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• Alkema, Chester J. Mask Making. New York: Sterling, 1981.
• Appel, Libby. Mask Characterization: An Acting Process. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.
  A year’s worth of mask exercises for actors; Appel’s own work. Useful for mask, acting or clowning.
• Brice, Donna. Step-by-Step Guide for Making Busts and Masks (Cold Cast Bronze or Plaster Hyudrocal). San Diego: ICTL Publishers, 1982.
• Campbell, Louis. “The Personal Neutral Mask,” ATA Theatre News, 9(November 1978).
• Eldredge, Sears A. Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance: The Compelling Image. Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1996. ISBN 0810113651
  History of use of the mask, neutral mask, character masks, the application of mask improvisation training, and numerous exercises.
• ________. “Masks: Their Use and Effectiveness in Actor Training Programs.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1975.
• ________. “Jacques Copeau and the Mask in Actor Training,” Mime, Mask and Marionette II, Vols. 3 & 4, 1979-80: 187-230.
• ________, and Hollis W. Huston. “Actor Training in the Neutral Mask,” in Movement for the Actor, Lucille Rubin, ed. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1980.
• Emigh, John. Masked Performance: The Play of Self & Other in Ritual & Theatre. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. ISBN 081221336X
• Foreman, Jennifer. Maskwork. CT: Heinemann, 1999. ISBN 0325001677
  Design, construction and use of masks.
• Janney, Kay Print. A Bibliography on the Mask. Blacksburg, VA: American Alliance for Theatre and Education, 1989.
  Available through Anchorage Press, New Orleans. Includes books on how to construct masks, using masks with kids, mask theory.
• Johnstone, Keith. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1984.
  Includes chapter on masks and trance.
• Laliberte, Norman and Alex Mogelon. Masks, Face Coverings and Headgear. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, Co., 1973.
  Photographs of antique and contemporary masks.
• Leabhart, Thomas, ed. Mime Journal. No. 2, 1975.
  Theme issue on masks.
• Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Way of the Masks. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.
  Masks in relation to myth.
• Lommel, Andreas. Masks: Their Meaning and Function. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
• Napier, A. David. Masks, Transformations and Paradox. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
  Philosophical and anthropological study.
• Nobleman, Roberta. Mime and Masks. Rowayton, CT: New Plays, 1979.
  Useful for all ages.
• O’Neill, Eugene. “Memoranda on Masks,” in Playwrights on Playwriting, Toby Cole, ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1960.
  Effect of masks on the actor’s body. Also in Modern Theatre by Robert Corrigan.
• Pitt, Leonard. “Mask Techniques for the Actor,” San Francisco Theatre, 1(Winter 1977): 81-83.
• Rolfe, Bari. Behind the Mask. Oakland, CA: Personabooks, 1977.
  The effect of the mask upon the actor.
• Rump, Nan. Puppets & Masks: Stagecraft & Storytelling. Davis Publications, Incorporated, 1995. ISBN 0871922983
• Saint-Denis, Michel. “The Mask,” in Training for the Theatre. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1982.
• Sivin, Carole. Maskmaking. Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, Inc., 1986. 0-87192- 178-2
• Smith, Susan Harris. Masks in Modern Drama. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
• Sorell, Walter. The Other Face: The Mask in the Arts. Indianapolis: Bobs-Merrill Co., 1973.
  The role of the mask in a variety of art forms.
• Whitmore, Richard Alan. “The Neutral Actor: From Copeau to Grotowsky, and Beyond.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kansas, 1990.
  Discusses neutral mask work.

last updated 25 September, 2008