GUIDE TO RESEARCHING  

 

DRAMA CLASSICS

 

to 1870

 

 

back to Literature

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REFERENCE SHELF  BOOKS DATABASES WEB SITES  NEED HELP?

 

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SEE ALSO:        GREEK & ROMAN DRAMA

                         SHAKESPEARE

 

 

 

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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?

 

• Literature Resource Center - biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis.
• Twayne Authors Series - information about authors.
• Academic Search Premier

 

 

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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 a Librarian for online help.

 

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Created by Carrie Laier, August 2008