19th Century Theatre

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Subject Terms in ALICE

• Drama — 19th century — History and criticism
• English drama — 19th century — History and criticism
• German drama — 19th century — History and criticism
• Name of Author: Last, First

Print Reference Tools

• Critical Survey of Drama: biographical and critical essays on important world dramatists from ancient times to the present.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography: critical essays on dramatists, mainly English and American, from the Renaissance to the present. Part, but not all, of the material in print volumes are included in the online Literature Resource Center
• International Dictionary of Theatre: the volumes on Plays (Vol. 1) and Playwrights (Vol. 2) can be very useful, providing biographical information and critical discussion.
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama: An International Reference Work: a good starting place for a general overview of a topic. Illustrated. Bibliographies may be out of date.
• The Oxford encyclopedia of theatre & performance
• Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
• Drama Criticism: criticism of the most significant and widely studied dramatic works from all the world’s literatures.

Databases -Citation and Full Text

• International Index to the Performing Arts: contains 172,013 records drawn from 199 current periodicals and draws retrospective coverage from 93 periodicals with citations dating back to 1864.
• MLA International Bibliography: Bibliographic information for critical scholarly materials in literature, criticism, drama, language, linguistics, humanities, and folklore.
• Literature Resource Center: Provides information on literary figures from all time periods. Includes biographical, bibliographical, and critical content.
• JSTOR: Electronic depository of full-text electronic journals in a variety of disciplines.
• MagillOnLiterature Plus: editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers.
• Academic Search Premier: provides citations and full text for more than 7,000 scholarly publications covering a wide variety of academic areas of study.

Web Sites

• Voice of the Shuttle: a large database of links to all fields of studies in the Humanities, and related areas of the Social Sciences.