A Partial Bibliography of Aspects of Theatre

Audrey Stanley

Some books on the craft of DIRECTING:

Dean/Carra, The Fundamentals of Play Directing, Holt, Rinehard, and Winston, 1980.

Francis Hodge, Play Directing - Analysis, Communication, and Style, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1982.

Robert L. Benedetti, The Director At Work, Prentice Hall Inc., 1985.

David Grote, Script Analysis - Reading and Understanding the Playscript for Production, Wadsworth Inc., 1985.

Amy S. Green, The Revisionist Stage - American Directors Reinvent the Classics, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Books I have found useful in looking at the HISTORY, THEORY, and ART of theatre:

The "Revels" History of Drama in English, Vol. III 1576-1613, Barroll, Legatt, Hosley, Kernan, Methuen & Co., 1975.

Aristotle, On Poetry and Style, trans G.M.A. Grube, Bobbs-Merrill, 1978.

F.M. Cornford, The Origin of Attic Comedy, ed. and intro T.H. Gaster, Anchor, 1961.

T.H. Gaster, Thespis, Anchor, 1961.

Michel Saint-Denis, Theatre, The Rediscovery of Style, NY, Theatre Arts Books, 1963.

Michel Saint-Denis, Training for the Theatre: premises and promises, NY, Theatre Arts Books, 1982.

Peter Brook, The Empty Space, Penquin, 1968.

The Shifting Point, Methuen, 1988.

The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting, 1993, NY, Pantheon Bks, 1993.

Konstantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, trans Hapgood, NY, T.A.B. 1963.

Building a Character, tr. Hapgood, NY, T.A.B. 1949.

Creating a Role, tr. Hapgood, NY, T.A.B. 1961.

Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre, 1968.

Zen and the Art of Archery.

H.D.F. Kitto, Form and Meaning in Drama, UP, 1960.

Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double, tr. Richards, NY, Grove Press, 1958.

Susanne Langer, Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art, NY, Scribner, 1953.