Modern Drama Criticism

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Books from other libraries

WorldCat.org. The OCLC union catalog of holdings in most other academic libraries.

Articles, Indexes, Databases:

(EBSCO'S) Academic Search Premier (* truncation) Like Infotrac's Expanded Academic ASAP below it is a "general" index which contains citations, abstracts and full-text articles from many different fields including drama, theatre and literary studies.

(Gale/Infotrac's) Expanded Academic ASAP (* truncation)

MLA (an EBSCO database) provides over one million citations for items from journals and series published worldwide in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, folklore. It indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. It will link to other databases that have full-text articles.

LexisNexis (! -exclamation point- to truncate) Its strength is in its coverage of full-text newspaper articles, movie reviews, theatre reviews and much more.

Literature Resource Center (Gale/InfoTrac) Many full text articles as well as concise overviews of authors and works.

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) Similar to Literature Resource Center but with many different sources of information.

JSTOR is a collection of full-text, pdf images of scholarly articles. The newest of these articles are from 3-5 years old, but can include complete runs of journal volumes even back into the nineteenth century.

Periodicals Archive Online Similar to JSTOR.

If you already have the full citation to a particular journal or magazine article and want to know if USA's Libraries has a subscription to the journal go to this link on the homepage. Type in your journal title. The resulting list should identify which databases or collections contain the journal in full text format. You can also check to see if we have the journal in a print format through the SOUTHcat catalog.

Reference Books

• Notable playwrights edited by Carl Rollyson.
• Oxford companion to American theatre Oxford encyclopedia of theatre & performance / edited by Dennis Kennedy. 2003.
• Continuum companion to twentieth century theatre edited by Colin Chambers.
• 2002.British and Irish dramatists since World War II. Second series / edited by John Bull. c2001.
• Encyclopedia of stage plays into film / John Tibbetts, James M. Welsh. 2001.
• Bordman, Gerald Martin. American musical theatre : a chronicle / Gerald Bordman.
• Harvell, Tony A. Index to twentieth-century Spanish plays : in collections, anthologies, and periodicals 2000.
• 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, essayists, theorists. 2000.
• Turco, Lewis.Book of literary terms : the genres of fiction, drama, nonfiction, literary criticism, and scholarship

Websites

Google Directory of Theatre http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theatre/

Google Directory of Drama http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Drama/

AJR-American Journalism Review: newspapers online

http://www.ajr.org/Newspapers.asp?MediaType=1
http://www.ajr.org/Newspapers.asp?MediaType=1&Type=ForeignNews

CurtainUP

"The Internet Theater Magazine of Reviews, Features, Annotated Listings" Use the "Search" feature. http://www.curtainup.com/

The Internet Theatre Bookshop http://www.stageplays.com/index.htm

Playbill http://www.playbill.com/index.php

Justin's Drama and Theatre Links
One of the largest theatre directories on the Web with over 5,000 links

http://www.theatrelinks.com/

London Theatre Guide http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/ "This guide was created in August 1995 to provide a reliable source of information pertaining to London Theatre on the Internet. The objective of the guide is to be as comprehensive as possible for West End theatre listings. Fringe theatre productions are only listed if we have received a press release from the theatre."

New York Theatre Guide http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/: "This guide was launched in October 2003 to provide a simple and easy source of information pertaining to New York Theatre. It is the sister site of our successful London theatre Guide. . . The objective of the guide is to provide a simple, fast loading theatre web site to easily find what's on Broadway theatre. . . Off Broadway theatre productions are only listed if we have received a press release from the theatre.

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