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American Literary Studies
Nineteenth-Century British & American Drama
The Collection
A Microcard and Microfiche collection of over 6,000 plays
produced in Britain and America during the nineteenth century.
Genres included are serious plays, tragedies, historical dramas, parlor
entertainments, comedies, comic operas, pantomimes, extravaganzas, satires,
ballets, poetic dramas, amateur plays, black minstrel plays, adaptations
of classical drama, melodrama and opera libretti.
The collection includes
the eleven volume complete works of James
M. Barrie and the five volume title, The Extravaganzas of James
Robinson Planché. There are also major works by such
playwrights as: Charles Kock, Maurice Maeterlinck, St. John Hankin,
Edward Lytton,
Mary Russell
Mitford, and Thomas Chatterton.
Anthologies dealing with the theater
are also included, such as the six volume work, The German
Theatre,
translated by Benjamin Thompson,
the fourteen volume work, British Drama, A Collection of the Most
Esteemed Dramatic Productions, published in 1817, and a three volume work, Japanese
Noh Theatre, as well as English translations of foreign plays by such
authors as Schiller, Strindberg, Ibsen, Hauptmann, Musset, Checkhov,
and Hugo. The series includes Hugo’s four volume title, Dramas,
and a number of William Schwenck Gilbert’s operas.
A large amount
of dramatic literature is represented in the collection by such playwrights
as: Joanna Baillie, Dion Boucicault, John Brougham,
John Buckstone, Edward Fitzball, William Moncrieff, John Maddison Morton,
Sir Arthur Pinero, Thomas Taylor, and George M. Baker.
Green Library cancelled its subscription after receipt of the 1974
annual group of plays on fiche.
Location: Green Library, Media-Microtexts
Call Number: MCARD 1002 (1964-1971), MFICHE 210 (1972-1974)
Size: 5,000 cards, 1,290 sheets
Access: Microcards and fiches are arranged
alphabetically by main entry. Nineteenth
and Twentieth Century Drama: A Selective Bibliography of English Language
Works (Z2014
.D7 T5, IC, Green Library) serves as a guide to the plays on Microcard.
The bibliography lists plays by main entry and indexes by title, subject,
editors, joint
authors,
translators, pseudonyms,
illustrators, and composers. At present, there is no guide to the
plays on microfiche. Individual titles are not listed in Socrates.
Research Aids for Nineteenth-Century American Drama
- Nineteenth-Century American Drama: A Finding
Guide
- Compiled By Don L. Hixon and Don A. Hennessee. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow
Press, 1977. PS632 .H57, IC, Green Library.
An index to nineteenth-century American plays, including
English and European works adapted by American editors or translators. The
guide lists plays alphabetically by author and includes three additional
appendices arranged by series, ethnicity of the cast,
and subject/form.
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Last modified:
August 8, 2006
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