Drama and theatre
Legend
- McGill users only
- Open access resource
- Free resource
- In-library-use only
- Catalogue record
Sources for Background Information
Dictionaries
Searching the Library Catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - Canada, Canad?, histor?, etc.
Search tips
| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. histor? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, histories, historical, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "United Nations" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase United Nations |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g. history AND (Canada OR "United States") will retrieve catalogue records containing the word history AND either Canada OR the phrase United States |
Core and Additional Databases
- ABELL 1920-
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science), 1975-
- BHINet (British Humanities Index) 1962-
- English Drama, 1280-1915
- International Index to the Performing Arts, 1998-
- International Medieval Bibliography 1967-
- MLA Bibliography, 1963- (OVID)
- Performing arts in colonial American newspapers, 1690-1783
- Wilson Humanities Abstracts, 1984- (OVID)
- Wilson Readers Guide Abstracts 1983- (OVID)
Selected Internet Sites
Accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
- McGill Department of English
- WWW Virtual Library Theatre and Drama Site
- English Server Drama Collection
Original classic and contemporary plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. - Drama, Theater, & Performance Art Studies (Voice of the Shuttle)
- Playbill
- Theatre and performance studies
By Rebecca Albitz, C&RL NewsNet September 1997 Vol. 58 No. 8. - McCoy's Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
- Théâtrales
Collection de textes et d'hypertextes en français sur le théâtre. - Théâtre de la foire à Paris
- Playwrights' Co-operative Play Catalogue
U.K. theatre publishing company owned and operated by writers. International customers can have any play(s) they wish to read downloaded to them on-line. Downloads are free in Acrobat Reader PDF format (a maximum of 3 at a time) for both U.K and abroad. - TheatreHistory.com
Has script archive (texts of full and one-act plays, monologues, etc.) and links list. - SIBMAS: International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
Canadian Drama (Internet Resources)
- ACTS (Atlantic Canada Theatre Site)
Includes table of contents and abstracts for journal, Theatre Research in Canada 1980- , searchable electronic version of Ball and Plant's Bibliography of Theatre History in Canada: The Beginnings Through 1984, 19th-century theatre posters, and some drama texts. - Playwrights Guild of Canada
Formerly Playwrights Union of Canada. - Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre
Classical Drama (Internet Resources)
- Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
- Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
Links, database (still under construction), news, etc. From the University of Oxford. - Perseus Tools and Information
Perseus Digital Library of Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc.
Elizabethan Drama (Internet Resources)
- Perseus Tools and Information
Perseus Digital Library of Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Marlowe, etc. - Elizabethan Authors: 16th Century Literature: Drama
Other Resources
Library Guides
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