ENGL 240: Modern Drama
Spring 2009
Lisa McDonnell
Debby Andreadis, andreadisd@denison.edu, X5653Reference Books
- American Drama Criticism & supplements PS332 .P3 1979
- American Playwrights Since 1945: A Guide to Scholarship, Criticism, and Performance PS 350 .A53 1988
- The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre PN 2035 .C65 2002
- Critical Survey of Drama (8 vols.) PN1625 .C68 2003
- A Guide to Critical Reviews Part I: American Drama, 1909-1982
PN 1707 .S34 pt.1 1984 - International Dictionary of Theatre (3 vols.) PN 2000 .I474
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama (5 vols.) PN 1625 .M3 1984
- Twentieth Century American Dramatists PS 350 .T96 2002
- Asian American Playwrights PS 338 .A74 A9 2002
- African American Dramatists PS338 .N4 A69 2004
- Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights PS325 .C656 2003
Online Resources
Online resources can point you to journal and newspaper articles that will be relevant to your topic.
Once you have found a citation for an article you are interested in the next step is to determine whether or not the Denison Library subscribes to that journal. Many online indexes have links to the CONSORT catalog. Others have access to the full-text of some articles.
- MLA International Bibliography An index to books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world.
- Literature Criticism Online includes Drama Criticism.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Humanities International Complete
- Literary Reference Center
- International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
- International Index to the Performing Arts
- Play Index
- Newspaper Source
- Lexis-Nexis (London Times, 1985-, can be found using this database.)
- New York Times Archive 1851-2004 Full text of the New York Times newspaper from 1851 through 2004.