Dramatic Literature LIT 230: Finding Library Materials

Each Branch library is arranged according the the Library of Congress Classification system. Once you know the general area where books on your topic are kept, it can be very effective to browse the shelves. How to read a call number

PA 1-8595 Classical Languages and Literature

227-1179 Greek Philology and Language

2001-2915 Latin Philology and Language

3051-4500 Greek Literature: Ancient (Classic) to ca. 600 C.E.

4505 Medieval and Modern Authors Writing in Classical Greek

5000-5660 Greek Literature: Byzantine and Modern

PB 1-431 Modern European Languages: General Works

PC 1-5498 Romance Languages

PD - Old Germanic, Scandinavian

PE - English 1-3729

PF - Dutch, German 1-5999

PG - Slavic 1-7925 Slavic, Baltic, Albanian Languages and Literature

PH - Finnish 1-5490 Dinno-Ugrian, Basque Languages and Literatures

PJ - Oriental, Semitic 1-9293

PK - Indo-Iranian 1-6996 Indo-Iranian

PL - East Asian, African, Oceania 1-8844 Languages and Literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania

PM - Indigenous American, Artificial Languages 1-9021 Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial Languages

PN - Literary History & Collections 1-6790 Literary History and Collections (General)

80-99 Criticism

101-245 Authorship

441-1009.5 Literary History 

1010-1551 Poetry

1560-1590 The Performing Arts, Show Business

1600-3307 Drama

1660-1693 Dramatic Composition

1865-1999 Special Types of Drama 2000-3307 Dramatic Representation, The Theater

3311-3503 Prose, Proce Fiction

4001-4355 Oratory, Elocution, Recitations, etc.

4400 Letters

4500 Essays

4699-5650 Journalism

6010-6790 Collections of General Literature

6080-6095 Quotations

6099-6110 Poetry

6110.5-6120 Drama

6120.15-6120.95 Fiction

6121-6129 Orations

6130-6140 Letters

6141-6145 Essays

6147-6231Wit and Humor, Satire

6249-6790 Miscellaneous

PQ - Romance Literature 1-9999

PR - English Literature 1-9680 

PS - American Literature 1-3576

PT - Germanic Literature 1-9999