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Selected Subject Headings in Orbis
NOTE: When searching for subjects
in Orbis, use the spelling Theater,
not Theatre.
- Tragedy
- French drama (Tragedy)
- Comedy
- Comic, The
- Farce
- Grotesque
- Tragicomedy
- Neoclassicism (Literature)
- Aesthetics
- German drama--History and criticism
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and
criticism
- Drama--History and criticism
- Aeschylus--Criticism and interpretation
- Feminism and theater
- Feminist theater
- Feminism--United States--Drama
- Feminism and literature--Greece
- Feminist drama, English--History and criticism
- English drama--Women authors--History and criticism
Finding Articles and Reviews
NOTE: Many databases give few or
no citations before 1975, so you may miss significant articles if you
depend only on the online tools. Be sure to look through indexes in
print and other resources.
Selected indexes are listed below. There is also a full
list of article indexes.
SML Reference, Index Case AI1 H84 (LC)
Humanities Abstracts, produced by The H. W. Wilson
Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles
from 400 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and
classical studies, art, dance, drama, and film, folklore, gender studies,
history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary
and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion
and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly
journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines.
International Bibliography of Theatre. [Brooklyn, N.Y.]
: Theatre Research Data Center, Brooklyn College, City University of New
York ; New York, NY : Distributed by the Publishing Center for Cultural
Resources, 1982- .
SML Reference, Z6935 +I53 (LC)
Drama Reference, Z6935 +I53 (LC)
Major index of theater materials published throughout
the world from 1982 to the present. Includes books, dissertations, periodicals,
and ephemeral publications on all aspects of theater, performance and
dance.
International
Index to the Performing Arts
IIPA draws its current content from more than
130 international periodicals and also indexes articles and obituaries
appearing in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
IIPA covers nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts, including
film, theater, and opera. Most IIPA records from 1998 on contain an abstract.
SML Reference, Index Cases
The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials
on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. It also includes
film studies. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000
journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections,
working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. The print
volumes go back to 1921 and the database covers from 1963 to the present.
The MLA Bibliography continues the Modern Language Association Annual
Bibliography. For earlier volumes, check the SML Card Catalog under
"Modern Language Association."
Guides to Drama Criticism and Theory
Steadman, Susan M. Dramatic re-visions: an annotated bibliography
of feminism and theatre, 1972-1988. (Chicago: American Library Association,
1991.)
SML Reference, Z5784 F45 S73 1991 (LC)
Twentieth-century literary movements dictionary. Edited by Helene
Henderson and Jay P. Pederson. (Detroit, Mich.: Omnigraphics, Inc., c2000.)
SML Reference, PN597 T94X 2000
The subtitle is: "A compendium to more than
500 literary, critical, and theatrical movements, schools, and groups
from more than 80 nations, covering the novelists, poets, short-story
writers, dramatists, essayists, theorists, and works, genres, techniques,
and terms associated with each movement." Need one say more?
Yale University Library Research Guide in Theater Studies