Encyclopedias and Guides
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Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowPublished by Oxford University Press, it is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database containing dictionaries, language reference and subject reference works.
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Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Cambridge Companions present collections of essays written by leading experts in the field on themes, subjects, and key figures in three broad areas: Literature and Classics; Philosophy, Religion, and Culture; and Music.
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The Language of Theatre by
Location: Mugar Reference X PN2035 .H297 1998Publication Date: 1998Theatre has provided many words and meanings which we use--ignorant of their origins--in everyday writing and speech. This is the first book to explore 2,000 theatre terms in depth, in some cases tracing their history over two and a half millenia, in others exploring expressions less than a decade old. -
The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
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Location: Mugar Reference X PN1861 .C65 2007Publication Date: 2007A wholly unique A to Z reference for modern drama, this authoritative encyclopedia differs from others in highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of drama by placing playwrights and plays within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. -
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
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Location: Mugar Reference X PN1625 .M3 1984Publication Date: 1984Ranging 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. -
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
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Location: Mugar Reference X PN2220 .C35 2007Publication Date: 2007This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. -
Modern Drama: Defining the Field
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2016The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
Literary Biography
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Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Biography In Context offers biographical information about historically significant figures as well as present-day newsmakers. It includes reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images.
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Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
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Literature Online This link opens in a new window LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
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The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights
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Location: Mugar Reference X PN2035 .G73 2004Publication Date: 2004With more than five hundred entries, from A to Z, providing information on the most important plays and playwrights (dead or alive) performed today, -
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2002International in scope, this book is designed to be the pre-eminent reference work on the English-speaking theatre in the twentieth century.
