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THA 381/THA 382: Play Analysis

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General Databases
Literature Criticism and Analysis
Find Images

Interested in finding images for characters or settings in plays?  Use the image resources below.  Alternately, you can also do a Google Image search.  Please use images responsibly and according to copyright.

Historical Background and Reviews
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  • ProQuest Research Library
    ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
  • ARTstor
    ARTstor consists of a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data including the tools to actively use those images and a restricted-usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users. The ARTstor collections are comprised of contributions from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives. All images are accompanied by comprehensive metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use.
  • Digital Theatre + Plus
    Digital Theatre+ is the world’s leading educational platform for English and the Performing Arts, providing  students with access to 600+ theatre productions and educational resources. Digital Theatre+ collaborates with renowned theatre companies, actors and creatives to capture live performances in stunning quality and bring you insights from behind the scenes.
  • Gale In Context: Biography
    Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
  • ProQuest Literature Online
    Good coverage of literary criticism. Cross-search the MLA Bibliography and ABELL, with articles from full-text journals.
  • Library of Congress: Digital Collections
    Online collections of the Library of Congress, Use the search function to locate relevant materials.
  • Library of Congress, Photography archives
  • PsycINFO
    Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.
  • JSTOR
    JSTOR provides digital versions of the backfiles of major scholarly journals. Primarily an archival collection, JSTOR does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of content for most titles.
Finding Plays in our catalog
Find a list of print plays by searching for 'Dramatist Play Service' as a keyword search.  While this won't pull up every play, you'll find a lot of plays listed by date they were published.

Find reviews and more information in American Theatre magazine, which you can access online.
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