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Theatre & Drama: Find Books & Biographical Sources

Research Strategies

Use APPsearch, Books & Media, or WorldCat to find relevant materials on your topic in library catalogs. You can search by keyword, subject, or title.
The chart below provides examples to search for Theatre HIstory
Theatre (i.e. works on drama as acted on the stage	Drama	Commedia dell'arte
Theatre History	Drama History and Criticism	Theater Greece
Theatre India History	English Drama Restoration [look for timeperiods]	Theater Rome
Drama Europe History Medieval	Theater Audiences	Classical Drama
Theater Japan History	Theater and Society	Greek Drama
Theater Italy

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Biographical Sources

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Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers.
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Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines.

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Subjects: Art, Communication, Educational Leadership (EdD), Interdisciplinary Studies, Theatre and Dance