These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
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Academic Search Complete
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.
- Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
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American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
(American Memory Project at the Library of Congress)
- Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language full textplayscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings, and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Search by keyword or browse by subject or author.
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ELAC Theatrepedia
- Searchable information on plays, playwrights, theatre people, theatre terms and much more.
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English Server Drama Collection
- Full text short and long plays, searchable or browsable.
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Interplay: An On-line Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies, and Periodicals
- Search by author or title
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JSTOR
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
- A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
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Literature Resource Center
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.
- Critical literary information and biographical author information
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Online Books Page
- Search for full text plays by author or title. Most classic plays are available full text: Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, and much more
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Period & Style for Designers
- Database of images organized by period for theatre scenic and costume designers.
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Project Muse
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.
- Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
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Small-Cast One-Act Guide Online
- " This site accesses playwrights worldwide, their one-act scripts for four or fewer actors in many languages, and related sundries. "
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Sparknotes
- Shakespearean plays and other literary works explained and summarized
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Theatre History on the Web
- A metasite of scholarly websites for theatre history, categorized by era and type.
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