TH242 - History of Theatre in Performance: Finding Articles
Theatre Periodicals @ CSU
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Theatre and Drama Research Databases
These are some of the core Research Databases for Theatre and Drama that you have access to through CSU. Use them to help track down articles about your topic.
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- MLA International BibliographyCoverage: 1920s to present
Index of international journal articles, books and dissertations on literature; language and linguistics; folklore; literary theory & criticism; dramatic arts; historical aspects of printing and publishing; rhetoric and composition; and the history, theory, and practice of teaching language and literature. - Gale LiteratureCoverage: Varies
Use for researching authors and their works, literary movements, or trying to find book reviews of bestsellers, they can access full-text literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and a rich collection of scholarly overviews. - New York Times Historical Newspapers (1851-2008)Coverage: 1851-2008
This is the paper of record in the U.S., best known for its analysis of news, issues and social changes. Navigate by title, date, and page number. Photos, graphs, and tables are replicated providing cover-to-cover full image content. - Times Digital ArchiveCoverage: 1785-2010
Sponsored By: Years 1986-2005 are a gift from the Irene Bostrom Endowment in the CSU College of Liberal Arts.
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for the 19th – 20th Century history detailing every complete page of every issue from 1785. - Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowCoverage: Varies
Multi-disciplinary database of scholarly and popular articles. Includes full text, peer-reviewed journals, PDF backfiles to 1975, and searchable cited references. - NewsBank Access World NewsCoverage: Varies
Includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more. Includes fully searchable primary sources. - American DramaCoverage:1714-1915
Provides access to American dramatic works from 1714–1915. - Asian American DramaCoverage: 1891 to present
Contains plays by Asian American playwrights and information on related productions, theaters, and production companies. - Black Drama: 1850 to presentCoverage:1850 to present
Plays by Black and African American 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. - Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and FictionCoverage: Varies
Includes poetry, short fiction, novels, and plays. Nearly all of the content is in copyright, and most of the other items are long out of print or have never before been published. Besides serving as a rich resource for literature scholars, the collection also supports the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigration issues, and political history. - Theatre in ContextCoverage: 1585 to present
Provides reference information on all aspects of the Canadian and American theatre. - North American Women's DramaCoverage: 1762 to present
Full-text of plays written by women playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, and production companies. - Twentieth-Century North American DramaCoverage: 1835 to 2007
Provides access to plays by North American playwrights and information on related productions, theaters, production companies, etc - Twentieth-Century Drama This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1890s to present
Twentieth-Century Drama contains the essential collection of published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day - ARTstorSearchable database of more than 1 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences applicable to different times, cultures, and disciplines. Combination of images, data, and texts provides comprehensive art-related teaching, learning, and researching capabilities.
- Naxos Music LibraryCoverage: Varies
Online library of classical music. The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels.