Theatre and Dance: Getting Started

Looking for books and articles for your paper or project? You can use WorldCat to search for resources that are held at Bucknell's library and at libraries around the world. Please note that your search is not strictly limited to materials having to do with theatre and dance.

Looking for articles about the director Robert Wilson or about Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake? Need reviews of contemporary Broadway productions of The Lion King? IIPA is a good place to begin research on topics relating to theatre, dance, and the performing arts, providing access to citations, abstracts, and full text of articles from scholarly and professional journals, magazines, newspapers, and other publications. Limit by document type in the advanced search to find reviews of performances.

Drama Online introduces new writers alongside the most iconic names in playwriting history, providing contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. Play Tools with Character Grids, Words and Speech graphs and Part Books offer a new way to engage with plays for close study or for performance.

Whether you are searching for criticism and interpretation Shakespeare’s Macbeth or Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, MLA is good place to start. The primary database for literature studies, it includes citations for books, journal articles, and dissertations concerning literature, folklore, linguistics, and modern languages, as well as the dramatic arts.

Citations of newspaper and periodical articles covering a broad range of subjects, including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Full text coverage of scholarly journals the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, including several journals relating to theatre and dance.