Fri 1 Feb 2019
Posted by billie_peterson under Film & Digital Media, Literature, Theatre Arts
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Drama Online. RSC Live Collection
Streaming live screenings of Shakespeare productions recorded live at Stratford-upon-Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Includes transcripts and contextual information.
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Posted by billie_peterson under American Literature, Theatre Arts
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Nineteenth-century American Drama
Provides full text copies of plays, farces, operatic and musical dramas, burlesques, and other forms of theatrical entertainment which appeared on the American stage between 1820-1900. Keyword and advanced search features, with limits for subject, author, place of publication, language, and genre.
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Posted by billie_peterson under Film & Digital Media, Literature, Theatre Arts
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Drama Online. RSC Live Collection
Streaming live screenings of Shakespeare productions recorded live at Stratford-upon-Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Includes transcripts and contextual information.
Thu 21 Jun 2018
Posted by billie_peterson under Theatre Arts
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Tue 3 Apr 2018
Posted by billie_peterson under Theatre Arts, Trials Completed, Video
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Provides searchable and browseable access to a variety of theatre arts related materials including all aspects of theatre and performance. Includes access to full-text plays, audio plays, filmed stage performances, documentaries, and other video content, contextualizing materials (designs, reference, and ephemera) including recent broadway productions and previously unpublished plays. Covers key writers, creators, and performers. Includes full content of the following collections: Drama Texts Collection; Contemporary World Drama; Black Drama: Third Edition; Twentieth Century Drama: Second Edition; Theatre in Performance Collection; The BroadwayHD™ Collection; The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection; Theatre in Context Collection; Performance Design Archive Online. Alexander Street Press
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Trial expires on Saturday, April 21, 2018.
Tue 12 Sep 2017
Posted by billie_peterson under British Literature, Film & Digital Media, Theatre Arts
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Access prompt books for Shakespeare’s plays from the collection of prompt books in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. Prompt books are the script of the play marked up to show notes on a specific production, including any changes made to the play (cutting scenes, rearranging dialogue, etc.), and may include instructions on technical production elements such as lighting, music, and stage directions. The collection covers 42 plays from a production of Twelfth Night in the 1600’s to a 1975 production of The Tempest, and includes British, American, and international productions. Search features include a browse by play, simple, and advanced search. Interactive features include viewing two prompt books of the same play side-by-side, an introduction to prompt books and common annotations seen in them, and a chronology. A section on case studies delves more deeply into seventeen productions of various plays. There is a glossary and biographies of well-known Shakesearian actors and directors.
Tue 12 Sep 2017
Posted by billie_peterson under Accounting, African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art, Aviation Studies, Biochemistry, Biology, British Literature, Business, Chemistry, Child & Family Studies, Church-State Studies, Classics, Communication, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Curriculum & Instruction, Dissertations & Theses, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Engineering, Environmental Science, Family & Consumer Sciences, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Film & Digital Media, Finance, French, Geology, German, Gerontology, Health, Human Performance & Recreation, History, Information Systems, Insurance, Interior Design, International Studies, Journalism, Law, Library & Information Science, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Marketing, Mathematics, Medicine, Medieval & Renaissnace Studies, Modern Languages & Cultures, Museum Studies, Music, Neuroscience, Nursing, Philosophy, Physical Therapy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Real Estate, Religion & Theology, Social Work, Sociology, Spanish, Statistics, Technology, Theatre Arts, Women's & Gender Studies
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Provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), this resource is building a comprehensive gateway to all doctoral and master-level theses and dissertations, many openly accessible, by harvesting the information from repositories throughout the world.
Tue 12 Sep 2017
Posted by billie_peterson under Music, Theatre Arts
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Identify, select, and create lists of musical theater repertoire. Searchable by voice type, character age, range, genre, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, etc. Over 11,000 songs from nearly 2,000 shows.
Sat 1 Oct 2016
Posted by billie_peterson under British Literature, Literature, Theatre Arts, Trials Completed, Women's & Gender Studies
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Focuses on role of theatre in society during the long eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary resource for research in theatre, drama, literature, entertainment, social commentary, history, politics, music, censorship, gender, and romanticism. Serves an archive of almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824 (over 2500). Includes correspondence, diaries, biographical information, advertisements, and companion texts.
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Trial expires on Monday, October 31, 2016.
Sat 1 Oct 2016
Posted by billie_peterson under British Literature, Film & Digital Media, Medieval & Renaissnace Studies, Theatre Arts, Trials Completed
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Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library
As a record of how an individual production of Shakepeare’s plays were marked up for performance, the prompt book is a record of the interpretation given by that performance. This collection records the adaptations, changes, and interpretations made for performances of 34 of Shakespeare’s plays from the late 17th century to the 1970’s. Includes other supporting materials (playbills, costume and lighting designs, music scores, photographs, etc.). In addition, 17 of the most significant performance of Shakepeare are studied via in-depth case studies. Supporting research includes essays by scholars in the field, an interactive chronology, side-by-side comparisons of two prompt books, and biographies of famous Shakespearean actors and directors. Search by keyword, advanced search features, or browse the image gallery. “My Archive” feature allows for building collections in support of individual research or classroom needs.
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Trial expires on Monday, October 31, 2016.