{"id":173,"date":"2015-06-11T23:37:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:55:27","slug":"theatre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/start-researching\/research-by-subject-2\/theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Subject-Related Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/international-bibliography-of-theatre-dance-with-full-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Bibliography of Theatre &amp; Dance with Full Text<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Lists books and articles about theater and the performing arts. The resources covered by &lt;em&gt;IBTD&lt;\/em&gt; include articles in scholarly journals, books, chapters in books, and articles in literary and theater magazines, published around the world and in several languages. Emphasizes theater-as-performance in contrast to the emphasis on literary criticism in the &lt;em&gt;MLA International Bibliography&lt;\/em&gt; and other literature and humanities indexes. &lt;em&gt;IBTD&lt;\/em&gt; does not list reviews in newspapers, magazines, or popular media.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/mla-international-bibliography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLA International Bibliography<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"An index to scholarly articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations published internationally on modern (Medieval to today) languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics (including composition and rhetoric since 2000). Coverage has varied but now includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation. Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/theatre-in-context\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theatre in Context (formerly called North American Theatre Online)<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Provides information about plays, productions, playwrights and theater actors, companies, designers, and directors of North America. It links to texts of 5,000 plays and related information included in &lt;em&gt;Asian American Drama&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Black Drama&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Latino Literature&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;North American Indian Drama&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;North American Women\u2019s Drama&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Theatre in Video&lt;\/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Twentieth-Century North American Drama&lt;\/em&gt;. Continuously updated with new plays and information and productions and theater people. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to more than 30,000 plays; over 57,000 people; 5,400 theatres; nearly 22,000 productions and 2,500 production companies; and some 10,500 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/theatre-in-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theatre in Video<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;strong&gt;Requires Flash version 8 or higher.&lt;\/strong&gt; Contains performances of the world&#039;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. Browsable by productions, documentaries, people, companies, genres, theatres, and dates. 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. A work in progress, this release contains 90 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Medea, Awake and Sing, Long Day&#039;s Journey Into Night, and Playboy of the Western World. Notable actors include Gene Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and more.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/world-shakespeare-bibliography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Shakespeare Bibliography<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1966. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 98 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia. The more than 92,375 records in this version cite several hundred thousand additional reviews of books, productions, films, and audio recordings.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Other Related Resources<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/humanities-international-complete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humanities International Complete<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"An index to articles (many full-text, online) in scholarly journals and literary magazines. Provides very good coverage of little magazines and literary reviews and, for 2000- , for scholarly journals in the humanities (history, literature, philosophy, and religion). Incorporates coverage formerly provided by the &lt;em&gt;American Humanities Index&lt;\/em&gt; (published by Whitston, 1975-2005).\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/academic-search-complete\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academic Search Complete<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Our broadest, most general index to periodicals, &lt;em&gt;Academic Search Complete&lt;\/em&gt; provides abstracts for over 9,300 scholarly and popular periodicals, and full text for more than 5,300 of these. It covers virtually all academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Plays<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/twentieth-century-north-american-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twentieth Century North American Drama<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"This resource contains 1,530 plays by 223 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.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/asian-american-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian American Drama<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Continuously updated, when complete the collection will include more than 250 plays, of which some 50% have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/black-drama-second-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Drama 1850 to Present (2nd edition)<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"African, African American, and Diaspora, 1850 to present. Contains approximately 1,462 plays by 233 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.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/latino-literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latino Literature<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Contains the full text of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/north-american-indian-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North American Indian Drama<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Continuously updated, when complete the &lt;em&gt;North American Indian Drama&lt;\/em&gt; will contain the full text of 250 plays written from the early 1900s to the present by more than 50 playwrights. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays. Each play is extensively indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images resulting in a collection that illustrates the many purposes that theater has served. Also includes the &quot;Native Playwrights\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/north-american-womens-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North American Women&#8217;s Drama<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Full text of over 1,000 plays by 67 playwrights, with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. A work in progress, when complete the collection will include more than 1,500 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/play-index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Play Index<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"An author, title, and subject index to 30,000 plays from antiquity to the present that have been published in the US since 1949. &lt;em&gt;Play Index&lt;\/em&gt; covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. &lt;em&gt;Play Index&lt;\/em&gt; includes plays published as single volumes and also plays in anthologies and collections.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/shakespeare-plays-bbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shakespeare Plays (BBC)<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"The BBC Shakespeare collection is a series of 37 British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television between 1978 and 1985. Actors featured in these plays include:Laurence Olivier, Brenda Blethyn, Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, John Gielgud, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Hordern, Felicity Kendall, Cyril Cusack, Anthony Andrews, Diana Rigg, John Hurt, Bernard Hill, John Cleese, Trevor Peacock, William Hurt, John Fortune, Robert Lindsay, John Bird, Julia Foster, Annette Crosbie, Zo Wanamaker, Mark Wing-Davey.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Library Guides<\/h1>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2248d3;\" href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/theatre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theatre LibGuide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject-Related Resources International Bibliography of Theatre &amp; Dance with Full Text MLA International Bibliography Theatre in Context (formerly called North American Theatre Online) Theatre in Video World Shakespeare Bibliography Other Related Resources Humanities International Complete Academic Search Complete Plays Twentieth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-173","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions\/2947"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}