Best Bets
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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (1984+)"a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries....contains more than 400 full-text titles, including more than 130 full-text journals...and more than 270 full-text books & monographs."
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North American Theatre Online (Alexander Street)North American Theatre Online recently changed names to Theatre in Context as well as migrating to a new platform. The old platform will continue to be available for a short time here
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Theatre in Video (Alexander Street)contains definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.
Theatre Databases
General Databases
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BBC Shakespeare Plays (Ambrose Video)"Featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent Ambrose Video is proud to be the exclusive distributor of Shakespeare's plays which are so richly rewarding to our viewers."
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British Theatre, Music, & Literature: High & Popular Culture (Nineteenth Century Collections Online)"British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores."
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Literature Criticism Online (Gale)Excerpts and full text of articles and essays providing critical discussion of authors and their works.
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Literature Resource Center (Gale)Information on literary figures from all time periods of writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Includes the Dictionary Of Literary Biography.
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MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCOhost)Critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature: long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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Mango LanguagesLearn a new language from Mango Languages. Choose from more than 70 languages, including Latin American Spanish and English for speakers of other languages. Access Mango via your computer or download an app to your mobile device.
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.
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Play Finder in Lit Finder (Gale)Database of play citations as well as literature and poems. To search Play Finder, Search in LitFinder and set the Type of Work to Play.
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Show Music on Record (Library of Congress)"provides a reference list for commercially-released show music recordings, starting with those captured on early cylinders in the late 19th century and continuing through compact disc productions of the early 21st century."
