GUIDE TO RESEARCHING  

 

DRAMA

 

 

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see also: SHAKESPEARE

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DRAMA REFERENCE SHELF  BOOKS  DATABASES WEB SITES  NEED HELP?

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REFERENCE SHELF 

 

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)	Look up word origins and definitions.  The history of the English language from 1150 to the present
Credo Reference	Find definitions, short biographies and more
Oxford Reference Online	Find definitions, short biographies and more

 

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BOOKS 

• Library Catalog

 

• Browsing the shelves:

          P:  Philology; Linguistics  - library 2nd floor

          PA:  Greek language and literature; Latin language and literature  - library 2nd floor

          PC:  Romanic languages  - library 2nd floor

          PE:  English language  - library 2nd floor

          PN:  Literature (General)  - library 2nd floor

          PQ:  French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portuguese literature  - library 2nd floor

          PR:  English literature  - library 2nd floor

          PS:  American literature  - library 1st floor

 

          Click here for a more detailed classification outline

          

    LITERARY CRITICISM  

• For criticism on a specific author, do a subject search in the library catalog; for example: Shakespeare, William - criticism and interpretation

• For criticism on a specific title, do a subject search on the title of the work.  For example: Oedipus

 

    BOOKS IN OTHER LIBRARIES 

• Net Library - eBook collection.  What is an eBook?
• Project Gutenberg - eBook collection.  What is an eBook?
• SUNYConnect - library catalog for all SUNY schools.  Use ILLiad to borrow books.
• World Cat - books and media from all over the world.  Use ILLiad to borrow books.
• Google Book Search - books and media from all over the world.  Use ILLiad to borrow books.

 

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DATABASES

What is a database? 

• Book Index with Reviews - Information on over 5 minllion book titles, including 800,000 full-text book reviews.
• Humanities International Complete - Full text and citations/abstracts.  Peer-reviewed journals and popular sources in the humanities pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
• Literature Resource Center - Full text and citations/abstracts.  Biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.  Essays on literary genres.
• LitFINDER - Full text and citations/abstracts.  Information on literature of all genres and time periods.  Also indexes and excerpts poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays.  Includes biographies, author work summaries, photos and glossary of literary terms.  Coverage includes Spanish-language poems with English translations, workl literature and women writers.
• Twayne Authors Series - Full text.  Information about authors from the Twayne Literary Masters books.
• Academic Search Premier - Full text and citations/abstracts.  

 

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WEB SITES 

• The Costumer's Manifesto - Costume web links and patterns

• History of Costume

• Internet Public Library: Theater - Theater web links

• Open Source Shakespeare - The complete works of William Shakespeare
• Records of Early English Drama (REED) - REED works to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelry, and public ceremonial in England before 1642.

• Shakespeare in Quarto - Digitized images and texts of pre-1642 copies of 21 plays by William Shakespeare, as well as information about Shakespeare and Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

 

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NEED HELP?

 

A Librarian will be happy to assist you with your research.  Visit or call the Reference Desk during regular library hours, or use Ask Us 24/7 for online help.

 

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Created by Carrie Buff, August 2008