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Actors on acting : the theories, techniques, and practices of the great actors of all times as told in their own wordsCall Number: 792.92082 C6763aincludes information on Ellen Terry, Burbage, Gielgud, Siddons, Garrick, Granville-Barker, Barrymore, Macready, Macklin, Bernhardt, Booth
Some famous Hamlets from Burbage to Fechter (eBook)Call Number: online access ebookincludes information on Richard Burbage, David Garrick, William Charles Macready
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Performance by Call Number: 822 Sh15ywrincludes information on Richard Burbage, David Garrick, Charles Macklin, John Gielgud, and Laurence Olivier
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and PerformanceCovers theatre and performance, including dance, from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments around the globe.
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- Drama Online This link opens in a new windowDrama Online is a unique online resource published by Bloomsbury Publishing, of over 1,000 full-text plays and 100+ related reference works.
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new windowOver 68,000 titles spanning a wide range of subjects: anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. AVON includes a variety of video material with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage.
- The MIT Global Shakespeare Video & Performance ArchiveA collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field
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- Understanding ShakespeareA research tool that links directly from the text of Shakespeare's plays to relevant articles from the JSTOR archive.
- Shakespeare DocumentedThe largest collection of images, descriptions and transcriptions of primary-source materials documenting the life of Shakespeare.