Theatre arts
Research materials for theatre arts include resources for acting, directing, scenography, costume design and construction, technical design and production, theatre history, literature and playwriting, stage management, and arts administration. While most scripts and screenplays are available in hard copy, many criticisms, reviews, histories, and contextual material are available online.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index from Thomson Reuters
Arts & Humanities Citation Index from Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge
Arts & Humanities Citation Citation Index indexes citations and abstracts of journal literature of the arts and humanities. It also includes citations that refer to or review books, works of art, music scores, and performances. You can search cited references. 1975-present (older data available in print).
Literature Criticism Online from Gale
Literature Criticism Online from Gale
Includes full text of three references works:Short Story Criticism: most-studied short story writers with a historical survey of the critical response to their work, Drama Criticism: for each play or playwright: critical opinion, a biographical sketch, a chronological list of the writer's major works and more, and Children's Literature Review: most popular and influential authors of the genre are assessed through criticism of their major works. Entries presented in HTML and scanned page images that can be exported in PDF.
Humanities International Complete from EBSCOhost
Humanities International Complete from EBSCOhost
Humanities International Complete indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journals, books and book reviews, art work and images, performances and reviews, literature and criticisms, poems and short stories, and conference proceedings. Full text is available as HTML and PDF; images are available in a variety of formats. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1909-present.
MLA International Bibliography from Gale
MLA International Bibliography from Gale
MLA International Bibliography indexes citations to journal articles, books, dissertations, and scholarly web sites in disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Coverage includes literature from all over the world and includes citations to materials in many languages other than English. 1926-present.
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Sources of full-text plays
Sources of drama reviews and critique
- Art Full Text and Art Retrospective from EBSCOhost
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index from Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge
- Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950 from Gale Virtal Reference Library
- Book, Movie, Music, Play, and Video Reviews from LexisNexis
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress
- Humanities International Complete from EBSCOhost
- MLA International Bibliography from Gale
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Periodicals
