Online Sources
 Expanded
Academic ASAP
For movie reviews in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Nation, and the trade publication Variety, as
well as film criticism in scholarly journals.
Note: Variety is indexed from 1980 on with full text starting 1997.
Tisch also holds this indispensable trade journal from 1990 to the present
at Current Periodicals and Microforms [Tisch Micro R348].
 International
Index to the Performing Arts
Note: The coverage of this database is not always very up to date. Some journals
are two years behind the current time.
Lexis-Nexis Search
examples
For movie reviews in regional, national, and international
newspapers.
New
York Times Historical Archive, 1851-three years before current
date
Find movie reviews in New York times in the earlier years that are not
covered in Lexis-Nexis.
Early American Newspapers 1690-1876
London
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985.
African American Newspapers - 19th Century
American
Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) 1740 to 1900
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
Nation
Digital Archive July 6th, 1865
Times
Literary Supplement Centenary Archive |
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Print Indexes
New York
Theatre Critics' Reviews (Ref. PN1601 .N4)
Complete reviews from popular media sources from 1944 to 1994. Continued
by National Theatre Critics Reviews (Ref. PN 2000
.N3).
Tip: Use the Year
End Index, either in the front or in the back page in the binder.
Theatre
Record 1985- (Bound Periodicals PN2596 .L6 L66)
Presents cast and production details for London’s West End and fringe
shows, and reviews from many British daily and weekly drama critics.
American
Literary And Drama Reviews: An Index To Late Nineteenth Century Periodicals (Ref. PN2256 .M37)
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Art and Humanities
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E-journal Collections
Searching in these sources offers a multidisciplinary look at your topic. For example, a search on Asian American Stage and Screen in JStor would find articles from journals in such disciplines as Language & Literature, Performing Arts, and Asian Studies, in addition to Film Studies.
Project Muse and JSTOR
These are two digital collections of core journals in many disciplines. While Project Muse offers more recent issues, JSTOR has more earlier issues.
Tip: Use more than one source/database (each with its own particular academic discipline/subject focus and extensiveness of coverage) for a comprehensive and in-depth research on your topic.
Example, your topics are of an interdisciplinary nature--drama/theater studies and cultural studies, to say the least. Or, you will be applying a special critic method or theory, such as feminist and women’s studies, in looking at your plays or playwright.
Example, journals may be included in one relevant database, but not another. Or different database covers different years of a shared journal. For instance, Asian Theatre Journal is covered in JStor from 1984 to 2003, while Expanded Academic ASAP offers indexing from 2000 to the current year.
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Finding 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.
See indexes
to collections of plays and monologues in Tisch Library collections.
Three Centuries of English and American Plays: A Checklist (Ref. Z2014 .D7 B45)
A finding guide to more than 5000 plays. We have copies of the over 350
American playscripts written between 1714-1830 on microfiche. Followed by
Nineteenth-century American Drama: A Finding Guide (PS632.H57) covering
1831-1900. We do not own a microform collection of
these plays, although many of them are found separately in our collection.
Early English Text Society (series).
Scholarly editions of Old and Middle English texts, including mystery plays"
and early forms of drama.
Tip: try a keyword search in the Catalog to see the individual
titles in the series:
Early
English Text Society and (play* or drama*)
Source materials in the field of theatre: a guide
to the microfilm collection. (Ref. PN2020 .S62)
(Note: Tisch library has a new scanning software that allows saving
microforms in digital format, marking up and edit the file as an image file
or converting the image file into text file.)
The collection includes books, periodicals, manuscripts, journals, and diaries
from four centuries (1568-1929) of theater in Europe and America. It contains
contemporary reviews of notable performances, treatises on theater architecture,
descriptions of set designs, theater histories, drama criticism, actors'
manuals, memoirs and diaries of famous performers. Among the periodicals
included are: The Mask (1908-1929), The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor
(1810-1811), and the The Theatrical Inquisitor (1812-1815). The collection
also includes a multitude of works representative of the European theater
written in French, German, Italian, and Latin.
Covent Garden Prompt Books, 1710-1824.
(Microforms Micro. R469, reels 1-3.)
From the collection of Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.
Prompt books for plays, comic operas, and musicals performed at Covent Garden
between 1710 and 1824. Each book includes stage setting notations or stage
directions.
English and American stage productions: an annotated
checklist of prompt books, 1800-1900, from the Nisbet-Snyder
drama collection, Northern Illinois University Libraries. Compiled by William
R. DuBois. ( Ref. Z5781 .D85 c.1)
Tip: try keyword searches in the Catalog to see other prompt
books in Tisch:
(promptbook* or prompt
book*)
(promptbook*
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Online Sources
ArchivesUSA
Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript repositories,
with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special collections.
Early
American Imprints I 1639-1800
An online collection reproducing every extant book, pamphlet, and broadside
published in America from 1639 to 1800 - the complete printed, non-serial
source materials of American history for the 17th and 18th centuries. Available
also in microform: TISCH MICROFORMS F700.
Early American Imprints II: 1801-1819
Full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
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.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (1701-1800)
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.
Shakespeare's
Plays (via Dartmouth)
http://dciswww.dartmouth.edu:50080/?&&&29&s
Abstract: The Shakespeare's Plays file, provided by the Dartmouth College
Library Online Catalog, consists of the full text of 33 of Shakespeare's
plays, taken from Arthur Bullen's Stratford Town Edition.
Shakespeare
Complete Works (via MIT)
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Abstract: The original electronic source for this edition of the Complete
Works of William Shakespeare is the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare. Also
offered is full-text searching, a glossary, and a discussion area.
ARTFL, American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language is a full-text retrieval database of classical French writings.
Users can create a dictionary and frequency count of words used in a text,
trace origins of words or phrases back through the 17th century, etc. The
database includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings,
and technical treatises. For example, many works by Molière and Voltaire
are available in this database.
Perseus
Project (Classics Department, Tufts University)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Includes the works of William Shakespeare, important historical sources
from the period, and a variety of secondary reference works.
Of particular interest to textual scholars will be the electronic
facsimile of the First Folio, the compilation of Shakespeare's dramatic
works published by fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell in 1623.
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
More online primary sources
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Archives
and Special Collections beyond Tisch
Harvard
Theatre Collection
The holdings of the Harvard Theatre Collection document the history
of the performing arts, especially theatre, dance, opera, musical theatre,
and popular entertainments such as circuses, pantomime, puppetry, American
minstrelsy, music, and fairs and pleasure gardens. In addition to books,
manuscripts, and dramatic texts, the collection includes prompt-books, posters,
playbills, programs, prints, sheet music, photographic collections, drawings
and designs, portraits, set models, video and audio recordings, clipping
files, and albums and extra-illustrated volumes.
New
York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the world's most
extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections
in its field. The Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections
of non-book materials such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph
manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings,
programs, posters and photographs. See especially the Billy
Rose Theatre Collection .
The
Shubert Archive
"The Shubert Archive collection — more than a century's worth
of production designs, scripts, sheet music, publicity materials, photographs,
correspondence, business records and architectural plans — has grown
substantially over the years and continues to expand with contemporary Shubert
Organization materials." San
Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum
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
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