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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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Research Databases & Journal Indexes

MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
Subjects covered include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts. Citations of journal articles, books and dissertations are included.
JSTOR
Primarily a journal archive with some current content. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
JSTOR has a "moving wall," which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years, and those with walls from zero to seven years participate in our revenue sharing program. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
Humanities Source Ultimate
Full text for many of the most important academic sources in the humanities. .
Humanities Source provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas and more. Includes full-text. Coverage: 1910 - present.
Academic Search Ultimate
Covers over 11,000 journals in all fields of study.
Peer-reviewed, full-text journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Project Muse
Humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals from several university presses.
Coverage: Varies by title; earliest from 1990.
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 Center
Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
Includes: Contemporary Authors Online, offering biographical coverage of more than 113,000 writers; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, featuring entries on all authors appearing in CLC since vol. 95 of the print series and complete profiles of 266 most studied authors from editions prior to vol. 95; Dictionary of Literary Biography Online, containing more than 10,000 bio-critical essays on authors and their works written by academic scholars; Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 entries for authors, works, literary landmarks, literary and critical terms, mythological and folkloric figures, fictional characters, literary movements and prizes.
Literature Criticism Online
Covers a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
Coverage: 2009-present.
LitFinder
Covering 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.
LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
AM Explorer
Access millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of Adam Matthew Digital, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.
*1980s Culture and Society
*Africa and the New Imperialism
*African American Communities
*Age of Exploration
*America in World War Two
*American History, 1493-1945
*American West
*Amnesty International Archives
*Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
*British Newsreels, 1911-1930
*Broadcasting America
*Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834-1922
*Children’s Literature and Culture
*China, America, and the Pacific
*China: Culture and Society
*China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
*Church Missionary Society Periodicals
*Colonial America
*Colonial Caribbean
*Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
*Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
*Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
*Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
*Conflict in Indochina, 1959-1979
*Defining Gender
*Early Modern England
*East India Company
*Eighteenth Century Drama
*Eighteenth Century Journals
*Empire Online
*Ethnomusicology
*Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
*First World War Portal
*Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
*Food and Drink in History
*Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
*Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
*Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980
*Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
*Frontier Life
*The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
*Gender: Identity and Social Change
*Global Commodities
*India Raj and Empire
*Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
*Indigenous Newspapers in North America
*Interwar Culture
*J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
*Jewish Life in America: c1654-1954
*Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture
*Life at Sea
*Literary Manuscripts Berg
*Literary Manuscripts Leeds
*Literary Print Culture
*London Low Life
*Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
*Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
*Mass Observation Online
*Mass Observation Project
*Medical Services and Warfare
*Medieval Family Life
*Medieval Travel Writing
*Meiji Japan
*Migration to New Worlds
*Nineteenth Century Literary Society
*Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
*Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
*Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
*Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
*Race Relations in America
*Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
*Royal Shakespeare Company Archives
*Service Newspapers of World War Two
*Sex and Sexuality
*Shakespeare in Performance
*Shakespeare’s Globe Archive
*Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
*Socialism on Film
*The Grand Tour
*The Nixon Years, 1969-1974
*Trade Catalogues and the American Home
*Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
*Victorians on Film
*Victorian Popular Culture
*Virginia Company Archives
*Women in the National Archives
*World’s Fairs
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 Online
Over 180,000 full-text books based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
Includes over 33 million full-text searchable images of books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. Although primarily in English, the database also includes many items published in other European languages.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
A digital collection of books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, ephemera, and maps that cover politics and society, literature, spirituality, technology and more.
*Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
*Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
*British Politics and Society
*British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
*Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
*European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
*Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
*19th Century US Newspapers
*Photography: The World through the Lens
*Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925, Parts I & II
*Women: Transnational Networks
English Short Title Catalogue
Provides 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.
Serves as a comprehensive bibliography of the hand-press era and as a census of surviving copies. Includes materials ranging from Shakespeare and Greek New Testaments to anonymous ballads, broadsides, songs, advertisements and other ephemera. Extensive indexing includes imprint word, place, genre, and year as well as copy-specific notes. Searches may be limited by date, language and country of publication.
Nexis Uni
NexisUni provides access to 15,000+ news, business and legal sources. If a sign-in button appears, click the button for access.
Includes full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; articles and data on businesses, corporations, industries and markets in the U.S. and abroad; magazines and trade journals; biographical information and special directories; legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.

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, 1785-2019
Full-image online archive of every page published by The Times (London) from 1785-2019. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Title search.
The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level. Users can easily search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds.
Dissertations & Theses Global
International 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.
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the 4th century BC to the 21st century.
Limited to 3 users at one time.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Widely 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.
Contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).

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