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Reference Sources

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Includes Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (see next reference)
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance / edited by Dennis Kennedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003

Also, Josten Ref PN2035 .O94 2003
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Cambridge Collections Online
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Josten PN2037 .B25 2008
The Cambridge introduction to theatre studies / Christopher B. Balme. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Josten Ref PN1625 .P38 2005
The Oxford dictionary of plays / Michael Patterson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
Josten Ref PN2266 .I55 1999
Twentieth-century British and American theatre : a critical guide to archives / Christopher Innes ; with Katherine Carlstrom and Scott Fraser. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, [Vt.] USA : Ashgate, c1999.

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American Theatre Sources

The Cambridge history of American theatre, vol. 1, beginnings to 1870 / edited by Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Also Josten Ref PN2221 .C37 1998 1
Electronic subset of Cambridge Collections Online.
The Cambridge history of American theatre, vol. 2, 1874-1945 / edited by Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Also Josten Ref PN2221 .C37 1998 2
Electronic subset of Cambridge Collections Online.
The Cambridge history of American theatre. Vol. 3, Post-World War II to the 1990s / edited by Don B. Wilmeth, Christopher Bigsby. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2000.
Also Josten Ref PN2221 .C37 1998 3
Electronic subset of Cambridge Collections Online.
The Oxford companion to American theatre / Gerald Bordman, Thomas S. Hischak. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Electronic subset of Oxford Reference Online Premium (see Reference Sources).
Also Neilson Reference/1 North PN2220 .B6 2004
Neilson and Josten Ref has 1984 editions.
The Cambridge companion to American women playwrights / edited by Brenda Murphy. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Also, Josten Ref PS338.W6 C36 1999
Available through Cambridge Collections Online (see Reference Sources).
Josten Ref PN2220 .C35 2007
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre / edited by Don B. Wilmeth. 2d. ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Josten & Neilson Ref PN2266.3 S53 1991
American theater and drama research : an annotated guide to information sources, 1945-1990 / Irene Shaland. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 1991.
Josten Ref ML102 .M88 H593 2008
The Oxford companion to the American musical : theatre, film, and television / Thomas Hischak. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Josten Ref Z1231.D7 .A53 1989
American playwrights since 1945 : a guide to scholarship, criticism, and performance / edited by Philip C. Kolin. New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.