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Theatre and drama are part of the department of Film, Television and Theatre. In addition to support for undergraduate study and teaching the library strives towards providing resources that encourage and facilitate research in all areas of theatre and drama. Two library endowments support building collections that include material in a variety of formats. The Alice Wolohan Hohmann Endowed Collection in the Arts is restricted to the acquisition of library materials on video or DVD, whereas the the R. Steven and Elizabeth A. Lutterbach Family Endowment in Film, Television and Theatre covers the range of formats and content.

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Access to these resources is governed by license agreements which restrict use to the Notre Dame community and to individuals who use the Notre Dame Libraries' facilities. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that he or she uses these products only for individual, noncommercial use without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information. Acceptable use forbids downloading contents of entire issues of a given journal title. The use of software such as scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in loss of access to these resources for the entire Notre Dame community.

Please see the ND Copyright Policies webpage for more information on the creation and use of copyrighted materials at Notre Dame.

Recommended Resources (All Resources: 47 databases | 37 e-journals )

• Academic search premier (EBSCO)

  
  

  Coverage:

  Inclusive coverage: 1984 to present.
  "The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database"--About page. It also includes indexing and abstracts for additional periodicals.

• American drama

  
  
  More than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. Usage info: Licensed for four simultaneous users.Link to list of Lion collections Link to LION home page

• Black drama

  
  

  Coverage:

  1850-present
  Contains the full text of more than 1,200 plays, written from the 1850s to the present, by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes information on productions, theaters, and production companies. Also included, selectively, are production photographs, as well as images of playbills and other ephemera. More than 500 of the plays are previously unpublished.

• Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)

  
  
  "The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries." Usage info: Limited to 4 concurrent usersLink to list of LION collections Link to LION home page

• English drama

  
  
  Provides full text access to the two databases English verse drama and English prose drama, containing 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th to early 20th centuries. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users.Link to list of LION collections Link to LION home page

• Expanded academic ASAP

  
  

  Coverage:

  1980-
  Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.

• International index to the performing arts full text

  
  

  Coverage:

  1864-
  Contains indexing, abstracting and some full text of the performing arts literature. Usage info: Licensed for four simultaneous users.Database coverage list for International Index to the Performing Arts

• Introduction to Theatre

  
  
  Resources for beginning research in theatre available at Notre Dame

• LexisNexis academic

  
  
  Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.

• Lion, literature online

  
  
  A fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic Advisory Board. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users

• Literature resource center

  
  
  Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.

• MLA international bibliography

  
  

  Coverage:

  1926-
  The MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures provides citations of journal articles, books, and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, and film since 1926.

• Proquest Historical Newspapers

  
  
  Full text of major American newspapers

• Theatre in video

  
  
  Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions. Usage info: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.

• World Shakespeare bibliography online

  
  

  Coverage:

  Currently covers 1962-current. Each year, coverage will move forward one year and backwards at least three years.
  When complete, will provide annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. Each year coverage moves forward one year and backwards at least three years.

• WorldCat

  
  
  Over 50 million bibliographic records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries; includes records describing manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Other Theatre Resources

General and local information: Awards and prizes

Formats: Electronic books and texts · Electronic journals · Multimedia · Video recordings (DVDs, films, etc.)

Research tools: Bibliographies · Biographies · Catalogs · Directories · Indexes and abstracts · Newspapers and news sources · Reviews (book, film, etc.)

E-Journal Collections: Cambridge University Press · Duke University Press · HighWire Press · Indiana University Press · Johns Hopkins Univ. Press · JSTOR · MIT Press · Periodicals Archive Online (formerly: PCI Full Text) · Project Muse · Routledge · Taylor & Francis · Univ. of California Press · University of Hawaii Press

Genres: Collected works · Drama · Fiction · Poetry