Research Guides: Theatre Research Guide: Play Criticism

Play Criticism in Databases

Many critiques of plays are found in various periodicals or journals. In the databases listed below you can search for citicism on plays and playwrights.

The databases listed below are provided through a subscription paid, in part or entirely, by the Mary and Jeff Bell Library. These databases can be accessed on- or off-campus by students and faculty using their remote access login.

Gale Literature Databases This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to biographical and critical entries from the print resource of the same name. Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Entries on a wide variety of literary figures may be searched in multiple ways.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of academic journals from Johns Hopkins Scholarly Press and other non-profit scholarly publishers. Journals cover literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.
Unlimited simultaneous users allowed.
Content is updated irregularly.

Theatre Research Guide:Play Criticism

Play Criticism in Databases