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Online Reference Sources
Great articles about dramatists can be found in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. You can search for these articles by using the Literature Resource Center database.
Major Theatre History Reference Books
Call Number: Ref. PS 350.A43
ISBN: 0313255431
Includes bibliographic essays, production histories and critical sources on modern American playwrights.
Call Number: Ref. PS 338.A74 A9 2002
ISBN: 0313314551
Alphabetically arranged entries provide biographical, critical, and bibliographical information about 52 Asian American playwrights.
Call Number: Ref. PN 1861 .C65 2007 v.2
ISBN: 0231140320
An A to Z reference for modern drama. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of drama by placing playwrights and plays within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. It focuses on drama in the literary sense rather than as performance. It also follows the development of modern theater in both Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
Call Number: Ref. PR 623 .C75 1994
ISBN: 1587651025
Entries are arranged alphabetically by author. There is a list of the playwright’s principal works, literary forms, achievements, biographical information, analysis of his/her works and a bibliography.
Call Number: Ref PN 2860 .E53 2007
ISBN: 031333529X
Alphabetically arranged entries present information about playwrights, directors, actors, places, themes, styles, costumes, and sets of both modern and traditional Asian theater.
Call Number: Ref PQ 7082.D7 H37 2003
ISBN: 031332333X
This resource compiles and locates biographical and bibliographical information of over 700 prominent Latin American dramatists of the late 20th century
Call Number: Ref PN 1625.M3 1984
ISBN: 1884446000
Ranging from the earliest drama to the theater of the 1980's this encyclopedia includes coverage of national drama and theater around the world, theater companies, and musical comedy.
Call Number: Ref. N7560 .H34 1974
v. 1. American, British, Irish, German, Austrian, and Swiss dramatists v. 2. Norwegian, Swedish, French, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, and Polish dramatists
Call Number: Ref PN 2220.B6
ISBN: 9780195034431
The standard one-volume source on American theatre. Also available electronically in the Oxford Reference Online database.
Call Number: Ref. PN 2035 .W67 1994
Six-volume encyclopedia documenting artistic development around the world. Includes articles on playwriting, music theatre, dance theatre, theatre for young audiences, puppet theatre, design, architecture, technology, training, criticism, and scholarship.
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