American Drama: Search

From the Search page, you can use the Page Toolbar to open a context-sensitive Help page or to clear the Search form.

From every page in American Drama you can use the Right-Hand Toolbar to consult general information about American Drama, to start a new search, to access the top-level Table of Contents page and to switch between components of Individual Literature Collections.

You can access the Search page by clicking the Refine Search icon on the Page Toolbar of any of the American Drama pages. Your original search terms will be preserved in the Search form. You can start a fresh search by clicking on the New Search icon on the Right-Hand Toolbar.

You can search American Drama using a combination of the following search fields:

• Keyword in play
• Title Keyword
• Playwright
• Speaker
• Place First Performed
• Date First Performed
• Publisher
• Publication Year
• Genre
• Gender
• Nationality
• Ethnicity

You can also use Keyword Search Options to refine your search further.

To conduct a search, either type the required search terms (individual words or phrases) into the relevant search boxes or select them from a browse index or drop-down list.

In the Search page, you can combine search terms using Boolean and searching and search for variations on search terms using truncation.

Note: Between search boxes, all terms are treated by default as if they were combined using the Boolean operator AND.

When you have finished making your selections, click Search. The Summary of Results in Context page will appear displaying the results of your search.

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