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Below are a few major, frequently used sources
for the study of Drama and Dance. See also the research guides
to Literature (English & American, Romance,
Asian, German & Russian, Classics), and General
Humanities.
Please consult with a reference librarian for directions
to many more sources in your topic. Internet resources require
a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users
statement).
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Facts and Background Information
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Cambridge Guide to Theatre
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PN2035 .C27]
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PN1625 .M3]
Theatre Backstage from A to Z
[PRINT. Tisch Reference N2035 .L6]
International Dictionary of Theatre
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PN2035 .I47 1992]
Brewer’s Theater: A Phrase
and Fable Dictionary
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PN2035 .B74]
Oxford Companion to American Theatre
[PRINT Tisch Reference PN2220 .B6 1992]
Drama Dictionary
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PN1625 .H6]
Dance Encyclopedia
[PRINT. Tisch Reference GV1585 .C5]
Dance Words
[PRINT. Tisch Reference GV1585 .P47]
International Dictionary of Ballet
[PRINT. Tisch Reference GV1585 .I57]
Performing Arts: A Guide to the Reference Literature
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PN 1584 .S56]
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers
of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
Find Books
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These databases use Library
of Congress subject headings:
Library
Catalog
Boston Library Consortium Catalogs
Worldcat
Catalog records from thousands of North American libraries.
Plays and monologues
Play Index
Play Index provides citations to over 30,000 plays written or translated into English, from Antiquity to the present, published in collections since 1949: one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama. It includes links to the full text of plays if available on the web. Over 500 monologues are included. Searches can be limited by genre, age of audience, or the number and gender of roles. Annotations include plot summary, musical and scenery requirements, and number of sets. The index is updated continuously.
For other indexes to collections of plays and monologues, click
here.
Best Plays of (year) and The Year Book of the Drama in America
(Burns Mantle) 1899-
[PRINT. Tisch Book Stacks PN2266 .A2 B4]
For more on how to find books and search subjects in Drama and
Dance, click here.
For more general information on how to find books, see Database
Searching Tips (also available in PDF).
Find Articles
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International
Index to the Performing Arts
Indexes more than 200 scholarly and popular periodicals in dance,
theater, film, and television, from 1998 to the present, with
expanding retrospective coverage of some titles.
MLA
International Bibliography 1963-
An international index to books and journals on the modern languages
and literatures, including linguistics and folklore. Publications
from 1921 to 1962 are covered in printed volumes at Tisch Reference
Indexes [HUM] Z7006 .M64.
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Index and full text, 1902-1994. Names of contributors, anonymous
through 1974, have been restored wherever possible.
World
Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles,
book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of
productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other
scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published
or produced since 1971.
Expanded
Academic ASAP
Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications,
including national news and commentary. Coverage is from 1980 to current and
is updated daily. Some full text is available.
Arts & Humanities
Citation Index. Institute for Scientific Information, 1974-
Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews
in the arts and humanities. Coverage from 1974. Part of Web of Science.
New York Times
For online, searchable text, use these two databases:
LexisNexis
From June 1, 1980 through current, full text of the Final New
York City Edition; from January 1, 1969 - May 31, 1980 (abstracts).
LexisNexis contains many American and foreign newspapers, and
is a good source for current coverage of regional theater.
New
York Times Historical Archive 1851-three years before current
date
Includes full-text and full-image articles dating back to the
first issue of the NYT in 1851; the collection includes digital
reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover—in
downloadable PDF(r) files.
Reviews and criticism
For indexes to critical writings in books, collections, and earlier
periodicals, click here.
Electronic journals
Periodicals are listed in the library
catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record,
and most entries for journals held in electronic format contain
a hyperlink to the source; searches in the web-based catalog enable
one to follow these links directly. A complete list of electronic
journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic
Journals.
Many humanities/social sciences journals held in digital format
are parts of Project
Muse or JSTOR.
Although these databases include search engines for the journals
they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive
and authoritative sources for the literature of the discipline,
and frequently link directly to our electronic journals.
For more on how to find articles, see Database
Searching Tips (also available in PDF).
Primary Sources
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ArchivesUSA
Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript
repositories, with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special
collections.
Early
American Imprints 1639-1819
An online collection reproducing every extant book, pamphlet, and
broadside published in America from 1639 to 1819 - the complete printed,
non-serial source materials of American culture for the 17th and 18th centuries.
Covers titles in the Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker bibliographies. Available
also in microform: TISCH MICROFORMS F700.
Early
English Books Online
Over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title
Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700),
and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), comprising all known English
language books from the beginning of printing to 1700. Years
1474-1640 are available also in microform, TISCH MICROFORMS
R484.
Editions
and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition
of 1863-6, 24 separate contemporary printings of individual plays,
selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations,
sequels and burlesques from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Websites
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Tufts Department of Drama
and Dance
Voice
of the Shuttle: Drama, Theater, & Performance Art Studies
The Worldwide Wide Web Virtual
Library: Theatre and Drama
A collection of multicultural and multilingual theatre links.
Playbill On-line
History of
Costume
Costume
Page
Didaskalia:
Ancient Theatre Today
The latest developments in Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music
as they are performed today. Includes full-text access to the
journal of the same name.
College
Theatre Guide
Association for Theatre in Higher
Education
Complete
Works of William Shakespeare
Mr. William Shakespeare
and the Internet
For more on how to find and evaluate websites, see How
to Evaluate Web Sources.
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