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Theatre

This Guide provides a starting point for materials on theatre and performance.

The UW Dramatic Works Collection

Within the Library of Congress Classification system, dramatic works are filed according to country of origin, along with novels and poetry. Because of this, plays are scattered throughout the P classification. Here at the University of Winnipeg, we have created a separate section for plays where they are all filed together (except for the plays of Shakespeare, which remain with other Shakespeare-related works). A search for "UW DRAMATIC WORKS COLLECTION" (using "B8" as the Location Code) will produce a list of thousands of these plays. In an advanced search, you can combine this term with specific playwrights, e.g., 

B8: DRAMATIC WORKS COLLECTION  au: shaw

It is also possible to limit one's search to a particular play publisher, e.g.:

B8: DRAMATIC WORKS COLLECTION  kw: methuen

...or to plays on a given subject or theme:

B8: DRAMATIC WORKS COLLECTION  kw: adoption

 

General Guide to Shelf Locations:

•ML - Musicals
•PA - Greek and Roman plays (NOTE: scholarly editions intended more for the study of Classics than performance remain shelved in the main colletion).
•PG - Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian plays
•PJ – Plays from the Middle East, Central Asia
•PK - Indo-Iranian Plays
•PL – Plays from Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
•PN - General literature (film scripts)
•PQ - French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese plays
•PR - English plays (excepting Shakespeare's, which are in main English literature collection. See also the Shakespeare Studies libguide)
•PS 600+ American plays
•PS 8000+ Canadian plays
•PT - Germanic plays

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