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Theatre Databases
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BBC Shakespeare Plays Contains 37 productions of the BBC's classic Shakespeare Plays.
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Digital Theatre Plus A database for the performing arts containing full-length, high-quality productions, behind-the-scenes videos, interviews, masterclasses, educational resources, and other material.
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Drama Criticism (through Gale Literature Criticism) Cross-search of Gale's literature archive resources, including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, and Short Story Story Criticism
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Drama Online Access the library's subscriptions to Critical Studies and Performance Practice and L.A. Theatre Works.
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Theatre in Video Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Other Relevant Databases for Theatre Research
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Academic Search Complete Multi-disciplinary database that covers magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers and is a good place to start for any subject.
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Historical New York Times Provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
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JSTOR Full image backfiles for over 1000 core academic journals and thousands of electronic books with full text and cross disciplinary searching capabilities.
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MLA International Bibliography (via Ebsco) Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Contains citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.
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New York Times Comprehensive digital coverage back to 1980 is for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper
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Project Muse A unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
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