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How Do I Find?
Plays, Short Stories, and Poetry
See also Humanities
Digital Information Service for more links to digital texts.
Plays
- Asian American
Drama
- Black Drama
(1850+) full-text plays
- English Verse
Drama "aims to encompass the complete published corpus
of verse dramas of writers listed in NCBEL [New Cambridge
Bibliography of English Literature] who were active before
1900."
- Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections 1900-1985.
7 ed. (Green Library Information Center Z5781.O8)
- Play Index, 1949+ (Green Library Information Center
Z5781.P83) indexes plays in collections; English lang. & translations
only.
- LitFinder includes Essay/Speech/Play
Finder
- Drama Scholars' Index to Plays and Filmscripts, a guide
to plays and filmscripts in selected anthologies, series, and
periodicals. 1974-86. (Green Library Information Center Z5781.S17)
includes foreign language, & 18th-19th century plays.
- Plays in Periodicals: index to English language scripts
in twentieth century journals, 1970 (Green Library Information
Center Z5781.P3)
- Index to Plays in Periodicals (Green Library Information
Center Z5781.K43 1979 & Suppl. 1990)
- International Dictionary of Theater: Plays. 1992.
PN2000.I474. Lists editions, translations into English, and criticism.
- Nineteenth-Century American Drama: A Finding Guide. 1977. (Green
Library Information Center PS632.H57)
Other approaches (also applies to poetry and short stories):
1) Use the author bibliography section in such standard handbooks
as:
- New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature,
1974- 77. (Green Library Information Center Z2011.N45)
- Critical Bibliography of French Literature (Green
Library Information Center Z2171.C3 & Z2171 .C74 1985)
- Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon (Green Library HASRC Lane Room
Z2231 .K663)
- Literary History of the United States: Bibliography, 1974.
(Green Library Information Center PS88.L522)
2) Check Socrates, searching
under individual authors.
Short Stories
- Early American Fiction
"a collection of 440 full texts of the first editions of
American novels and short stories written before 1850."
- Short Story Index, 1953+ (Green Library Information
Center Z5917.S5C6)
- LitFinder includes Short
Story Finder
- Index to Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prize
Stories (Green Library Stacks Z1231.F4.W52 1988).
Poetry
Poetry Anthologies:
- Oxford Book of American Light Verse (Green Library Information
Center PS586.O95)
- New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950. (Green Library
Information Center PR1175.G32)
- New Oxford Book of English Light Verse. (Green Library Information
Center PR1175.N37
- Oxford Book of Irish Verse. (Green Library Information Center
PR8851.O8
- Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. (Green Library
Information Center PR1225.L3)
- Oxford Book of Nineteenth Century English Verse. (Green Library
Information Center PR1221.O79)
- New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century English Verse. (Green
Library Information Center PR1215.N48 1984)
- Oxford Book of Satirical Verse. (Green Library Information
Center PR1195.S3.O9 1980)
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