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Theatre studies: articles and resources

Bibliographies, checklists and databases

• Adam de la Halle
  Bibliography by Jesse D. Hurlbut at Brigham Young University
• African Literature: Drama
  Bibliography of plays in print from The University of Pennsylvania.
• Alberta Theatre Performance Calendar
  Huge bibliography of Alberta theatre 1885-1990.
• Atlantic Canada Theatre Site (ACTS)
  A key source for Canadian theatre history. Includes searchable online access to the standard The Ball & Plant Bibliography of Canadian Theatre (1700s - 1984, plus annual updates); a growing collection of theatre documents; prologues and epilogues to nearly all 19thC Canadian plays (with full texts to follow); a calendar of 7000 performances in 19thC New Brunswick; a poster collection ...
• Berlin 1848: public performances
  Checklist created by Paul Ulrich of the Berlin Central Library.
• Calendrier des spectacles sous Louis XIV, 1659-1715
  Chronological listing of theatre, opera, ballet and other performances. (Under development)
• Cervantes International Bibliography Online
• Cornish medieval drama, a bibliography
• Dutch Theatre database (Census Nederlands Toneel)
  Online searchable listing and bibliography of over 8,000 plays prior to 1803. Massive project by Ceneton at the University of Leiden. Includes translations. Superb.
• Parisian theatre during the French Revolution
  A database of performances searchable by author, title and date
• Perseus database, classical Greek resources
• World Shakespeare Bibliography
  Jim Harner, Texas A&M University

Libraries, museums and archives

• Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris
• Bibliothèque National de France: Dép. des Arts du Spectacle
• Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library
• Biblioteca e Raccolta Teatrale del Burcado, Rome, Italy.
• Drottningholm Theatre Museum
• Federal Theatre Project Archives, Mason University, Virginia, USA
• Hellenic Centre for Theatrical Research, Athens
• John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, UK
• Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute(TRI), Ohio State University
  Research materials pertaining to performing arts, with a primary emphasis upon live performance.
• Native American Women's Playwrights Archive, Miami University.
• Photographic archive, Library of Congress
  
• Slovenian National Theatre Museum
• Templeman Library Theatre Collections
• Theatre Museum, London
• Voltaire Foundation
• Yale Research Guide in Theater studies
  Pointers to the collections, databases and other resources in the Yale University Library.

Scholarly organisations

• American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
  Founded in 1956 to promote serious scholarship in the theatre. Runs the mailing list, ASTR-L.
• Aphra Behn Society
• Centre National du Théâtre, France
• International Brecht Society
• International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)
  
• International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA)
• Richard III Society
  Especially valuable is the Ricardian online bookshelf.
• Shakespeare Oxford Society
  Explores the possibility that the plays of Shakespeare were written by the Earl of Oxford.
• Société Internationale des Bibliothèques et des Musées des Arts du Spectacle(SIBMAS)
  International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts.
• Society for Theatre Research (STR), London
• Theatre Library Association, New York.
• Thalia Germanica
  International society for research into the history of German-language.

Articles and other online resources

• A Teacher's Guide to The Crucible, Penguin Books
• American Variety Stage, Library of Congress
  Vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870-1920.
• Aphra Behn Page, Ruth Nestvold
• Aristotle: The Poetics
• Asian theatre resources
  See also the mailing list on mlists.htm.
• Beijing Opera
• Brecht 100th Anniversary Page, Renaissance Theater, Berlin
• Brecht Performances and resources, Goethe-Institut
• Bunraku theatre, Japan
• Canadian theatre websites and internet resources, Frederick Kern, Toronto
• Ceský Krumlov, the baroque Castle Theatre
• Como se debe oír una comedia, Juan de Zabaleta
• De-scribing Law: Performance in the Constitution of Legality, Bernard Hibbitts
• Eighteenth Century resources, Jack Lynch
• El arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo, Lope de Vega
• ELAC online theatre resources, East Los Angeles College Theatre Arts
• Erté Museum of Fashion and Theatre Designs
• Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing, Bill Johnson
• Estonian theatre
• Euripides links
• European medieval drama
  Centro Linguistico, Univ. Camerino (hosted at Leeds, UK)
• Exploring the paradoxes: on comparing film and theatre, Gary McAuley
• Florimène at the court of Charles I, University of Washington
  Experiments in 2-d and 3-d modelling.
• German Drama gateway (post-war). Early days, but looks promising.
• Goethe bytes, DW-Online
• Grotowski, Serge Ouaknine
  See also Lettre sur Grotowski. Both in French.
• Grotowski: Igniting the flames, Richard Knight
• Historical relations between theatre and film: The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Tom O'Regan
• History of Costumes, Braun and Schneider
• Hyperdrama in progress, Charles Deemer
• Ibsen Studies Centre, Oslo
• Images of Women in Three Early 18th Century Plays, Megan Katovich
• International Shakespeare Globe Centre, Cologne, Germany
• Kabuki for Everyone
• Karagoz - Turkish Shadow Theater
• Korean Drama : Puppetry and Masques
• Kurt Weill home page
• Le Théâtre de la foire à Paris, Barry Russell
  Hypertext in French with unpublished 17thC playscripts.
• Le Théâtre médiéval, Université de Rennes 2.
  Growing list of medieval French theatre texts, some previously unpublished.
• LZA - Innsbrucker Zeitungsarchiv für deutsch- und fremdsprachige Literatur
• Men, Women and Culture: An Interview with August Wilson
  American Drama Interviews.
• MetaMOOphosis, Rick Sacks
  Interactive online theatre based on Kafka. Highly experimental.
• "Method" acting procedures, notes by TheatrGroup, St Louis, Missouri
• Miracle plays and mysteries, Catholic encyclopedia
• Moscow Art Theatre
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet, Terry A. Gray
• Noh theatre
• Oudeis, a world wide theater performance
• Performing Arts Survey, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, UK
• Period and style for designers
• Peter Barnes,
  Pix, details and study guides relating to the British playwright
• Racine et Port-Royal
• Ray Walston interviewed
  by Harry Governick (1992)
• Records of Early English Drama
• Renaissance Engineers Exhibition, Florence
• Re-orienting semiotics: performance, philosophy and theory, David Birch
• Restoration Drama homepage
• Ricketts' Circus, the first Circus in America
• Rivendell's Greek Drama Page
• Roman theatre architecture
• Shakespeare By Individual Studies, Michael Best
• Shakespeare Illustrated
  Theatrical paintings, mostly 19thC.
• Shelley Winters interviewed
  by Harry Governick (1992)
• Situation du théâtre français au Québec, 1624-1824, André-G. Bourassa
  Detailed survey of the French and English roots of theatre in Quebec. Illustrated.
• SKENOTHEKE: Images of the ancient stage
• Slovak Theatre history
• Spanish Golden Age
• Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology
• The Afterpiece: How and Why, Anita White
• The Development of Scenic Spectacle, Frank Mohler
  Spectacle on the renaissance and baroque stage. Bibliography, animations, links.
• The Last Yankee: An Interview with Arthur Miller
  American Drama Interviews.
• The Nineteenth Century London Stage
  University of Washington School of Drama. Lots of graphics.
• The Prejudice against Theatre, Debra Bruch
  Essay on the origins of Christian anti-theatre sentiments.
• The Public-Domain Shakespeare, Ian Lancashire
  Paper delivered at the Modern Language Association Convention, December 1992.
• The RAT conference
  Papers on radical alternative theatre.
• The Shakespeare Classroom, J. M. Massi
• The Stephen Sondheim Stage
• The World of London Theater 1660-1800, University of Florida
  Ongoing collaborative project, already worth a visit.
• Théâtre de P.-Y. Millot
  Pièces et articles.
• Theatre history cybercourse, Patrick Finelli
• Theatre of Dionysus in Athens
  3D reconstruction of the theatre in the Roman period.
• Theatre research in Canada
• Virtual Reality Theatre, Mark Reaney, University of Kansas
  Extraordinary experiments mixing theatre and VR.
  Needs high-spec browsing software.
• Vaudeville memories, Ruth Muldrew
• Women in theatre
  Current and historical resources edited by Sarah Young

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Created April 28, 1996. Last updated 3 April 1999