Finding Plays

Need to find more specific literature & drama reference material fast?

You can  use the Literature Criticism Online database.  It provides online access to the full text of:

• Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
• Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
• Shakespearean Criticism
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
• Poetry Criticism
• Short Story Criticism
• Drama Criticism
• Children's Literature Review.

as well as author biographical information and work overviews.

• American Drama Criticism Ref PS332 .A43 1979
• Classical Greek and Roman Drama Ref PA 3024 .F67
• Magill's Bibliography of Literary Criticism Ref PN523 .M25
• U.S. Theatre, A Bibliography from the Beginning to 1990 Ref PN2221 .S54 1993
• Contemporary Authors Ref PN771 .C621
• Contemporary Dramatists Ref PR737 .C57
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Ref PS128 .D54
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism Ref PN681.5 .C57
• Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC)Ref PN771 .C59
• Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television Ref PN2285 .C58
• Critical Survey of Drama (English Language Series) Ref PR623 .C75
• Critical Survey of Drama (Foreign Language Series) Ref PN1625 .C74
• Drama Criticism (DC) Ref PN1601 .D59
• Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 (LC)Ref PN86 .L56
• Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (NCLC)Ref PN761 .N5
• Shakespearean Criticism (SC) Ref PR2965 .S43
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (TCLC) Ref PN94 .T84

Important Note: Search the author's name in the cumulative author index located at the back of each DC volume.

• American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy & Drama,1869-1914 PN2256 .B6 1994
• American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy & Drama,1914-1930 Ref PN2266.3 .B67 1995
• Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy & Drama,1930-1969 Ref PN2266 .B64 1996
• Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays Ref PN6112.5 .S45 1984
• Ganzl's Book of the Musical Theatre Ref MT95 .G2 1989
• Masterplots II, Drama Series PN6112.5 .M37 2004 v1-4
• National Theater Critics Reviews Ref PN2000 .N76
• New York Times Theater Reviews Ref PN2266 .N48

• American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia Ref ML102.M88 H59 1995
• Crowell's Handbook of Classical Drama Ref PA3024 .H35
• Dictionary of Literary Terms Ref PN41 .G73 1984
• Directory of Doctoral Programs in Theatre Studies Ref PN2078.U6 D571 1999
• Directory of the American Theatre, 1894-1971Ref PN6112 .B4524
• Directory of Theatre Faculties in Colleges & Universities Ref PN3175 .D57 1994-95
• Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre Ref ML102.M88 G3 2001
• Glossary of Literary Terms Ref PN41 .A184 1993
• Handbook to Literature Ref PN41 .H6 1992
• International Dictionary of Theatre Ref PN2035 .I49 1992
• International Dictionary of Theatre Language Ref PN2035 .I5 1985
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama Ref PN1625 .M3 1984
• NTC's Dictionary of Theatre and Drama Terms Ref PN2035 .M63 1992
• Theatrical Directors: a Biographical Dictionary Ref PN2205 .T54 1994
• World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Ref PN1861 .W67 1994 v1