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American Playwrights since 1945
Lists playwrights since 1945 [more info]
Carrier Stacks, PS351 .A82 1989
American Society for Theatre Research
Excellent source [more info]
Internet
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular entertainment 1870-1920 (Library of Congress)
Part of the American Memory project [more info]
Internet
Arts & Humanities Search (OCLC)
Indexes articles from arts and humanities journals plus relevant articles from social science... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC)
Print source which Includes criticism on playwrights. Use the cumulated author or title index. [more info]
Carrier Library Reference, PN771 .C59
Drama Criticism
Long entries providing background and essays on playwrights of all periods and nationalities. Good starting point for understanding a dramatist's critical reception. [more info]
Carrier Reference, PN1601 .D59
Drama scholars' index to plays and filmscripts
[more info]
Carrier Lib-Reference, Z5781 S17
International dictionary of theatre
[more info]
Carrier Lib-Reference, PN2000 i47
International Index of Performing Arts (ProQuest)
Full text and indexing for the performing arts... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Ottemiller's index to plays in collections
[more info]
Carrier Lib-Reference, PN1655 O8
Playbill Online
A good documentation of broadway and off-broadway. [more info]
Internet
Project Muse (John Hopkins University Press)
An index of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics... [more info]
Campus/Remote
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939 (Library of Congress)
Part of the American Memory Project [more info]
Internet
Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Twentieth-Century Criticism (TCLC)
By the same publisher as CLC, but covers authors who died between 1900 and 1999. This set has a topic index, too, where you can find such articles as "Harlem Renaissance." [more info]
Carrier Reference, PN 771 .G27
WilsonWeb OmniFile (HW Wilson)
An index with abstracts and some full text covering all subjects, including humanities and social sciences... [more info]
Campus/Remote
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