For French medieval drama in particular:--L. Clédat, _Le Théâtre en France au moyen âge_ (Paris, 1896); E. Fournier, _Le Théâtre français avant la Renaissance_ (Paris, 1872); _Miracles de Notre Dame par personnages_, ed. G. Paris and U. Robert (8 vols., Paris, 1876-1893); L. J. N. Monmerqué and F. Michel, _Théâtre français au moyen âge_ (Paris, 1839); L. Petit de Julleville, _Histoire du théâtre en France au moyen âge_ (5 vols., Paris, 1880-1886); E. L. N. Viollet-le-Duc, _Ancien Théâtre français_ (10 vols., Paris, 1854-1857).
For the medieval Italian in particular:--A. d'Ancona, _Sacre rappresentazioni dei secoli XIV., XV. e XVI._ (Florence, 1872).
For medieval English in particular:--Ahn, _English Mysteries and Miracle Plays_ (Trèves, 1867); S. W. Clarke, _The Miracle Play in England_ (London, 1897); F. W. Fairholt, _Lord Mayors' Pageants_, 2 vols. (Percy Soc.) (London, 1843-1844); A. W. Pollard, _English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes_ (3rd ed., Oxford 1898); _Chester Plays_ ed. T. Wright, 2 vols. (Shakespeare Soc.) (London, 1843), re-ed. by H. Deimling (part only) (E.E.T.S.) (London, 1893); _Coventry Plays, Ludus Coventriae_, ed. J. O. Halliwell (-Phillipps) (Shakespeare Soc.) (London, 1841); _Coventry Plays_. _Dissertation on the pageants or mysteries at Coventry_, by T. Sharp (Coventry, 1825); _Digby Plays_, ed. F. J. Furnivall (E.E.T.S.) (London, 1896); _Towneley Mysteries_, ed. G. England and A. W. Pollard (E.E.T.S.) (London, 1897); _York Plays_, ed. L. T. Smith (Oxford, 1885).
For the German in particular:--F. J. Mone, _Altteutsche Schauspiele_ (Quedlinburg, 1841); H. Reidt, _Das geistliche Schauspiel des Mittelalters in Deutschland_ (Frankfort, 1868); E. Wilken, _Gesch. der geistlichen Spiele in Deutschland_ (Göttingen, 1872).
The revival of the classical drama in the Renaissance age is treated in P. Bahlmann's _Die Erneuerer des antiken Dramas und ihre ersten dramatischen Versuche_, 1314-1478 (Münster, 1896); A. Chassang's _Des essais dramatiques imités de l'antiquité au XIV^e et XV^e siècle_ (Paris, 1852); and in V. de Amitis' _L'Imitazione latina nella commedia del XVI. secolo_ (Pisa, 1871).
Both the medieval and portions of the later drama are treated in W. Cloetta, _Beiträge zur Litteraturgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Renaissance_ (2 vols., Halle, 1890-1892); W. Creizenach, _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_, vols. i.-iii. (Halle, 1893-1903); R. Prölss, _Geschichte des neueren Dramas_ (3 vols., Leipzig, 1881-1883). See also L.-V. Gofflot, _Le Théâtre au collège, du moyen âge à nos jours_, Préface par Jules Claretie (Paris, 1907).