American Drama: Search Options

You can limit your search to particular elements of the data contained in American Drama by selecting items from the Search Options drop-down lists on the Search page.

The first set of Search Options applies to the whole database:

• All American Drama: retrieves hits in all areas of the database.
• American Verse Drama: restricts the results of your search to verse drama only.
• American Prose Drama: restricts the results of your search to prose drama only.

The second set of Search Options applies to Keyword searches:

• Including Notes: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in notes as well as Full Text.
• Excluding Notes: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) only in Full Text.
• Notes Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) only in notes.

The third set of Search Options applies to Keyword searches:

• Whole Plays and Associated Text: retrieves hits in all areas of the database.
• Speeches Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in speeches only.
• Prologues Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in prologues only.
• Epilogues Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in epilogues only.
• Songs Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in songs only.
• Poems Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in poems only.
• Titles Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in titles only.
• Stage Directions Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in stage directions only.
• Castlists Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in castlists only.
• Dedications Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in dedications only.
• Arguments Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in arguments only.
• Epigraphs and Mottos Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in epigraphs and mottos only.
• Additional Material Only: searches for occurrences of your search term(s) in additional material only.

The options selected by default are All American Drama, Including Notes and Whole Plays and Associated Text.

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