Graduate Playwriting Research at Hollins (2025
This page provides guidance to students in Hollins University's graduate playwriting program: how to find materials in the library, and how to do research using sources both in and beyond the library. Welcome!
Online Encyclopedias
OneSearch
OneSearch includes online articles from dictionaries and encyclopedias. Search for your topic, then limit your results to these articles by using the "Refine my results" list on the left:
- scroll to "Resource Type," then
- choose "Reference Entries."
Credo searches encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources.
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The Cambridge History of American Theatre
Call Number: E-Book (3 vols.)
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The Cambridge History of British Theatre
Call Number: E-Book Vol. 1 -3
Browsing the Reference Books
Reference books are located on the first floor of the library, with the call numbers:
- PN's, especially PN 1580-3300
- Literature - organized by country in other areas, e.g.:
- PQ = France, Italy, Spain
- PR = Britain
- PS = United States
- PT = Germanic countries
- Z5780-5782 - bibliographies
Theatre Encyclopedias: a sample
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Oxford Dictionary of Plays
Call Number: Reference - PN1625 .P38 2005 -
Dictionary of the theatre : terms, concepts, and analysis
Call Number: Reference - PN2035 .P2913 1998 -
Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater, 1930-2010
Call Number: Reference - PN2266.3 .F575 2011 -
World encyclopedia of contemporary theatre
Call Number: PN1861 .W67 1994 -
She also wrote plays : an international guide to women playwrights from the 10th to the 21st century
Call Number: Reference - PN6119.8 .C76 2001 -
Broadway : an encyclopedia of theater and American culture
Call Number: PN2277.N5 B62 2010
