Research by Subject: Theatre
Books: Use the Library Catalog
Academic OneFile 1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited. Shortcuts: go/onefile (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/onefile (off-campus).
America: History & Life Major index to articles and books on history (from prehistoric times to current period) of United States and Canada. 1964 to current. 
Arts and Humanities Search Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current. Previously Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Google Scholar Searches for many types of primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee. Tips: Note: Preferences can be set to link directly to articles in Middlebury collections. (See above)
InfoTrac Fine Arts and Music Collection Articles about the arts & music
IngentaConnect Ingenta is an interdisciplinary database with indexing and tables of contents for approximately 25,000 journals and magazines, mainly 1990-current. Note: Also indexes resources we don't have subscriptions to.
JSTOR Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).
Latin American Theatre Review Latin American Theatre Review is a publication of the University of Kansas. This electronic edition provides free access to the back issues of the journal. The most recent 5 years are available via print subscription only
MLA Bibliography The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years, from their first issues to 1995 with some to 2000. Includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages--with links to full text, when available. Formerly PCI.
Play Index Over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English. Search for plays by title; author; subject; style; genre; cast type; and more. All Play master records contain a link to the results of an Internet metasearch of specially selected Web sites to link to full text, criticism, and other useful information.
Project Muse Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).
Artslynx A collection of links to non-profit resource libraries serving as master sites themselves. The extensive table of contents includes acting, directing, fight resources, jobs, mime, puppets, Shakespeare, world and ethnic theater. Also includes links to other performing arts resources, such as dance, writing, and music. Artslynx is especially designed to provide the most efficient navigation to valuable information for the student, scholar, educator, and researcher in the arts. Maintained by Richard Finkelstein.
Centre for Theatre Research in Europe The Centre seeks to develop research that is routed in some specific way through Europe and is self reflexive about this located quality. It is inclusive of research into any theatre entity that bears in some way on this situatedness. It will also support those beyond Europe whose work critically addresses these dynamics and gives geographical and historical perspective to the contingency of European conditions on other international dimensions
Dramatis Personae Archive A history of 17th and 18th century performance arts. A web resource of rare performance texts, searchable, with summary, commentary and bibliography.
The Folger Shakespeare Library's digital image collection The Folger's Digital Image Collection offers online access to over 20,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more. Images are available in high resolution and users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out to see fine detail, view cataloging information when available, export thumbnails, and construct permanent URLs linking back to their favorite items or searches.
The Globe Theatre The very first theatre in Elizabethan London was introduced by an Elizabethan entrepreneur called James Burbage and was aptly called 'The Theatre.' The Globe was built from the timbers of the 'Theatre' - William Shakespeare and his company of actors helped with the construction.
Intute: Internet resources for film and theatre This booklet gives a sample of the online resources you can find using Intute -- a free Internet service designed to help students, lecturers and researchers find the best of the Web for their education and research.
Intute: Theatre and the Performing Arts The best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. There are over 21,000 Web resources listed here that are freely available by keyword searching and browsing.
Irish Theatre Institute Irish Theatre Institute is a resource organisation for Irish theatre and dance artists. It includes the Irish Playography: a database of professionaly produced Irish plays in since 1904, and a searchable database of Irish theatre artists.
itheatrestudies A multimedia reference and resource for theatre studies students. Includes pages specific to Artaud, Brecht, and Stanislavsky.
JURN Search 1842 scholarly / intellectual ejournals in the arts & humanities. Made in England — indexing mainly English-language sites.
Publications are all hand-picked and offer substantial free online content.
London Theatre Blog A group-authored online publication that explores theatre and the performing arts in London and beyond. The regular writers of the blog are theatre-makers, critics, academics, and performers. The blog consists of reviews, articles, videos, and interviews, and it can be sorted by themes, playwrights, genres, and venues.
Myrtle Tyrrell Kirby Fashion Plate Collection 650 images of nineteenth-century fashion plates from the Macpherson Collection of the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College. The full-color fashion plates were culled from a variety of women's periodicals and other mass-circulating works published between 1789 and 1914. The images are primarily from France, Britain, America, and Spain, and depict scenes of nineteenth-century middle- and upper-class life with an emphasis on the leisure practices of bourgeois women, men, and children. A number of plates also derive from trade journals for tailors, who used the images to create made-to-order garments for fashionable men.
Open Shakespeare For information on using Open Shakespeare check out the Guide.
Shakespeare's Staging Shakespeare's performance and his Globe Theatre Shakespeare in performance is now a core interest for all Shakespeareans: students, scholars, theatre professionals, and general audiences - anyone with a love of Shakespeare. We seek to provide a survey of current information, opinions and visuals about such staging by registering the best available explorations of the original nature of Shakespearean performance during his lifetime, and of its development through four centuries thereafter. The site is under continuous revision and expansion, currently involving additions to our 1,000 still images, in the form of numerous video extracts of live performances concerning Shakespeare. Hugh Macrae Richmond, Director, Shakespeare Program
English Department, University of California at Berkeley
The Theatre Collections Online The Victoria & Albert Theatre Collections online provides access to information and materials celebrating the UK’s unique performance heritage. The collections are vast and include: archive material; books and pamphlets; over 2,000 stage costumes from the twentieth century and earlier; manuscripts (authors' drafts, diaries, and annotated playtexts); music sheets; paintings; periodicals; photographs; playbills, programmes and posters; prints; puppets; stage designs; topic files containing ephemera relating to an individual, a company or a theatre building; and video recordings. Access by Subjects or by Collections.
Theatre Google Custom Search Engine - Search over 300 sites Note: This custom search engine was developed and made available by Lilia Murray, Assistant Professor/ Reference Librarian, Waterfield Library, Murray State University
Theatre in Video Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video. 
The Victorian Plays Project
A digital archive of selected plays from T.H. Lacy's Acting Edition of Victorian Plays (1848-1873)
World Shakespeare Bibliography Annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, AV materials, electronic media, and other materials related to Shakespeare published between 1961 - 2009. International coverage (118+ languages).
Literature Resource Center The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals. When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.
Middlebury Citation & Style Guide This library subject guide links to additional resources pertaining to how to format your paper's footnotes, bibliographies and more.
RefWorks RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. Middlebury College students and faculty may use RefWorks by creating a RefWorks account. For more info, follow the RefWorks link or email refworks@middlebury.edu. Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages This online reference book provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs.
Oxford Reference Online - Performing Arts Use the link above to simultaneously search all of the titles listed below, or click on an individual title to search only that volume:
The Smith and Kraus Monologue Index Note: Print Resource
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