Esslin, Martin.An Anatomy of Drama. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Reprint, Hill & Wang, 1977. 1992. On the nature of drama, its structure, reality, and more.
Gallens, David, and Lynn Spampinato, eds.Drama for Students. Gale, 1997. A guide to 33 well-known plays that provides analysis, context, and criticism. For high school readers.
Hawkins-Dady, Mark, and Leanda Shrimpton, eds.International Dictionary of Theatre. St. James, 1992-1996. Covers plays, playwrights, actors, directors, and designers.
Sidnell, Michael J., ed.Sources of Dramatic Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1991- . Collected writings of important playwrights and theorists.
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Artaud, Antonin.The Theatre and Its Double. Grove, Reprint, John Calder, 1958. 1996. Essays by a major theater visionary and innovator.
Banham, Martin, ed.The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Comprehensive view of the history and current state of the theater; formerly published as The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre (1989).
Blau, Herbert.The Audience. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. A philosophical investigation into the nature and meaning of the theatrical audience.
Cameron, Kenneth M., and Patti P. Gillespie.The Enjoyment of Theatre. Allyn & Bacon, 1999. Explains theater tradition and its place in society.
Hartnoll, Phyllis, ed.The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Oxford University Press, 1983. Varied articles on theater. A concise edition was published in 1992.
Rubin, Don, ed.The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Routledge, 1994, 2000. These four volumes of a projected six-volume work cover Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific.
Benedetti, Jean, ed. and trans.The Moscow Art Theatre Letters. Routledge, 1991. Documentary history of an influential company presented through the correspondence of its founders and members.
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