Websites
- English actors at the turn of the centuryGreat pictures.
- Variety's Stage: Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment 1870-1920 TheaterLibrary of Congress collection. Search playbills, recordings and scripts.
- Articles on the Federal Theater Project. 1935-39Links to scripts, playbills and programs archived at the Library of Congress.
eBooks on Modern Theater
Cambridge History of American Theatre, 1870-1945. Volume 2 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780521651790Publication Date: 1999-07-28Volume Two begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theater up to 1945. It discusses the role of vaudeville, European influences, the rise of the Little Theater movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theater movement, major actors and the rise of the star system, and the achievements of notable playwrights. This volume places American theater in its social, economic, and political context
Cambridge History of American Theatre. Beginnings to 1870.Volume 1 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780521472043Publication Date: 1998The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater in all its dimensions. It recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance, and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. Volume One brings together the work of ten major authorities on American theater and drama. Like each of the three volumes, Volume One includes an extensive overview and timeline followed by chapters on specific aspects of American theater up to c. 1870.
Cambridge History of British Theatre since 1895 by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780521651325Publication Date: 2004This volume explores the rich and complex histories of English, Scottish and Welsh theatres in the 'long' twentieth century since 1895. Twenty-three original essays by leading historians and critics investigate the major aspects of theatrical performance. The collection presents an exciting evolution in the scholarly study of modern British theatre history, skilfully demonstrating how performance variously became a critical litmus test for the great aesthetic, cultural, social, political and economic upheavals in the age of extremes.
Books
Century of Innovation : a history of European and American theatre and drama since the late nineteenth century by Call Number: 792.094 BROCKETT 1991Publication Date: 1990"a 'reading' of theatrical history in chiefly the twentieth century from the vantage point of the close of that century"- Form and ideas in modern theatre : directions in modern theatre and drama byCall Number: 792 G217DPublication Date: 1965
Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian Plays by Call Number: 822.9208 METHUEN 2013ISBN: 9781408176481Publication Date: 2014A companion volume to Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000 , this anthology contains nine emblematic scripts from twentieth and twenty-first century Asian theatre. Opening with a history of modern Asian drama and a summary of the plays and their contexts, it features nine works written between 1912 and 2009 in Japan, China, Korea, India, Indonesia and Vietnam. Showcasing fresh contemporary writing alongside plays central to the established canon, the collection surveys each playwright's work, and includes: Father Returns by Kikuchi Kan Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech by Okada Toshiki Sunrise by Cao Yu I Love XXX by Meng Jinghui, Huang Jingang, Wang Xiaoli, Shi Hang Bicycle by O Tae-sok The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore Hayavadana by Girish Karnad The Struggle of the Naga Tribe by W. S. Rendra Truong Ba's Soul in the Butcher's Skin by Luu Quang Vu
