The listed books are all available in the library. I've tried to restrict the list to general literary histories that have sections on our period, so that they'll be written with an introductory audience in mind, rather than for specialists who already have a pretty clear idea what this is all about. This isn't an exhaustive list, but these are reasonable starting points. Most of these aren't focused especially on drama and theatre; that's okay, and may even be useful at this point, because it might be easier to find informative material.

Some Literary Histories

PR83.D29 1970
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. Two vols. 2nd ed. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1970.

PR85 .E8 1949
Evans, Ifor. A Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin Books, 1963.

PR83.F65 1987
Fowler, Alastair. A History of English Literature: Forms and Kinds From the Middle Ages to the Present. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.

PR93.L47 1934
Legouis, Emile. A Short History of English Literature. Trans V. F. Boyson and J. Coulson. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1934.

PR83.Q4 1973
Quennell, Peter. A History of English Literature. Springfield, Massachusetts, G. & C. Merriam Co., 1973.

PR83.B27 1984
Barnard, Robert. A Short History of English Literature. Oxford; New York: B. Blackwell in association with Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, Norway, 1984.

PR83.B5 1984
Blamires, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. 2nd ed. London; New York: Methuen, 1984.

PR83.S26 1994
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

PR85.S19 1970
Sampson, George. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. 3rd ed., rev. R.S. Churchill. London: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

PR85.S15 1964
Saintsbury, George. A Short History of English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1964.

PR85.B8 1923
Buchan, John, ed. History of English Literature. New York: Nelson, 1923.