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THA 381/THA 382: Play Analysis

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  • JSTOR with Image Search
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  • ProQuest Research Library
    ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
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    Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
  • ProQuest Literature Online
    Good coverage of literary criticism. Cross-search the MLA Bibliography and ABELL, with articles from full-text journals.
  • Library of Congress: Digital Collections
    Online collections of the Library of Congress, Use the search function to locate relevant materials.
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  • PsycINFO
    Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.

Finding Plays in our catalog

Find a list of print plays by searching for 'Dramatist Play Service' as a keyword search.  While this won't pull up every play, you'll find a lot of plays listed by date they were published.

Find reviews and more information in American Theatre magazine, which you can access online.

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Finding Plays Online