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General Sources

Play Index
(1949-present)
Theater
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International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text: IIMP
(1874-present, abstracts, full text)
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World Shakespeare Bibliography Online (1964-present, annotations)
Shakespeare
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Book, Theater, and Film Reviews

Call Numbers for Costume Design, Scenery, and Stage Settings

Call Numbers for Reference Section

Lyon College Events Calendar

The Web

Art Index (1984-present, citations)
Art
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1980-present, citations)
Arts, Humanities
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Book, Theater, and Film Reviews

Academic Search Premier  (Ebsco Host)  Limit search by:  Document type- entertainment, or book review. (Scroll to the bottom to find this)

America: History and Life- (Mostly book reviews)  AH&L covers the entire scope of American History including theater and book reviews.  In the advanced search, choose media or book review.

Article First-  Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals and describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record. Use the keyword search.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index includes full text and citation/abstracts.  Limit by "article type phrase": Theater or film or book review.

BooksInPrint Patron- 5 million book, audio book, and video titles.


BooksInPrint Professional- 5 million book, audio book, and video titles.
 

LexisNexis Academic UniverseFind reviews by clicking on the "Guided News Search" tab, then under Step 1, select Arts & Sports News, then in step 2 select Book, movie, & Play Reviews.

MasterFILE Premier-  Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.   Use document type: book or literature or entertainment review.

MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations mostly about books.  It dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

New York Times- The New York Times, 1851-1999, full text.

Newspaper Source-  Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U. S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.  It is updated daily.

WilsonSelectPlus-  Articles in science, humanities, education and business.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online-  Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare published or produced between 1966 and now.


Reference

The Oxford Reference Collection

"The Historical Encyclopedia of Costume," by Albert Racinet,  Ref GT 510

"Play Index"  PN6110.7 .P53  Find the plays with this index.


Costume Design, Scenery,
Stage Settings

  • Costume, Dress, and Fashion  GT500- GT600

  • Costumes for the Play  PN 2067- PN 2068

  • Priniciples of Costume Design  TT497- TT633

  • Theater- Stage Setting and Scenery  PN2085- PN2091

  • Portraits ND1300-ND1337  Costumes of the times by artists of the times.


  • The Web

     

    Art

     

    Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Timeline of Art History

    Museum of Modern Art, New York

    National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.

    Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D. C.

    Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D. C.

    Tate Gallery, Britain

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

     

    Music

    Bach Cantatas Website, created by Aryeh Oron, Bach and Jazz Music Fan

     

    Theater

    All Movie Guide

    The Costume Page  This page is for  those who study and/or make costumes: costumers, students, historical re-enactors, science fiction fans, professionals, amateurs, dancers, theatrical costumers, trick-or-treaters, writers, researchers, and all those interested in fashion, textile art, and costume history.

    Movie Review Query Engine

    New York Public Library Picture Collection-  30,000 digital images created before 1923.

    Public Moving Image Archives & Research Center


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