Research Guides: Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies: Criticism

Article databases

Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Citations to scholarly and popular performing arts journals, including full-text coverage.
MLA International Bibliography
International research on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Includes scholarly journals, books, working papers, and conference papers.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
Literature Resource Center
Analysis, biographical information, overviews, full text literary criticism, original works of literature, and reviews on more than 160,000 writers. Over 100 literature focused topic overviews including: Utopianism, Black Mountains Poets, Cyberpunk, Stream of Consciousness Novels, Magical Realism in Short Fiction, Elizabethan Drama, and much more.

Select the "Catalogue" tab
Enter the name of a playwright and/or the title of a play
Note: Place quotation marks around the title to search the words together as a phrase, e.g. "Major Barbara"

You can refine your search resuts using the options on the left
Scroll down to "Subject" & select "History and Criticism" or "Criticism and Interpretation"