A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
British/English drama and theatre
General
Bradbrook, M. C. English Dramatic Form: A History of Its Development. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1963.
Craik, T. W., and C. Leech, eds. The Revels History of Drama in England. 8 vols. London: Methuen, 1975-83.*
Hidalgo, Pilar, Aránzazu Usandizaga, Rafael Portillo y Bernd Dietz. Historia crítica del teatro inglés. Alcoy: Marfil, 1988.
Nicoll, A. British Drama. London: Harrap, 1978.
Knight, G. Wilson. The Golden Labyrinth: A Study of British Drama. 1962.
Martín Alegre, Sara. Teatro y Teatro inglés: Una introducción. 2001, rev. 2014. Online at DDD UAB. 2014.*
http://ddd.uab.cat/record/122989
2015
Styan, J. L. The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.*
Thomson, Peter, gen. ed. Cambridge History of British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
Trussler, Simon. The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. pbk 2000.*
Early works
Baker, David E. The Companion to the Playhouse. 2 vols. 1764.
Baker, D. E., Isaac Reed, and Stephen Jones. Biographia Dramatica: or, a Companion to the Playhouse. 3 vols. 1812.
Fitzgerald, Percy. A New History of the English Stage. 2 vols. 1882.
Genest, John. Some Account of the English Stage. 10 vols. Bath, 1832.
Hazlitt, William. A View of the English Stage. 1818.
Langbaine, Gerard. An Account of the English Dramatick Poets. Oxford, 1691.
_____. Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets. Rev. ed. of Account of the English Dramatick Poets. Ed. Gildon. 1699.
_____. The Lives and Characters of English Dramatik Poets. New York: AMS Press, 1976.
Miscellaneous
Barish, Jonas. The Antitheatrical Prejudice. Berkeley: U of California P, 1981.
Brandt George W., ed. Modern Theories of Drama: A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre, 1840-1990. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP-Clarendon, 1998. 1999.
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. A Short History of the English Drama. Ayer Publishing, 1921. Online preview at Google Books.
http://books.google.es/books?id=rkes590q78YC
Carlson, Susan. Women and Comedy: Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition. 1991. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1994.
Cordner, Michael, Peter Holland and John Kerrigan, eds. English Comedy. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1994.*
Essays in Dramatic Literature: The Parrott Presentation Volume. Princeton, 1935.
García Landa, José Angel. "Guía docente de teatro inglés." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 April 2012.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/guia-docente-de-teatro-ingles.html
2012
Holland, Peter. The Ornament of Action. Cambridge, 1979.
Leggatt, Alexander. English Stage Comedy 1490-1990: Five Centuries of a Genre. London: Routledge, 1998. (Book/eBook).
MacQueen-Pope, W. Ladies First: The Story of Woman’s Conquest of the English Stage. London: W. H. Allen, 1952.
Ricks, Christopher, ed. English Drama to 1710. (Sphere History of English Literature). London: Sphere, 1971.* 2nd. ed. rev. 1987.
_____, ed. English Drama to 1710. (Penguin History of Literature, 3). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Rowell, George, and Anthony Jackson. The Repertory Movement: A History of Regional Theatre in Britain. 1984.
Schwanecke, Christine. A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century. (Narratologia, 80). Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2022. (I. Towards a Transgeneric and Contextual Theory of Narrative in Drama, Or, Reframing 'Drama' as a Narrative Genre; II. The History of Narrative and Narration in British Drama - The Cultural Dynamics and Performative Power of Dramatic Storytelling).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724110
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110724110/html
2022
Thorndike, Ashley H. English Comedy. 1929.
Wagonheim, Sylvia Stoler, ed. The Annals of English Drama 975-1700. London: Routledge, 1990.
Zamorano, Ana. "Chicas con tablas: representación del cuerpo lesbiano en el teatro anglo-norteamericano." In Que sus faldas son ciclones: Representación literaria actual del lesbianismo en lengua inglesa. Ed. Rosa García Rayego and Mª Soledad Sánchez Gómez. Madrid: Editorial Egales, 2008. 205-233.
Anthologies and collections
Bang, W., gen. ed. Materialen zur Kunde des älteren Englischen Dramas. 44 vols. Louvain, 1902-14.
Bevington, David, ed. The Macro Plays. 1972.
_____, ed. Medieval Drama. 1975.
Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays. 21 vols. 1776-81. 36 vols., 1791-1802.
Inchbald, Elizabeth, ed. The British Theatre: or, a Collection of Plays. 25 vols., 1809. 20 vols, 1824.
_____, ed. A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces. 7 vols., 1809, 1815.
González Ruiz, Nicolás ed. Antología de piezas cortas de teatro. 2 vols. (Grandes Antologías Labor). Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Montevideo: Labor, 1965.* (Introd., 1.1-20; biog/bibliog. notes, 1.23-25; 1.491-93; 2.xii-xx; Vol. 1., drama in Spanish and German; Vol. 2., Nordic, US, French, Hungarian, Irish, British, Italian, Russian and Polish plays).
Bibliographies
Harbage, Alfred. Annals of the English Drama, 1575-1700: An Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant and Lost, Chronologically Arranged. Philadelphia, 1940.
_____, ed. Annals of English Drama, 975-1700. 2nd ed., rev. S. Schoenbaum. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1964.
Lancashire Ian, ed. Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain: A Chronological Topography to 1558. 1984.
Lowe, Robert. Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature.
Internet resources
English Drama. Lion: Literature Online. Internet database. Chadwyck-Healey, 1996.
English Verse Drama: The Full-Text Database. Over 1500 works by about 450 authors; 230 anonymous works. (13th-19th centuries). Cambridge: Chadwick-Healey, 1995.
The Stage Online: Newsblog
http://www.thestage.co.uk/newsblog/
2005-12-09
YouTube (TEATRO).*
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGcol8V9BhK-uz60RoUajiw
2019
YouTube (TheaterTalk).*
https://www.youtube.com/c/theatertalk/videos
2020
Journals
Playbill
2006-06-10
Related works
Guthrie, Tyrone. A Life in the Theatre. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960.
Series
(English Dramatists). Houndmills: Macmillan.
(Hereford Plays). London: Heinemann, c. 1964.*
(New Mermaids.). Gen. ed. Philip Brockbank (Professor of English, York U) and Brian Morris (Lecturer in English, York U). London: Ernest Benn, c. 1964.
(Nottingham Drama Text Series). Nottingham, c. 1977.
(Penguin Plays). Harmondsworth: Penguin, c. 1962.
(Redefining British Theatre History). Houndmills: Palgrave, 2004.
(Renaissance Dramatists). Harmondsworth: Penguin, c. 1998.
(The Revels Plays). London: Methuen.
(The Revels Plays Companion Library). Series eds. E. A. J. Honigmann, J. R. Mulryne and R. L. Smallwood. Manchester: Manchester UP, c. 1984.
Societies
Malone Society, founded by Greg (1906).
