The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Performing Arts

See also Collections by Title Literature: General Songs and Music specific time periods for literature and texts by language (for example, French Texts).

Contents

1. Search Engines and  Guides
2. History
3. Genres
4. Playwrights

Search Engines and  Guides

• The WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama. Created by Barry Russell. Site includes links to " Electronic text archives and plays online" and " Journals online" . Date accessed: 2002-02-05. Date added: 2002-02-05.

History

• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920. Washington, DC: American Memory, Library of Congress, 1998. Summary: " The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Groups of theater posters and additional sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future." Date accessed: 2004-04-17. Date added: 2004-04-17.
• The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939. Washington, DC: American Memory, Library of Congress, 1999. Date accessed: 2004-04-17. Date added: 2004-04-17.
• Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923. New York, NY: Digital Library Collections, New York Public Library, 2001. Multimedia digital collection on the subject of performance arts in the United States. The collection can be searched or browsed by format, name, title, or subject. Date accessed: 2004-04-17. Date added: 2004-04-17.
• Shakespeare in Quarto. London: British Library. Part of: Treasures in Full. Digital facsimiles of the British Library’s 93 copies of the 21 plays in Shakespeare quartos. You can compare up to two different texts side by side. The site includes background resources on the plays and their performance at the Globe Theatre and other venues. Date accessed: 2004-10-31. Date added: 2004-10-31.
• Le Théâtre de la foire à Paris: Textes et documents [Parisian Fairground Theatre]. Hypertexte de Barry Russell. Text in French. History of French theatre during the l'Ancien Régime. Includes electronic versions  of contemporary (17th and 18th centuries) accounts of French theatre. Date accessed: 2002-02-05. Date added: 2002-02-05.
• Trap[p]illon.org: Ressources en ligne pour l’histoire des spectacles. As of February 2002, the Bibliothèque (library) includes one digital facsimile: Essai sur l'histoire du théâtre by Germain Bapst (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1893). Date accessed: 2002-02-07. Date added: 2002-02-07.
• Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century. Washington, DC: American Memory, Library of Congress, 2001. Date accessed: 2004-04-17. Date added: 2004-04-17.

Genres

• La Comédie-Italienne. Electronic editions of works in French about the Italian Commedia dell'arte genre. Date accessed: 2002-02-05. Date added: 2002-02-05.

Playwrights

• LULLY, JEAN-BAPTISTE, 1632-1687. The Lully Navigation Nexus. Alternate title: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection. Denton, Texas: Music Library, University of North Texas. Digital facsimiles in downloadable Adobe PDF files of operatic scores, including librettos, and supporting research materials by and about the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687). Date accessed: 2002-02-06. Date added: 2002-02-06.
• MARIVAUX, PIERRE CARLET DE CHAMBLAIN DE, 1688-1763.  Le Théâtre de Marivaux. Société Marivaux. French language electronic versions in HTML of comedic works by the playwright Marivaux (1688-1763). Date accessed: 2002-02-05. Date added: 2002-02-05.
• MOLIÈRE, 1622-1673.  Site-Molière.com. Site in French and English. Select the Théâtre link to view all of Molière's plays in HTML format. Site includes a biography of Molière. Date accessed: 2002-02-07. Date added: 2002-02-07.

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