Find Articles and More: Drama
Subject-specific Indexes and Databases for Drama: |
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| MLA (Modern Language Assocation) International Bibliography (R) | |
| Description: | Index to scholarly research in several languages covering topics in language, literature, linguistics, folklore and film. Includes citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers as well as series, proceedings, theses. |
| Years indexed: | 1925 - Current + JSTOR journals back to 1881 (electronic version, updated nine times per year) 1921 - 1980 (print version) |
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| MLA + ProQuest Language and Literature and the Arts (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Simultaneously search the MLA database, Alt-PressWatch and the Language and Literature and Arts content in three other ProQuest Databases: CBCA Complete, Canadian Periodicals and ProQuest Research Library. Descriptions of each individual database can be found in the "Multidisplinary" section below. Check the "peer reviewed" and/or "scholarly journals" box if you wish to limit your search results to articles from scholarly or peer-reviewed journals. |
| Years indexed: | Varies by database (see entries on this page for MLA, Alt-PressWatch, Canadian Periodicals, CBCA, and ProQuest Research Library) |
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| World Shakespeare Bibliography Online ( R ) | |
| Description: | Index to Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide. Includes "annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, a-v materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare." |
| Years indexed: | 1961 - 2008. Updated regularly. |
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Multidisciplinary Databases with Drama Content: |
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| Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) (ProQuest) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | CBCA Complete is Canada's largest database of articles and other publications from a broad range of Canadian sources. Covers current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information on a wide range of topics, produced in Canada. Includes over 500 periodicals and daily news sources (over 480 of which are Canadian), plus indexing to an additional 1,100 other titles (over 95% Canadian). |
| Years indexed: | 1971 - present (full-text 1985 - present). Varies by title. |
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| Canadian Periodical Index | |
| Description: | A general interest subject and name index to articles, book-, film-, and drama reviews, poetry and fiction from over 400 Canadian journals and magazines in English and French, and about 25 major American periodicals. |
| Years indexed: | 1920 to 2002 (varies by title). |
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| Canadian Periodicals (ProQuest) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues in arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and current affairs. Includes several key Canadian literature journals. |
| Years indexed: | Varies by title |
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| Directory of Open Access Journals ( FT ) | |
| Description: | Directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Includes over 80 language and literature journals. |
| Years indexed: | Varies by title. |
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http://www.doaj.org |
| InteLex Past Masters (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Past Masters includes 117 full-text humanities databases that make available cohesive collections of editions, in both original language and in English translation, of seminal figures in the humanities and social sciences. Past Masters titles are usually comprised of the complete works of individual authors. Includes the complete plays of Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, and more. |
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| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance ( R ) | |
| Description: | Index to over 1.1 million citations for material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Also indexes books, essays in books and dissertations. |
| Years indexed: | 1784-present |
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| JSTOR (Arts & Sciences Collections I - VIII) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Full-text archive of journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Current and recent volumes (last 2 to 5 years) not available for most titles. |
| Years indexed: | varies by title; complete run for most titles excluding last 2-5 years. |
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| LexisNexis Academic (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Includes U.S., Canadian and international newspapers, magazines and journals. |
| Years indexed: | Varies by title. |
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| Oxford Journals Online (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Fulltext access to 170+ scholarly journals published by Oxford University Press. |
| Years indexed: | Varies by titles (all have archives to 2002; some titles to 1995) |
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| Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | PAO provides access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995 in thirty-seven subject areas. The database combines six separate collections (I - VI) together comprising 500 full-run titles (including over 60 non-English titles) spanning 200 years. Please note that Collection 7 is not included. |
| Years indexed: | 1802 - 1995 (varies by title) |
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| Project Muse (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Full-text access to the Project Muse Standard Collection of peer-reviewed journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Also serves as an index to addtional Humanities and Social Sciences journals not included in the Standard Collection. |
| Years indexed: | 1963 - present (varies by title, emphasis on recent years). |
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On-campus | Off-campus | List of journals |
| Research Library (ProQuest) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Broad coverage of a wide range of subject areas, including arts, education, general interest, humanities, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests. Includes scholarly literature journals as well as magazines and newspapers. |
| Years indexed: | 1971 - present. Varies by title. |
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| Sage Journals Online (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | SAGE Journals Online provides online access to the full text of more than 560 SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's discipline-specific research databases, are now integrated into SAGE Journals Online. |
| Years indexed: | varies by title |
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| Taylor & Francis Online (SSH Collection) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | All Taylor & Francis Social Sciences and Humanities journals; includes many language and literature titles. |
| Years indexed: | January 1997 - present |
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| Wiley Interscience (now includes Blackwell titles) (FT) (R) | |
| Description: | Wiley Interscience provides access to the electronic journals published by Wiley (1997 onwards) and also includes titles that used to be published by Blackwell Synergy which recently merged Wiley. Subject areas covered include: business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, education, engineering, humanities, law, the life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine and healthcare, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials science, psychology, and the social sciences. |
| Years indexed: | Indexing coverage varies. Fulltext articles are generally available for 1997-present. Updated continuously. |
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Play Indexes |
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| Inter-Play | |
| Description: | An online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals in many languages |
| Years indexed: | Late 19th century to present. Updated "frequently". |
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| Play Index | |
| Description: | Indexes plays in collections and separately published plays, written in or translated into English. |
| Years indexed: | 1949 to present. Updated every 5 years. |
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Z 5781 W51 REF |
Video Streaming |
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| Theatre in Video ( Streaming Video) ( R ) | |
| Description: | Includes streaming video of more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries. |
| Coverage: | Performances from the 1930s through the 20th century |
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See also:
Multidisciplinary indexes and databases and databases for English Literature.