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Adam de la Halle - Bibliography
By Jesse Hurlbut, Dept. of French and Italian, Brigham Young University

American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
"...a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 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. Groups of theater posters and additional sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future."
American Memory, Library of Congress

ASTR-L-The On-line Theatre History Discussion List

British Romantic Studies
"...offers refereed journals on Romantic drama.

A Catalog of Lesbian Plays, Musicals, One-Acts, and Monologues
By Carolyn Gage

Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe - (dead link) "This site was edited with the full support of the Perseus Project, a digital library for the study of ancient Greece and Rome and Renaissance England. Perseus is a non-profit enterprise, located at Tufts University."

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

CurtainUp: The Internet Theater Magazine of Reviews, Features, Annotated Listings

The Dramatic Exchange
"The Dramatic Exchange is a Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays. We aim to provide a place where playwrights can make their plays available, and where producers and readers can look to find plays uploaded here by the playwrights.">

eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O-Neill Archive
Sections include: Library ; Theatre Guide ; Biography ; Reviews ; Essays ; Audio Archive ; Production Archive ; Reference Catalogue ; Eugene O'Neill Papers ; Eugene O'Neill Collection ; Agnes Boulton Collection.

  • Forum
    Academic discussion list.

Everyman

History of Costume - Index
By Braun & Schneider, c.1741-1880

Journal of Beckett Studies (JOBS)
Indices of the New Series (1992- ) and full-text of the Old Series (1976-1989)

Library of Congress - American Memory

  • The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress
    "...present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection in 1997."

Library of Congress - Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon

  • Al Hirschfeld, Beyond Broadway
    "The exhibition features twenty-five works drawn from the gift, and from the Library's established collections, spanning Hirschfeld's miraculous career and offering an intimate look back at the origins of his wondrous, 'unaccountable' line."

Liveartmagazine on-line

Mediaeval English Drama Bibliography
Robbins Library, University of Rochester

Middle English Plays
By Anniina Jokinen

Mykenae Verlag

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939 - (dead link)
"This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images)."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

New York Public Library West Website

  • Touring West
    19th-century Performing Artists on the Overland Trails
    "This online exhibition celebrates the creators, promoters, and performers of professional theater, music, and dance who toured the American continent...Performances are documented here through promotional ephemera such as broadsides, programs, flyers, handbills, souvenirs, postcards, and, after 1848, photographs. Through scores and prompt scripts, annotated by musicians and stage managers, we can learn what the audience experienced at the events. Business records, ship or train schedules and shipping manifestos speak to the realities of the tour."

OOBR - Off-Off-Broadway Review
"This theatre Web site offers more reviews and listings of Off-Off-Broadway productions than any other publication, online or in print."

"On Editing Women Playwrights' Works in an Electronic Environment"
By Michael Eberle-Sinatra

Online Costume Research Library
"...our internet reference library for fashion and costume research. The first shelf includes vintage magazines with ALL their fashion articles online. These articles will aid you in period fashion research! The second bookshelf houses our portfolio of research and dressing services. The third shelf holds website links with illustrations of historical costume. These links are organized by fashion periods."
From The Costume Gallery Website

Playwrights' Workshop Montreal - (dead link)
"...is a professional theatre centre dedicated to developing contemporary work and new writers for the Canadian stage."

Playwriting Seminars
"It's a 230-page 'textbook' on the art and craft of playwriting. It's
used around the world by teachers, students and professionals in the
field."
By Richard Toscan

Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces
An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde
"Drawing on the extensive holdings of first editions, autograph letters, photographs, periodicals, and ephemera from the Fales Collection of English and American Fiction, graduate students in the Victorian Studies Group at New York University trace the powerful impact of Oscar Wilde in the aesthetic, political, spiritual, and moral circles of late-Victorian England. The books and manuscripts analyzed, interpreted, and displayed are the textual fossil remains of the culture of Oscar Wilde's transgressions and containment--the footsteps of the chameleon."
- Bobst University, New York University

Roger L. Stevens Presents
This exhibition examines Stevens's career through the great number of stage productions that Stevens presented or fostered indirectly, for example, through the NEA. His achievements manifest Stevens's deep commitment to raising the quality of life for all Americans and his special place as one of the nation's foremost cultural leaders."
- Library of Congress Exhibition

Screenwriters Online

Th˂trales

Theatre Image Collections Online - (dead link)
From the WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama

Theatre Research in Canada

The Towneley Plays

Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century
"This digital collection presents 7,949 publicity brochures, promotional advertisements and talent circulars for some 4,546 performers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. These talent brochures are drawn from the Records of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, held by the University of Iowa Libraries."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

University of Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum

  • Kunisada and Kabuki
    "This website accompanies an exhibition of Kunisadaís woodblock prints of Kabuki actors and allows the viewer to explore a virtual display of all three parts of the exhibition."

University of Texas - Harry Ransom Center - Online Exhibitions

Victoria and Albert Museum [London] Images Online
"...the world's largest museum of the decorative arts and is home to 145 galleries, including national collections of sculpture, furniture, fashion and photographs...This area allows you to search through almost 2000 images, a small part of the V&A collection. You can search using the drop-down menus to the left, or browse using the links below. Your results will be displayed as thumb- nail images which can be enlarged by clicking on the image of your choice."

The York Plays

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