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Books at Wesleyan and Other Libraries

 

Library Homepage - What You Need to Know

 

Theater Reference Books in Olin

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance  Ref PN2035 .O92 2003

Cambridge Guide to Theatre  Ref PN2035 .C27 1995  (also online)

Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre  Ref PN2111 .O95 1995

      
     

    Online Theater Reference Resources

    • Cambridge Guide to Theatre
      Information on the history and present practice of theatre in all parts of the world.
    • Theatre Histories
      A theater textbook supplement with extensive subject bibliographies. Click on ‘For the Student’ for the bibliographies. Also includes an additional link to websites and audio-visual resources.
    • Drama Online (on trial through May 21, 2013)
      A constantly growing collection of plays, from ancient to new writers. It also provides contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides.
    • Literary Encyclopedia (on trial through April 27, 2013)
      a literary and cultural reference work offering comprehensive coverage of English-language literature and is very strong in French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish and the Classics. It also offers abundant information on the historical context of literary production.
    • World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
      The most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2012. Citations only - does not include full text.
    • Shakespeare's Theatre: a Dictionary of His Stage
      Basic information most relevant to the original staging of Shakespeare and the study of these productions.
    • Shakespeare Survey
      A series of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.
    • Grove Art Online
      Grove Art Online is today's foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. Search for "theater".
     

    Finding Journal Articles

    The Indexes tab on the Library's home page gives you access to hundreds of other indexes and databases that are available to the Wesleyan community.

    • International Index to the Performing Arts
      Access to the information in more than 210 international performing arts periodicals(30+ full text), and retrospective citations dating back as far
      as 1864.
    • Literature Online (LION)
      With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism.
    • MLA (Modern Language Association)
      Citations to publications pertaining to languages, literature, linguistics, literary theory. Covers publications from 1963 to the present.
    • Humanities Full Text with Retrospective Index
      Humanities Full Text with retrospective index includes academic journals in the humanities with indexing for almost 700 journals dating back to 1984. The retrospective portion of the index dates between 1907-1984.
    • Historical Abstracts
      An index to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).
    • ITER (Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
      Journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogs, abstracts, discographies, monographs and collections of essays pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
    • Annee Philologique
      History, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, and epigraphy related to the Greek and Roman civilization from 200 B.C. to the early Middle Ages.
    • Readers' Guide Full Text with Retrospective Index
      Readers Guide includes indexing of over 550 periodicals as far back as 1890 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 journals as far back as 1994. Covers a broad range of subject areas.
    • Academic OneFile
      Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
    • Periodicals Archive Online
      Lists the tables of contents (with access to some full text articles) from social science and humanities journals from as far back as 1770 to recent issues.
    • JSTOR
      A trusted archive of important scholarly journals. Full text articles. Does does most recent 3-5 years.
    • Project Muse
      Full text of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, and more. Full text articles from mid-1990s to present.
    • Google Scholar
      Searches academic publishers and professional societies.

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    Art and Art History, Film Studies, Theater, Romance Languages and Literatures
     

    Finding Videos

    • Theatre in Video
      Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries about theater in streaming video.
      Browse "Documentaries" from home page.
    • BBC Shakespeare Plays
      This collection provides streaming access to the 37 Shakespeare plays produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.
    • Videos in Wesleyan's Collection
      Shortcut to searching videos only in Wesleyan's catalog.
     

    Images

    • ARTstor Digital Library
      More than 1.5 million images from many time periods and cultures.
      Suggestion -- Use the search term "theater" in combination with other terms such as "stage", "costume", "set" or name of country, for example. Sort by date.
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