Research Guides: Theatre: Theatre E-Books

Theatre E-Books

Here is a selection of Theatre E-Books:

African-American Theatre: An Historical and Critical Analysis

Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century

Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain

The Darkness We Carry: The Drama of the Holocaust

Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women From the Old Regime to the Fin de Siecle

Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre

Feminist Views of the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000

A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution

Great Directors at Work: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Kazan, Brook

Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914

Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights

The Theatre in America During the Revolution

Twenty Plays of No Theatre

Accessing E-Books

The library has E-BOOKS on a variety of topics. The individual titles are listed in the online catalog, but you can also browse through the following E-BOOK Collections:

ABC-CLIO Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of ebooks in many topics, with emphasis on the humanities.
Access available for multiple simultaneous users.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
"Background Information to Start Your Research," a collection of hundreds of reference books on a broad range of subjects from over 70 of the world's leading academic publishers.
eBook Academic Collection (Ebsco)
A comprehensive collection of ebooks in all subjects from reputable academic publishers; most are available for download.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) This link opens in a new window
Reliable, authoritative collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources; good place to begin research on a topic.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Around 2,000 ebooks based in the humanities.
Access available for multiple simultaneous users.
Oxford Reference
A collection of encyclopedias and other ebooks on topics ranging from art to history, religion, and social sciences.