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Bibliography: African Theatre

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To locate additional texts on this subject, go to BobCat, the online catalog for NYU Libraries.

 Reference:

Cambridge Guide to Theatre / Cambridge University Press, 1995
REF 1 PN2035.C27 1995

Chronological Outline of World Theatre / Walter J. Meserve. New York, Prospero Press, 1992
REF 1 PN2101.M47 1992

International Dictionary of Theatre / Mark Hawkins Dady, Chicago, St. James Press, 1991
REF 1 PN2000.I474 1991

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: an international reference work in 5 volumes / Stanley Hochman ed. , Mc Graw Hill, 1984
REF 1 PN1625.M3 1984

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre / Don Rubin. London, Routledge, 1994
REF1 PN1861.W67 1994 vol. 3

Circulating: just a few of the many excellent titles available from the Bobst Library

The African Sun in an African Sky: modern African adaptions of classical Greek tragedy / Kevin Wetmore, Mc Farland, 2002
PR9343.W48 2002

African Theatre: playwrights & politics / Martin Banham ed., Indiana University Press, 2001
PL8010.A35 2001

African Theatre in Development / Martin Banham, Indiana University Press, 1999.
PN2969.A37 1999

Black South African Women: an anthology of plays / Kathy Perkins ed., Routledge, 1998
PR9366.7W65 B58 1998

The Development of African Drama / Michael Etherton, Africana Pub. Co. 1982
PPR9343.E86 1982

Drama and Theatre in Africa / Eckhard Breitinger ed., Beyreuth University, 1986
PN2969.D73 1986

Drama and the South African State / Martin Orkin, Manchester University Press, 1991
PR9361.2 O75 1991

The Drama of South Africa: plays, pageants and publics since 1910 / Loren Kruger, Routledge, 1999
PR9361.2 K78 1999

The Generation of plays: Yoruba popular life in theatre / Karin Barber, Indiana University Press, 2000
PN2993.4 B37 2000

History of Theatre in Africa / Yvette Hutchinson, Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies, 2000
PN2979.H57 2000

Nothing Except Ourselves: the harsh times and bold theater of South Africa’s Mbongeni Ngema / Laura Jones, Viking, 1994
PR9396.3N44 Z73 1994

Playing With Time: art and performance in central Mali / Mary Jo Arnoldi, Indiana Unversity Press, 1995
DT551.45 B35 A76 1995

Power and Performance: ethnographic explorations through proverbial wisdom and theater in Shaba, Zaire / Unversity of Wisconsin Press, 1990
DT650.L8 F32 1990

Research in Ritual Studies: a programmatic essay and bibliography / Scarcrow Press, 1985
Z5118.R5 G75 1985

Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: the invention of cultlural identities in African, African American and Caribbean drama / Tejumola Olaniyan, Oxford University Press, 1995
PS338.N4 O43 1995

Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa / Robert Mshengu Kavanagh, Zed Books, 1985
PN2984.K38 1985

Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: a critical introduction / John Conteh-Morgan, Cambridge University Press, 1994
PQ3983.C66 1994

West African Popular Theatre / Karin barber, Indiana University Press, 1997
PN2979.B37 1997

Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today / Lizbeth Goodman, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999
PN2001. C58 vol. 1