Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

1. e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

Finding a Play

1. Play Index (for finding plays collected in books and published in magazines, etc.)

2. Tufts Library Catalog (search by keywords in the title of a play, or by the names of playwrights)

Title Keyword Author Subject Reserves

3. WorldCat (catalogs of libraries worldwide)

Many more books on well-studied playwrights, so it helps to browse through some typical subject subdivisions in book Catalogs:

Williams, Tennessee (last name first in subject search)

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Bibliography.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Correspondence
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Criticism And Interpretation.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Dramatic Production.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Film And Video Adaptations.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Interviews.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Stage History.

A Keyword Search for contemporary playwright

1. "Maishe Maponya"

Some playwrights are found in a chapter of a book (on broader/general topics) rather than in a monograph (books on a singular subject/author):

Theatre and Change in South Africa

“A truly living moment”: acting and the Statements plays / Brian Crow -- “The many individual wills.” From Crossroads to Survival. The work of Experimental Theatre Workshop '71 / Robert McLaren -- Whose popular theatre and performance? / Martin Orkin -- The performance aesthetics of township theatre: frames and codes / Christopher Balme -- Theatre for export: the commercialization of the Black people's struggle in South African export musicals / Jerry Mofokeng -- Theatre in exile / Anthony Ackerman -- My life in the theatre of war: the development of an alternative consciousness / Matthew Krouse -- What is a tribal dress? the “Imbongi” (Praise-singer) and the “People's poet.” Reactivization of a tradition in the liberation struggle / Peter Horn -- The workers' theatre in Natal / Ari Sitas -- “An interest in the making of things.” An interview with William Kentridge / Geoff V. Davis and Anne Fuchs -- Tooth and nail. Rethinking form for the South African theatre / Malcolm Purkey -- Physical images in the South African theatre / Mark Fleishman -- “I will remain an African.” An interview with Maishe Maponya / Geoff V. Davis and Anne Fuchs -- Politics and the theatre: current trends in South Africa / Zakes Mda -- Theatre: the political weapon in South Africa / Doreen Mazibuko -- “This compost heap of a country.” An interview with Barney Simon / Geoff V. Davis and Anne Fuchs -- So what's new? The story behind the play / Fatima Dike -- PACT: can the leopard change its spots? / Carol Steinberg -- The future of the performing arts councils in a new South Africa / Arnold Blumer -- “It's time to have a South African culture.” An interview with Ramolao Makhene / Geoff V. Davis and Anne Fuchs.

Subject Headings for the Book:

Cuban literature

Cuban Literature -- 20th Century -- History And Criticism

García, Cristina, 1958-

Perform an Advanced Keyword Search for a broader question: Blackness/colorism in African American Theater; limit the search to print materials. .

Any Field: Author: Title: Subject: Note: And And not Or Any Field: Author: Title: Subject: Note: And And not Or Any Field: Author: Title: Subject: Note: And And not Or Books/Journals

Note:

• 1. use the Subject field;
• 2. “ ” quotations marks around phrases.
• 3. "or" and ( ) to nest related/varied expressions;
• 4. black* for all forms of the word: black, blacks, blackness.
• 5. limit search results to books.