LibGuides: ENGL 340: Contemporary Drama: ENGL 340: Contemporary Drama

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Over 500 online reference sources on every major subject.
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Subject Areas: General

Credo Reference is an online reference solution for learners and librarians. Offering more than 500 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo Reference covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.

Format: Full Text Books, Reference Sources
Dates of Coverage: Varies
Update Schedule: Ongoing
Database Producer: Credo Reference
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Online access to over 3,000 reference books in all subject areas.
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Subject Areas: General

Gale eBooks (formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)) provides online access to over 3,000 reference books in all subject areas.

Format: Full Text Books
Database Producer: Gale Cengage.

Search for Books, Videos, etc.

Search Summon, CONSORT and OhioLINK for books and other materials containing information about your topic. Items requested from other libraries will be delivered to the Circulation desk in 3-5 days. If you cannot find what you need in those catalogs, try WorldCat (but remember that you will need to fill an Interlibrary Loan form when requesting from WorldCat).

In The Stacks...

Hearing voices : modern drama and the problem of subjectivity by John H. Lutterbie
ISBN: 0472108085
Staging place : the geography of modern drama by Una Chaudhuri
ISBN: 0472095897
Staging the rage : the web of misogyny in modern drama by edited by Katherine H. Burkman and Judith Roof
ISBN: 0838637639

Relevant Databases

Digital Theatre + This link opens in a new window
A digital streaming video collection of unique films including current, leading British theatre productions and behind-the-scenes documentaries.
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Subjects: Theatre, Dance, Drama, Performing Arts.

Digital Theatre Plus is a streaming video platform of current British theatre productions as well as behind-the-scenes commentaries. This platform is one way to immerse researchers in performance while also helping to ready performing arts students for employment.

This database is comprised of 4 main parts:

(1) Plays & Productions: with 361 "filmed and audio" productions. These recordings include performances from Shakespeare's Globe theatre, the Broadway Digital Archive, the Royal Opera House, and the BBC.

(2) Practice & Practitioners: 397 interviews and documentaries with cast members, directors, and backstage crews are found in Digital Theatre Plus.

(3) Theory & Criticism: Digital Theatre Plus includes 284 written resources (6,975 pages) written by both academics and practitioners. These materials explore theatre history, theory, and technique.

(4) Teaching with DT: These resources have been commissioned, created and curated by Creative Content Producer Fiona Lindsay and Editorial Director (Higher Education) Talia Rodgers to support the teaching of English, Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Performing Arts subjects from secondary to higher education. We provide resources which bridge the gap between school and university. Many of the resources below can be used across all levels from the UK to the US and beyond.

Format: Streaming Media, Full Text
Dates of Coverage: Varies by production, from the 1960's through present
Update Schedule: Quarterly
Database Distributor: Digital Theatre Plus
Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Compilation of literary commentary, both scholarly and popular, from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Formerly known as Literary Criticism Online, or LCO.
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Subject Areas: English

Literature Criticism Online is a compilation of literary commentary, both scholarly and popular, from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Cross-searchable with the Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. Also features a link to the Literary Index.

Format: Full Text Journals
Database Producer: Gale Publishing.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital library containing over 10 million academic, full text online resources.
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The JSTOR Archive is a digital collection of eBooks and academic journals, which extend back to the first volume published. This digital library is particularly strong in the humanities, but covers all subject areas. The database itself supports data and text mining as well. For additional information, visit the JSTOR Research Guides.
Please note, Artstor is now a part of JSTOR. Looking for ways to use Artstor in JSTOR? Visit Artstor on JSTOR Guides.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: Vary by title
Update Schedule: Annual
Database Distributor: JSTOR
Literary Reference Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
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Subject Areas: English

Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC Plus combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Includes:

* plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
* articles of literary criticism
* full text of literary journals
* author biographies
* book reviews
* author interviews
* and images of key literary figures

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index to books & articles on modern languages, literature, folklore, & linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world.
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Subject Areas: English, French, German, Spanish, Theatre. Cinema

MLA International Bibliography is an index to books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.

Coverage includes literature from all over the world.
- Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems.
- Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation.
- Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing.

The MLA Directory of Periodicals and the Association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography are also included.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1926-Present
Update Schedule: Regularly
Database Producer: Modern Language Association. Distributed by EBSCO Publishing.
Performing Arts Database This link opens in a new window
Performing Arts content from scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, 1864 to present . Keywords: theater, dance, cinema, music, IIPA.
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Subject Areas: Theatre, Dance, Music, Cinema

The Performing Arts Database, formerly known as the International Index to the Performing Arts, draws its content from scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals.

Most full text records within this resource contain an abstract and selected records contain corresponding full text of the original article.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1864 to present
Update Schedule: Monthly
Database Producer: ProQuest
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Digital humanities and social sciences books and journals, from university presses and scholarly societies.
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Subject Areas: General

Project MUSE is an online archive of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. Project MUSE contains Open Access (OA) content. To see the title list of OA books and journals, click here.

Format: Full Text Journals and eBooks
Database Producer: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Newspapers

New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
New York Times articles, from 1851 to three years ago.
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Subject Areas: Mass Media, U.S. History

Full page images of the New York Times newspaper, dating from 1851 to three years ago.

Format: Full Text Journals
Dates of Coverage: 1851-three years ago (moving wall)
Database Producer: ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Current issues of the New York Times.
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Format: Full Text, Video, Online Content
Dates of Coverage: 1851 - Present
Update Schedule: Daily
Database Distributor: New York Times Company
Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Full text archive of The Times of London. keywords: newspapers
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Subject Areas: Mass Media, History, Political Science, Theatre

The complete digital edition of The Times (London), 1785 to 2019.

Search using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.

The entire weekday newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

For more coverage, see also the "Sunday Times (London), 1822-2016."

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1785 - 2019
Database Producer: Gale
Sunday Times Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Complete digital edition of the Sunday Times (London)
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Subject Areas: History

The complete digital edition of The Sunday Times (London).

Search using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.

The entire Sunday newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

For more coverage, see also "The Times (London) Digital Archives, 1785-2010."

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: 1822-2016
Database Producer: Archives Unbound, Gale