MEL Library Resources

Text Resources

Use the library catalogue to locate theatre history books as well as books of plays. Here is a partial list of what we have:

725 LEA

Leacroft, Richard. Theatre and playhouse: an illustrated survey of theatre building from Ancient Greece to the present day. London: Methuen, 1984.

792 CRA

Crampton, Esme. A handbook of the theatre. 2nd ed. Toronto: Gage Educational, 1972.

792 FUL

Fuller, Edmund, 1914-. A pageant of the theatre. New rev. ed. New York: Crowell, 1965.

792.09 HAR

Hardwood, Ronald, 1934-. All the world's a stage. London: Methuen, 1984.

792.0942 BRO

Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare and his theatre. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, c1982.

792.0942 HOD

Hodges, Cyril Walter, 1909-. Shakespeare's theatre. London: Oxford University, 1964.

792.0942 HOD

Hodges, Cyril Walter, 1909-. The Globe restored: a study of the Elizabethan theatre. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University, c1968.

822 MAR

Marlowe: Doctor Faustus: a casebook. 1st ed. London: Macmillan, c1969.

822 SHA

Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950. Seven plays, with prefaces and notes. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1967.

822 WIL

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The importance of being earnest. London: University of London, 1958.

822.3 SHE

Shellard, Dominic. William Shakespeare. Pbk. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2000, c1998.

822.009 GER 
Gerrard, Earnest Allen, 1873-?. Elizabethan drama and dramatists, 1583-1603. New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1972.

823 WEB

Webb, Eugene, 1938-. Samuel Beckett. Seattle: University of Washington, n.d.

828.009 MIL

Miller, Robert Keith. Oscar Wilde. New York: Ungar, 1982.

832 BRE

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. The rise and fall of the city of Mahogonny. Toronto: Oxford, 1976.

832 BRE

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Collected plays. London: Methuen, 1970.

832.009 BRE

Weideli, Walter, 1927-. The art of Bertolt Brecht. London: Merlin, c1963.

839.82 IBS

Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Four major plays. New York: Airmont, 1966.

842 BEC

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Waiting for Godot: tragicomedy in 2 acts. New York: Grove, 1954.

842.009 BEC

Samuel Beckett: a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1965.

882 CLA

Classical tragedy: Greek and Roman. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, c1990.

882 EUR

Euripides. The Medea. London: Cambridge University Press, 1954.

882 EUR

Euripides. The Bacchae ; Hippolytus ; Alcestis ; Medea. New York: Dell, 1973.

921 SHA

Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950. Shaw: an autobiography, 1898-1950, the playwright years. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970.

REF 792.09 OXF

The Oxford illustrated history of theatre. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Alberta Learning Online Reference Centre.

Theatre History Links

Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web

Created by a retired university drama professor, this is a huge annotated list of sites for researching theatre history on the Internet. You will need to know the era and/or country of your dramatist.

http://www.videoccasions-nw.com/history/jack.html

Theatre History Web Sites

Another huge site from a theatre historian with links to scholarly sites around the world.

http://www.win.net/~kudzu/history.html

TheatreHistory.com

Has material on theatre of many world regions as well as an online archive of complete scripts and monologues. Annoying pop-up ads.

http://www.theatrehistory.com/index.html

Moonstruck Drama Bookstore - List of various dramatists with informative biographies as well as links to related dramatists and other sites.

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm

History of Tragedy

Introduction to Greek Tragedy - The Classical Origins of Western Culture - Study Guide. Lots of information.

Greek Drama - Brief summary of three types of Greek drama.

Greek Drama - Background material on the plays & the ancient stage.

Greek Drama and Culture - Material for a course on a survey of ancient Greek drama and the society that produced it.

History of Comedy

Online Databases

Internet Links

Comedy: From Aristophanes to the Present - This unit for teachers has some excellent background information. Click on one of the headings, then on "Click here for complete unit," then scroll down to "Research Materials For Comedy Unit."

The Purpose of Comedy - Has several slides describing the purpose of comedy as well as the classic comic characters.

The Great Ones - Comedy Links - Has some tributes to comedy stars of the past as well as links to sites on television, radio, and movie comedy and comedy stars. Be sure to scroll through the links at the bottom of the page. Although some of the links are dead, this is a great list of comic geniuses to further investigate.

TV ACRES: Comedians and Their Comic Characters - A list of people and the characters they created.

Greek Drama

Greek Drama - Includes Plays and Playwrights, Art and Architecture, Literary Criticism, Life and Times.

Ancient Theatre: Greek

Roman Drama

Roman Drama - Includes Plays and Playwrights, Art and Architecture, Literary Criticism, Life and Times.

Ancient Theatre: Roman

Medieval Drama

Medieval Drama Links

Medieval Theatre

Medieval Drama - Includes Plays and Playwrights, Art and Architecture, Literary Criticism, Life and Times.

Renaissance Drama

Renaissance Drama - Includes Plays and Playwrights, Art and Architecture, Literary Criticism, Life and Times.

Renaissance Drama from its Medieval Origins to the Closing of the Theatres

Canadian Theatre History

Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia

ACTS Atlantic Canada Theatre Site -

This site is the property of M.E. LaZerte High School, Edmonton Public Schools. While you are most welcome to use this site, its organization, all annotations, and most activities are copyrighted, and permission must be sought for their reproduction. E-mail questions to C. Peterson, M.E. LaZerte High School Teacher Librarian, at cynthia dot peterson at epsb dot ca (replace the word "at" with the @ symbol; "dot" with a period). Last updated Oct. 31/05