USING CATALOGS
Use the WSU
online
catalog to find location and availability of plays, books and
other media in Stewart Library. Many of the books on theatre are
located on level two of the library in the General
Collection under the
call numbers PN 1600-3307 Literature, Drama and PN
2000-3307 Dramatic Representation, The Theater.
Use WorldCat to find books in other libraries. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
Stewart Library Interlibrary
Loan services will order for you.
SUBJECT
SEARCHING
The following
are examples of the Library of Congress Subject Headings for theatre.
Please note, the official subject heading is theater not theatre.
amateur theater
black theater
ethnic theater
experimental theater
feminist theater
musical theater
theater audiences
theater history
theater history to 500
theater history medieval 500-1500 |
theater history 16th century
theater history 18th century
theater history 19th century
theater history 20th century
theater london history
theater management
theater political aspects
theater production direction
theaters
theaters stage setting scenery |
FROM BOOKSTORES
Order books
online from Amazon Books, Barnes and Noble. Also use Books
in Print sources as needed (Off-campus access is available
with a WSU ID number.)
INTERLIBRARY
LOAN
If we do
not own a particular book or article you need, we will borrow it
for you from another library through Interlibrary
Loan.
Reference resources include
encyclopedias, dictionaries and other materials you use to "refer"
to. Use these resources for background information on a topic. Reference
books, including theatrical dictionaries and encyclopedias are available
on the middle level, in the Reference area shelves under the call
number PN2035 and on Reference Table 3A. For
home or off campus access please use your WSU Login.
ONLINE REFERENCE
RESOURCES
- Literature Resource Center - The Literature Resource Center database includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography and other materials. It provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of over 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Search by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes. A great place to start any literature research project or paper.
- Literature Criticism Online - Find literary criticism and information on authors from several Gale resources. Includes:Children's Literature Review, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Available from 2010 (Beginning dates vary).
- EBSCOhost Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - general online encyclopedia, similar to World Book.
- Oxford Reference Online - Includes the Oxford English Dictionary and the Concise Oxford Companion to ... Literature series among other reference titles. Searchable by subject.
- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. Full text. Compiled from 1907 to 1921 contains 303 chapters
- Glossary
of Technical Theatre Terms
- ARTstor - ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. For WSU student and faculty use only.
- Grove Dictionary of Art - 10,000 links to color images.
PRINT REFERENCE BOOKS
- American Drama Criticism - Ref Z 1231.D7 P3
- American Musical Theatre - Ref Table 3A
- Cambridge Guide to World Theatre - Ref PN2035.C27
- Encyclopedia of The Musical Theatre - Ref Table 3A
- Ganzi’s Book of the Musical Theatre - Ref Table 3A
- Index to Plays in Periodicals - Ref PN1721.K43
- International Directory of Theatre Language Ref PN 2035.I5 1985
- McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama Ref table 3A
- Opening Night on Broadway - Ref Table 3A
- Oxford Companion to American Theater - Ref PN2220.C35
- Oxford Companion to the Theatre - Ref PN1625.G3 1969
- Ottemillers Index to Plays in Collections - Ref Table 3A
- Play Index - Ref Table 3A
- Readers Encyclopedia of World Drama - Ref PN1625.G3 1969
- Theatre and Stage - Ref PN2037.D6
- Theatre Backstage from A to Z - Ref PN2091.M3 L68
- What Where and When of Theater Props - Ref PN2091.S8.J35 1992
- World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre - Ref table 3A
FINDING THEATRE REVIEWS
- American Drama Criticism - Ref Z 1231.D7 P3
- CurtainUp - The Internet
Theater Magazine of reviews, features, annotated listings
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama. NY: MCGraw-Hill, 1984.
Ref Table 3A - Useful for identifying production dates
- New York Times Theater Reviews,1870-1970 Ref Table 3B - Full
text of reviews that appeared in the New York Times. For reviews
from 1980 to the present, see LexisNexis
Academic below
- Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature -
Located in Special Collections, level 2. - Indexes reviews from
1890 to 1899, with supplementary coverage from 1900-1922. Approximately
51 periodicals are indexed with access under dramas-criticism,
plots, etc., and by playwright's name. .
- Opening Night on Broadway - Ref Table 3A
- Theatre Reviews Limited
- Also use all article databases listed below to find reviews
of plays and performances
ARTICLE DATABASES
To find articles on
your topic you need to use article databases, also known as periodical
indexes. Each database usually covers a group of subject related
journals. Search by subject or keyword in these indexes.
For home or off campus access please
use your WSU Login.
- IIPA
- International Index to the Performing Arts - Citations,
abstracts and some full-text articles on all aspects of the
performing arts including plays and playwrights.
- MLA
- MLA International Bibliography is usually the best index for
researching literature and literary criticism topics. MLA provides
article reference for articles in literature, languages,
linguistics, and folklore back to 1963. Updated ten times per
year.
- JSTOR - A group of full-text journals covering many topics including theatre, history and literature. Dates of coverage vary.
- America:
History and Life - Indexes scholarly literature on the history
and culture of the United States and Canada. 1964-Present.
- Art Full
Text - Abstracts from 1994, selected full-text from 1997
covering: Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design,
Folk Art, textiles, etc.
- Arts
& Humanities Search - Citations from many of the world's
leading arts and humanities journals. 1980 - present, updates
weekly.
- Electronic Journals -
use to find full text articles if you already have a citation
- LexisNexis
Academic - Fulltext coverage of many news, legal, and business
resources. Find articles on theatre topics and reviews of plays
and shows in newspapers from around the world. Dates of coverage
vary, many update daily.
- Academic
Search Premier - covers basic literary and theater
journals.
- Masterplots - 12,000 entries covering world literature,
ancient to modern day. Plot summaries, character profiles and
author biographies. Available on CD-ROM.
NEWSPAPERS
- Many other newspapers
and broadcast news services are available on the Web and will
include information about theatre.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
BROWSING CURRENT PERIODICALS
Current magazines and
journals can be browsed in the Current Periodicals Area, in the
"P" section on the Middle level. Bound volumes of older
issues are found upstairs in the periodicals stacks. Current
titles include:
| American Drama |
PS1.A5123 |
| American Theatre |
PN1.A5125 |
| Comparative Drama |
PN1.C736 |
| The Fight Master |
PN1.F471 |
| Journal of Dramatic Theory and
Criticism |
PN1.J863 |
| Latin American Theatre Review |
PN1.L357 |
| Modern Drama |
PN1.M688 |
| Plays and Players |
PN1.P723 |
| Theatre |
PN1.T374 |
| Theatre Journal |
PN1.E242 |
COSTUMES
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LIGHTING
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