Marvin Carlson

Marvin Carlson (born 1935) is an American Theatrologist, currently the Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor at City University of New York,a and also previously the Walker-Ames Professor at University of Washington. A largely collected author, his work covers mainly the history of theatre in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century.

• Performance: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 1980 ISBN 978-0415137034
• The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine. University of Michigan Press, 2003 ISBN 978-0-472-08937-6
• Speaking in Tongues: Languages at Play in the Theatre. University of Michigan Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-472-03392-8
• Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality. University of Michigan Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0-472-11985-1