DRAM 504 - Early American Theatre and Drama
FAL web page: www.lib.virginia.edu/fine-arts/
Project I. The City on the American Stage
| Search strategies: | theatre/theater, performance, drama, stage
city, urban, postmodern, metropolitan contemporary, American, New York, Chicago |
VIRGO - Keyword (theater or theatre) and city and American
It is always necessary to begin your searches by searching the U.Va. catalogues for books. The keys to a successful VIRGO search are to choose the correct index and to choose a search type which is most inclusive at the beginning. The search can then be limited to be more precise.
Databases
International Index to the Performing Arts
Indexes over 200 scholarly and popular periodicals covering dance, film, television, theater, opera, stagecraft, broadcast arts, and more. Full text for citations since 1998.
| Keyword | theater and city
performance and use the browse list |
Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present and has almost 400,000 citations from 2,000 key English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
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Advanced search:
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keyword
subject time period |
theater
city life use the browse list |
Library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose.
| Subject | theater and postmodern and urban |
MLA Modern Language Association
Worldwide sources for literature, languages, linguistics from over 4000 journals and series
| Subject | performance and city and contemporary |
Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals in areas such as anthropology, asian studies, ecology, economics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, sociology, and statistics. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.
| Keyword | stage and city |
Fine Arts Library Drama Resources
Print Resources
The New York Times Theatre Reviews. 1870-1919, with index volume; 1920-1970, with index volume. (FA-REF PN 1581.N38)
New York Theatre Critics' Reviews. annual volumes. 1940-1996. with indexes by actors, play writes, directors, choreographers, designers, etc. (FA Journals PN 1601 .N4)
Dictionary of the theatre : terms, concepts, and analysis. Patrice Pavis. (FA-REF PN 2035 .P313 1998)
The theatregoer's almanac : a collection of lists, people, history, and commentary on the American theatre. Thomas S. Hischak. (FA-REF PN2266 .H53 1997)
The Oxford illustrated history of theatre. edited by John Russell Brown. (FA-REF PN 2111.O84 1995)
Oxford Companion to the Theatre. (FA-REF PN2035.O93 1983)
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. v. 1-2 (FA-REF PN1861.W67 1994)
Ottemiller's Index to plays in Collections: an author and title index to plays appearing in collections published between 1900 and 1985, Ottemiller, John, H. (FA-REF Z5781 .08 1988)
Chicorel theater index to drama literature / Chicorel, Marietta. (ALD-REF Z5781 .C484)
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