THEA 5351: Theatre Scholarship/Research Methods

Indexes articles from around 400 scholarly and popular periodicals, as well as some books. Includes reviews, biographical profiles, obituaries, interviews, and more. 

Identify, select, and create lists of musical theater repertoire. Searchable by voice type, character age, range, genre, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, etc. Over 11 000 songs from nearly 2 000 shows.

Provides insight into the theatrical world of eighteenth century society and explores how the Larpent plays reflect the politics of the time, the role of women, views on race and religion, opinions on empire, and European and British history. Features three distinct areas: Primary source documents, the focus of which is the Larpent collection of plays and Anna Larpent's Diaries; the London Stage Database; and the Biographical Dictionary Database. Adam Matthew

Provides access to material from the Shakespeares Globe Performance and Architectural Archives, which shows how productions at the reconstructed Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse were conceived, rehearsed, dressed, marketed, sound tracked, how props were used, how the audiences behaved, and the theatre history and performance lessons that were observed and learned, along with information on about 170 different plays, concerts or events and over 400 different productions of these plays. The architectural archive includes material on how the reconstruction of the theatre was designed and planned and some of the conversations and debates that informed construction decisions, as well as material on the theatres annual reports, communications to its supporters, and oral histories detailing some of the early history of the reconstructed theatre. Keyword and advanced search options with filters for date, play, document type, season, theater, author and director. Limits for Image Gallery. Allows for proximity searching. Adam Matthew Digital.

Provides access to research for the disciplines of drama, music, art history, and film making.

Provides indexing and abstracts for the core journals in the fields of communication studies, journalism and mass communication as well as non-core journals in additional fields which extend the resource to include the growing interdisciplinary nature of the field.

Comprised of the Berg Fashion Library which provides access to a searchable portal of integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history and the Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases which provides real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion.

A complete searchable archive of Vogue (U.S. edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. 

Includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities.

Indexes the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities covering literary, scholarly, and creative thought.

Digital library of over 25,000 scripts of more than 6,000 living playwrights.
Downloadable (PDF) scripts of contemporary drama, searchable by plays, people, and organizations. Includes filters by cast size and type, age level, genre, subject matter, production history, actor and narrative attributes, and playwright location.

Indexes plays written in or translated into English from antiquity to the present including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Contains 1 009 scripts by 1 062 writers. It also contains facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Many of the scripts have never been published. The database is full-text searchable and includes detailed indexing on scenes, characters, and people. Supplemental information includes short biographies on the writers and awards given to individual films have been noted.

Contains the full text of more than 1 500, American dramatic works from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century. Numerous other genres are represented in the collection. 

Access prompt books for Shakespeares plays from the collection of prompt books in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. Prompt books are the script of the play marked up to show notes on a specific production, including any changes made to the play (cutting scenes, rearranging dialogue, etc.), and may include instructions on technical production elements such as lighting, music, and stage directions. The collection covers 42 plays from a production of Twelfth Night in the 1600s to a 1975 production of The Tempest, and includes British, American, and international productions. Search features include a browse by play, simple, and advanced search. Interactive features include viewing two prompt books of the same play side-by-side, an introduction to prompt books and common annotations seen in them, and a chronology. A section on case studies delves more deeply into seventeen productions of various plays. There is a glossary and biographies of well-known Shakesearian actors and directors. Adam Matthew.

Provides high-definition recordings of top British theatre, music, and dance productions. A collection of interviews offers insights on acting, directing, design, and tech theatre.

A multimedia database developed in collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre that offers a range of digital performance resources from the National Theatre's archive. Digitized archival materials are presented alongside videos to present a holistic view of the stagecraft involved in supporting world-class productions.

Provides a subject, author, and title index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. 

Provides access to more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.

Comprised of the Berg Fashion Library which provides access to a searchable portal of integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history and the Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases which provides real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion.

Provides access to cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide.

Provides a link to the web pages of the Academy. Included among the variety of resources on the web site are databases (under Research & Preservation--Resources & Databases) that allow searches of Academy Award winners and nominees, Academy Award acceptance speeches, Motion picture credits, and Motion Picture Scripts in six Los Angeles area collections.

An online place where actors, singers and dancers can connect with the greater performing arts community.