English 2113 Introduction to Literature: Criticism & Interpretation

Below are examples of search terms, using the "Subject" search option:

American  Drama
American Drama History and Criticism
American Poetry 20th Century History and Criticism
English Poetry Explication
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 Criticism and Interpretation
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Criticism and Interpretation
Short Stories American History and Criticism
Short Stories American
Short Stories English
American fiction women authors history and criticism
American fiction women authors

To search for criticism about playwrights, poets, or authors, use the "Keyword" search option and combine terms. 
Example search:

Frost and Mending

OR, search by the playwright's name and criticism 

Example search:

Shakespeare and criticism

Collections of plays, poems, or short stories can be located using the Library Discovery system. Below are some example titles.
The following titles are located at the John Vaughan Library. Some are in the Reference Collection, and others are in the Main Collection.

Plays:
Anton Chekhov's Plays (PG3456.A19 B7)
The Best One-Act Plays (PN6111.B47) 
Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comedies (PR1266.F39)
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections: An Author and Title Index to Plays Appearing in Collections Published Since 1900 (Ref. PN1655.O8)
The Play Index (Ref. PN2000.P53) an index to plays in anthologies
Restoration Plays (PR1266.R47)

Poems:

Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (PS3511 .R94 A6 1995) - by Robert Frost
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (PS3551 .N464 A17 1994)
Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them (PS1541 .Z5 M483 2016)
The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction (PR2848 .M33 2008)
The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth (PR5888 .C27 2003)
Complete Poems, 1904-1962, E. E. Cummings (PS3505 .U334 A17 1991)

Short Stories:

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (PS648 .S5 B4 1999)
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (PS3531 .O752 A6 1979)
Complete Novels and Stories (PS1294 .C63 A15 2002) by Kate Chopin
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales (PS2603 .H88 2012)
Stories, Essays & Memoir (PS3545 .E6 A6 1998) by Eudora Welty