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Literature Criticism Databases

Literature Criticism Online (Gale)
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
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- Literature Criticism 1400-1800
- Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
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- Short Story Criticism
- Something About the Authors
- Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCOhost)
Critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature: long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.

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- 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
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- Masterplots II: Drama
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- Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Biography
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- 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
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.

History of American & Canadian Theatre

Theatre in Context Collection (Alexander Street)
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A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. "O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage, the Oxford University Press Companion series, and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies series are just a few of the many in-copyright sources included in the Theatre in Context Collection. Placed alongside thousands of playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera, users will be able to paint a more comprehensive picture of the life and evolution of dramatic works."
Includes full-text plays from:
- Black Drama
- Twentieth Century North American Drama
- Asian American Drama
- North American Women's Drama
- Latino Drama
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (1984+)
"a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries....contains more than 400 full-text titles, including more than 130 full-text journals...and more than 270 full-text books & monographs."

Notable Plays

New Brutalism (c. 1980s – present)

Naomi Wallace – One Flea Spare, Slaughter City, In the Heart of America, The Inland Sea, The War Boys
Martin Crimp – The Country, The Treatment, Attempts on Her Life, No One Sees the Video
Sarah Daniels – Head Rot Holiday, Beside Herself, The Madness of Esme and Shaz
Sarah Kane – Cleansed, Crave, Phaedra’s Love, 4.48 Psychosis
Hanif Kureishi – Borderline, Sleep with Me, The Black Album
Mark Ravenhill – Shopping and Fucking, Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap’s Molly House, Handbag, The Cut, Shoot Get Treasure Repeat
Judy Upton – Ashes and Sand
Sarah Kane – Phaedra’s Love, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis, Cleansed, Blasted
Richard Norton-Taylor – Called to Account, The Colour of Justice, Bloody Sunday