Drama

Best Database Choices for Drama

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All Drama Databases

American Film Scripts Online

This edition of American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) contains 497 scripts by 605 writers together with detailed on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.

ARTstor

A non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data along with the tools to actively use those images.

IIPA: International Index to the Performing Arts

A performing arts journal resource with nearly 300,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to current, covering film, theatre and dance.

Inter-Play

An Index of plays in anthologies.

LION - Literature Online

A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

MLA Bibliography 1963 to the present

An index to more than 1.5 million bibliographic citations in language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts.

North American Theatre Online

Reference work of US and Canadian theatre, with information and pictures for plays and productions; theatres; actors, playwrights, and other people from the Colonial period to the present.

Oxford Reference Online

Combines the scholarly resources offered by titles in the Oxford Companions series with authoritative, quick-reference coverage of the full subject spectrum. It also provides a wide range of additional material such as maps, illustrations, and timelines.

Theatre in Video

Streaming video of over 350 produtions of plays from Aeschylus through Shakespeare and Beckett to Sam Shepherd. Also documentaries about productions and interviews with authors, directors, and actors. Viewing requires individual registration.

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Dance Databases

Grove Music Online

Comprehensive music encyclopedia, with coverage of music history, theory and practice, musical terminology, and biographies. Includes works lists and musical examples.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online which have more articles from similar journals.

NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Collection

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library is the largest and most comprehensive archive in the world devoted to the documentation of dance.

SPORT Discus with Full Text

International database covering sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, coaching, recreation, and more. Includes book reviews.