Databases for Theatre Research
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowFind literary interpretation and analysis of particular plays or works by particular playwrights.
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Black Drama This link opens in a new windowFull text of 1,462 plays written by 233 playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
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Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage This link opens in a new windowA unique archive of almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays, including The London Stage, 1660-1800.
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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThis is a database of more than 8,000 journals. It covers a wide variety of subject areas, including theatre. Most of the articles are available in full text. Content includes hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times articles from 1995 to the present.
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Art Abstracts/Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowArt Abstracts (1984 to the present) and Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) provide citations and abstracts to articles in periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar is a search engine for scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations and technical reports.
eJournals
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Theatre TopicsThe first theatre publication devoted to issues of concern to practitioners, focused on performance studies, dramaturgy, and theatre pedagogy.
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Theatre E-JournalsMost titles can be accessed from off campus by current UD faculty, staff, and students. You may be prompted for your UDelNetID and password. If the Library does not have the issue you need in electronic format, you may request the item via Article DELivery Service.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material.