Plays and Playwrights

Bobst REF1 PR737.C57 6th Ed.
Description: Provides information for over three hundred living dramatists who publish in English. Entries include a brief biography, list of publications and professional activities, and a critical essay about the dramatist and his or her work. No reprints or revivals are included.
Organization: Alphabetical by playwright, with a title index.

Description: Lengthy articles about writers. Entries focus on literary aspects of writers' lives, including biographical information. All entries include a bibliography of works by the writer covered.

PN2000.I474 1991 vols. 1-3
Volume II: Playwrights
Description: Volume II includes information on 485 playwrights from all periods and nationalities, selected for inclusion by an academic advisory panel. Entries include a brief biographical sketch, list of works, a bibliography, and a critical overview with cross-references to Volume I [see below] where appropriate.
Organization: Alphabetical by playwright, with a title index.

PN1583.M37 1982
Description: Lists citations to biographical reference sources in the performing arts (e.g., biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias), including theater, film, television, dance, music, puppetry and magic.
Organization: Listings are alphabetical by name as used in the cited source.

PR623.C75 1994 v. 1-7
Foreign Language Series: Bobst REF1 PN1625.C74 1986 v. 1-6
Description: Information about individual dramatists, dramatic works, and overview essays concerning trends in drama.
Organization: Alphabetical by author. Last volume includes a title index, author index, and subject index to the series.

Presents literary criticism on the works of dramatists of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, radio transcripts, diaries, newspapers, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Electronic Access available via Literature Resource Center (does not include all entries from print edition)
Description: Based on the series Contemporary Literary Criticism [see above], Drama Criticism concentrates on individual dramatists, from the classical period to the present. Under each author heading, the entry includes biographical information, a list of major works, critical reception, and commentary on individual plays.
Organization: There are 8-10 entries per volume, arranged alphabetically by author. Use the last volume for a cumulative author, title and nationality index.

PN2000.I474 1991 vols. 1-3:
Volume I: Plays
Description: Volume I includes information on over 600 plays (concentrating on English-speaking world), selected for inclusion by an academic advisory panel. Entries include dramatist, date of first publication and production, translations into English and a bibliography relating to the piece. Also provides a critical essay with plot summary.
Organization: Alphabetical by title.

(PN2277.N5 A17 Non-circulating: 28-34, 36 (1971/1972-1977/1978, 1979/1980)
Description: An illustrated yearbook, with production photographs, of the American theater, listing productions performed each season. Includes cast, production credits, dates of run, brief performer bios and obits, with a list of awards. Emphasizes New York City, but also includes information on other cities and traveling productions.
Organization: Lists plays chronologically by opening date, with sections on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Professional Regional Theater, and touring companies.

PN2277.N5 A17 Non-circulating (1950/1951-1951/1952, 1953/1954-1955/1956, 1957/1958-1959/1960, 1961/1962-1964/1965)
Description: An illustrated yearbook, with production photographs, of the American theater, listing productions performed each season. Includes cast, production credits, dates of run, brief performer bios and obits, with a list of awards. Emphasizes New York City, but also includes information on other cities and traveling productions.
Organization: Lists plays chronologically by opening date, with sections on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Professional Regional Theater, and touring companies.