Primary sources:

Anonymous. The Castle of Perseverance, ~1400.

Sophocles. Antigone. 441 B.C.E.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1852.Takeda, Izumo, et al. Kanadehon chūshingura. 1748.

Unkown. Abydos Passion Play. ~1900 B.C.E.

Secondary sources:

Bowers, Faubion, et al. “Kanadehon Hamlet: A Play by Tsutsumi Harue.” Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 1998, p. 181., https://doi.org/10.2307/1124123.

Corbo, Christopher. “The ‘Topsification’ of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Theatre Symposium, vol. 29, no. 1, 2022, pp. 120–132., https://doi.org/10.1353/tsy.2022.0010.

Happé, Peter. “Staging L'Omme Pecheur and the Castle of Perseverance.” Comparative Drama, vol. 30, no. 3, 1996, pp. 377–394., https://doi.org/10.1353/cdr.1996.0016.

Holderness, Graham. “Hamlet and the 47 Ronin.” Critical Survey, vol. 33, no. 1, 2021, pp. 48–58., https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2021.330104.

Sikes, Alan. “Theatre History, Theatrical Mimesis, and the Myth of the Abydos Passion Play.” Theatre History Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, 2015, pp. 3–18., https://doi.org/10.1353/ths.2015.0027.

Wright, Clare. “Empathy with the Devil: Movement, Kinesthesia, and Affect inthe Castle of Perseverance.” Theatre Survey, vol. 60, no. 2, 2019, pp. 179–206., https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557419000048.

Modernized edition source of the Castle of Perseverance and other tertiary sources used for summary:

Johnston, Alexandra. The Castle of Perseverance: A Modernization. A.F. Johnston , 1999.

“Uncle Tom's Cabin.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 10 Nov. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Uncle-Toms-Cabin.

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2) P. V. N. Myers. “Theater of Dionysus.” A General History for Colleges and High Schools , Ginn & Company, 1896. Accessed 27 Nov. 2022.

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