WR20: Staging Identity Spring 2011   Tags: courseguidespring11, drama, history, linker, theater, writing_20  

Restoration England Dates

Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660
Restoration of the Monarchy 1660 
Charles II 1660-1685
James II 1685-1688
Glorious Revolution 1688

Literature Resource Center Includes Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatists.  Best searched by author, great source of biographical and critical info

Blackwell Companion to Stuart Britain

Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

Oxford Companion to British History (Ebook)

Article on the Glorious Revolution by Steve Pincus (from History Compass)

Daily Life in Stuart England (Ebook)

Restoration London, by Liza Picard
Perkins/Bostock DA680 .P525 1997

Oxford Reference Online Oxford subject encyclopedias; search authors, terms, works

De Krey, G. S. (2008), Between Revolutions: Re-Appraising the Restoration in Britain. History Compass, 6: 738–773. Teaching and Learning Guide.

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Literature

MLA International Bibliography main literature database, good source for critical articles but not reviews

Literature Criticism Online a compendium of critical essays from classical to contemporary periods

History

Bibliography of British and Irish History
Index to articles and books on British history.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Religion

ATLA Religion Database  primary database for religious periodicals

Interdisciplinary

ProQuest scholarly journals in all fields, plus popular/media sources

Project Muse (current) and JSTOR (historical issues) full-text collections of core scholarly journals in all fields

Humanities Abstracts good coverage of music and other humanities sources

BHI, British Humanities Index
Index to articles on the Arts, including theater.

JSTOR
Huge database of articles: use very specific search terms.

Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazines

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article

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• Research and Documentation Online: Humanities
  Contains sample papers in MLA format
• MLA Citation Style
  From Purdue University
• Avoiding Plagiarism

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