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Drama: Home

Drama resources including production resources, digital collections, image collections, costume resources, plays and monologues.

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Bunraku: Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1703)

Sonezaki Shinju

Playwright, Chikamatsu Monzaemon

National Bunraku Theater of Japan

ARTstor Digital Gallery

Starting Points / Top Resources

Academic Search Complete
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Scholarly, trade, and magazine articles in all subjects
New York Times Historical
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Full-text of the New York Times newspaper from 1851-2009.

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Great source for performance reviews.
US Newsstream
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Mostly full-text, mid 1980s to present
Washington State and national newspapers.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
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Scholarly journals, popular magazines, and monographs in theatre and dance

New Resources

New Play Exchange
The New Play Exchange®, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers.
Drama Online Core Collection
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Collection of over 1,700 playtexts offering a diverse and rich catalog of plays by the world's leading dramatists.

COVID-19 Resources

Personal Library Loan: Helping Theatre Grad Students
This is a temporary stop-gap measure for Theatre graduate students who are in dire need of a specific source while libraries are closed or offering limited services.

Fine and Performing Arts Librarian

Madison Sullivan

Contact:

Art Library
101 Art Building
Box 353440

206.685.9032

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Subjects: Arts, Humanities

Tags: drama, theatre