This selective bibliography, a guide to scholarship in the American drama and related subjects, provides coverage of the major works and topics, with emphasis on work published in the 20th century. Unpublished dissertations, most literary histories, and short notes and explications are omitted. Entries are listed under the general topics of…

Six months of observation--at two universities, at a drama festival, and with several independent theatre companies--form the basis for this evaluation of theatre in Kenya, Africa. While Kenyan dramas deal with a variety of themes, the majority are topical rather than universal in their treatment of issues. In many, the emphasis is on the…

This book with a three-part format contains information which the would-be thespian needs to know for maximum enjoyment and success in stage activities. The first part, "Heritage," traces the history and development of the theater from primitive ritual through the drama of classical Greece and Rome, the Renaissance, and modern Europe and America,…