Marshall Brooks Library: Journal Articles: Theatre & Dance

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Humanities Source Ultimate offers access to key content covering literary, scholarly, and creative thought. It includes hundreds of scholarly full-text journals. Resources include feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, book reviews, original works of fiction, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, and plays that illuminate human thinking, action, and interaction.
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Millions of citations from journals and books on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. Indexing coverage begins in the 1920s.

When conducting theatre research, search using these elements:

Playwright's name
Name of play
Alternate spellings/name of play
Genre
Performers
Actors/actresses
Acting company
Places
Themes
Characters
Symbolism
Reviews
Criticism
Notices

Other things to consider:

Combine the above elements with the appropriate logic operator
Are there multiple ways to describe a play? playwright? etc.
Be cautious how you truncate a search term, you could retrieve irrelevant results.

If you still aren't sure, ask a librarian.

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