Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball; Southern Illinois University Press, 1983 : - Part One: Shape
- 1: What Happens That Makes Something Else Happen?
- 2: And What Happens Next?
- 3: But Do It Backwards
- 4: Stasis and Intrusion
- 5: Obstacle, Conflict
- 6: Ignorance is Bliss (or: the Very Cause of Everyone's Lunacy About Hamlet)
- 7: Things Theatrical
- Part Two: Methods
- 8: Exposition
- 9: Forwards: Hungry for Next
- 10: Missing Persons (character)
- 11: Image
- 15: Families
- 16: Generalities: Mood, Atmosphere
- 17: The Unique Factor
- 18: Changing Eras
- 19: Climax
- 20: Beginnings/Endings
- 21: Rereading
- 22: What Next?
The Play: A Critical Anthology by Eric Bentley; Prentice Hall, 1951 - 1: Cyrano de Bergerac
- 2: The Importance of Being Earnest
- 3: The Miser
- 4: Twelfth Night
- 5: Othello
- 6: Antigone
- 7: Ghosts
- 8: The Ghost Sonata 1907
- 9: Death of a Salesman
On Stage a History of Theatre by Vera Mowry Roberts; Harper & Row, 1962 - 1: The Ever-Present Beginnings
- 2: Drama in Ancient Egypt
- 3: The Golden Age of Greece
- 4: Imitations and Innovations of the Romans
- 5: Theatre in the Middle Ages
- 6: Renaissance Theatre in Italy, France, and Germany
- 7: Shakespeare and the Elizabethans
- 8: Spanish Theatre in the Renaissance
- 9: The Golden Days in France
- 10: The Restoration in England
- 11: Developments in England and America
- 12: Cross-Currents in Continental Theatre
- 13: Oriental Theatre
- 14: European Romanticism
- 15: Commercial Theatre in England and America
- 16: Theatre's Great Revolution
- 17: Theatre Today
World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh by Allardyce Nicoll; Harcourt Brace, 1950 - PART I: FROM ATHENS TO ROME
- Chapter I The First Dramatist: Aeschylus
- Chapter II: THE GLORY OF THE GREEK THEATRE: SOPHOCLES
- Chapter III: THE DAWN OF REALISM: EURIPIDES
- Chapter IV: ARISTOPHANES AND THE OLD COMEDY
- Chapter V: FROM Menander TO THE MIMES
- PART II: RELIGIOUS DRAMA AND PROFANE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
- PART III: THE DRAMA OF THE RENAISSANCE
- Chapter 1: COMEDY, TRAGEDY, AND MELODRAMA IN ITALY
- Chapter II: THE POPULAR PLAY: THE COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE
- Chapter III: FRENCH ROMANTICISM AND CLASSICISM
- Chapter IV: THE SPANISH STAGE UNDER LOPE DE VEGA AND CALDERON
- Chapter V: THE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE OF THE JESUITS
- PART IV: THE DRAMA OF THE RENAISSANCE: ENGLAND
- Chapter I: THE POPULAR BEGINNINGS
- Chapter II: SHAKESPEARE AND HIS PREDECESSORS
- Chapter III: EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
- PART V: THE TRIUMPH OF CLASSICISM
- Chapter 1: RACINE AND THE TRAGEDY OF SENTIMENT
- Chapter 11: MOLI§«RE AND TRE COMEDY OF MANNERS
- Chapter III: THE RESTORATION COMEDY OF MANNERS
- PART VI THE AGE OF GENTILITY, PHILOSOPHY AND SENTIMENTALISM
- Chapter 1: TRAGEDY AND OPERA
- Chapter II: THE GROWTH OF BOURGEOIS COMEDY
- Chapter III: THE WAVE OF SENTIMENTALISM
- PART VII: THE ROMANTIC THEATRE
- Chapter 1: FROM TRAGEDY TO MELODRAM
- Chapter II: COMEDY AND EXTRAVAGANZA
- PART VIII: FROM THE MIEDIEVAL TO THE MATERIALISTIC
- Chapter I The Realm of Fancy
- Chapter II: THE COMING OF REALISM
- PART IX: REALISM'S TRIUMPH
- Chapter 1: THE TRIUMPH OF REALISM: Ibsen
- Chapter II: STRINDBERG AND THE PLAY OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS
- Chapter III: THE INDEPENDENT THEATRE IN GERMANY
- Chapter IV: THE PLAY OF IDEAS IN FRANCE
- Chapter V: REALISM IN DIVERSE LANDS: ITALY, SPAIN, ENGLAND, RUSSIA
- Chapter VI: NEO-ROMANTICISM IN THE THEATRE
- PART X: THE DRAMA OF THE ORIENT
- Chapter I: THE SANSKRIT DRAMA
- Chapter II: THE DRAMA OF CHINA
- Chapter III: THE JAPANESE DRAMA
- PART X: ENTERING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- Chapter 1: THE RELICS OF THE OLDER REALISM
- Chapter II: THE EXTENSION OF THE REALISTIC
- Chapter III: THE THEATRE SYMBOLIC AND THEATRICAL
- Chapter IV: THE POETIC STAGE
- Chapter V: PURPOSEFUL LAUGHTER: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
- PART XII: DRAMA BETWEEN TWO WARS
- Chapter 1: THE AMERICAN ADVENT
- Chapter II: THE DRAMA OF THE INDIVIDUAL
- Chapter III: THE EXPRESSIONISTIC MOVEMENT
- Chapter IV: REALISM, SOCIAL AND OTHERWISE
- Chapter V: THE COMIC SPIRIT AND SOCIAL UNREST
- Chapter VI: THE VOGUE OF THE HISTORICAL PLAY
- Chapter VII: THE REVIVAL OF POETIC DRAMA
- Chapter VIII: EUGENE O'NEILL
- PART XIII: THE THEATRE IN THE MIDST OF WAR, AND AFTER
- PART XIV: CONCLUSION
