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Welcome to my Research Sources page for Dramatizing War Chao Chen, your research librarian |
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Finding Plays
1. Online sources
- American Drama, 1714-1915
- Plays (from Theatre Communications Group)
- Latino Literature
- North American Theatre Online
- Twentieth Century North American Drama
2. Use Play Index (a database) to search for plays of certain criteria, e.g., modern Comedy with female characters
- Tip: identify a play in the Play Index; then search for the play in the library catalogs. You might need to request the play through interlibrary loan, if we don't have it.
**Not every play is published or translated from non-English languages.
3. Print sources
- A. Search in JumboSearch,
- by the playwright, by the title of Play
- B. Browse titles in the book stacks by call numbers, e.g.,
- PN2266 for BEST PLAYS (U.S.)
e.g., The Best Plays (1899 – present). Stacks: PN2266.A2 B4- C. Search by key phrases such as “war and literature" and drama, "war in literature" and drama.
Sample titles, in which plays of war, conflicts, and peace are being studied:
- Broadway Goes to War: American Theater during World War II
- The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
- Dramatists and the bomb: American and British playwrights confront the nuclear age, 1945-1964
- The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American war literature
- The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama: War, Death, Morality
- The new war plays: from Kane to Harris
- Staging the war: American drama and World War II
- Theatre, globalization and the Cold War
- Theatre and war: theatrical responses since 1991
- Theater of war and exile: twelve playwrights, directors and performers from Eastern Europe and Israel
- Transgenerational remembrance: performance and the Asia Pacific war in contemporary Japan
- Watching war on the twenty-first century stage spectacles of conflict
Finding Theatre Reviews
1. Scholarly and Theatremakers Conversations
A. HowlRound Theatre Commons (A hub for global theatre conversations)
B. Performing Arts Periodicals Database
C. In EBSCOhost databases, you can search across the following databases, among others:
- America: History & Life
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Film & Television Literature Index
- Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
- LGBTQ+ Source
- MLA International Bibliography (Literary studies)
- Women's Studies International
2. Newspapers
- Access World News (rich U.S. regional news)
- Factiva (more international coverage)
- More
Our most frequently requested newspapers:
- New York Times. | New York Times: Theatre Arts
- Boston Globe
- The Washington Post: Direct Publisher Access (Current | digital reproduction)
- The Washington Post on Factiva (Current | plain text)
We cite sources to
- Avoid plagiarism
- Give credit to the source of an idea
- Lend credibility to our arguments
And, we also cite sources to
- Allow us, and others, to follow the trail back to a source
- Bring diverse voices together in dialogue
- Participate in a scholarly conversation, situating our own voice in that larger, ongoing academic discussion