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Aiv.GENERAL GLOSSARIES IN NON·ALPHABETICAL BOOKS
English
1. Albright, H.D. Working Up a Part. 2nd ed. New York, 1959. About
half the hundred or so entries are backstage·technical.
2. Bacon, Francis l.. and Belle Kennedy. Modern Prompt·book of
William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Evanston, Illinois,
1935
3. Barnet, Sylvan, et al. Aspects of the Drama. Boston, 1962. The
nearly 1 aD-page glossary includes a good many technical terms,
covers all periods.
4. Bentham, Frederick. Stage Lighting. 2nd ed. London, 1957
1OO·item glossary is almost completely backstage·technical.

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5. Bieber. Margarete. The History of the Greek and Roman Theater.
2nd ed. Princeton. 1961. Most of the nearly 200 terms in the glos·
sary are techo ieal.
6. Canfield, Cunis. The Crah of Play Directing. New York, 1963.
About 125 entries, mostly backstage.

32. Shay, Frank. Practical Theatre. New York, 1926. The glossary em·
phasizes management.

7. Cartmell, Van H. Amateur Theatre. Princeton, 1961. About 150
items, mostly backstage.

33. Taylor, Emerson Gifford. Practical Stage Direction for Amateurs.
New York, 1916. The "Glossary of Common Stage Terms" is as
early as any I know.

8. Cartmell, Van H. Handbook for the Amateur Actor. New York,
1936.

34. Traube, Shepard. So You Want to Go into the Theatre? Boston,
1936. There is a 5·page Broadway glossary.

9. Chalmers, Helena. Modern Acting. New York, 1930. One chapter
is given to "Jargon of the Theatre."
1O. Cline, Jay J. Directing Dramatics in High School. Minneapolis,
1944.
11. Crafton, Allen and Jessica Reyer. The Complete Acted Play. New
York, 1943.
12. Crampton, Esme. A Handbook of the Theatre. Scarborough, On·
tario, 1964.
13. Davis, Eugene C. Amateur Theatre Handbook. New York, 1945.
14. Dean, Alexander and Lawrence Carra. Fundamentals of Play Di·
recting 2nd ed. New York, 1965. Contains a few revisions of and
additions to the classified groups of backstage terms in the original
( 194 1) edition.
15. Dietrich, John E. Play Direction. New York, 1953. Of the 250 en·
tries about half are technical terms.
16. Dolman, John, Jr. The Art of Acting. New York, 1949. Most of
the 150 items are technical·backstage.
17. Downs, Harold. Appraising a Play. London, 1955. Each chapter
closes with a brief glossary, and there is a separate 10·page glos·
sary at the end of the book. A fair number of technical terms.
18. Downs, Harold, ed. Theatre and Stage. 2 vols. London, 1951 (7).
Edward W. Betts' "Stage Terms," in Volume 2, has over 400 items.
19. Ernst, Earle. The Kabuki Theatre. New York, 1956. Many of the
hundred Japanese theatre terms are technical.
20. Callaway, Marian. The Director in the Theatre. New York, 1963.
Over a hundred items, many of them technical.
21. Greene, Abel and Joe Laurie, Jr. Show Biz from Vaude to Video.
New York, 1951. Though very few items are even peripherally tech·
nical, the glossary is too savory to be omitted.
22. Hume, Samuel J. and Lois Foster. Theatre and School. New York.
1932. Pan 3 is a glossary which emphasizes stage effects.
23. McGaw, Charles. Acting is Believing. New York, 1955.
24. Melvill, Harald. Theatrecraft. London, 1954. About 200 items,
sometimes more fully treated than in most glossaries.
25. Oates, Whitney J. and Eugene O'Neill, Jr., eds. The Complete
Greek Drama. New York, 1938. The glossary is in Volume 2.
26. O'Hara, Frank Hurbun and Margueritte Harmon Bro. Invitation to
the Theater. New York, 1951. An enlarged and revised version of
the authors' 1938 Handbook of Drama. Strong emphasis on terms
throughout.
17. Osborne, Harry. How to Stage a Play. Chicago, 1919. A very early
general glossary.
28. Platt, Agnes. Practical Hints on Playwriting. New York, 1920. The
earliest glossary with 8ritish emphasis I know.
29. Purdom, Charles Benjamin.
1951.

Producing Plays. 3rd ed. New York,

30. Roby, Robert C. and Barry Ulanov. Introduction to Drama. New
York, 1962. About half the 200 items are backstage terms-often
cogently defined.
31. Schoenberger, Emanuel D.
York, 1938.

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35. Walker, Kent. Staging the Amateur Minstrel Show. Boston, 1931.
Slightly different emphasis than that of most general glossaries.
36. Wright, Edward A. Understanding Today's Theatre. New York,
1959. 150 items, many technical.
37. Young, John Wray, and Margaret Mary Young. The Complete Pro·
duction Handbook. Chicago, 1965(7). Chapter 12 explains basic
theatre terms.
B. FILM
1. Cameron, James Ross, et aI., eds. Cameron's Encyclopedia of
Sound Motion Pictures. 6th ed. Coral Gables, Florida, 1959. Em·
phasizes technical material, including history of technical develop·
ments.
2. The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. New York, 1956. Some
1300 pages, 200 authors from a number of countries. British
emphasis, with American variants.
3. Graham, Peter J. A Dictionary of the Cinema. New York, 1965.
4. Sharps, Wallace Samuel. Dictionary of Cinematography and Sound
Recording. London, 1959.
5. Shinde,
1962.

M.K. Dictionary of Cine Art and Film Craft. Bombay,

6. Skilbeck, Oswald.
York, 1960.

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7. Ten Eyck, Hendrix. Glossary of Terms Used in Microreproduction.
n.d.
8. Sowerby, Arthur L.R. Dictionary of Photography. 19th ed. London,
1961. The latest edition of Wall's dictionary of the subject, first
published in the nineteenth century.
Other Languages
9. Clason, W.E., ed. Dictionary of Cinema. New York, 1956. In Eng·
lish/ American, French, Spanish, Ilalian, Dutch, and German.
10. Craeybeckx, A.S.H., ed. Dictionary of Photography. New York,
1965. English, French, German.
11. Gibbs, Charles Ryle. Motion Picture Technical Dictionary. Paris,
1959. English·French and French·English.
12. Pasinetti, Francesco. Filmlexikon. Milan, 1948. Italian. Based on
the next entry.
13. Reinert, Charles. Kleines Filmlexikon. Zurich, 1946. An encyclopedia, but with some terms. German.
14. Sakharov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, ed. English·Russian Dictionary
of Photography and Cinematography. Moscow, 1960. Some 10,000
entries.
15. Schreyer, Roland, et al. Dictionary of Photography and Cinema·
tography. New York, 1961. English, German, French, Russian.
16. Telbero, Vladimir (or 'Val'), ed. Russian·English Dictionary of Sci·
ence Technology, and Art of Cinematography. New York, 1961.
17. Townsend, Derek. Photography and Cinematography: A Four Lan·
guage Illustrated Dictionary and Glossary of Terms. London,
1964. Definitions in English, French, German, Italian.
18. Woller, Friedrich Wilhelm, et al. Fotokino Worterbuch. 4 vols.
Halle (Salle). 1960. The f.our volumes are respectively German,
English, French, and Russian.

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