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Theatre Resources

New Books

The Routledge Handbook of Cofuturisms
Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian
The imagining body in performer training : the legacy of Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard

Finding Books and Using the Snowden Online Catalog

The Library of Congress (LC) classification (the system Snowden Library uses to organize books) for theater falls under the broader category of "language and literature" and begins with the letter P. The general categories for communication are:

  • PN2000-3307 = Dramatic representation. The theater
  • PN6110.5-6120 = Drama
  • PQ = French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature (includes dramas)
  • PR = English literature (includes dramas)
  • PS = American literature (includes dramas)
  • PT = German literature - Dutch literature - Flemish literature since 1830 - Afrikaans literature - Scandinavian literature - Old Norse literature: Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian - Modern Icelandic literature - Faroese literature - Danish literature - Norwegian literature - Swedish literature (includes dramas)

You can find these general categories on the 4th floor of Snowden Library. You may want to browse the shelf where books on your subject are located to see what is available. For more targeted searching, use the search boxes below.

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Don't see what you need at Snowden? You can search for books available at other libraries that you can request via InterLibrary Loan using

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If you know a book title you want, you can also use E-Z Borrow to order it from other libraries in or near Pennsylvania.