20th Century American Theatre

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Subject Terms in ALICE

• American drama — 20th century
• American drama — 20th century — History and Criticisim
• Dramatists, American — 20th century
• Name of Playwright: Last, First
• Name of Playwright: Last, First — History and Criticism

WORD search in ALICE for HARD TO FIND PLAYWRIGHTS

• Name of playwright: First Last
• The more contemporary a playwright, the more difficult it will be to find information on ALICE on that specific playwright. Use Databases for article searches.

Print Reference Tools

• Twentieth Century American Dramatists
• Contemporary Dramatists
• The Cambridge History of American Theatre
• International Dictionary of Theatre
• Critical Survey of Drama: English Language Series
• Twentieth Century Literary Criticism

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.
• WWW Virtual Library - Theatre & Drama