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Looking for Scholarly Articles? Try the MLA Bibliography

Need a pre-1700 English text? Search Early English Books Online

Not sure what "Grand-Guignol" refers to? Check the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Can't figure out the origin of the word "bodkin?" Look it up in the Oxford English Dictionary

Need to compare two variant texts of Hamlet? See Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare

Want basic biographical information on a playwright? Use the Literature Resource Center

Trying to find set designs from productions at the Meyerhold Theatre?  GloPAD has them.


 
 

 
A Guide to Theater Resources

Iphigenia in Tauris
Model by Lee Simonson for Act II of Gluck's
Iphigenia in Tauris
from Theatre Arts Magazine, December 1917.


This bibliography is selective and includes titles held by the Reference collections of Olin and Uris Libraries, as well as reference materials accessible online. Some titles listed may also be available in the general stacks. Please note that the Music Library holds many resources related to musical theatre (e.g., The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia) that are not listed here. The Rare & Manuscript Collections in the Kroch Library holds many theater-related items as well, including the Bernard F. Burgunder Collection on George Bernard Shaw. Most material on Asian theater is housed in the Kroch Library Asia collections.


 

 
Resource in the Spotlight

Theatre in Video
Contains performances of the world’s leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions.

 
 

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