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Reference Sources for the Study of Drama and Theater
All print sources are in the Davis Library Reference Department unless otherwise noted. The locations Reference Desk and Row are noted for items not shelved by call number.
For a briefer look at resources for finding reviews of plays, see our additional Research Guide for Play Review Resources.
Table of Contents
I. The UNC Library's Online CatalogI. The UNC Library's Online Catalog
The Online Catalog is the tool you use to locate materials in the campus libraries. Right now the catalog is available in two versions. You automatically enter the Web version which has some valuable features such as allowing you to search multiple Triangle-area catalogs at once, and to link directly to electronic books and other materials.
You can look for a particular book by its author:
ibsen henrik
oneill eugene
sophocles
You can look for a particular book or journal by its title:
dolls house
hairy ape
oedipus the king
new theatre quarterly
NOTE: When searching for serials (journals, magazines, newspapers) titles, it is helpful to perform a Journal Title search.
By searching for subject headings:
ibsen henrik 1828-1906 characters women
american drama psychological aspects
greek drama tragedy history and criticism
By searching for key words:
ibsen and women
(drama or theat?) and psycholog?
greek drama and tragedy and history
You do not need to use capital letters or punctuation. Authors are entered last name first. In titles do not enter initial articles: a, and, and the, or the equivalent terms in other languages.
The Online Catalog will give you the Library of Congress Call Number you need to locate an item in the library. What a library classification does is to arrange materials by subject.
You read a call number from left to right, and top to bottom.
Once you have your call number, a Materials Location Guide will tell you which floor of the library you need.
Examples of (Library of Congress) Subject Headings for Drama Research with Chronological & Topical Subdivisions:
American drama [searches American drama and all its
subdivisions - with cross-reference to related terms]
American drama -- 19th century - Bibliography
American drama -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -
Dictionaries
American drama--Women authors--History and criticism
Drama-- [searches drama and all its subdivisions - with
cross-reference to related terms]
Drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Drama-20th century-Bibliography
Drama-20th century-Dictionaries
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory,
etc.
Drama - Adaptations
Drama - Bibliography
Drama -- Censorship -- England - Dictionaries
Drama - Encyclopedias
Drama - Explication
Drama -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Euripides - Authorship Euripides. Bacchae. English [English
translation of The Bacchae]
Euripides -- Criticism and interpretation
Euripides -- Dramatic production
European drama -- History and criticism
European drama -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and
criticism
Experimental drama-- History and criticism
Feminist theater--United States
French drama -- 20th century - Dictionaries
French drama -- 20th century -- Translations into English -
Bibliography
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 - Bibliography
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Characters - Women
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Dramatic production
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Gengangere. English [English
translation of Ghosts]
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Stage History Theater -- United
States
Theater -- United States -- Biography - Dictionaries
Theater -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Theater of the absurd
A. Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Bibliographies
The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. New ed. Cambridge; New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Davis Reference PN2035.C27 1995
Cassell Companion to Theatre. 1st pbk. ed. London:
Cassell; New York: Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling, 1999. 1st
pbk. ed.
Davis Reference PN2035.B74 1999; earlier ed. 1994 Davis Stacks
under title Brewer's Theater: A Phrase and Fable
Dictionary
International Dictionary of Theatre. 3 v. Edited by
Mark Hawkins-Dady. Chicago: St. James Press, c1992-c1996.
V.1. Plays; v.2. Playwrights; v.3. Actors, Directors and
Designers.
Davis Reference PN2000 .I474
Lounsbury, Warren C. Theatre Backstage from A to Z. 4th
ed., rev. and expanded. Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1999.
Davis Reference PN2091.M3 L68 1999; earlier eds. Davis Stacks and
UL
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International
Reference Work in 5 Volumes. 2nd ed. Stanley Hochman, editor
in chief. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1984.
Davis Reference PN1625.M3 1984
The New Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre. Market House
Books Ltd. London: Penguin Books, 2001.
Davis Reference PN2035.N49 2001
The Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 4th ed. Edited by
Phyllis Hartnoll. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press,
1983.
Davis Reference Desk PN2035 .H3 1983
Pavis, Patrice. Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts,
and Analysis. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press,
1998.
Davis Reference PN2035.P313 1998
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. 6 v.
Edited by Don Rubin. London; New York: Routledge, 1994- .
V.1. Europe; v.2. The Americas; v.3. Africa; v.4. The Arab World;
v.5. Asia/Oceania; v.6. Bibliography/Cumulative Index.
Davis Reference PN1861.W67 1994
2. Specific Countries and Geographic Areas
The United States
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre. Edited by Don
Wilmeth and Tice Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993.
Davis Reference PN2220.C35 1993
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2nd ed.
Gerald Bordman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Davis Reference Desk PN2220.B6 1992
Hischak, Thomas S. The Theatregoer's Almanac: A Collection
of Lists, People, History, and Commentary on the American
Theatre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Davis Reference PN2266.H53 1997
Silvester, Robert. United States Theatre: A Bibliography
from the Beginnings to 1980. Romsey, Eng.: Motley Press,
1993.
Davis Reference PN2221.Z99 S55 1993
Shaland, Irene. American Theater and Drama Research: An
Annotated Guide to Information Sources, 1945-1990. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 1991.
Davis Reference Z1231.D7 S53 1991
Great Britain
Contemporary British Dramatists. London; Detroit: St.
James Press, 1994.
Davis Reference PR736.C577 1994
British Playwrights, 1956-1995: A Research and Production
Sourcebook. Edited by William W. Demastes. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PR736.B75 1996
Arnott, James Fullarton and John William Robinson. English
Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900: A Bibliography; Incorporating
Robert W. Lowe's 'A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical
Literature' Published in 1888. London, Society for Theatre
Research, 1970.
Davis Reference Z2014.D7 A74 1970; also Davis
Cavanagh, John. British Theatre: A Bibliography, 1901 to
1985. Mottisfont: Motley, 1989.
Davis Reference Z2014.D7 C383 1989
Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama,
1660-1900. 6 vols. Cambridge, Eng.: The University Press,
1952-59.
Davis Reference PR625.N52 1952; also Davis and UL
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930; The Beginnings
of the Modern Period. Cambridge, Eng.: The University Press,
1973.
Davis Reference PR721.N45
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre.
Edited by Richard Beadle. Cambridge, Eng.; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1994.
Davis Reference PN2587.C36 1994
Auchter, Dorothy. Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic
Censorship in Tudor and Stuart England. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 2001.
Davis Reference PR411.A93 2001
Women Playwrights in England, Ireland, and Scotland,
1660-1823. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PR635.W6 M36 1996
Ireland
Sternlicht, Sanford V. A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish
Drama. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Davis PR8789.S76 1998
Also available online through NetLibrary.
To access from off-campus set up a user name and password while
on campus. Reading and printing one page at a time. Cannot
download the whole text.
Schrank, Bernice and William W. Demastes, eds. Irish
Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Davis Reference PR8789 .I67 1997
Canada
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre. Edited by
Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. Toronto; New York: Oxford
University Press, 1989.
Davis Reference PN2300.O93 1989
Ball, John Leslie and Richard Plant. A Bibliography of
Canadian Theatre History, 1583-1975. General editor, Anton
Wagner. Toronto : Playwrights Co-op, 1976.
Davis Reference Z1377.D7 B33
Australia
Companion to Theatre in Australia. General editor,
Philip Parsons with Victoria Chance. Sydney: Currency Press in
association with Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Davis Reference PN3011.C66 1995
Europe
Boyer, Robert D. Realism in European Teatre and Drama,
1870-1920: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1979.
Davis Reference Z5784.R27 B69; also UL Reference
France
Beach, Celia. French Women Playwrights before the Twentieth
Century: A Checklist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1994.
Davis Reference Z2174.D7 B43 1994
Beach, Cecilia. French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth
Century: A Checklist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1996.
Davis Z2174.D7 B44 1996
Wicks, Charles Beaumont. The Parisian Stage; Alphabetical
Indexes of Plays and Authors. University: University of
Alabama Press, 1950-1979.
Davis Reference PN2636.P3 W5
Spain
Spanish Dramatists of the Golden Age: A Bio-Bibliographical
Sourcebook. Edited by Mary Parker. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1998.
Davis Reference PQ6051.S63 1998
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. A
catalogue of Comedias Sueltas in the Library of the University of
North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Library 1965.
Davis Reference Z2694.D7 N6; also Davis, NC Collection, and Rare
Books
O'Brien, Robert. Spanish Plays in English Translation, an
Annotated Bibliography. New York: Published for American
Educational Theatre Association by Las Americas, 1963.
Davis Reference Z2694.D7 O3
Autoras en la historia del teatro español,
1500-1994. [Madrid]: Publicaciones de la Asociación de
Directores de Escena de España, 1996-.
Davis Reference PQ6055.A87 1996
Germany
Kosch, Wilhelm. Deutsches Theater-Lexikon; biographisches
und bibliographisches Handbuch. Klagenfurt: F. v. Kleinmayr,
1951-.
Davis Reference PN2641.K6
Deutsche Dramatiker der Gegenwart = Contemporary German
Playwrights. Bonn: Inter Nationes, 1995-. [Looseleaf]
Davis Reference PT666.D468 1995
Patterson, Michael. German Theatre; A Bibliography from the
Beginning to 1995. Boston: G.K. Hall; Motley Press,
1996.
Davis Reference PN2641.P38 1996
Lederer, Herbert. Handbook of East German Drama, 1945-1985
= DDR drama Handbuch, 1945-1985. New York: P. Lang,
1987.
Davis Reference PT3721.L43 1987
Asia
The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre. Edited by James
Brandon; advisory editor Martin Banham. Cambridge; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Davis Reference PN2860.C35 1993
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof. Dictionary of Traditional South-East
Asian Theatre. Kuala Lumpur; New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994.
Davis Reference PN2860.G48 1994
Vince, Ronald. Ancient and Medieval Theatre: A
Historiographical Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood,
1984.
Davis Reference PN2131.V5 1984.
Vince, Ronald. A Companion to the Medieval Theatre.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1989.
Davis Reference PN2152.C66 1989
Vince, Ronald. Renaissance Theatre: A Historiographical
Handbook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.
Davis reference PN2171.V5 1984
Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary: A
Compendium to More Than 500 Literary, Critical, and Theatrical
Movements, Schools, and Groups from More Than 80 nations,
Covering the Novelists, Poets, Short-Story Writers, Dramatists,
Esayists, Theorists, and Works, Genres, Techniques, and Terms
Associated with Each Movement. Helene Henderson and Jay P.
Pederson, editors. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2000.
Davis Reference PN597.T94 2000
Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Index: A Guide to 500
Literary Movements, Groups, Schools, Tendencies, and Trends of
the Twentieth Century, Covering More Than 3,000 Novelists, Poets,
Dramatists, Essayists, Artists, and Other Seminal Thinkers from
80 Countries as Found in Standard Literary Reference Works.
Laurie Lanzen Harris, editor, Helene Henderson, associate editor.
Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1991.
Davis Reference PN597.T939 1991
4. Gender, Ethnic Groups, and Religion
Gavin, Christy. American Women Playwrights, 1964-1989: A
Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland,
1993.
Davis Reference Z1231.D7 G38 1993
Davis, Gwen. Drama by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of
American and British Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1992.
Davis Reference Z1231.D7 D38 1992
Shafer, Yvonne. American Women Playwrights, 1900-1950.
New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
Davis Reference PS338.W6 S48 1995
Women Playwrights in England, Ireland, and Scotland,
1660-1823. David D. Mann and Susan Garland Mann, with Camille
Garnier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PR635.W6 M36 1996
Beach, Celia. French Women Playwrights before the Twentieth
Century: A Checklist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1994.
Davis Reference Z2174.D7 B43 1994
Beach, Cecilia. French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth
Century: A Checklist. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1996.
Davis Z2174.D7 B44 1996
Peterson, Jane. Women Playwrights of Diversity: A
Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1997.
Davis Reference PS338.W6 P48 1997
Furtado, Ken and Nancy Hellner. Gay and Lesbian American
Plays: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow,
1993.
Davis Reference Z1229.G25 F87 1993
Ethnic Theatre in the United States. Edited by Maxine
Schwartz Seller. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Davis Reference PN2226.E85 1983; also Davis and UL
Peterson, Bernard L. Contemporary Black American
Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and
Dramatic Index. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Davis Reference PS153.N5 P43 1988
Williams, Dana A. Contemporary African American Female
Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1998.
Davis Reference PS338.N4 W55 1998
African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide.
Edited by Christy Gavin. New York: Garland, 1999.
Davis Reference PS153.N5G29 1999
Contemporary Jewish-American Damatists and Poets: A
Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Edited by Joel Shatzky and Michael
Taub. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Davis Reference PS153.J4 C68 1999
B. Guides to Criticism and Reviews
American Drama Criticism: Interpretations, 1890-1977.
Compiled by Floyd Eugene Eddleman. 2nd ed. Hamden, CT: Shoestring
Press, 1979.
With Supplements I (1984), II (1989), III (1992), and IV (1996;
compiled by LaNelle Daniel)
Davis Reference Z1231.D7 P3 1979-1996
American Playwrights, 1880-1945: A Research and Production
Sourcebook. Edited by William W. Demastes. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1995.
Davis Reference PS351.A447 1995; also UL
American Playwrights since 1945: A Guide to Scholarship,
Criticism, and Performance. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Davis Reference Z1231.D7 A53 1989
Dramatic Criticism Index; a Bibliography of Commentaries on
Playwrights from Ibsen to the Avant-garde. Compiled and
edited by Paul F. Breed and Florence M. Sniderman. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1972.
Davis Reference Desk Z5781.B8
International Bibliography of Theatre. Sponsored by the
American Society for Theatre Research, and the International
Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts in
cooperation with the International Federation for Theatre
Research. Brooklyn, NY: Theatre Research Data Center, Brooklyn
College, City University of New York. 1982-.
Davis Reference Z6935.I53
Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1966-1980: An
International Bibliography. Charles A. Carpenter. Toronto;
Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1986.
Davis Reference Desk PN1851.C375 1986
Modern Drama Scholarship and Criticism 1981-1990: An
International Bibliography. Charles A. Carpenter. Toronto:
Published in association with Modern drama by University of
Toronto Press, 1997.
Davis Reference Desk PN1851 .C376 1997
Guide to American Drama Explication. Rosalie Otero. New
York: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1995.
Davis Reference Desk Z1231.D7 O84 1995
Guide to British Drama Explication. Krystan V. Douglas.
V.1 Beginnings to 1640. NY: G.K. Hall, 1996-.
Davis Reference Desk Z2014.D7 D68 1996
Salem, James. A Guide to Critical Reviews. NY;
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
Part 1: American Drama, 1909-1982. 3rd ed., 1984.
Davis Reference Desk Z5782.S343 Pt. 1
Part 2: The Musical, 1909-1989. 3rd ed., 1991.
Davis Reference Desk Z5782.S343 Pt. 2
Part 3: Foreign Drama, 1909-1977. 2nd ed., 1979.
Davis Reference Desk Z5782.S342 Pt. 3
Part 4: The Screenplay from The Jazz Singer to Dr.
Strangelove. 1971.
Davis Reference Z5782.S34 Pt. 4 and Supp. 1963-1980
American Literary and Drama Reviews: An Index to Late 19th
Century Periodicals. Patricia Marks. Boston: G.K. Hall,
1984.
Davis Reference PN2256.M37 1984
Stanley. William. Broadway in the West End: An Index to
Reviews of American Theatre in London, 1950-1975. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Davis Reference Z2014.D7 S77
Contemporary Dramatists. 6th ed. New York: St. James
Press, 1999.
Davis Reference Desk PR737.C57 1999; also UL Reference; older
editions back to 1973 Davis stacks
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1978-.
An ongoing bio-critical series of more than 300 volumes. The text of the
DLB (with a few illustrations) is available electronically via
Literature Resource Center. It is possible to search for authors individually or Authors by Type
(genre, ethnicity, etc.).
Davis Reference Row 3 PS21 .D5185 1978-; also UL Reference
Major modern dramatists. Compiled and edited by Rita
Stein, Friedhelm Rickert. New York: Ungar, 1984-1986. 2 v.
UL Reference PN1861.M27 1984; also Davis Stacks
Research Guide to Biography and Criticism. Edited by
Walton Beacham, Erica Dickson, and Charles J. Moseley.
Washington, DC: Research Pub., 1985-1991. 6 v.
V. 3, World Drama
Davis Reference Z2011.R47 1985
Stage Lives: A Bibliography and Index to Theatrical
Biographies in English. Compiled by George B. Bryan.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Davis Reference Z5781 .S78 1985; also UL Reference
Stage Deaths: A Biographical Guide to International
Theatrical Obituaries, 1850-1990. Compiled by compiled by
George B. Bryan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Davis Reference Z5781.S76 1991
Who Was Who in the Theatre, 1912-1976: Biographical
Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Directors, Playwrights, and
Producers of the English-Speaking Theatre. Compiled from
Who's who in the Theatre, volumes 1-15 (1912-1972). Detroit: Gale
Research, 1978.
Davis Reference PN2597.W52
Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Memoirs. Compiled by
Claudia D. Johnson and Vernon E. Johnson. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1982.
Davis Reference Z6935.J63 1982
Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary. Edited
by John W. Frick and Stephen M. Vallillo. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1994.
Davis Reference PN2205.T54 1994
Theatrical Designers: An International Biographical
Dictionary. Edited by Thomas J. Mikotowicz. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1992.
Davis Reference PN2096.A1 T48 1992
Lacy, Robin Thurlow. A Biographical Dictionary of
Scenographers, 500 B.C. to 1900 A.D. New York: Greenwood
Press, 1990.
Davis Reference PN2096.A1 L33 1990
D. Stage History and Records of Productions
Harbage, Alfred. Annals of English Drama: An Analytical
Record of All Plays, Extant or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and
Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic companies & etc. By
Alfred Harbage; revised by S. Schoenbaum; 3rd ed., revised by
Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim. London : Routledge, 1989.
Davis Reference Z2014.D7 H253 1989
The London Stage, 1660-1800; A Calendar of Plays,
Entertainments & Afterpieces, together with Casts,
Box-Receipts and Contemporary Comment. Compiled from the
Playbills, Newspapers and Theatrical Diaries of the Period.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1960-68. 5 v. in
11
Davis Stacks PN2592.L6
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant
Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1987.
Davis Reference PN2596.L6 M85 1987
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: A Catalogue-Index to
Productions of the Shakespeare Memorial/Royal Shakespeare
Theatre, 1879-1978. Compiled by Michael Mullin with Karen
Morris Muriello. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Davis Reference PN2596.S82S86 and First Supplement,
1979-1993.
British Playwrights 1880-1956: A Research Guide and
Production Sourcebook. Ed. by William W. Demastes and
Katherine E. Kelly. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PR736.B7 1996
Continued by:
British Playwrights, 1956-1995: A Research and Production
Sourcebook. Edited by William W. Demastes. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PR736.B75 1996
Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Theatre: A Chronicle of
Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994.
Davis Reference PN2256.B6 1994
Continued by:
Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Theatre: A Chronicle of
Comedy and Drama, 1914-1930. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995.
Davis Reference PN2256.B6 1995
and:
Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Theatre: A Chronicle of
Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PN2266.B64 1996; also UL reference
and:
Hischak, Thomas S. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy
and Drama, 1969-2000. Oxford; New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001
Davis Reference PN2277.N5 H57 2000
The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1920-1930.
Samuel L. Leiter, editor-in-chief; Holly Hill, associate editor.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Davis Reference PN2277.N5 L36 1985
Continued by:
The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1930-1940. Samuel
L. Leiter, ed. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Davis Reference PN2277.N5 L364 1989
The Encyclopedia of the New York Stage, 1940-1950. Samuel
L. Leiter, ed. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Davis Reference PN2277.N5 L365 1992
Internet Broadway Database.
The official database for Broadway theatre information, providing
records of productions from the beginnings of New York
theatre. Details include pertinent people as well as
interesting facts and production statistics.
Get a list of every production of Hamlet on Broadway or of
your favorite actor's roles. Find out what
played at a particular theatre or what opened in a
specified season.
Botto, Louis. At This Theatre: 100 Years of Broadway Shows, Stories and Stars. Edited by Robert Viagas; [preface by Brian Stokes Mitchell]. New York: Applause/Playbill; Milwaukee: distributed by Hal Leonard, 2002. Davis Reference PN2277.N5 B46 2002
American Playwrights, 1880-1945: A Research and Production
Sourcebook. Edited by William W. Demastes. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1995.
Davis Reference PS351.A447 1995; also UL
American Playwrights since 1945: A Guide to Scholarship,
Criticism, and Performance. Edited by Philip C. Kolin. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Davis Reference Z1231.D7 A53 1989
E. Sources That Reprint Literary Criticism and Include Reviews
These ongoing sets all have a common arrangement, with each covering authors of a particular time period or genre. Some authors will appear in more than one volume of a particular series, or in more than one of the sets. Coverage is international.
Each author entry begins with a biographical and critical
overview, and a portrait if available. Then follows criticism
reprinted from journals, books, and magazines, arranged in
chronological order and beginning with material contemporary to
the writer so that one can trace the critical reception. Includes
reviews. All sets provide a cumulating index to authors in each
new volume. Some have title and nationality indexes in each
successive volume. Others have separate title indexes.
Much of this criticism is now available electronically via
Literature Resource Center
While there is a separate set, Drama Criticism, for criticism of plays there is material in the other series that is not reproduced in Drama Criticism.
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale,
1973-.
Covers authors living after 1959.
Davis Reference Row 4
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale,
1978-.
Provides excerpts of criticism for authors who died between
1900-1959.
Davis Reference Row 4
Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism. Detroit: Gale,
1981-.
Davis Reference Row 4
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Detroit: Gale,
1984-.
Davis Reference Row 4
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism. Detroit:
Gale, 1988-.
Davis Reference Row 8
Drama Criticism. Detroit: Gale, 1991-.
Criticism on individual plays covers both performance and
literary aspects.
Davis Reference Row 4
SEE ALSO Shakespeare
F. Sources That Reprint Reviews and Identify Productions
The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1870-. Updated in
2-year cumulations.
Reprints, in chronological order, reviews appearing in the New
York Times. Cumulative indexes by titles and names give the dates
of reviews. Cumulated indexes cover 1920-1970. Indexes in the
biennial volumes thereafter.
See also New York Times Historical
Newspaper.
National Theatre Critics Reviews, 1940-1996. Monthly.
[Ceased] (Earlier title New York Theatre Critics Reviews.
Reprints reviews from a variety of New York and U.S.
publications. In earlier years covered only New York productions
but now has broadened to cover major regional theaters.
Cumulated indexes for 1940-1986.
Davis Reference Row 17
The London Theatre Record, 1981-. Monthly.
Reprints, in chronological order, reviews appearing in a variety
of British publications. Covers both London and regional theater.
Cumulated title index to 1981-1990.
Davis Reference Row 17
Babula, William. Shakespeare in Production, 1935-1978: A
Selective Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1981.
Davis Reference PR3091.B3
Bergeron, David Moore. Shakespeare: A Study and Research
Guide. 3rd ed., rev. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
1995.
Davis Z8811 .B44 1995; also UL
Champion, Larry S. The Essential Shakespeare: An Annotated
Bibliography of Major Modern Studies. 2nd ed. New York: G.K.
Hall; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell
Macmillan International, 1993.
Davis Reference Z8811.C53 1993; also UL
Shakespearean Criticism. Detroit: Gale, 1984-.
Like the other sets in Section F,
reprints articles, parts of books, and reviews on both
Shakespeare's plays and poems.
PR2965 .S43
Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: A Catalogue-Index to
Productions of the Shakespeare Memorial/Royal Shakespeare
Theatre, 1879-1978. Compiled by Michael Mullin with Karen
Morris Muriello. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Davis Reference PN2596.S82S86 and First Supplement,
1979-1993.
William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His
Influence. John F. Andrews, editor. 3 vols. New York:
Scribner, 1985.
Davis Reference PR2976.W5354 1985; also Davis Stacks and UL
Reference
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online.
Annotated
entries for all important books, articles, book reviews,
dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions,
audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and
popular materials related to Shakespeare.
The annual bibliography is available online in Volumes 1-31
(1950-1989) of
Shakespeare Quarterly. For the years not online the
bibliography is shelved with the journal (Davis Library
PR2885.S63).
NOTE: See also Section III.A. below.
Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Theatre: A Chronicle of
Comedy and Drama, 1869-1914. New York: Oxford < University
Press, 1994.
Davis Reference PN2256.B6 1994
Continued by:
Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Theatre: A Chronicle of
Comedy and Drama, 1914-1930. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995.
Davis Reference PN2256.B6 1995
and:
Bordman, Gerald Martin. American Theatre: A Chronicle of
Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
Davis Reference PN2266.B64 1996; also UL reference
and:
Hischak, Thomas S. American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy
and Drama, 1969-2000. Oxford; New York: Oxford University
Press, 2001
Davis Reference PN2277.N5 H57 2000
Fletcher, Steve. The Book of 1000 Plays. New York:
Facts on File, 1989.
UL Reference PN6112.5.F54 1989
Lovell, John. Digests of Great American Plays; Complete
Summaries of More than 100 Plays from the Beginnings to the
Present. New York Crowell, [1961].
Davis PS338.P5 L6; also UL
I. Staging, Design, and Costume
Theatrical Designers: An International Biographical
Dictionary. Edited by Thomas J. Mikotowicz. New York:
Greenwood Press, 1992.
Davis Reference PN2096.A1 T48 1992
Lacy, Robin Thurlow. A Biographical Dictionary of
Scenographers, 500 B.C. to 1900 A.D. New York: Greenwood
Press, 1990.
Davis Reference PN2096.A1 L33 1990
Leonard. William. Theatre: Stage to Screen to
Television. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1981.
Davis Reference PN2189.L44 Updated By:
Marill, Alvin. More Theatre: Stage to Screen to
Television. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1993.
Davis Reference PN2189.M32 1993
Meserve, Walter. A Chronological Outline of World
Theatre. New York: Feedback Theatrebooks & Prospero
Press, 1992.
Davis Reference PN2101.M47 1992
Innes, C.D. Twentieth-Century British and American Theatre:
A Critical Guide to Archives. Aldershot, Eng.; Brookfield,
VT: Ashgate, 1999.
Davis Reference PN2266.I55 1999
New York Public Library. Research Collections. Catalog of
the Theatre and Drama Collections. Boston: G.K. Hall,
1967-1976.
Davis Reference Z5785.N56 1967
Part I. Drama Collection: Listing by Cultural Origin [and]
Author Listing: First Supplement. 1973
Davis Reference Z5785.N56 1967, pt.1, Suppl.1
Part II. Theatre Collection, Books on the Theatre : First
Supplement. 1973
Davis Reference Z5785.N56 1967, pt.2, Suppl.1
A. Online Author, Plot, and Critical Information
MagillOnLiterature Plus
This database equals the complete contents of 31
sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and
Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the
Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, as well as 10 years of
Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews and critical
surveys on notable authors of long and short fiction, poetry,
drama, and philosophy.
B. Journal and Periodical Articles
Academic Search Premier.
Covers popular and scholarly journal articles with many full-text articles.
Academic Search Premier provides information from a wide range of academic areas
including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science,
education and multi-cultural topics. This multidiscplinary database features full-text
for over 4,000 journals with many dating back to 1975, abstracts and indexing for over
8,200 scholarly journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times
and The Christian Science Monitor. It also includes coverage of over 6,800 peer-reviewed
journals. (Source: vendor website.)
Use and ("theater reviews" or "theatrical production") to narrow a search.
MasterFILE Premier. Indexing, 1984-; selected full-text,
1990-.
Abstracts and Indexing for over 2,700 periodicals, plus
searchable full text for nearly 1,800 active periodicals. Covers
all subject areas and includes a large number of mass-market and
popular publications.
Use and ("theater reviews" or
"theatrical production") to narrow a search.
Expanded Academic ASAP Indexing and selected full-text
1980-.
Indexing and selected full-text from more than 1,500 general
interest, scholarly, and trade publications in all subject areas.
Overlaps with the two above databases. Use and theater
reviews to narrow a search.
Readers' Guide Retrospective. 1890-1982.
Indexing of over 500 popular periodicals and magazines for a
period of over 100 years. From the presidency of Benjamin
Harrison to the election of Ronald Reagan, from the
Spanish-American War to the Cold War, from the "robber barons" to
the oil embargoes, the Readers' Guide provides access to
articles chronicling the daily lives and the momentous events of
the 20th century.
Periodicals Index Online (Formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index). 1770-ca. 2000.
Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in
over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Subject searching
limited to key words in titles. For drama reviews the play title
is a good way to start, but try the playwright as well. Be
creative.
Nineteenth Century Masterfile.
Compiles a rich and growing assortment of indexes to 19th
century printed material (actually from about 1774 to 1920).
Cover periodical literature, selected newspapers, books, U. S.
government documents, U. S. patents, and British Parliamentary
Debates. New indexes are added regularly.
Individual indexes include Poole's Index to Periodical
Literature (1802-1906), Atlantic Monthly Index (1857 -
1901), and the New York Times Index, (1863-1905)
LexisNexis Academic. All full-text, Dates of coverage vary,
most post-1980.
A massive, full-text database heavy on news, business, and legal
information. Very current: Some news sources are updated every 24
hours. International in scope. Use the Guided Search and select
the News Category: Arts & Sports News. Then selected the News
Source: Book, Movie, Music & Play Reviews. Also very useful
for information on the theater trade.
New York Times Historical Newspaper. 1851-most recent 4 or 5 years.
3,400,000 pages of full-text and full-image articles covering
the entire publishing history of the newspaper. Includes reviews
reprinted in the The New York Times Theatre Reviews set,
above and any other theater-related articles, interviews, etc. in
the paper.
Historical Newspapers Online. 1790-1980.
Provides indexing for the Times of London for the years
1790-1980 and the New York Times for the years 1851-1922.
Consists of Palmer's Index to the Times [of London],
1790-1905, Official Index to the Times [of London],
1906-1980, and Historical Index to the NY Times,
1851-1922
D. Databases for Literary Criticism
Modern Language Association.
MLA International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language
Association, 1921-. (Campus-wide and off-campus with PID)
Online from 1963. (Some earlier indexing now available and linking to
JSTOR articles.
Often referred to as the "MLA". A bibliography of scholarly works
on the languages and literatures of the world. Before 1956
covered American periodicals only. Now indexes over 3,000
periodicals, hundreds of collected works, and dissertations with
international coverage. Since 1981 subject indexes provide access
to themes, theories, motifs, methodological approaches,
movements, etc.
NOTE:Does not index play reviews but is the primary source
for critical analysis of drama.
Davis Reference Row 17 (1921-1980)
ABELL: The Annual bibliography of English Language and
Literature. 1920-. (Campus-wide and off-campus with
PID)
The British counterpart to the MLA for British and
American literature. The database covers the entire run of the
print version (Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press, 1921-
Like the MLA International Bibliography does not cover
play production reviews -- but does cover reviews of scholarly books (e.g., analysis of dramatic works).
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