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English Literature and Language Resources: Drama

This guide is intended to provide guidance for students researching in the area of English language and literature.

Finding reference sources

Gale Literature Criticism
Find a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

Reference book sampler...

Inter-play : An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals
The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
ISBN: 9780231140324

Finding Books

Book sampler...

Milton the Dramatist
ISBN: 9780820703879
Early Responses to Renaissance Drama
ISBN: 0521858437
American Drama, 1945-2000
ISBN: 9781405120869

Finding newspaper, magazine and journal articles

Database Subject Listing
Use the library's databases to find articles in newspapers, magazines and journals. For a complete listing of relevant databases check under the subject of ENGLISH databases on the library's homepage.

MLA International Bibliography
Find articles in scholarly literature pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing and publishing, rhetoric and composition.
ProQuest One Literature
Find articles in more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 259 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Covers the subjects of dance, film, television, drama, recorded sound, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more.