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• Criticism
  Writings about drama, including literary and dramatic criticism.
  • August Wilson
    Guide to the plays of August Wilson including annotated bibliographies, annotated reviews of each of the plays, and links to other resources dealing with his work.
    • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
      Materials dealing with Wilson's first New York hit play, written produced and revised between 1982-84.
      • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom music cd
        The music of the original Ma Rainey contained in this cd.
  • Bernard Shaw: a Brief Biography
    A biography reviewing the life of George Bernard Shaw.
  • Dramaturgy Bibliography
    A bibliography of resources in dramatic writing and production.
  • Minor Elizabethan Drama
    The term "comedy" as applied to a division of the drama was not used in England until the Renaissance had brought a knowledge of the classical drama and theatre.
  • The New Spirit In Literature
    To Ibsen, from beginning to end, every human being is a sacrifice, whilst to Dickens he is a farce. And there you have the whole difference.
  • The Sources of Idealism
    Let us imagine a community of a thousand persons, organized for the perpetuation of the species on the basis of the British family as we know it at present.
  • Theatre History on the Web
    This site has been maintained since 1996 to provide easy access to useful research sites throughout the world.
  • Wilde, Society, and Society Drama
    An essay on the history and significance of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
• Journals
  Links to scholarly journals about drama and theatre.
  • TDR: The Drama Review
    TDR provides scholarship on performances and their social, economic and political contexts, with an emphasis on the experimental, avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary.
  • The David Mamet Review
    Archives articles, reviews and bibliographies about productions of David Mamet plays.
  • Theater
    Theater covers theater and social change, children's theater, Soviet theater, theater and photography, paratheater, theater and revolution, and theater and the apocalypse.
  • Theatre Journal
    Theatre Journal features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production.
  • Theatre Topics
    Theatre Topics focuses on performance studies, dramaturgy, and theatre pedagogy.
• Links
  Links to other websites about drama and theatre.
  • Play Concordances
    Computational linguistics resources for analysis of canonical theatre.
  • The Middle English Play Cycles
    A collection of resources about the Middle English Play Cycles.
  • Web Resources for Teaching Drama
    Some of the resources that are available on the Internet.
• Plays
  The scripts from plays, organized by historical period.
  • Classical
    Roman and Greek drama.
    • Aeschylus
      Surviving plays by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus.
      • Agamemnon
      • Agamemnon
        A high-quality PDF edition of Agamemnon.
      • Eumenides
      • The Choephori
        A plain-text edition of the Choephori (the Libation Bearers).
      • The Choephori
        A high-quality PDF edition of the Choephori (the Libation Bearers).
      • The Eumenides
        A high-quality PDF edition of the Eumenides.
      • The Persians
      • The Seven Against Thebes
      • The Suppliants
    • Aristophanes
      Plays by Aristophanes, the classical Greek dramatist.
      • Ecclesiazusae
      • Lysistrata
      • Peace
      • Plutus
      • The Acharnians
      • The Birds
      • The Clouds
        Aristophanes's depiction of Socrates in the Clouds is in good part a comic distortion.
      • The Frogs
        The Frogs turns upon the decline of tragic art.
      • The Knights
        The Knights may be reckoned the Aristophanes's masterpiece, a direct personal attack on the then all-powerful Cleon.
      • The Thesmophoriazusae
        Following Lysistrata during the reign of terror established by oligarchist conspirators, this play has a proper intrigue, a knot which is not untied till quite the end.
      • The Wasps
        The purpose of this play was to satirize the love of litigation common to the Athenians, whose delight it was to spend their time in the law-courts.
    • Sophocles
      • Ajax
        Ajax is the earliest (maybe) Sophoclean play still in existence. He allegedly said that during this period he was trying to write like Aeschylus.
      • Antigone
        Creon, the king of Thebes, forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule. Antigone, soon to marry Creon's son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother Polyneices.
      • Electra
        It is extremely difficult to read this play without thinking of the middle portion of Aeschylus' trilogy.
      • Oedipus Trilogy
        The Oedipus Trilogy was originally written by Sophocles and is meant to be told in a story-telling fashion.
      • Philoctetes
        This play also engages on of the great controversies of its time: nature vs. nurture.
      • The Trachiniae
        In Greek this play is known as "the women of Trachis," and refers to the identity of the chorus.
  • Contemporary Drama
    Recent plays.
    • Agamemnon 2.0
    • Blackout
    • Cowboys Don't Look Down
    • Dangerous Angels
    • Dead Rats
    • Dziadza and Red Squirrel
    • Erroneous Zones
    • Genealogy of a Kiss
    • Happenstance
    • Holidaze
    • Madonna
    • Nemeses
    • Orestes 2.0
    • Philosophy and Cabbage
    • Queens from a Marriage
    • Richard Freshman
    • Robert the Bruce
    • Sun Country
    • The Bacchae 2.0
    • The Bindermeyer Theory
    • The Bomber
    • The Box
    • The Car
    • The Expatriates
    • The Foxhole
    • The Hypnotists
    • The Night Watchman
    • The Other Half
    • Tolstoy in the Greater Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area and Surrounding Suburbs
  • Eighteenth Century
    Eighteenth-century/Enlightenment drama.
    • The Beggar's Opera
      The inspiration for the 20th-century Brecht/Weill _Threepenny Opera_, this play is a mock opera which satirizes the British upper class.
  • Medieval
    Medieval drama, mostly European.
    • Gammer Gurton's Needle
      Gammer Gurton's Needle is one of the earliest comedies written in the English language. It is thought to have been produced in 1533.
  • Modern Drama
    Plays from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
    • An Ideal Husband
    • Arms and the Man
      Bernard Shaw's 1894 play about bourgeois competence and mendacity.
    • Caesar and Cleopatra
    • Dark Lady of the Sonnets
      • Bernard Shaw: Preface to The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
      • Bernard Shaw: The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
    • Major Barbara
      • Bernard Shaw: An Essay as First Aid to Critics
      • Bernard Shaw: Major Barbara
    • Misalliance
    • Mrs. Warren's Profession
      • Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren's Profession
      • The Author's Apology
    • Peer Gynt
    • Pygmalion
      Bernard Shaw's 1916 classic work of modern drama.
      • Bernard Shaw: Preface to Pygmalion
      • Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
      • Bernard Shaw: Sequel to Pygmalion
    • The Importance of Being Earnest
      The Importance of Being Earnest, in three acts.
  • Nineteenth Century
    Nineteenth-century drama.
    • An Ideal Husband
      A charming English period comedy with Wilde's subtly sardonic sense of humor.
    • Faust
      The tale of the dangers of hubris.
  • Renaissance/Early Modern
    Renaissance/Early Modern drama.
    • Ben Jonson
      Writings by Ben Jonson, English playwright.
      • Bartholomew Fair
      • Catiline
      • Dr. Faustus
      • Epicoene
      • Every Man in His Humour
      • Sejanus
      • Volpone
    • Shakespeare
      • Comedies
        • A Comedy of Errors
        • A Midsummer Night's Dream
        • A Winter's Tale
        • All's Well That Ends Well
        • As You Like It
        • Cymbeline
        • Love's Labours Lost
        • Measure for Measure
        • Merry Wives of Windsor
        • Much Ado About Nothing
        • Pericles
        • The Merchant of Venice
        • The Taming of the Shrew
        • The Tempest
        • Troilus and Cressida
        • Twelfth Night
        • Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • Contents
      • Histories
        • Henry IV, Part 1
        • Henry IV, Part 2
        • Henry V
        • Henry VI, Part 1
        • Henry VI, Part 2
        • Henry VI, Part 3
        • Henry VIII
        • King John
        • Richard II
        • Richard III
      • Shakespeare Glossary
      • Tragedies
        • Antony and Cleopatra
        • Corilanus
        • Hamlet
        • Julius Caesar
        • King Lear
        • Macbeth
        • Othello
        • Romeo and Juliet
        • Timon of Athens
        • Titus Andronicus
  • Seventeenth Century
    Seventeenth-century/Restoration drama.
    • Dom Juan, Ou Le Festin de Pierre
    • The Rover