Astro, Alan, Understanding Samuel Beckett, University of California Press, 1990.

Astro gives an introduction to the major works of Beckett, with discussion of the Theater of the Absurd, as well as central themes and stylistics elements of his plays.

Moore, Bob, Victims and Survivors: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945, Arnold, 1997.

This text provides a history of the treatment of Jews in the Netherlands during Nazi occupation of World War II.

Moorton Jr., Richard F., ed., Eugene O'Neill's Century: Centennial Views on America's Foremost Tragic Dramatist, Greenwood Press, 1991.

Moorton's book is a collection of essays by various critics discussing the significance of O'Neill to the development of twentieth-century American theater.

Stott, Annette, Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture, Overlook Press, 1998.

Stott's book discusses the influence of Dutch artists on nineteenth-and twentieth-century American art.