Chiari, Joseph, The Contemporary French Theatre: The Flight from Naturalism, Macmillan, 1959.

Chiari's text charts the course of French theater from Naturalism to Realism to Theater of the Absurd.

Curtis, Anthony, New Developments in the French Theatre, Curtain Press, 1948.

Curtis's subject, like Chiari's, charts varied approaches toward achieving realistic theater.

Grossvogel, David I., The Self-Conscious Stage in Modern French Drama, Columbia University Press, 1958.

Grossvogel concentrates on psychological aspects of late nineteenth and early twentieth century French theater.

Kuritz, Paul, The Making of Theatre History, Prentice Hall, 1988.

Kuritz's ambitious study encompasses Asian and Occidental theater. The book is organized according to time period beginning with ancient Greek Theater and proceeding to the present.