LibGuides: Early Modern Drama: Playwrights


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Biographical reference books

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete This link opens in a new window
We also have back volumes of this resource in print. In particular, see Elizabethan Dramatists. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 62 MH Reference PR651 .E48 1987 and Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 58 MH Reference PR671 .J33 1987.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographies of people who shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
Biography in Context (aka Biography Resource Center) This link opens in a new window
Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography.