la ys: Critical Analysis

Search The Cat for Books

Additional books of literary criticism can often be found in the WorldCat, a catalog of materials from hundreds of libraries including Penn State Libraries.


Use Journal Articles

E-Resources which offer literary criticism include:

• Contemporary Authors
• Literature Online
• JStor
• MLA Index
• Muse
• ProQuest Direct

These databases are also available from University Libraries' E-Resources menu Once connected, search by play title or author for journal articles.

Order photocopies of articles not available online through IILiad.

Use Internet Resources

• The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Google: Plays & Playwrites
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - Criticism
• The English Server Drama Collection - Criticism

To search for criticism on a particular work, try Google. Enter the name of the play in quotes and the word criticism in the search box.

Locate Reviews in Newspapers

ProQuest Direct provides the full text of reviews from many major newspapers. Change the Article Type to Performance Reviews by using the drop-down menu near the bottom of the search page.

Reviews of many plays can also be found in New York Times Historical (1851-2001) and Times of London, Palmer's Index, 1790-1905. More recent NYT reviews can be found in ProQuest Direct .



Use Reference Sources

Check the LLRC Theatre 100 bibliography for books of literary criticism in the LLRC reference collection. To find information in books in critical series such as British Dramatists of the Twentieth Century, first identify the nationality and time period of the author in the Britannica or other source.

 

For more information, contact
Janice Pope, jmp12@psu.edu
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Judy Sandt, jsandt@psu.edu
Reference Librarian, Penn State Lehigh Valley

last updated October 2006