E-Resources for Theatre & Drama
E-Resources through IU for Theatre & Drama
Below are some useful databases to search for books and articles through IU. For more databases, visit the Subject Page for Theatre & Drama.
- American Drama 1714-1915
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Contains more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Represented genres include plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues, and others.
- Asian American Drama
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Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
- Black Drama
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Full text access to more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes 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.
- Digital Theatre Plus
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Resource for English, Drama and the Performing Arts. Includes streaming video of plays and productions, theory and criticism, and resources for practice and practitioners.
- North American Indian Drama
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256 full-text plays by 49 American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century. - North American Women's Drama
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A full-text database of plays written by women from the United States and Canada, primarily in the 20th century.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and PerformanceBroad and international in scope, this encyclopedia covers all aspects of theatre and performance, from costuming, to actors, to Broadway shows.
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database
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Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more.
- Theatre in Context Collection
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A database of full-text reference works in theatre, drama, and related fields, including links to full-text plays.
- Literature and Culture Collection
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Primary and secondary materials by some of the era's most enduring figures: William Wells Brown, Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Shore.
Open Access Resources for Theatre & Drama
For a longer list of open access resources visit this link.
- Kennedy Center Digital Stage ArchiveWatch extraordinary performances from the Kennedy Center's stages and beyond.
- Shakespeare (Folger Digital Texts)This database contains free, high-quality digital texts of Shakespeare's plays starting with the basics: superb source texts, meticulously edited on the basis of current scholarship. The plays in Folger Digital Texts are taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions, completed in 2010 by editors Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine and published by Simon & Schuster.
- Internet ArchiveProvides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. NOTE: The Internet Archive has temporarily suspended limits on how many users can check out books at a time in order to make books more easily available.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaBrings together materials from America's libraries, archives, and museums and makes it freely available.