Digital Bibliography.

Supplement to pages 675-688

This page allows us to suggest links to websites that you may find useful as starting points for doing research with the World Wide Web. The links suggested here represent the work of scholars, theatre professionals, commercial organizations, amateurs and students. This list is not intended to be comprehensive but rather is intended to indicate the variety of web-based theatre history resources available. If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion on this page please click the Feedback link and send us the URL.

As with the bibliography in the text, the sites listed here are primarily in English. The European search engine and the translator listed below will assist you in searching for a broader range of materials.

• Euroferret, European Search Engine
• Babelfish translator from Altavista

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• Artslynx International Theatre Resources. Richard Finkelstein, Univ.  of Colorado, Denver.
• DramaWest Links Page. Association of Drama Educators, WA.
• History of the Theater. Davison Community Schools, MI.
• National Theatre Resources Online. Arts to Zoo, Arts Communications Inc., Denver.
• Theatre History Sites on the WWW. P. Jerald Bangham, Alcorn State Univ.
• Theatrepedia. East Los Angeles College
• Theatre History on the WebJack Wolcott, University of Washington
• Voice of the Shuttle: Drama section. Alan Liu, Univ.  of California, Santa Barbara.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library, Theatre and Drama section. Brookes Univ., Oxford
• W.ild W.onderful W.orld of Theatre History. G. Andrew Roberts,  Univ.  of Montevallo, (student site).
• Inter-Play:an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Robert Westover and Janet Wright, Portland State Univ.
• Project Gutenberg (search drama).
• Corbis Images. A Bill Gates company. (search theat*) 

• Ritual and Ceremony in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East. K. C. Hanson, Fortress Press.
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead. trans. E.A. Wallis Budge. 
• Poetics, Aristotle. trans. S. H. Butcher.

• Didaskalia, Ancient Theatre Today. Univ. of Warwick.
• Ancient Greek Theatre.Walter Englert,  Reed College.

• Greek Tragedy.Bruce Fraser, Cambridge Univ.
• A Greek Dithyramb: Theseus by Bacchylides. trans. Mark Damen, Utah State University

• Perseus Project, Arts and Archaeology.Tufts Univ.
• Maecenas Images of Ancient Greece and Rome. Leo C. Curran, Classical Association of the Atlantic States
• Theatre slide show, (from the Perseus Project). Sebastian Heath.
• Statue of Sophocles. Vatican Museum.
• Scene from phlyax vase,( c. 350-325 B.C.). Vatican Museum.

• Spectacles (A.D. 197), Tertullian. Guide to Early Church Documents, ICLnet.

• Theatron: Roman Permanent Theatres, The Theatre of Pompey.  Univ. of Warwick.
• Roman Theatres. Bill Thayer.

• Roman Mime, 1st Century AD trans. Mark Damen, Utah State University
• Theodora as a Byzantine Mime Performer: From Anecdota (The Secret History) by Procopius. 9.2-26 (selections) trans. Mark Damen, Utah State University
• Charition, author anonymous (a rare glimpse of popular entertainment in imperial Rome) trans. Mark Damen, Utah State University

• Early Drama, Art, and Music. The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
• Records of Early English Drama (REED). Centre for Research in Early English Drama, Univ. of Toronto
• WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music.  Centre for Research in Early English Drama, Univ. of Toronto
• Medieval Drama. Beau A.C. Harbin, Catholic Univ. of America
• Medieval Feminist Index. edt. Margaret Schaus, Haverford College.

  [Click "Search the Medieval Feminist Index" at the bottom of the page, use search terms LITERATURE-DRAMA.]

• Medieval Drama Links. Sydney Higgins, Univ. of Camerino, Italy.
• Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar Marcos J. Montes.

• Shakespeare and the Globe. Chantal Miller-Schütz, Reading Univ.
• Shakespeare Globe Centre USA.University of Maryland

• "Gammer Gurton's Needle." Oxford Text Archive, Oxford Univ.
• English Server Drama Collection. Geoffrey Sauer, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe.  Perseus Project, Tufts Univ.
• Floriméne at the Court of Charles I. Jack Walcott, Univ. of Washington.
• Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century. Bibliographical Society, Univ. of Virginia

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. Terry A. Gray, Palomar College.

• Comedia Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Tempe, AZ.

• Parisian Fairground Theatre. Barry Russell, Brookes Univ., Oxford. Block and copy this URL,
  http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/sol/foires/
  into the Altavista Babelfish translator. Select French to English for a translation. click here

• Baroque Theatre. Russell McNeil, Malaspina Great Books, Malaspina College.

• Henry Fielding. The Dorset Page.
• Drury Lane Theatre. Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
• Garrick's Body and the Labor of Art in Eighteenth-Century Theater.  Denise S. Sechelski,   American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

• John Dryden. An Essay of Dramatick Poesie. Univ. of Toronto.
• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Vol. I. Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia.
• The Beggar's Opera. John Gay. Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia.
• Restoration and Eighteenth-century English Drama. Univ. of Pennsylvania

• Theatron, Restoration Theatre Design. Univ. of Warwick.
• David Garric, between Tragedy and Comedy (c.1761). painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). CGFA: Carol Gerten's Fine Art- A Virtual Art Museum.
• Hogarth: 4 theatrical paintings. CGFA: Carol Gerten's Fine Art- A Virtual Art Museum.

• Theatre Music by William Boyce (1710-1779). Hyperion Records Ltd.

• Eighteenth-Century Chronology.  Jack Lynch,  Univ. of Pennsylvania.
• The Parisian Stage During the French Revolution Mark Olsen,Univ.of Chicago.
• Romantic Chronology:18th Century to 1784. ed. Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio and Alan Liu, Univ. California, Santa Barbara.

• Caroline Neuber. Block and copy this URL,
  http://www.mdr.de/geschichte/personen/neuber.htm
  into the Altavista Babelfish translator. Select German to English for a translation. click here
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)Russell McNeil, Malaspina Great Books, Malaspina College.

• The Contrast. Royall Tyler. Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia.

• Shakespeare Illustrated. Harry Rusche, Emory Univ.
• Negro Minstrelsy -- Ancient and Modern (1855). J. J. Trux. Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia.
• Michael R. Booth Theatre Collection Univ. of Newcastle.

• Vaudeville Memories. Ruth Muldrew.
• The Early San Francisco Stage.San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum.

• Actors of the Late 19th c.Theater. Players of the Day. London: George Newnes, c. 1902. site by C. Otis Sweezey. Southern Illinois Univ.

• On Seeing Madame Bernhardt's Hamlet, by Elizabeth Robins. Joanne E. Gates, The Elizabeth Robins Web,  Jacksonville State Univ.
• August Strindberg. Jonas Hedström.

• The Wild Duck. Henrik Ibsen. Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia.
• The Playboy of the Western World. J. M. Synge. Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia.

• Footlight Notes: Theatre, Variety, Music Hall, Vaudeville, Musical Comedy, Revue,and other popular entertainment 1850s-1920s. John Culme.
• The Ballets Russes. Estelle Souche.

• Federal Theatre Project Lorraine Brown. George Mason Univ.
• Antonin Artaud.

• Paris Music Hall Collection. Hargrett Library, University of Georgia
• The Federal Theatre Project. American Memory, Library of Congress.

• Shubert Theater : Archive Search The Shubert Archive

• The San Francisco Diggers,1966-1968 (anarchist guerilla street theater group ) Summer of Love Archives.

• TCI:The Business of Entertainment Technology & Design -- Online. Theatre Crafts International magazine.
• Aisle Say, US Theatre Reviews. TheatreNet Enterprises.
• The Australian Theatre Guide.  Stephanie Sands. images, bytes & pages, Australia.

• Theatre Central. Andrew Q Kraft,  Playbill Online.
• McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies. Ken McCoy,  Stetson Univ.
• Theatre Links.Com. Scott Naef.
• Julie Taymor & The Lion King Disney.
• Antoinette Perry Awards

• Chinese Theatre: (in German with numerous sound clips)  Block and copy this URL, http://www.aal.unibe.ch/Chinesisch/Texte/referat-pm.html
  into the Altavista Babelfish translator. Select German to English for a translation. click here
• Kabuki for Everyone. Ichimura Manjiro.

• Karagoz - Turkish Shadow Theater. Vedat Güçlü Diker, Bogaziçi Univ.

• Karagoz - Turkish Shadow Theater. Vedat Güçlü Diker, Bogaziçi Univ.

• Guide to Theatre in Africa. Afrique en Creations, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
• An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet.  Peter Limb, Univ.   of Western Australia

• Africa Web Links.  Ali B. Ali-Dinar. Univ. of Pennsylvania.

• Theatre and Drama Journals. Barry Russell.  World Wide Web Virtual Library.

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