Literature Criticism Online provides online access to approximately 85% of the entries from the print publication.
Dates of Missing Items: It appears that none of the text entries prior to 1995 are missing. Approximately 15% of the text entries between 1995 and 2010 are missing. Gale has indicated that their policy has changed and that no entries will be missing from future volumes, but that there are some pending volumes to be published in 2010 which were commissioned prior to the change in policy and might have some entries missing in the online version.
Number of Missing Items through 2005:
Detailed Examination of Drama Criticism: The online entries for volumes 1-33 of Drama Criticism were examined to determine which entries were missing.
Missing Illustrations: It appears that a very small percentage of illustrations within entries are missing from throughout the runs of the various sets, but this analysis does not examine that issue.
Update (April 2015): In Drama Criticism, the counts for entries not available in the online version are as follows:
All 75 of the entries previously identified as missing for volumes 6 through 10 are still not available online, so the entries for volumes 11 through 33 were not re-evaluated for missing status.
Volume | Topic | # Missing | # Entries | % Missing |
1 | 14 topics | 0 | 173 | 0% |
2 | 11 topics | 0 | 140 | 0% |
3 | 10 topics | 0 | 134 | 0% |
4 | 10 topics | 0 | 153 | 0% |
5 | 9 topics | 0 | 109 | 0% |
1-5 | 54 topics | 0 | 709 | 0% |
6 | 8 topics (1 with missing entry) Clifford Odets |
1 1 |
97 15 |
1.0% 6.7% |
7 | 10 topics (8 with missing entries) Frank Chin Spalding Gray John Lyly Emily Mann Pierre Carlet De Chamblain De Marivaux Peter Shaffer Terence Ivan Turgenev |
20
1 5 1 4 2 2 3 2 |
101 12 9 7 12 12 13 13 9 |
19.8%
8.3% 55.6% 14.3% 33.3% 16.7% 15.4% 23.1% 22.2% |
8 | 9 topics (each with missing entries) Aeschylus Jean Anouilh Lonne Elder, III John Ford Brian Friel Oliver Goldsmith Charles Gordone Larry Kramer Marsha Norman |
30 3 1 3 3 3 2 2 4 9 |
131 9 11 10 17 22 11 13 17 21 |
22.9% 33.3% 9.1% 30.0% 17.6% 13.6% 18.2% 15.4% 23.5% 42.9% |
9 | 6 topics about Anton Chekhov (4 with missing entries) Overviews & General Studies The Seagull Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard |
8 4 2 1 1 |
55 23 7 8 8 |
14.5% 17.4% 28.6% 12.5% 12.5% |
10 | 7 topics (6 with missing entries) Dario Fo Maria Irene Fornes Susan Glaspell Tony Kushner Edmond Rostand Luis Valdez |
16 2 2 3 7 1 1 |
71 13 11 8 18 8 8 |
22.5% 15.4% 18.2% 37.5% 38.9% 12.5% 12.5% |
6-10 | 40 topics (28 with missing entries) | 75 | 455 | 16.5% |
11 | 7 topics about Edward Albee (each with missing entries) Overviews & General Studies The Zoo Story Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Tiny Alice A Delicate Balance Seascape Three Tall Women |
27 8 1 6 3 3 2 4 |
97 23 13 16 13 12 10 10 |
27.8% 34.8% 7.7% 37.5% 23.1% 25.0% 20.0% 40.0% |
12 | 5 topics (2 with missing entries) Thomas Dekker Eugene Ionesco |
5 4 1 |
74 13 17 |
6.8% 30.8% 5.9% |
13 | 4 topics (3 with missing entries) Alan Ayckbourn Moliere Tirso De Molina |
5 2 2 1 |
72 18 25 18 |
6.9% 11.1% 8.0% 5.6% |
14 | 5 topics (4 with missing entries) Antonin Artaud Thomas Bernhard Franz Grillparzer Neil Simon |
10 4 4 1 1 |
70 16 24 14 5 |
14.3% 25.0% 16.7% 7.1% 20.0% |
15 | 3 topics (2 with missing entries) Thomas Lovell Beddoes Harold Pinter |
5
1 4 |
78 13 48 |
6.4% 7.7% 8.3% |
11-15 | 24 topics (18 with missing entries) | 52 | 39 | 13.3% |
16 | 4 topics (each with missing entries) Exiles by James Joyce The Living Theatre Niccolo Machiavelli David Rabe |
11 6 2 2 1 |
74 27 18 11 18 |
14.9% 22.2% 11.1% 18.2% 5.6% |
17 | 5 topics (4 with missing entries) Jean Cocteau Peter Handke George S. Kaufman Arthur Schnitzler |
11 2 3 1 5 |
77 10 15 15 13 |
14.3% 20.0% 20.0% 6.7% 38.5% |
18 | 3 topics (each with missing entries) Antonio Buero Vallejo Terence Rattigan August Strindberg |
16 1 7 8 |
76 21 20 35 |
21.1% 4.8% 35.0% 22.9% |
19 | 4 topics (2 with missing entries) George Chapman Paula Vogel |
2 1 1 |
62 19 14 |
3.2% 5.3% 7.1% |
20 | 4 topics (each with missing entries) Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe John Guare Eugene O'Neill Sharon Pollock |
14 3 4 1 6 |
80 12 19 35 14 |
17.5% 25.0% 21.1% 2.9% 42.9% |
16-20 | 20 topics (17 with missing entries) | 54 | 369 | 14.6% |
21 | 4 topics (3 with missing entries) Jean Anouilh Pierre Corneille Friedrich Hebbel |
9 3 4 2 |
64 18 20 15 |
14.1% 16.7% 20.0% 13.3% |
22 | 4 topics (each with missing entries) Samuel Beckett Aime Cesaire Cherrie Moraga Stephen Sondheim |
12 5 3 2 2 |
50 18 14 7 11 |
24.0% 27.8% 21.4% 28.6% 18.2% |
23 | 4 topics (each with missing entries) George Etherege David Henry Hwang Suzan-Lori Parks George Bernard Shaw |
12 4 5 2 1 |
55 11 16 10 18 |
21.8% 36.4% 31.3% 20.0% 5.6% |
24 | 5 topics (each with missing entries) Lord George Gordon (Noel) Byron Margaret Edson Oleanna by David Mamet Thomas Otway Our Town by Thornton Wilder |
14 2 2 4 4 2 |
62 11 7 17 10 17 |
22.6% 18.2% 28.6% 23.5% 40.0% 11.8% |
25 | 3 topics (each with missing entries) Susanna Centlivre Jean Genet James Shirley |
8 3 1 4 |
54 22 12 20 |
14.8% 13.6% 8.3% 20.0% |
21-25 | 20 topics (19 with missing entries) | 55 | 285 | 19.3% |
26 | 5 topics (4 with missing entries) David Hare Moises Kaufman Hanif Kureishi G.E. Lessing |
8 5 1 1 1 |
76 37 11 11 10 |
10.5% 13.5% 9.1% 9.1% 10.0% |
27 | 4 topics (each with missing entries) Michael Frayn Terrence McNally Alfred De Musset George Peele |
7 1 1 3 2 |
62 10 11 23 18 |
11.3% 10.0% 9.1% 13.0% 11.1% |
28 | 4 topics (2 with missing entries) The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot Theater of the Absurd |
4 3 1 |
73 22 18 |
5.5% 13.6% 5.6% |
29 | 3 topics (2 with missing entries) Thomas Heywood Heinrich Von Kleist |
6 3 3 |
49 24 22 |
12.2% 12.5% 13.6% |
30 | 3 topics (each with missing entries) Zona Gale The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen Tom Stoppard |
7 1 4 2 |
47 11 21 15 |
14.9% 9.1% 19.0% 13.3% |
26-30 | 19 topics (15 with missing entries) | 32 | 307 | 10.4% |
31 | 3 topics (each with missing entries) Sarah Kane The Crucible by Arthur Miller August Wilson |
10 2 6 2 |
49 7 28 14 |
20.4% 28.6% 21.4% 14.3% |
32 | 4 topics (3 with missing entries) Pearl Cleage Maurice Maeterlinck Jean Racine |
6 2 3 1 |
66 11 15 31 |
9.1% 18.2% 20.0% 3.2% |
33 | 3 topics (1 with missing entry) Tomson Highway |
1 1 |
52 14 |
1.9% 7.1% |
1-33 | Total for all volumes (187 topics, 104 with missing entries) |
285 | 2683 | 10.6% |
7-33 | Total for all volumes, excluding first 6 volumes (125 topics, 103 with missing entries) |
284 | 1877 | 15.1% |