Research Guides: ENGL 359: Early Modern Drama: Reference Materials

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Oxford Reference Online
100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable web database. Includes The Oxford Companion to English Literature and The Oxford Companion to English History
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Dictionary of Literary Biography
ISBN: 0787646555
Shelved in front of Doreen's office.
Elizabethan Dramatists
Call Number: Ref. PN771 .D43 v.62
Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists
Call Number: Ref. PN771 .D43 v.58

Reference Books

Below are key reference books that provide a general overview of a topic or help identify synonyms, related terms, or basic data. These sources often include references and lists of further readings.

A Companion to Renaissance Drama by Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
Call Number: HAT 2d Floor Stacks PR651 .C66 2002
ISBN: 0631219501
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance by Paul F. Grendler, editor in chief
Call Number: HAT Reference CB361 .E52 1999 v.2
ISBN: 0684805146
Good overview article on English Drama
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable by 17th ed., Rev. by John Ayto
Call Number: HAT Reference PN43 .B65 2005
ISBN: 0061121207
A Dictionary of biblical tradition in English literature by General editor, David Lyle Jeffrey
Call Number: HAT Reference PR149.B5 D53
ISBN: 0802836348
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society. by Edited by James A. H. Murray [and others]
Call Number: HAT Reference PE1625.N53 1888
The Oxford English Dictionary by 2nd ed. Prepared by J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner
Call Number: HAT Reference PE1625.O87 1989
ISBN: 0198611862

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ENGL 359: Early Modern Drama: Reference Materials

Encyclopedias and More

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Reference Books

Humanities and Fine Arts Librarian

Oxford English Dictionary

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