LC 59: 171-282
- overviews & general studies, 172-214
- principal figures of the Elizabethan period, 214-33
- principal figures of the later Renaissance, 233-50
- pastoral drama, 250-81
Excerpts and full text of articles and essays providing critical discussion of authors and their works.
- Children’s Literature Review
- Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Drama Criticism
- Literature Criticism 1400-1800
- Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
- Poetry Criticism
- Shakespearean Criticism (see index information)
- Short Story Criticism
- Something About the Authors
- Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
Critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature: long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
- Censorship
- Critical Survey of Drama
- Critical Survey of Long Fiction
- Critical Survey of Mystery & Detective Fiction
- Critical Survey of Poetry
- Critical Survey of Short Fiction
- Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
- Cyclopedia of Literary Places
- Cyclopedia of World Authors
- Dictionary of World Biography (The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The 17th & 18th Centuries, The 19th Century, The 20th Century)
- Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
- Ethics
- Guide to Literary Masters & Their Works
- Identities & Issues in Literature
- Magill's Book Reviews
- Magill's Choice: Holocaust Literature
- Magill's Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature
- Magill's History Annual, 1983-1985
- Magill's Literary Annuals, 1977+
- Magill's Survey of American Literature
- Magill's Survey of World Literature
- Masterplots
- Masterplots II: African American Literature
- Masterplots II: American Fiction
- Masterplots II: British & Commonwealth Fiction
- Masterplots II: Christian Literature
- Masterplots II: Drama
- Masterplots II: European Fiction
- Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Biography
- Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Fiction
- Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Literature
- Masterplots II: Nonfiction
- Masterplots II: Poetry
- Masterplots II: Short Story
- Masterplots II: Women's Literature
- Masterplots II: World Fiction
- Sixties in America
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.
Notable Plays
Early Modern English Pastoral (16th century – 1642)
John Fletcher – The Faithful Shepherdess
Richard Brome – A Jovial Crew
John Lyly – Endymion, Mother Bombie, The Woman in the Moon, Loves Metamorphosis, Midas, Galatea, Campaspe, Sappho and Phao
Early Modern English Comedy (16th century – 1642)
George Gascoigne – Supposes
Mr. S. – Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Thomas Middleton – A Chaste Made in Cheapside
William Shakespeare – As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All’s Well That Ends Well, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
John Fletcher – The Woman’s Prize, The Wild-goose Chase
Francis Beaumont – The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Thomas Dekker – The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Thomas Dekker & Thomas Middleton – The Roaring Girl
Ben Jonson – Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholmew Fair, Epicoene or The Silent Woman
Early Modern English Tragedy (16th century – 1642)
Christopher Marlowe – Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, Edward the Second
Thomas Norton & Thomas Sackville – Gorboduc
Anonymous – Arden of Faversham
Thomas Middleton – Women Beware Women, The Revenger’s Tragedy, A Game at Chess, The Witch, Macbeth, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy
Thomas Kyd – The Spanish Tragedy
Cyril Tourneur – The Atheist’s Tragedy
William Shakespeare – King Richard III, King Lear, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Othello, Macbeth, King Henry IV, King Henry V, King Henry VI, King Richard II, King Henry VIII, Timon of Athens
Thomas Middleton & William Rowley – The Changeling
John Fletcher – The Maid’s Tragedy, Valentinian
John Webster – The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi
John Ford – ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Perkin Warbeck
Elizabeth Cary – The Tragedy of Mariam
John Marston – Antonio and Mellida, Antonio’s Revenge, The Malcontent
George Chapman – Bussy D’Ambois, The Revenge of Bussy D’Ambois
William Shakespeare et al. – Sir Thomas More
Early Modern English Tragicomedy (16th century – 1642)
William Shakespeare – The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, Pericles, The Two Noble Kinsmen
Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher – Philaster or Love Lies a-Bleeding
John Ford, Thomas Dekker & William Rowley – The Witch of Edmonton