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citations only database | African Writers Series Description: The Heinemann's African Writers Series includes seminal works from the canon of African literature of the 20th century: influential stories, drama, poetry, author biographies and literary works from notable authors such as Nelson Mandela and Nadine Gordimer. Tags: poetry, drama (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about African Writers Series? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | American Variety Stage Description: A multimedia anthology, this collection covers diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English- and Yiddish-language play scripts, more than 140 theater playbills and programs, several dozen motion pictures, ten sound recordings, and a substantial collection of photographs and ephemera on Harry Houdini. Help: How To View | How To View (video) | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about American Variety Stage? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Arts & Humanities Citation Index Description: 1975 - present. See Web of Science. Provides author, keyword, and cited reference searching from more than 1,100 leading arts and humanities journals through ISI Web of Knowledge. Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Arts & Humanities Citation Index? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Arts & Humanities Combined Databases (ProQuest) Description: Simultaneously searches multiple arts and humanities databases, including ARTbibliographies Modern, Ethnic NewsWatch, MLA International Bibliography, and many more. Tags: ProQuest (show tags)(hide tags) Help: FAQ | Support Center | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Arts & Humanities Combined Databases (ProQuest)? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Asian American Drama Description: Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Some 50% have never been published before. Help: Help Table of Contents | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Asian American Drama? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Description: A catalog of acting editions of scripts. Plays can be searched for by title, author, subject, number of cast members, length of play, and other search options. Help: FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Dramatists Play Service, Inc.? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Drew's Scripts-O-Rama Description: An index of downloadable movie and television scripts. Help: About | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Drew's Scripts-O-Rama? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
| International Index to Performing Arts Full Text (ProQuest) Description: 1864-present. Indexes more than 210 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, as well as a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. Tags: dance, drama, comedy, opera, ProQuest (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help Home Page | Tutorial: Finding Film Reviews | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about International Index to Performing Arts Full Text (ProQuest)? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Internet Broadway Database Description: A source for finding the original production information for theater openings from the beginning of the New York Theater to the present. Provides a listing of cast members, credits and statistics. Help: FAQ/Contacting IBDB | IBDB Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Internet Broadway Database? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) Parts 1-4 Description: Access to collections of primary sources from Asia and the West. Includes Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, British Politics and Society, British Theater, Music, and Literature. Tags: NCCO (show tags)(hide tags) Comments or questions about Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) Parts 1-4 ? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | North American Theatre Online Description: More than 40,000 pages of critical, in-copyright reference works about authors, plays, theatres, productions, production companies, casts and related information covering the world of theatre from colonial times to the present. Tags: drama, (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about North American Theatre Online? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | North American Women's Drama Description: This edition of North American Women's Drama contains 1,174 plays by 275 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Tags: drama (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help Table of Contents | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about North American Women's Drama? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Play Index (EBSCO) Description: 1949 - present. Citations to 31,000 plays. Includes monologues, plot summaries, cast sizes, male and female roles, etc. Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. Tags: EBSCO (show tags)(hide tags) Comments or questions about Play Index (EBSCO)? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Playbill Description: News, feature and performance listings for Broadway, Off-Broadway, London and Regional Theatre. Help: FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Playbill? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Playdatabase Description: This catalog allows you to search by length of a play, for monologues, by gender, time period, age of characters, and more. Help: FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Playdatabase? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Theatre in Video including the BBC Shakespeare Series Description: A collection of approximately 500 hours of streaming video files. Includes recordings of live theatre performances and also documentary videos about theatre production. Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Theatre in Video including the BBC Shakespeare Series? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
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