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- Academic Writing: Play Reviews
- Good advice from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin on preparing to watch a play, viewing the production, analyzing it, and deciding what information should go into a review and how to organize it. Keywords: drama, theater, plays, drama reviews, play reviews, theater reviews, style guides
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- American Drama
- Eventually will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists from the
colonial period to the present day. At present (early 2001), includes 711 plays by
dramatists including Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson, as well works like
Thomas Godfrey's The Prince of Parthia, the first American play performed on an American stage, and
George Aiken's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular production of the
nineteenth century. Available campus-wide and from off-campus to UNC Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff. Keywords: drama, theater, plays, american drama, united states
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- Asian American Drama
- Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays representing the various ethnicities within the Asian American community. Along with many works by writers of Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Chinese descent, the collection includes plays by writers of Hawaiian, Indian, Thai, Korean, Persian, and Malaysian ancestry, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins in the late nineteenth century and continues to the writings of contemporary playwrights. Some 50% of the plays have never been published before.
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- Black Drama
- Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project's editorial advisor. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
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- Curtain Up
- "The Internet Theater Magazine of Reviews, Features, Annotated Listings". Information and reviews on current productions in New York, London, and elsewhere. Theater news. Links for purchasing tickets including the Play by Play set-filling organization in New York. Keywords: drama, plays, theater, drama reviews, play reviews, theater reviews, new york, tickets
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- Drama and Theater: Reference Resources for Research in the Libraries of UNC Chapel Hill
- A guide to books and online resources for locating critical analyses, reviews, production histories, biographical information, the history of drama and theater, and more. Keywords: drama, plays, theater, drama reviews, play reviews, theater reviews, production histories, university of north carolina at chapel hill
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- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)(EID)
- Full text of eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to
the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and
poems, selected apocrypha and related works, and more than one hundred adaptations,
sequels and burlesques. Available campus-wide and from off-campus to UNC Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff. Keywords: drama, plays, theater, shakespeare
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- English Drama (1280 - 1915) (EID)
- Full text of 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early
twentieth. Works acted on or intended for the stage including masques, interludes, short dramatic pieces,
translations and adaptations, closet dramas, and works written for children. Available campus-wide and from off-campus to UNC Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff. Keywords: drama, plays, theater, english drama, british drama
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- Inter-Play -- Yale University
- An on-line index to plays in collections. and periodicals and in a variety
of languages. Separately-published plays are not included. Contains approximately 16,130 citations to plays, many of which are
not included in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
or H. W. Wilson's Play Index (both available in the Davis Libray Reference Department). Keywords: drama, plays, theater
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- Internet Broadway Database
- The official database for Broadway theatre information, with records of productions from
the beginnings of New York theatre. Details include pertinent people involved as
well as interesting facts and production statistics. Get a list of every production of Hamlet
on Broadway or a list of your favorite actor's credits. Find out what played at a
particular theatre or what shows opened in a specified Broadway season. Keywords: drama, plays, theater,broadway,new york
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- LexisNexis Academic
- Full text of general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information (including law reviews, case law and legal rulings), and other topics such as biographical information. For theater a valuable resource for reviews, especially in U.S. regional and foreign news media; trade news; and government and legal information related to legislation and other issues such as copyright and censorship. Coverage varies but generally the last 15 years for news.Available campus-wide and from off-campus to UNC Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff. Keywords: drama, theater, plays, play reviews, theater reviews, newspapers, magazines
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- Play Reviews: Library Resources for Research
- A guide to print and online sources available through the libraries at UNC Chapel Hill. Keywords: drama, plays, theater, drama reviews, play reviews, theater reviews, university of north carolina at chapel hill
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