THA 100: INTRO TO THEATRE
SOURCES IN THE BSC LIBRARY ~ SUMMER 2003

  Encyclopedias

The Encyclopedia of world theater. New York: Scribner, 1977.
Ref. PN 2035 .E52 1977

McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Ref. PN 1625 .M3 vol.1-4

Modern world drama: an encyclopedia. New York: Dutton, 1972.
Ref. PN 1851 .M36

World encyclopedia of contemporary theatre. London: Routledge, 1994-
Ref. PN 1861 .W67 1994

Dictionaries

Analytical sourcebook of concepts in dramatic theory. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Z 5781 .B84

Backstage from A to Z : a glossary of technical stage terms. [Seattle]: distr. by University of Washington Press, 1959.
PN 2035 .L6

Drama A to Z. New York: Ungar, 1978.
Ref. PN 1625 .V3

The Drama dictionary. New York: New Amsterdam books, 1988.
Ref. PN 1625 .H62 1988b

The Facts on File dictionary of the theatre. New York: Facts on File, 1988.
Ref. PN 2035 .F27 1988

Glossary of the theatre. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier, 1969.
PN 2035 .B3

Penguin dictionary of the theatre. 3d ed. London, New York: Penguin, 1993.
Ref. PN 2035 .T3 1993

Theatre language : a dictionary of terms in English of the drama and stage from medieval to modern times. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1961.
Ref PN 2035 .B6

Guides

The Cambridge guide to American theatre. Cambridge [England], New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Ref PN 2220 .C35 1993

The Cambridge guide to theatre. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Ref. PN 2035 .C27 1995

The Cambridge guide to world theatre. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Ref PN 2035 .C27 1988

The Concise Oxford companion to the theatre. Oxford, Eng.; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Ref. PN2035 .C63 1992; 1996 edition available online through Oxford Reference Online.

The Oxford companion to the American theatre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Ref. PN 2220 .B6 1984

The Oxford companion to the theatre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Ref. PN 2035 .H3 1967

The Crown guide to the world’s great plays, from ancient Greece to modern times. Rev., updated ed. New York: Crown, 1984.
Ref. PN 6112.5 .S45 1984

History and Criticism

Ancient writers: Greece and Rome.  Ed. by T. James Luce.  New York: Scribner, 1982.  2 v.
Ref. PA 3002 .A5 1982

Bigsby, C. W. E. Modern American drama, 1945-1990. Cambridge [England], New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
PS 350 .B54 1992

Cambridge history of classical literature.  v.1: Greek literature; v.2: Latin literature.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 1985.
Ref. PA 3052 .G73 1985 and Ref. PA 6003 .L3 1982

Coleman, Arthur, and Gary R. Tyler. Drama criticism. Denver: Allan Swallow, 1966-71. 2 v.
Ref Z 1231 .D7 C6

Contemporary dramatists. 4th ed. Ed. by D.L. Kirkpatrick. Chicago: St. James Press, 1988.
Ref PR 737 .C57 1988

Critical survey of drama. Ed. by Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1985. 6 v.
Ref PR 625 .C74 1985

Dietrich, Richard F. British drama, 1890 to 1950 : a critical history. Boston, Twayne, 1989.
PR 721 .D54 1989

Eddleman, Floyd Eugene. American drama criticism: interpretations, 1890-1977. 2d ed. and supplements. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1992.
Ref PS 332 .E31 1979 + supplements

Gale Literary Criticism Series, including:
Contemporary literary criticism.  Ref PN 771 .C59
Twentieth-century literary criticism.  Ref PN 771 .G27
Nineteenth-century literature criticism.  Ref PN 761 .N56
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800.  Ref. PN 86 .L53 1984
Classical and medieval literature criticism.  Ref. PN 681.5 .C57
Shakespearean criticism.  Ref. PR 2965 .S43 1984

Gale Literature Resource Center.  Available from the BSC Library Indexes & Databases page.  Includes the full text of Contemporary Authors, many of the Literary Criticism books listed above, the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), the Scribner Writer's Series, the Twayne Author Series, an Encyclopedia of Literature, and links to selected websites.

Hay, Samuel A. African American theatre : a historical and critical analysis. Cambridge [England], New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
PN 2270 .A35 H39 1994

Palmer, Helen H. European drama criticism, 1900-1975. 2d ed. Hamden, Conn.: Shoe String Press, 1977.
Ref Z 5781 .P2 1977

Peterson, Bernard L. Contemporary Black American playwrights and their plays. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
Ref PS 153 .N5 P43 1988

The Playwright’s art : conversations with contemporary American dramatists / edited by Jackson R. Bryer. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 1995.
PR 352 .P57 1995

Salem, James M. A guide to critical reviews. 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979. 4v.
Ref Z 5782 .S341

Bibliographies

American playwrights since 1945: a guide to scholarship, criticism and performance. Ed. by Philip C. Kolin. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Ref PS 350 .A53 1989

Carpenter, Charles A. Modern drama scholarship and criticism, 1966-1980: an international bibliography. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1986.
Ref PN 1851 .C37 1986

Douglas, Krystan V.  Guide to British drama explication.  New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.
Ref. PR 625 .D68 1996

Dramatic criticism index: a bibliography of commentaries on playwrights from Ibsen to the Avant-garde. Comp. and ed. by Paul F. Breed and Florence M. Sniderman. Detroit: Gale Research, 1972.
Ref Z 5781 .B8

Forman, Robert J.  Classical Greek and Roman drama: an annotated bibliography.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 1989.
Ref. PA 3024 .D7 F67 1989

Magill, Frank Northen. Magill's bibliography of literary criticism: selected sources for the study of more than 2,500 outstanding works of Western literature. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1979. 4 v.
Ref Z 6511 .M3

Biography

Gale Literature Resource Center.  Available from the BSC Library Indexes & Databases page.   Along with the critical information described above, provides in-depth information on the lives and writings of 115,000 authors  and the times in which they lived.

Contemporary dramatists. 4th ed. Chicago: St. James, 1988.
Ref PR 737 .C57 1988

Peterson, Bernard L. Contemporary Black American playwrights and their plays : a biographical directory and dramatic index. New York: Greenwood, 1988.
Ref PS 153 .N5 P43 1988

Twentieth-century American dramatists. Ed. by John MacNicholas. Detroit: Gale, 1981. 2 v.
Ref PS 351 .T9

Who was who in the theatre, 1912-1976. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. 4 vols.
Ref PN 2597 .W52

Books

All books owned by the BSC library are listed in the Library Catalog. The QUICK SEARCH "Search Everything" or COMPLEX SEARCH "Words or Phrase" option can be very useful when you want to find everything the library owns in a particular area. Use the SUBJECT option to do a more tightly controlled search, based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings.

To find other books which might be useful for background material, type DRAMA (or some other topic) followed by one of the following: DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, INDEXES, HANDBOOKS, or DIRECTORIES and search the terms as a SUBJECT.

Some other useful SUBJECT terms include:

Acting
American [or English, etc.] drama
Political plays
Satire, English [or American, etc.]
Stage-lighting [-machinery, -management, -props, -setting and scenery]
Theater, United States [England, etc.]
Theater production and direction

If you still don't find what you need in our library (or if you simply want more information), the collections of other libraries may be searched using WorldCat (on the library home page, under Indexes & Databases), or, in some cases, the Internet.  To borrow a book that is not available locally, you can fill out an interlibrary loan request form (available on the Library Web page, under Library Request Forms) and the library will get it for you.

Indexes to Articles in Periodicals

Gale Literature Resource Center.  Available from the BSC Library Indexes & Databases page.  Includes the full text of many of the articles excerpted in Gale's Literary Criticism books (listed above), as well as critical analyses from other sources.

Humanities FullText. Available from the Indexes & Databases page, 1983 to the present; also1907 - 2000 in print format.  Indexes around 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology & classical studies, area studies, folklore, history, language & literature, performing arts, philosophy, religion & theology, and related subjects, with many full-text articles.

MLA Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures. Available from the Indexes & Databases page, 1963 to the present; also1921 - present in print format. This is the primary index for articles on literature and linguistics; no full-text articles.

Infotrac's Expanded Academic Index, EBSCOHost's Academic Search Elite, Lexis Nexis Academic, and ProQuest's Research Library Complete are among the general periodicals indexes which are available from the Library's Indexes & Databases page. Each of these covers some journals devoted to literary analysis, as well as general interest publications, and provide access to articles in full text.

Theater Periodicals currently received at BSC Library

American Theatre: v.8 (May 1991) - present; bound.
Asian theatre journal: v. 26 (1999) - present; online through Project Muse.
Dramatics: v.42 (1970/71) - present; microfilm.
Modern Drama: v.1 (1958/59) - present; bound.
Modern International Drama: v.1-20 (1967-86/87) microfilm; v.21 (1987/88) - present, bound.
New Theatre Quarterly: v.1 (1985) - present; bound.
PAJ : a journal of performance and art. v. 18 (1996) to the present; online through Project Muse.
Playbill: Library keeps current + 1 previous year.
Stage Directions: Subscription began with August 1992.
Studies in English literature, 1500-1900; v. 39 (1999) - present; online through Project Muse.
TCI (Theater Crafts International): v.26 (1992) - present; microfilm.
TDR (The Drama Review): v.32 (1988) - present, microfilm; v.43 (1998) - present online through Project Muse.
Theater: v.30 (2000) - present; online through Project Muse.
Theatre Journal: v.31-38 (1979-86) microfilm; v.39 - present, bound; v. 48 (1996) - present online through Project Muse.
Theatre Topics: v.6 (1996) - present online through Project Muse.
Variety: Library keeps latest 6 months.

Note: In addition to these titles, we also have older issues of some theater-related periodicals which ceased publication, or which the Library stopped taking. Many periodicals are also available full-text online, through library subscriptions. You can search for individual titles (print or online) by consulting Periodicals@BSC on the Library homepage.

Internet Sites

http://vl-theatre.com/
WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama. Includes pointers to a broad range of resources across the world: professional, academic and recreational. The aim is to make the scope multi-cultural and multi-lingual.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
Voice of the Shuttle: Drama and theater studies, including screen writing.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Performing_Arts/Theater
Yahoo! Theatre links. Point to a wide variety of useful links, including information about plays, playwrights, and journals.

http://www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html
McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies. The author, a professor at Stetson Univ., has done a good job of organizing & presenting useful theatre resources.

To search for other potentially useful theater and drama web sites, try out some of the search engines or directories available at http://www.bsc.edu/bsclibrary/tools/virtref.htm#Search. Be certain to evaluate the sites you find with regard to their scholarly worth!