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The best way to find criticisms may be to find books on the play and/or playwright.
Start in Polar, the ONU library catalog. There will be physical books and ebooks available. If you can't find what you need in Polar, search in OhioLink.
Depending on the play/playwright you may need to search for the title or the playwright.
Finding a clickable subject or author name will help narrow the search.
Recommended Databases
- International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new windowFull text of journal articles on all aspects of theater and performance, plus indexing for books, book articles and dissertation abstracts
More information - Literary Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new windowInformation on thousands of authors, and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.
More information - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowCovers 4,000 journals in language, linguistics and folklore
More information - New York Times (The) This link opens in a new windowCurrent New York Times access. Follow the instructions on the linked page to set up an account.
New York Times may have reviews of productions staged in New York City. - SearchONU (Classic Interface) This link opens in a new windowSearches ONU's databases, e-journals, e-books, the POLAR catalog, and the OhioLINK catalog.
SearchONU is our most comprehensive resource for searching and includes databases that you can't search individually. Use limiters to narrow down your search.
Theatre Journal
Indexes for Reviews
Use these indexes to find reviews of productions:
Other Databases
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowIndex and cited references for articles in the arts and humanities. Includes or has links to full text.
More information - Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowProvides online access to a digital streaming video collection of current, leading theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
- Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new windowIncludes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journalsof which 470 are peer-revieweddating as far back as 1984
More information - Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new windowIndex, abstracts, and full text for literary, scholarly, and creative journals in the humanities. Includes or has links to full text.
More information - JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text articles, eBooks, and primary sources for many disciplines.
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