Selected BibliographyHistorical Surveys of Theatreand DramaBanham, Martin, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. 9th ed.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Boardman, Gerald, and Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companionto American Theatre. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2004.Brockett, Oscar G., and Franklin J. Hildy. History of the Theatre.Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2003.Deeney, John F., and Maggie B. Gale, eds. The RoutledgeDrama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism toContemporary Performance. New York: Routledge, 2010.Gerould, Daniel. Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major CriticalTexts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel. NewYork: Applause Books, 2003.Hill, Errol. The Theatre of Black Americans. New York:Applause Books, 1987.Kanellos, Nicolás, ed. A History of Hispanic Theatre in theUnited States: Origins to 1940. Austin: University of TexasPress, 1990.Kennedy, Dennis. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre andPerformance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.Lee, Esther Kim. A History of Asian American Theatre.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Nagler, Alois M. A Source Book in Theatrical History. NewYork: Dover, 1959.Pavis, Patrice. Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, andAnalysis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.Sanders, Leslie C. The Development of Black Theater in America.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.General Studies of Theatre and DramaArmstrong, Anne Elizabeth, and Kathleen Juhl, eds. RadicalActs: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change. SanFrancisco: Aunt Jute Books, 2007.Bentley, Eric. The Life of the Drama. New York: ApplauseBooks, 1991.Chinoy, Helen, and Linda Jenkins, eds. Women in AmericanTheatre. 3d ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group,2006.Esslin, Martin. An Anatomy of Drama. New York: Hill & Wang,1977.Granville-Barker, Harley. On Dramatic Method. New York:Hill & Wang, 1956.Hayman, Ronald. How to Read a Play. 2nd ed. New York:Grove Press, 1999.Mamet, David. Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature andPurpose of Drama. New York: Columbia University Press,1998.Proehl, Geoffrey S., with D. D. Kugler, Mark Lamos, andMichael Lupu. Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility. Madison,NJ: Fairleigh- Dickinson Press, 2008.Schechner, Richard. Environmental Theatre. 2nd ed. New York:Applause Books, 1994.—. Performance Studies. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge,2006.Styan, J. L. Drama, Stage, and Audience. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1975.—. The Elements of Drama. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1960.Worthen, W. B. Drama: Between Poetry and Performance.Hoboken: Wiley, 2010.Specialized StudiesAsian TheatreAkihiko, Senda. The Voyage of Contemporary Japanese Theatre.Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.Brandon, James R., ed. Nō and Kyōgen in the ContemporaryWorld. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.Emmert, Richard. “Expanding Nō’s Horizons.” In Nō andKyōgen in the Contemporary World, edited by James R.Brandon. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.Ernst, Earle. The Kabuki Theatre. New York: Grove Press,1956.Fenollosa, Ernest, and Ezra Pound. The Noh Theatre of Japan:With Complete Texts of 15 Classic Plays. New York: Dover,2011.Goldman, Andrea. Opera and the City: The Politics of Culturein Beijing, 1770–1900. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press,2012.Gunji, Masakatsu. Kabuki. Tokyo: Kodansha International,1988.Huang, Alexander C. Y. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuriesof Cultural Exchange. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 2009.Immoos, Thomas. Japanese Theatre. Translated by HughYoung, photographs by Fred Mayer. London: Studio Vista,1977.Keene, Donald. Nō and Bunraku. New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 1970.B-1
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Zarilli,eds. Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performance. Honolulu:University of Hawai’i Press, 1990.Scott, A. C. The Classical Theatre of China. London: SimsonShand, 1957.—. The Theatre in Asia. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson,1972.Special Drama Artists in South India. Durham: Duke Uni versityPress, 2005.Shindo, Shigero. Kunisada (The Kabuki Actor Portraits).Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing, 1993.Toita, Yasuji, and Chiaki Yoshida. Kabuki. Translated by DonKenny. Osaka: Hoikusha Publishing, 1992.Van Erven, Eugène. The Playful Revolution: Theatre and Liberationin Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.Wang-ngai, Siu, with Peter Lovrick. Chinese Opera. Vancouver:University of British Columbia Press, 1997.Wichmann, Elizabeth. Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimensionof Beijing Opera. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1991.Royal TheatreBradby, David, and Andrew Calder. The Cambridge Companionto Moliere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.Holland, Peter. The Ornament of Action: Text and Performancein Restoration Comedy. New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1979.Nicoll, Allardyce. History of English Drama, 1660–1900.6 vols. London: Cambridge University Press, 1955–1959.Nussbaum, Felicity. Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, andthe Eighteenth-Century British Theater. Philadelphia: Universityof Pennsylvania Press, 2010.Scott, Virginia. Women on Stage in Early Modern France:1540–1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Modern and Postmodern TheatreArtaud, Antonin. The Theatre and Its Double. Translated by MaryC. Richards. New York: Grove Press, 1958.Bentley, Eric. The Playwright as Thinker. 4th ed. Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2010.Bigsby, C. W. E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-CenturyAmerican Drama. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1985.Bradby, David. Modern French Drama 1940–1980. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1984.Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre. Translated by John Willett.New York: Hill & Wang, 1965.Brook, Peter. The Empty Space. New York: Atheneum, 1968.Brotchie, Alastair. Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life. Cambridge,MA: The MIT Press, 2011.Craig, Edward Gordon. On the Art of the Theatre. 2nd ed. Boston:Small, Maynard, 1924.de Jongh, Nicholas. Not in Front of the Audience: Homosexualityon Stage. London: Routledge, 1992.Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Rev. ed. New York:Vintage, 2004.Grotowski, Jerzy. Towards a Poor Theatre. Eugenio Barba, ed.Rev. ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.Harding, James Martin. The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde: ExorcisingExperimental Theater and Performance. Ann Arbor:The University of Michigan Press, 2013.Hercher, Jutta and Peter Urban, eds. Chekhov on Theatre. London:Nick Hern Books, 2012.Innes, Christopher. Modern German Drama: A Study in Form.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.Marranca, Bonnie, and Gautam Dasgupta, eds. Interculturalismand Performance. New York: PAJ Publications, 1991.Murphy, Brenda. American Realism and American Drama,1880–1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.Puchner, Martin. Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality,and Drama. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UniversityPress, 2011.Roose-Evans, James. Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavskito Peter Brook. 4th ed. New York: Routledge, 1996.Salamon, Julie. Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Lifeof Wendy Wasserstein. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.Savran, David. Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group. NewYork: Theatre Communications Group, 1993.Shaw, George Bernard. The Quintessence of Ibsenism. London:Constable, 1913.Vanden Heuvel, Michael. Performing Drama/DramatizingPerformance . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991.Wekwerth, Manfred. Daring to Play: A Brecht Companion.New York: Routledge, 2011.Williams, Mance. Black Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s. Westport,CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.Music TheatreBloom, Ken. American Song. 2nd ed. New York: Schirmer,1996.Bordman, Gerald. American Musical Theatre. 2nd ed. NewYork: Oxford, 1992.Bradley, Ian, ed. The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan.New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.Everett, William A., and Paul R. Laird. The Cambridge Companionto the Musical. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2002.Ganzl, Kurt. The Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre. Oxford:Blackwell, 1994.
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