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Theater History and Playwrights

Your search for information on Theatre History and Playwrights can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. The general call number for books on all aspects of Theatre is P. More specific call numbers for your topics may be found by searching the catalog. Try the following Library of Congress Subject Headings but remember that list is by no means conclusive. There are many more subject headings for Theater History and Playwrights in the catalog.

Selected Subject Headings 
(The Library of Congress uses the spelling Theater and the search term Dramatists for Playwrights)

Drama

Drama--21st century

Theater

Drama--17th century.

Dramatists

Theater--History

Drama--17th century-History and criticism

Dramatists, American--20th century

Theater--History--19th century

Drama--18th century

Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography

Theater--History--20th century

Drama--18th century-History and criticism

Dramatists--Biography

Theater--History--Medieval

Drama--19th century

Dramatists, English--18th century--Biography

Theater--United States

Drama--19th century-History and criticism

Dramatists, English–-20th century--Biography

 

Drama--20th century

 

 

Drama--20th century-History and criticism

 

 

You may also search for individual playwrights. If you are searching for works written by the playwright, search by author and type the last name first. For books written about a playwright, search by subject and also type the last name first.

Selected Reference Books

Listed below are reference books that may be useful in your research.

African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide

REF PS153 .N5 G29 1999

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre

REF PN2035 .C27 1995

Contemporary Authors

REF PN771 .C6

Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series

REF PN771 .C78

Contemporary Black American Playwrights and

Their Plays

REF PS153 .N5 P43 1988

Contemporary Dramatists

REF PR737 .C57 1999

Critical Survey of Drama

REF PR623 .C75 1994

Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Drama

REF PA3024 .H35

Crowell’s Handbook of Contemporary Drama

REF PN1861 .C7

Drama Criticism

REF PN1601 .D59

Drama For Students

REF PN1601 .D595

International Dictionary of Theatre

REF PN2035 .I49 1992

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama

REF PN1625 .M3

Masterplots II. Drama Series

REF PN6112.5 .M37 1990

Modern World Drama; An Encyclopedia

REF PN1851 .M36

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre

REF PN2220 .B6 1992

The Oxford Companion to the Theatre

REF PN2035 .H3 1983

The Reader’s Encyclopedia of World Drama

REF PN1625 .G3 1969

Twentieth-Century American Dramatists

REF PS351 .T9

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

REF PN1861 .W67

 

Journal and Reference Articles

The Library has several magazines that focus on Theatre:

Back Stage West/Drama-logue

Entertainment Design

Theatre Journal

Variety

Online Journal and Reference Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the indexes listed below and use subject headings or key words similar to those used to locate books. Print indexes must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

Online Indexes
Available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html 

EbscoHost
GaleNet 
NewsBank InfoWeb

Project Muse
 

See Library Internet Resources for a complete description of our online resources.

Internet Sites

Playwrights and Playwriting
 http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/murphyd/netsearch/playwrit.html

TheatreHistory.com                                                                           
http://www.theatrehistory.com

Medieval Drama Links
 http://collectorspost.com/Catalogue/medramalinks.htm

The Internet Broadway Database
 http://www.ibdb.com

Theatre History on the Web
 http://www.videoccasions-nw.com/history/jack.html

 

 

 

 

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