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Theatre Related Journals
There are hundreds of peer-reviewed scholarly journals on theater spanning topics in literature, performance, history, technique, reviews, design, and many others. The list below includes some of the journals and current periodicals in these fields, but it is only a small sample. If you wish to undertake a more thorough search, consider using one or more of the databases listed to the right.
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These are arranged by topic, also including art, music, and film.
Databases & Journal Indexes
- MLA International Bibliography with Full TextSubjects covered include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts. Citations of journal articles, books and dissertations are included.
- JSTORPrimarily a journal archive with some current content. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
- Humanities Source UltimateFull text for many of the most important academic sources in the humanities. .
- Literature Online (LION)Over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library.
- Literature Resource CenterAccess biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
- Literature Criticism OnlineCovers a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
- LitFinderCovering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
- AM ExplorerAccess millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO)Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
- Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineOver 180,000 full-text books based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
- Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineA digital collection of books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, ephemera, and maps that cover politics and society, literature, spirituality, technology and more.
- English Short Title CatalogueProvides extensive descriptions and holdings information for letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or any of its dependencies in any language - as well as for materials printed in English anywhere else in the world from 1473-1800.
- New York Times, 1851-2019 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Title search.
- (London) Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019Full-image online archive of every page published by The Times (London) from 1785-2019. Does not include the Sunday Times or TLS. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Title search.
- Dissertations & Theses GlobalInternational in scope, this database offers indexing and text for dissertations and thesis spanning from 1743 to the present day. Full text for some dissertations prior to 1997, full text for most works added since 1997.
- Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyBiographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the 4th century BC to the 21st century.
- Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new windowWidely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. Off campus access may require use of the VPN.
