Locating Drama Criticism
- Subject Headings
- Circulating
- Reference Books
- Subject-Related Periodicals
- Magazines and Journals
- Web Sites
There are many ways to locate drama criticism. Information can be found in circulating books (which may be checked out of the library or viewed online, if available as electronic books), reference and reserve books (for in-library use only), journal or newspaper articles (in both print and online resources such as ProQuest), and web sites. To search for books about a particular play, author, or actor, type in the name of the play or person in a subject search.
Subject Headings
The following terms are some of the subject headings related to drama criticism that can be used to locate materials in the online catalog:
- Drama, history and criticism
- Drama, Stories, plots, etc.
- Drama, 20th century, history and criticism
- English Drama, 18th century, history and criticism
- Drama 20th Century
- Drama Collections
- Drama Technique
- Dramatists, American 20th Century Biography
- Dramatists, English Early Modern, 1500-1700 Biography
Circulating Books
Some books which may be checked out:
- American Drama Criticism
(016.7920973 A 512) - Critical Survey of Drama: English Language Series
(822.009 C934) - Drama in Europe: In Theory and Practice
(809.2 J86d) - English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-1780)
(808.042 D281e, 1999) - Modern Drama by Women, 1880s-1930s:
An International Anthology
(808.820082 M689) - Russian Theater: From Empire to the Soviets
(792.0947 S634ru)
Reference Books
Some reference books of interest include:
- 1,300 critical evaluations of selected novels and plays
(REF 809.9 T447) -
American Drama Criticism
(REF 016.7920973 A512) -
Classical Greek and Roman Drama
(REF 016.88201 F724c) -
Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
(REF 792.03 C744, 1992) -
Contemporary Dramatists
(REF 823.03 C761, 1988) -
Critical Survey of Drama: Foreign Language Series
(REF 809.2 C934) -
Crowell’s Handbook of Classical Drama
(REF 882.092 H364c) -
Drama Criticism
(REF 016.822 C692d) -
Female Dramatist
(REF 809.2082 P273f) -
Guide to Great Plays
(REF 808.2 S557g) - Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
(REF 809.03 L776) -
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
(REF 809.04 N714) -
Guide to Critical Reviews
(REF 016.8092 S163g, 1991) -
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
(REF 809.2 M147, 1984)
Print Periodicals in the GCC Library
- Los Angeles Magazine
- TDR: The Drama Review
Finding journal articles
Article Databases
You can search the contents and access the full text of these and many other journals by using these electronic databases:
- JSTOR - backfiles of academic journal articles in fulltext (does not include the last 3-5 most recent years)
- Literature Resource Center – literary criticism in fulltext
- ProQuest Literature Databases– popular and scholarly articles, full- and non-fulltext
- Salem Literature - fulltext of Critical Insights series, including literary criticism
Web Sites
Some helpful web sites include:
- English Server Drama Collection
- Text of plays and drama criticism.
- Infomine Visual and Performing Arts
- Searchable database of scholarly internet resources for performing arts.
- McCoy’s Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
- An extensive annotated guide to theatre resources on the internet.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab's web page on reading and writing about plays.
- Theatre History on the Web
- Directory of theater history resources on the web and categorized by time period.
From the University of North Carolina's (Chapill Hill) Writing Center, this is a useful and succinct guide on how to read, analyze,
and write about dramatic works.
Theater reviews on the internet.
Last Updated 04/08/14 sch
