Look Up Background & Quick Facts - 21T.248: Contemporary U.S. Theatre - Political Theatre

Online Reference Material

The following links will take you to excellent sources of background information on people, places, terms, and trends.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Covers drama and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the present.
Britannica Online
Encyclopedia covering a wide variety of subjects.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online encyclopedias in many subjects.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Provides an overview and historical survey of literary and cultural theory from Plato to postmodernism.Coverage is international.
Literary Resource Center (Gale Literary Databases)
Excellent source of biographical information on individual writers, as well as summaries of the significant trends of what literary critics have written about them.
Literature Online (LION)
Contains biographical information on individual writers, as well as links to articles about them.
Oxford Reference Online
Online dictionaries from many different fields

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