From this page you can download ebooks on theatrical topics for Microsoft Reader (if you don't have MS Reader you can download it free from the Microsoft Website). All of the text's you will find here are out of copyright in the UK. The basic texts, unless otherwise stated, have been obtained in plain text form from online sources and have been converted to HTML and/or MS Reader format by myself. I do not in any way claim any rights to these works, nor even to my presentation of them. I have merely tried to present them in a more easily readable format than I found them. For that I ask nothing. Obey any licensing I have carried forward from the source (which will be found in the text), otherwise do as you will with them.
| Autobiographies | ||
| Ellen Terry | HTML | THE STORY OF MY LIFE Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry |
| Sarah Bernhardt | HTML | MY DOUBLE LIFE The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt |
| Clara Morris | MS Reader | STAGE CONFIDENCES Reminiscences from a life on the stage. |
| Drama Theory | ||
| Theory of the Theatre by Clayton Hamilton |
MS Reader | A dissertation on the purpose and theory of theatrical entertainment. |
| The Drama by Henry Irving |
MS Reader | A collection of Essays. |
| Our Stage and its Critics by EFS of the Westminster Gazette |
MS Reader | A very interesting book on stage theory and the function of the drama critic. |