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H.W. Wilson Announces Play Index 1998-2002
New Reference Features
Practical Information on Some 4,100 Plays
New York, New York, February 24th, 2004
Information on some 4,100 plays published between 1998 and 2002 is
now available in one practical source: H.W. Wilson's new Play
Index 1998-2002. Like Play Index volumes before it, Play
Index 1998-2002 helps users find plays with ease—by title,
author, subject, style, genre, and setting—and provides full
bibliographic information for every play. Coverage includes all
kinds of plays written in or translated into English, from classic
drama, to radio and television plays, to puppet performances.
For teachers, students, drama coaches, theater
groups, directors, performers, playwrights, and researchers, Play
Index 1998-2002 will be a welcome resource. Each entry
summarizes the plot of the play and indicates the number of acts and
scenes, size and gender of cast, number of sets, and if there are
dancing or music requirements. Symbols identify plays suitable for
children and young people.
Complete bibliographic information points users to
where the script may be obtained. For plays published singly,
entries list the publisher, publication date, pagination, and ISBN
and LC numbers if available. For plays in collections, entries
indicate the collection or collections in which the play appears,
and the "List of Collections" section provides full
publication information for every collection or anthology.
Finding the right plays for holiday themes, social
issues, lesson plans, and theatrical studies is easy, with a
single-alphabet index that identifies plays by subject (e.g.
sisters, culture conflict, marriage, Christmas); style (symbolism,
experimental theater, expressionism); genre (comedy, melodrama,
satire, musical); and setting (California, Japan, Paris, Western
U.S.), as well as by author and title.
A special Cast Analysis section helps users locate
plays specifically by type of cast (male, female, mixed, etc.), and
number of players and extras (e.g. 6 characters and extras: 5 men, 1
woman, and extras). This section is invaluable for finding plays
with just the right number of parts to match personnel resources.
VOYA hailed Play Index as "one of
the most important reference sources in the area of dramatic
literature." Reference Quarterly called it "the
pre-eminent play-finding index." A popular reference source for
over 50 years, Play Index will be available online later this
year via WilsonWeb (H.W. Wilson's internet database service),
featuring information on more than 40,000 plays.
Review copies of Play Index 1998-2002 are
available for members of the working press.
Play Index: 1998-2002 l
529 pages l
February 2004 l
ISSN: 0554-3037 l
$215 ($240 outside the U.S. and Canada)
Contact:
Roseward Sky
Phone (800) 367-6770, x2272
Email: rsky@hwwilson.com
Eileen Sutter
Phone (800) 367-6770, x2312
Email: esutter@hwwilson.com
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