19th and 20th Century Theatre History Search for Books
| Use a subject search
if: |
- you find too many results.
Subject searches can narrowly focus your search using a specific subject
heading (example: use theater of the absurd rather than theater 20th
century)
- you find too few results.
Subject searches can broaden your search using a more general subject
heading (example: use theater England history instead of theater England
20th century history)
- you find too many irrelevant
results. Subject searches can eliminate irrelevant results from your
keyword search (example: searching for Shakespeare William as a subject
will retrieve only results that have William Shakespeare as the main
subject rather than some of the results that a keyword search for Shakespeare
that retrieves results that only mention Shakespeare briefly or are
written by someone named Shakespeare who is not the Elizabethan poet
and dramatist, William Shakespeare
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| If your search does
not produce results in the Owens
Library Catalog, you could try searching the Towers
Catalog or the MOBIUS
catalog (to search other college and university libraries in Missouri).
To search for books in other libraries beyond Missouri, search WorldCat. |
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Subject
Headings for Region or Nation |
Subject
Headings for Time Period |
Subject
Headings for Person, Play, or genre |
American
drama
American drama history
theater united states
theater united states history |
drama
19th century
drama 19th century history
drama 20th century
drama 20th century history |
by
actor, director, dramatist:
stanislavsky konstantin
meyerhold vsevelod
brecht bertolt
ibsen henrik
oneill Eugene
strasberg lee
welles orson
olivier laurence
gielgud john |
English
drama
English drama history
theater England
theater England history |
American
drama 19th century
American drama 19th century history
American drama 20th century
American drama 20th century history |
by
play:
oneill Eugene, 1888-1953. The iceman cometh
albee Edward, 1928- who's afraid of Virginia woolf?
stoppard tom rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead |
French
drama
French drama history |
English
drama 19th century
English drama 19th century history
theater England 20th century
theater England 20th century history |
Italian
drama
Italian drama history |
French
drama 19th century
French drama 19th century history
French drama 20th century
French drama 20th century history |
by
genre or movement:
theater of the absurd
constructivism
dada
expressionism
surrealism
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| Use
a keyword if: |
you are unsure about what subject heading to use
you have tried a subject search and retrieved no results or irrelevant
results you are combining more than one idea or concept in a search:
example: Italy and theat* and renaissance (combines the concepts of a
country or region, variants of the term theatre, and the concept of time
period or era) |
| If your search does
not produce results in the Owens
Library Catalog, you could try searching the Towers
Catalog or the MOBIUS catalog (to search other college and university
libraries in Missouri). To search for books in other libraries beyond Missouri,
search WorldCat.
Use the keywords in the table
of the guide introduction to supplement the keywords for searches in the
library catalog. |
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Search
Examples |
Explanation |
| Connectors |
19th
or 20th
s:theat* or s:drama*
s:theat* and audience*
musical* and united states
(19th or 20th) and s:theat* and s:histor* |
Use
the connector OR to combine similar terms or synonyms. OR increases results.
Use AND to combine two or more distinct concepts, words, or phrases. AND
decreases results.
Use parentheses to group words or phrases when using multiple OR connectors. |
| Truncation |
theat*
scen*
drama*
encyclop*dia*
dictionar*
perform*
histor*
critic*
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Truncation
allows you to search for word variants. For instance, theat* finds theater,
theatre, theaters, and theatrical. encyclop*dia finds the words encyclopedia
or encyclopedia. Use caution when truncating. Truncating too far up a word
stem will retrieve unwanted results. Act* will not only find actor, actors,
and acting but activate, activist, and actentuate. |
| Fields |
s:theat*
or s:drama*
t:century of innovation
a:findlay, Robert |
Use
field searches to more narrowly focus your search and reduce irrelevant
results. For instance, using the keyword theater will find books about the
performing arts theater but also books about the theater of war. s:theater
focuses the search to only books about performing arts theater. |
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