Research Guides: Dramaturgy: Drama Criticism

Databases with Drama Criticism

Search these library databases to find journal articles and other publications with drama criticism. Drama criticism refers to a critique or analysis to the text of the play.

Literary Sources This link opens in a new window
Simultaneous search of these Gale literature databases: Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, Scribner Writers Series, Something About the Author, and Twayne's Authors Series. Find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews.
Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Compilation of literary commentary with a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. The Criticism series includes: Children's Literature Review; Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Short Story Criticism; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of books and articles on modern languages and literature, linguistics, folklore, film, and other related topics. Content from 1926 - present.

If you don't see the full text of an article in the database you are searching, use these steps to find a copy of the article:

1. Choose to check for full text in other library databases.

You can also use the eJournal Search to locate full text of a journal article. Just enter the name of the journal in which the article is published.

2. Search the Catalog to identify the call number and location (usually second floor) of the journal.

3. Request a copy of the article through Interlibrary Loan.

Search UAB Libraries for Drama Criticism

Search UAB Libraries:

A search of the Library Catalog will show you items UAB Libraries owns, a search for Everything will open your search to include items that can be accessed via ILL as well.

To find books of criticism about a play or playwright, conduct an Advanced Search by Subject for the playwright's lastname firstname (e.g., parks suzan lori).

e-Books

Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 by C. W. E. Bigsby
ISBN: 0521790891
Publication Date: 2000-12-21
In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the key elements of the first edition, including surveys of those major figures who have shaped postwar American drama, such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, Bigsby also explores the most recent works and performances: these include plays by established dramatists such as Miller's The Ride down Mount Morgan and Albee's Three Tall Women, as well as works by relatively new playwrights Paula Vogel, Tony Kushner, and Terrence McNally among others. Bigsby also provides a new chapter, 'Beyond Broadway' and offers an analysis of how theatre has formed and influenced the millenial culture of America.