THEA 302: Theatre History II: Beginnings

Drama for Students is a 30 volume encyclopedia Van Wylen has as a part of its eReference collection.  It contains essays on over 550 plays and provides summaries and analysis of themes and historical context, as well as bibliographies of additional resources.  The easiest way to see if it contains the play you are researching is to do an

Enter the play or playwright in the first search box and "Drama for Students" in the second, and change the dropdown to "Publication Title."

For those of you considering a very recent work, Gale also has a volume called Twenty-first Century Drama, that is formatted in much the same way as Drama for Students.

This titles are located in the print reference section, on the 1st floor of Van Wylen.  These titles are good for getting oriented to a writer or theatre in a specific country, or for selecting a play to work with.

Some of these project require providing social, cultural and political historical context. This can sometimes be challenging to do at a broad level. Try doing broad keyword searches related to the cultural area you are researching. Here are some other Primo search suggestions:

Subject Searches - try a search structured like this, but replace Germany with the country you are interested in:

Encyclopedia/Dictionary Searches - try searching for a reference work related to your topic