Finding Plays for Beginning and Intermediate Acting: Reference Materials

You can use Credo Reference database to find background information on your topic and to brainstorm keywords for your topic. It will also help you broaden or narrow your topic.

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