Theater Reference Works
Literature Resource Center great source of biographical and critical info about playwrights
Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts includes Oxford subject encyclopedias in the arts
Cambridge Companion to.... search across volumes on authors (Arthur Miller, August Wilson, American Women Playwrights), genre (Companion to American Modernism), and more
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Find Journal Articles, Reviews, and More
Specific to Theater
IIPA International Index to the Performing Arts; reviews and critical articles
MLA International Bibliography core literature database, good source for critical articles, dramatic literature, but not reviews
ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) from the UK: critical articles, dramatic literature
Interdisciplinary
Academic OneFile scholarly journals in all fields, plus popular/media sources
Humanities Abstracts good coverage of theater and other humanities sources
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
Popular/News Sources (popular media performance reviews, author/actor interviews)
America's Newspapers full text newspapers (scroll down for link)
America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922
Lexis Nexis Academic full text newspapers, magazines, TV and radio news transcripts
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Atlanta Constitution (1868-1939), Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003), Chicago Defender (1905-1975), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), New York Times (1851-2004), Wall Street Journal (1889-1990), and the Washington Post (1877-1991)
Find Books, Films, and More: The Catalog
Locate books, films, recordings, journals, and more using the catalog. Start with a keyword search, and narrow results using the column on the left.
Finding Plays
Play Index search by author, title, cast characteristics; use "get it @ duke" button to find plays in the library or online
Online playscripts plus images, playbills, and more:
20th Century North American Drama
LION (Literature Online) mostly canonical authors and out of copyright texts
EEBO (Early English Books Online, 1475-1700)
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collection Online, 1701-1800)
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