Primary Theatre Arts Databases & Article Indexes

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Drama Online
Also Known as: Drama Online Library
Drama Online provides access to full-text plays and theater reference works. It features the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists, to form a collection of...   [more]

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
Also Known as: International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance , International Bibliography of Theater & Dance , International Bibliography of Theater and Dance
"The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn Colleg...   [more]

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popul...   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to present.

Important Theatre Arts Databases & Article Indexes

Abbey Theatre Minute Book Collection
"The Abbey Theatre minute books contain notes from meetings of the theatres Board of Directors. They offer a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of the theatre, showing how the Abbeys managers dea...   [more]
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Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

American Drama, 1714-1915
This collection contains 711 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. It includes plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward H...   [more]

ARTbibliographies Modern
Also Known as: ART bibliographies Modern
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Indexes material published 1974-present. Art coverage begins with Impressionism in the late nineteenth century and continues up to the most recent works and trends in the twenty-first century. Photog...   [more]
Holdings: 1969-1971 (printed vols. only); 1974-present (online)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A&HCI (WOK Web of Science)
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British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance
British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance presents facsimile images of a range of literary manuscripts-including letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings,...   [more]
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DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks allows scholars and students to investigate the publishing, printing, and marketing of English Renaissance drama in ways not possible using any other print or...   [more]
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Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage
Also Known as: 18th Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage
Eighteenth Century Drama features the John Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library: a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824, as well as hundreds of doc...   [more]

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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Internet Shakespeare Editions
The mission of the ISE is to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience by delivering open-access, peer-reviewed Shakespeare resources with the highest standards of scholarship, de...   [more]
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Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
PLEASE NOTE: Penn has ...   [more]

Proquest One Literature (formerly Literature Online - LION)
Also Known as: LION
LION is a searchable, full-text collection of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature. Separate databases are English Poetry (1100-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), African-American ...   [more]
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Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Also Known as: Theatre in Performance: The Folger Shakespeare Library Prompt Books
Shakespeare in Performance features prompt books from the collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare's plays as they were perf...   [more]

The Works of Ben Jonson Online
Also Known as: Ben Jonson Online , Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online
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Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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Related Theatre Arts Databases & Article Indexes

AP Photo Archive
Also Known as: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, AP Images
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) image...   [more]
Holdings: Photos: 1826 to present. Graphics: 1999 to present. Audio files: 1920s to present.
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Bibliography of the History of Art
Also Known as: BHA
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Covers European and American art from the fourth century C.E. to 2007. Areas addressed are painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, and...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to 2007
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EEBO: Early English Books Online
Also Known as: Early English Books Online; Short Title Catalogue; Wing; Pollard and Redgrave
Full-text page images of approximately 100,000 titles from the Short-Title Catalogue of English works 1475-1640, Wing's continuation for 1641-1700, and their revisions. Information is presented...   [more]
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EEBO: Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an partnership to create structured ...   [more]
Holdings: 1470-1700

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Index to Early American Periodicals
Subject index to the microfilm collections American Periodical Series I & II, (see also APS Online), which are located in the Van Pelt Microtext Center, first floor east. The Penn Librar...   [more]

International Bibliography of Art
Also Known as: IBA
IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains BHA's editorial policies. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, plus new r...   [more]
Holdings: 2008 - the present

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]

Literary Print Culture: The Stationers' Company Archive, 1554-2007
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Music Index Online
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for pos...   [more]

Music Periodicals Database
Also Known as: International Index to Music Periodicals, Full Text Edition (IIMP), Music Database,
IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship availab...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary.

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Also Known as: RILM Retrospective, RILM Comprehensive
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]
Holdings: Updated monthly.