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Electronic Databases
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Black Drama and Black Drama Second Edition
Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1310 plays by 210 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Contents/Info: Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. This release includes 47 videos, equaling 82 hours.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contents/Info: From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) will contain 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).
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Online access to the digital images of books published between 1701 and 1800. Includes treatises on theater and the stage.
Essay and General Literature Index
Contents/Info: Essay and General Literature Index is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually. Additionally, more than 20 annuals and serial publications are indexed. Essay and General Literature Index also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
Journals
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PAJ: Performing Arts Journal. Electronic Holdings: 1976-1997.
Drama, The Quarterly Theatre Review. Print Holdings: 1919-1989.
- Call Number: PN2001 .D64
Location: Boca Raton
John Willis' Theatre World. Print Holdings: 1945-1999.
- Call Number: PN2277.N5 A17
Location: Boca Raton
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Print Holdings: 1995-2008.
- Call Number: PN1601 .J68
Location: Boca Raton
Renaissance Drama. Electronic Holdings: 1964-2006. Print Holdings: 1968-2006
- Call Number: PN2171 .R4
Location: Boca Raton
Shakespeare Quarterly. Electronic Holdings: 1950-present.
Theater. Electronic Holdings: 2000-present. Print Holdings: 1978-2004.
- Call Number: PN2000 .T32
Location: Boca Raton
Theatre Journal. Electronic Holdings: 1979-present. Print Holdings: 1979-2004.
- Call Number: PN3171 .E38
Location: Boca Raton
Theatre Research International. Electronic Holdings: 1993-present. Print Holdings: 1975-2004.
- Call Number: PN2000 .A1 T51
Location: Boca Raton
Theatre Topics. Electronic Holdings: 1996-present.
Finding Resources in the Library
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Subject Sections
Dramatic representation. The theater
- Call Number: PN2000 - PN3307
Art of acting
- Call Number: PN2061 - PN2071
Modern
- Call Number: PN2181 - PN2193
Subject Terms
- Drama
- Theater
- Theater Production and Direction
- Playwriting
- Stage Lighting
Resources By Library
Boca Raton
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Acting: an international encyclopedia. Osnes, B. 2001.
- Call Number: REF PN2035 .O84 2001
Format: Book
An annotated dictionary of technical, historical, and stylistic terms relating to theatre and drama: a handbook of dramaturgy. White, R.K. 1995.
- Call Number: REF PN2035 .W48 1995
Format: Book
Arthur Miller's America : theater & culture in a time of change. Brater, E. (ed). 2005.
- Call Number: PS3525 .I5156 Z53 2005
Format: Book
The book of monologues for aspiring actors. Cassady, M. 1995.
- Call Number: PN2080 .B64 1995
Format: Book
Dictionary of the theatre: terms, concepts, and analysis. Pavis, P. 1998.
- Call Number: REF PN2035 .P2913 1998
Format: Book
Encyclopedia of stage lighting. Briggs, J. 2003.
- Call Number: REF PN2091 .E4 B66 2003
Format: Book
The Facts on File dictionary of the theatre. Packard, W., Pickering, D., & Savidge, C. (eds). 1988.
- Call Number: REF PN2035 .F27 1988
Format: Book
Foreign dialects: a manual for actors, directors, and writers. Herman, L. & Herman, M.S. 1958?.
- Call Number: REF PN2071 .F6 H4 1958
Format: Book
New Kabuki encyclopedia: a revised adaptation of Kabuki Jiten. Leiter, S.L. 1997.
- Call Number: REF PN2924.5 .K3 L44 1997
Format: Book
Radical acts: theatre and feminist pedagogies of change. Armstrong, A.E. and K. Juhl (eds). 2007.
- Call Number: PN1590.W64 R33 2007
Format: Book
Shakespeare's theatre: a dictionary of his stage context. Richmond, H.M. 2002.
- Call Number: REF PR3095 .R53 2002
Format: Book
Story fest : crafting story theater scripts. de las Casas, D. 2006.
- Call Number: PN3157 .D35 2006
Format: Book
Theater in America : 200 years of plays, players, and productions. Henderson, M.C. 1986.
- Call Number: PN2221 .H38. 1986
Format: Book
The theater props handbook : a comprehensive guide to theater properties, materials, and construction. James, T. 1987.
- Call Number: PN2091 .S8 J34 1987
Format: Book
Twentieth-century literary movements dictionary: a compendium to more than 500 literary, critical, and theatrical movements, schools, and groups from more than 80 nations, covering the novelists, poets, short-story writers, dramatists, essayists, theorists, and works, genres, techniques, and terms associated with each movement. Henderson, H. & Pederson, J.P. (eds). 2000.
- Call Number: REF PN597 .T94 2000
Format: Book
Jupiter
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Arthur Miller's America : theater & culture in a time of change. Brater, E. (ed). 2005.
- Call Number: PS3525 .I5156 Z53 2005
Format: Book
Drama trauma : specters of race and sexuality in performance, video, and art. Murray, T. 1997.
- Call Number: PS338 .S63 M86 1997
Format: Book
A history of the American theatre from its origins to 1832. Dunlap, W. 2005.
- Call Number: PN2237 .D86 2005
Format: Book
Nature, culture, and the origins of Greek comedy : a study of animal choruses. Rothwell Jr., K.S. 2007.
- Call Number: PA3166 .R76 2007.
Format: Book
Picturing performance : the iconography of the performing arts in concept and practice. Heck, T.F. 1999.
- Call Number: N8217 .E55 H43 1999
Format: Book
Playwriting master class : the personality of process and the art of rewriting. Wright, M. (ed). 2000.
- Call Number: PN1661 .P63 2000
Format: Book
Satyr drama : tragedy at play. Harrison, G.W.M. (ed). 2005.
- Call Number: PA3160 .S275 2005
Format: Book
Special talents, special needs : drama for people with learning disabilities. McCurrach, I. and Darnley, B. 1999.
- Call Number: LC4704.5 .M23 1999
Format: Book
Teaching Shakespeare into the twenty-first century. Salomone, R.E. and Davis, J.E. (eds). 1997.
- Call Number: PR2987 .T364 1997
Format: Book
Theater in America : 200 years of plays, players, and productions. Henderson, M.C. 1986.
- Call Number: PN2221 .H38. 1986
Format: Book
The theater props handbook : a comprehensive guide to theater properties, materials, and construction. James, T. 1987.
- Call Number: PN2091 .S8 J34 1987
Format: Book
Theatre/theory/theatre : the major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel. Gerould, D.C. (ed). 2000.
- Call Number: PN2039 .T56 2000
Format: Book
The Wadsworth anthology of drama. Worthen, W.B. (ed). 4th ed. 2004.
- Call Number: PN6112 .H28 2004
Format: Book
Why Shakespeare : an introduction to the playwright's art. Pinciss, G.M. 2005.
- Call Number: PR2995 .P56 2005
Format: Book
Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays. Dash, I.G. 1997.
- Call Number: PR2991 .D26 1997
Format: Book
Treasure Coast
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Acting & theatre. Evans, C. & Smith, L. 1992.
- Call Number: PN2061 .E9 1992
Format: Book
Acting out: reader's theatre across the curriculum. Gustafson, C. 2002.
- Call Number: PN3171 .G87 2002
Format: Book
American Indian theater in performance: a reader. Geiogamah, H. and Darby, J.T. (eds.) 2000.
- Call Number: PN2270 .I53 A48 2000
Format: Book
An atlas of English dialects. Upton, C. and Widdowson, J.D.A. 1996.
- Call Number: REF PE1705. U68 1996
Format: Book
The book of monologues for aspiring actors. Cassady, M. 1995.
- Call Number: PN2080 .B64 1995
Format: Book
Special talents, special needs : drama for people with learning disabilities. McCurrach, I. and Darnley, B. 1999.
- Call Number: LC4704.5 .M23 1999
Format: Book
Story fest: crafting story theater scripts. de las Casas, D. 2006.
- Call Number: PN3157 .D35 2006
Format: Book
Teaching Shakespeare into the twenty-first century. Salomone, R.E. and Davis, J.E. (eds). 1997.
- Call Number: PR2987 .T364 1997
Format: Book
Theater in America : 200 years of plays, players, and productions. Henderson, M.C. 1986.
- Call Number: PN2221 .H38. 1986
Format: Book
Women's worlds in Shakespeare's plays. Dash, I.G. 1997.
- Call Number: PR2991 .D26 1997
Format: Book
Selected Web Sites
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
Site entirely devoted to ancient theater
The "official website of Broadway"
Theatre news
Theater Playbills and Programs
From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress
A not-for-profit professional theatre group
About this Guide
This guide was designed by Jacquelyn Erdman and Maris Hayashi to help identify resources on Theatre and related topics in the FAU Libraries. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the Off Campus Connect (EZproxy) link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number and your 4-digit birth month and day in the format "MMDD." For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail to lyref@fau.edu.
Created 13 November 2008
