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Schauerman Library Web Guides - Theatre & Drama

Web sites are great sources of information, but some are more reliable than others. These sites have been evaluated in terms of accuracy, authorship (individual or body), and currency. Nevertheless, even in the best-regulated works, errors do creep in, so double-check all information. Also, sites do move or get outdated from time to time

General

Acting Quiz            http://www.abwag.com/acting_quiz_2.htm

Acting Workshop Online   http://www.redbirdstudio.com/AWOL/acting2.html

Actor Source Homepage   http://www.actorsource.com/

American Association of Community Theatre http://www.aact.org/index.htm

Bedford History of Drama            http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/jacobus/index.htm

Drama & Theatre  http://www.vonl.com/humble9/drama1.htm

Drama and Theatre Links   http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/topics/dram.htm

Drama Links    http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/curr_content/drama30/mainpages/links.html

Drama Theatre & Culture: Introduction http://64.78.63.75/samples/04ENL903WorthenAnthologyofDrama4intro.pdf  

ELAC Theatrepedia: for Theatre terms, characters, texts�  http://www.perspicacity.com/elactheatre/library/

International Theatre Design Archive  http://www.siue.edu/ITDA/

Introduction to Modern Drama. Look at the side links.  http://www.learn.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=Unit&WCU=2004

Justin's Drama & Theatre Links    http://www.theatrelinks.com/

McCoy's Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies   http://www.stetson.edu/csata/thr_guid.html

Palantine: drama, theatre, & performance web resources & reviews   http://www.palatine.org.uk/directory/index.php/Drama/

Scene 4: International Magazine of Theatre, Film, & Media   http://www.scene4.com/

Stage Management Manual (Full-text manual from MIT Theatre Arts Program)   http://web.mit.edu/mta/www/theater/Manuals/StageManagement/

Theatrecrafts: Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms   http://www.theatrecrafts.com/glossary/glossary.shtml

Theatre Database    http://www.theatredatabase.com/index.html

Theatre History   http://www.theatrehistory.com/

Theatre History Websites    http://www.win.net/~kudzu/history.html

Theatre Terms            http://www.perspicacity.com/elactheatre/library/terms.htm

Theatrical Lighting Glossary    http://www.alss1.com/glosslight.html

VOS Drama, Theatre, & Performance Art Studies   http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=782

The WWW Virtual Library Theatre & Drama    http://vl-theatre.com/

Costume

Costumer's Manifesto    http://www.costumes.org/

History of Costume            http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html

Milieux: the Costume Site  http://www.milieux.com/costume/

Voice

National Center for Voice and Speech   http://www.ncvs.org/

Proper Elizabethan Accents  http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html

Tongue Twisters Database   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html

Styles & Types of Drama

Theatre Through the Ages  http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/7634/index.htm

History of Drama            http://litera1no4.tripod.com/dramahistory.html

STYLES: Styles are usually associated with a period or with an "-ism."

Didaskalia

Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today http://didaskalia.open.ac.uk/index.shtml

Classicism

Classicism            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicism

Commedia Dell'Arte

A thumbnail Sketch of Commedia dell'Arte  http://www.davidclaudon.com/arte/commedia.html

Commedia Dell'Arte            http://alpha.furman.edu/~dcummins/commedia/

Neo-classicism

Neoclassicism in Italy   http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/spd130et/neocitaly.htm

NeoClassicism: Italian Renaissance Dramatic Theory  http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/theatre.history/thhist2/Neoclassicism.htm

French Neoclassicism  http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/7634/french_neoclassicism.htm

Neoclassicism: an Introduction            http://65.107.211.206/previctorian/nc/ncintro.html

Elizabethan

Renaissance Theatre   http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/7634/origins_of_theatre_the_renaissance.htm

A Guide to Elizabethan Drama (Plays)            http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/drama101.htm

The Elizabethan Drama              http://www.bartleby.com/60/203.html

Restoration

The Restoration Drama             http://www.bartleby.com/218/

Romanticism

Romanticism http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/spd130et/romanticism.htm

The Rise of Romanticism            http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/romanticism001.html

Realism

Realism and "A Doll House"            http://www.ibsenvoyages.com/e-texts/doll/IV.html

American Drama: a brief Introduction   http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/8intro.html

Realism            http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/spd130et/realism.htm

Naturalism

19th Century Theatre   http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Balcony/7634/origins_of_theatre_19th_century_theatre.htm

Notes on Naturalism in the Theatre   http://www.wayneturney.20m.com/naturalism.htm

Zola and Naturalism   http://www.sdopera.org/pages/education/edusourcebook/ArAutZolaNaturalism.htm

Impressionism  

Impressionism definition in Theatre Arts Glossary  http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/pandp/fineart/gl-thea.htm

Ibsen Voyages   http://www.ibsenvoyages.com/e-texts/four_plays_intro.html

Theatre of Realism in History of the Theatre   http://www.mtsn.org.uk/acdepts/theastud/theahist.htm

Expressionism

Expressionism            http://www1.appstate.edu/~kennedyk/expressionism.html

Expressionism. The Columbia Encyclopedia            http://www.bartleby.com/65/ex/expressi.html

Absurdism

Absurdism   http://www.levity.com/corduroy/absurd.htm

Theatre of the Absurd   http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Absurd.htm

Theatre of the Absurd   http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~sek5/classpage.html

Eugene Ionesco             http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/ionesco.htm

Beckett             http://digilander.libero.it/lindacroft/centrcult/beckett.htm

Theatre of Cruelty

Theatre of Cruelty Manifesto  http://www.strangemusic.com/philostone_cruelty.htm

Theatre of Cruelty Britannica definition  http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=387256

Kabuki

Kabuki   http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/japan/kabuki.html

Kabuki for Everyone   http://www.fix.co.jp/kabuki/kabuki.html

Musical Theatre

Theatricopia: Jill Hobgood�s Musical Theatre Sites List  http://www.saintmarys.edu/~jhobgood/Jill/theatre.html

Scripts

Bibliomania.com Drama  http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/frameset.html

Contemporary Plays (ELAC Writer's Workshop) http://www.perspicacity.com/elactheatre/workshop/worksbytitle.htm#plays

Plays on the Net            http://www.playsonthenet.com/

Some useful Reference books on the Theatre & Drama from the ECC library:

Contemporary Dramatists  REF PR 737 C57

Critical Survey of Drama (Magill) Rev. ed. REF PR 623 C75

Drama Criticism  REF PN 1625 D72

Encyclopedia of the American Theatre   REF PN 2266 B68

International Dictionary of Theatre v.1: Plays

                                                    v.2: Playwrights

                                                    v.3: Actors, Directors, & Designers   REF PN 2035 I49

Masterplots II Drama Series REF PN 6112.5 M37

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama   REF PN 1625 M3

Modern World Drama: an Encyclopedia   REF PN 1851 M36

Oxford Companion to the Theatre 4th ed.  REF PN 2035 O9

Shakespeare for Students   v.1 REF PR 2987 S468 1992

                                        v.2 REF PR 2987 S47 1997

                                        v.3 REF PR 2987 S469 2000

Shakespeare's Characters for Students   REF PR 2989 S53 1997

Theatre Backstage from A to Z    REF PN 2035 L6                             

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