Theatre 150--Earlham Seminar:
Social Conflict in Drama

Books and media

Earlham Libraries Catalog
Search our catalog first, using SUBJECT KEYWORDS search with your playwright's name. If you would like to go directly to our shelves upstairs, you can find critical works of individual playwrights in the following locations:

Athol Fugard PR 6056 .U4 and PR 9369.3 .F8

Amiri Baraka PS 3552 .A583

Bertolt Brecht PT 2603 .R397

Henrik Ibsen PT 8884

Sophocles PA 4413-4417

Jean Anouilh PQ 2601 .N67

WorldCat
If we don't have what you want, visit the world's largest online library catalog. You can easily request what you want by clicking the ILL (Interlibrary Loan) icon.

Literary and performance reviews

The library has many periodicals devoted to theatre in both paper and digital forms. Here are some ways to gain access to those:

Academic Search Premier
This index leads you to many popular and scholarly periodical articles containing drama analysis and play reviews. Most are available in full-text after 1990.

JSTOR
This digital journal collection is searchable and contains almost 1,000 scholarly journals in all disciplines from earliest publication date to the last 3-5 years. A great source for both critical analysis and play reviews, it includes such theatre journal stalwarts as PAJ, TDR, and Theatre Journal.

Project MUSE
Another digital journal collectiion, this also contains several hundreds of scholarly journals in all disciplines from the last 3-5 years to the present. Also a great source for both critical analysis and play reviews, it includes Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and Theatre Topics.

Reference works

Literary Index
Here is a handy online index to the contents of hundreds of volumes of the encyclopedias of literary criticism published by Gale Publishing Co. If you search this index by title, you will come up with volumes containing reviews done since the play was first published and performed. You then do a title search in our catalog in order to find the exact location of the volume you want on our shelves (Alternative: go to our Literary Index locations list ).

Blackwell Reference Online
The entire collection of Blackwell reference works, including-over 300 encyclopedias, and companions, are now online, covering a wide array of disciplines. Use it to look up basic information on playwrights, plays, literary history.

Oxford Reference Online
The entire collection of Oxford reference works, similar in scope to the Blackwell Reference Online listed above. Try out your search terms in both!