harper & Brothers, 1927)McNichols Campus Library
PR 721 .C8
Plays and playwrights series. Notes: "Books of general reference": p. 254-256; "Play list" at end of each chapter.
McNichols Campus Library
PR 8869 .M63 1991
Series: A Norton critical edition. Includes bibliographical references (p. [574]-577).
McNichols Campus Library
PR 739.P6 T5
Contents: Introduction.--Stephen Phillips.--James Elroy Flecker.--Laurence Binyon and John Masefield.--Wilfred Wilson Gibson and John Drinkwater.--Lascelles Abercrombie.--John Davidson.--Davidson's later dramas.--Thomas Hardy: The dynasts.--Arthur Symons.--W.B. Yeats.--Gordon Bottomley.--Sturge Moore.--Conclusion.--Bibliography (p. 202-204).
Out on stage : lesbian and gay theatre in the twentieth century
Sinfield, Alan. (Yale University Press, c1999)McNichols Campus Library
PR 739 .H65 S56 1999
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .E4 1979
Includes index.
Religion in modern English drama
Weales, Gerald Clifford. (University of Pennsylvania Press [1961])McNichols Campus Library
PR 739 .R4 .W36 and PR 739.R4 W4 1961
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rise and fall of the well-made play
Taylor, John Russell. (Hill and Wang [1967])McNichols Campus Library
PR 731 .T24
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Second wave; British drama for the seventies
Taylor, John Russell. (Hill and Wang [1971])McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .T34 1971
"Bibliography of playscripts": p. [231]-236.
Six dramatists in search of a language : studies in dramatic language
Kennedy, Andrew K.. (Cambridge University Press, 1975)McNichols Campus Library
PR 739 .L3 .K35 and PR 739.L3 K4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
McNichols Campus Library
PN 2595 .S48
"Includes material from the author's two previous books, Theatrical cavalcade and Fifty years of vaudeville."
Theatre at work; playwrights and productions in the modern British theatre
Marowitz, Charles; Trussler, Simon (eds.). (Hill and Wang, 1967, 1968)McNichols Campus Library
PR 738.M3 1968; PR 738.M35
A collection of interviews and essays edited by Charles Marowitz and Simon Trussler, with an introd. by Irving Wardle.
Theatre language: a study of Arden, Osborne, Pinter and Wesker
Brown, John Russell. (Taplinger Pub. Co. [1972])McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .B76
Bibliography: p. 252-[253].
Third voice: modern British and American verse drama
Donoghue, Denis. (Princeton University Press, 1959)McNichols Campus Library
PR 736 .D6 and PR 736 .D68
Includes bibliographical references and index.
McNichols Campus Library
PN 1655 .D3
Contents: Introduction.--The fourth wall.--About players.--About plays.--About the theatre.
McNichols Campus Library
PR 721 .T71
Series: National Book League (Great Britain) Reader's guides, 2d ser., no. 8.
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