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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Plot in Drama

Ayres, Philip. "Parallel Action and Reductive Techniques in The Revenger's Tragedy." English Language Notes 8 (1970): 103-7.

Bharat Muni (Attr.). Natya Shastra. Ancient Sanskrit treatise on drama. (c. 200 BC-200 AD).

_____. The Natyasastra Ascribed to Bharata-Muni. Trans. Manomohan Ghosh, M.A., Ph.D. (Bibliotheca Indica: A Collection of Oriental Works; work no. 272, issue 1559). Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1951.*

_____. Natya Shastra. Trans. Manomohan Ghosh. 1951. Internet Archive.

http://archive.org/details/NatyaShastra

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Brown, Laura. "The Divided Plot: Tragicomic Form in the Restoration." ELH 47 (1980): 67-79.

Corneille, Pierre. Discours. Published with his plays, 1660.

_____. "Discours des trois unités." 1660.

_____. "A Discourse on the Three Unities." (Selection). Trans. J. H. Smith. In The Great Critics.Ed. J. H. Smith and E. W. Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 530-31.*

_____. "Discourse on the Three Unities." Trans. Clara W. Crane. Select. in Literary Criticism: From Plato to Dryden. Ed. Gilbert. 57-89.*

_____. "Discourse on the Three Unities." In Perspectives on Drama. Ed. J. L. Calderwood and H. E. Toliver. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. 210-13.*

_____. "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place." In Critical Theory since Plato. Ed. Hazard Adams. San Diego: Harcourt, 1971. 218-227.*

_____. "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place." In Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. R. C. Davis and L. Finke. London: Longman, 1989. 238-48.*

Harbage, Alfred. "Intrigue in Elizabethan Tragedy." In Essays on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama. Ed. Richard Hosley. Columbia (MO): U of Missouri P, 1962.

Levin, Richard. The Multiple Plot in English Renaissance Drama. Chcago: U of Chicago P, 1971.

Olson, Elder. "The Elements of Drama: Plot." In Perspectives on Drama. Ed. J. L. Calderwood and H. E. Toliver. New York: Oxford UP, 1968. 284-302.*

Pavel, Thomas G. La Syntaxe narrative des tragédies de Corneille. Paris: Klincksieck; Ottawa: Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1976.

_____. The Poetics of Plot: The Case of English Renaissance Drama. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.*

Polti, G. Les Trente-Six Situations dramatiques. 3rd ed. Paris: Mercure de France, 1924.

_____. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. Trans. L. Ray. Boston: Writer, Inc., 1916.

Richardson, Brian. "Endings in Drama and Performance: A Theoretical Model." In Current Trends in Narratology. Ed. Greta Olson. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011. 181-99.*

Vorderer, Peter, and Silvia Knobloch. "Conflict and Suspense in Drama." In Media Entertainment: The Psychology of Its Appeal. Ed. Dolf Zillmann and Peter Vorderer. Mahwah (NJ): Erlbaum, 2000. Digital ed. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. Online preview at Google Books:

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See also Narrative theory. Story, structure. Plot.