LibGuides: Theatre 371: Conventions: Getting Started

Subject Databases

These subject databases may be especially useful for your research project for this class.

MLA International Bibliography
Use to find scholarly books, essays, and articles.
Search term example:
Stuart AND masque
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Provides indexing, abstracts and some full-text, for international periodicals. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
Humanities Abstracts
Search term example:
English mysteries and miracle plays
Humanities International Complete
Search term example:
Commedia dell'arte

Mulitdisciplinary Databases

Use these databases to find articles from more than one academic discipline.

JSTOR
An interdisciplinary journal archive. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
ProQuest Central
Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is a large aggregated database of periodical content. It features a diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.

Start with Primo

Find books and more when you search PRIMO.

Suggested PRIMO Search terms. Copy and paste into the PRIMO search box.

Medieval English Cycle Plays and Processional Staging

Theater -- England -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
Mysteries and miracle-plays, English -- History and criticism
Christian drama, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
Bible plays, English -- History and criticism

Commedia dell'arte

Commedia dell'arte -- History and criticism
Theater -- Italy -- History -- 16th century

Court Masques

Masques -- History and criticism
Masques with music -- 17th century -- History and Criticism

General Histories

Theater Great Britain History 17th century
Theater -- England -- History -- 16th century
Theater History Medieval

Examples of Books

The Early Stuart Masque by Barbara Ravelhofer
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0199286590
Publication Date: 2006-06-15
The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance.
Also available as a print book
Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'Arte by Robert Henke
Call Number: Print Books PQ4155 .H46 2002
ISBN: 9780521643245
Publication Date: 2002-12-12
Robert Henke closely considers commedia dell'arte texts to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were fruitfully combined in performance.
The Medieval English Stage by Alan H. Nelson
Call Number: Print Books PR643.C7 N4
ISBN: 0226571734
Publication Date: 1992-11-19
Introduction : historical inquiry and formal criticism -- Principles of processional staging : York Cycle -- York -- Wakefield -- Beverley -- Lincoln -- Norwich -- Coventry -- Chester -- London -- Miscellaneous towns and cities -- Hereford -- Bungay (Suffolk) -- Walsingham, Lanark (Scotland) -- Worcester -- Haddington (Scotland) -- Dundee -- Dublin -- Shrewsbury -- Leicester -- Reading (Berkshire) -- Cambridge, Salisbury, Glasgow -- Bury St. Edmunds -- King's Lynn -- Yarmouth -- Aberdeen -- Edinburgh -- Louth (Lincolnshire) -- Ipswich -- Perth (Scotland) -- Preston, Lancaster, Kendal -- Canterbury -- Newcastle-upon-Tyne -- Appendix A. Formulas for true-processional productions -- Appendix B. Doubling in true-processional productions -- Appendix C. Ipswich pageant lists.

Overviews

Gale eBooks
Recommended readings:
Court Spectacle in Stuart England
Dance in Court Spectacle
Theater and Stagecraft in Italy
Theater in the Later Middle Ages