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Key Databases for Drama and Theatre Studies

Novanet searches all databases but Novanet search results may sometimes differ from search results in individual library database. For example, certain databases offer search features and options not available in Novanet.

Novanet can be a good place to start searching for articles on some topics but it does not replace searching individual library databases.

Key Databases for Scholarly Publications:

MLA (Modern Language Assocation) International Bibliography
Index to scholarly research in several languages covering topics in language, literature, linguistics, folklore and film. Includes citations from more than 4,400 periodicals and 1,000 book publishers as well as series, proceedings, theses.
Years Indexed: 1920s - present
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Index to Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide.
Years Indexed: 1960 - present.

Digital Playtexts:

Drama Online - Core Collection
Drama Online includes the Core Collection and the Playwrights Canada Press Collection only. The Core collection features over 1,775 playtexts, including Arden Shakespeare play editions, Methuen Drama imprints, and “a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists.”
Drama Online - Playwrights Canada Press Collection
Drama Online includes the Core Collection and the Playwrights Canada Press Collection only. The Playwrights Canada Press collection offers 175 plays from notable and award-winning authors including Daniel MacIvor and Hannah Moscovitch.

For a complete list of Drama Studies databases, please see:

Full List of Drama Databases

Streaming Video Databases for Drama

Digital Theatre Plus (DTP) (Streaming Video)
Streaming video of contemporary British theatre performances. Also includes interviews, documentaries, study guides and other written learning resources.
Theatre in Video (Streaming Video)
Includes streaming video of more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries.

For a full list of all streaming audio and video databases, please see the A-Z List of Databases: Streaming Audio & Video.

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New Books & E-Books

Just a few titles recently added to our collections:

African American Performance and Theater History: a Critical Reader by Harry J. Elam (Editor); David Krasner (Editor)
Call Number: PN 2278 .A35 A46 2001

ISBN: 1280655038

Publication Date: 2001-01-01

This volume explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. It is arranged into areas representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance interact and enact continuous social, cultural, and political dialogues.
Staging Violence Against Women and Girls by Isley Lynn; Raúl Quirós Molina; Bahar Brunton; Karis E. Halsall; Dacia Maraini; Renato Chiocca; Daniela. Cavallaro (Editor); Luciana d'Arcangeli (Editor, Translator); Claire Kennedy (Editor, Translator); Sharon Wood (Translator)
Call Number: PN 6120 .W6 S73 2023

ISBN: 9781350329706

Publication Date: 2023-04-06

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts.
Indigenous Women's Theatre in Canada: A Mechanism of Decolonization by Sarah MacKenzie
Call Number: PS 8169 .I6 M33 2020

ISBN: 9781773631875

Publication Date: Fernwood, 2020

Focuses “on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada.”
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro
Call Number: PR 2971 .U6 S55 2020

ISBN: 9780525522294

Publication Date: Penguin, 2020

“In a narrative arching from Revolutionary times to the present day, James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare's four-hundred-year-old tragedies and comedies in illuminating the many concerns on which American identity has turned.”
Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending by Meredith Heller
Call Number: E-Book

ISBN: 9780253045652

Publication Date: Indiana University Press , 2020

"...Models a new set of tools for analyzing drag as a process of intents and methods enacted to effect specific goals."

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