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Articles (Magazines, Journals, Newspapers)

Use the “Articles & Databases” link on the library home page to retrieve articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers using the library’s databases. . To search for specific journal titles in paper and electronic formats, use Find Journal Titles link here or on the home page. GCC ‘s general and subject-specific databases may have articles on your subject. Below are some typical databases: Biographical Sources

  • Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights
    Ref PS 325 .C656 2003 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Contemporary Theatre, Film & Television
    Ref PN 2285 .C58 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Twentieth Century American Dramatists
    Ref PS 21 .D5 1978, v.7, pts. 1-2 [ Catalog Record ]

Books and Media Materials

Use the Books and Video link on the LMC homepage to locate books and media items in our collection and other libraries in the MCCCD system. You can search by author, title, subject, or keyword. Some typical subject headings you may want to use include:
  • [search catalog for individual plays, actors, dramatists]
  • Monologues
  • Method (Acting)
  • Acting
  • American Drama--
Library of Congress Classifications:
  • PN 1660-3307: Drama
  • PN 1993-1999: Motion Pictures
  • (includes DVD,VHS collection of films, plus books about specific films)
  • PN 2000-3307: Dramatic Representaiton, Theatre
  • PN 2080 and PN 4305: Monologs (see Primary Sources section below)
  • PR 2754-3094: Shakespeare
Collections of Literary Criticism

These print resources contain essays about specific plays and dramatists. Encyclopedia and Dictionaries

  • Cambridge Guide to World Theatre
    Ref PN 2035 .C27 1988 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
    Ref PN 1861 .C65 2007 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays
    Ref PN 6112.5 .S45 1984 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Drama Dictionary
    Ref PN 1625 .H64 1988 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare
    Ref PR 2976 .G739 2005 [ Catalog Record ]

  • McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
    Ref PN 1625 .M3 1984 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Oxford Companion to the American Theatre
    Ref PN 2220 .B6 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Oxford companion to the theatre
    Ref PN 2035 .O9 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Oxford Dictionary of Plays
    Ref PN 1625 .P38 2005 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
    Ref PN 2035 .O92 2003 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Shakespeare A to Z
    Ref PR 2982 .B69 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Shakespeare Handbook
    Ref PR 2976 .S3374 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Shakespeare Survey; an Annual Survey of Shakespearean Study & Production
    Ref PR 2888 .C3 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Shakespeare's Characters for Students
    Ref PR 2989 .S53 1997 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Theatre World
    Ref PN 2277 .N5 A17 [ Catalog Record ]

Journal Subscriptions

Listed below are some of the LMC subscriptions to journals in this subject area. Some of these are also available in electronic format. To search for specific articles and subjects in many journals use databases listed above in the "Articles" section. To search for specific journal titles in paper and electronic formats, use Find Journal Titles link here or on the home page. Primary Sources - Original Texts

These books provide indexes to locating texts of plays and monolgues and scenes from popular plays in a variety of categories.

The general areas to locate books containing scripts and monologues is:

Using the following subject terms and genre headings can also help:

In order to find plays / scripts by particular playwrights, you must search by author.  

  • 100 Great Monologs: A Versatile Collection of Monologs, Duologs, and Triologs for Student Actors
    PN 2080 .Y65 2005 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Actors Guide to Scenes
    PN 1655 .G783 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Best American Plays
    PS 634 .B4 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Best plays
    PN 6112 .B45 [ Catalog Record ]

  • For Women: Monologues They Haven't Heard
    PN 4305 .M6 P66 1983 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Index to full length plays
    Ref PN 1655 .I54 1988 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Index to One-Act Plays
    Ref PN 1655 .L83 [ Catalog Record ]

  • One on One: The Best Men's Monologues for the Nineties
    PN 2080 .O57 1993 [ Catalog Record ]

  • One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century
    PN 2080 .C585 2007 [ Catalog Record ]

  • One on One: The Best Women's Monologues for the Nineties
    PN 2080 .O58 1993 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
    Ref PN 1655 .O85 1988 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Play Index
    Ref PN 1655 .P55 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Playwrights' Center Monologues for Men
    PN 2080 .P62 2005 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Playwrights' Center Monologues for Women
    PN 2080 .P6215 2005 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Two-minute monologs : original audition scenes for professional actors
    PN 2080 .A447 1998 [ Catalog Record ]

  • Voices of color : scenes and monologues from the Black American theatre
    PN 2080 .V65 1994 [ Catalog Record ]

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