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Internet Resources
This a list of Internet related material which should assist with scholarly research
Subject Gateways and Directories
Ausstage
Ausstage is an Australian gateway to the Performing Arts resources on the Net, a directory of performing arts resources and includes an index of Australian performing arts events.
URL: hhttp://www.ausstage.edu.au/
McCoy's Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
Ken McCoy, Associate Professor Communication Studies and Theatre Arts at Stetson University, has compiled this directory. Commerical organisations are not included in this list.
URL: http://www.stetson.edu/csata/thr_guid.html
PADS
The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) is based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK and is a collaboration between the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies and the Department of Music. Links to a large number of performance Arts sites.
URL: http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/
Performing Arts Links
The index is divided into categories of cinema, dance, theatre and reviews, and then subdivided by country.
URL: http://www.theatrelibrary.org/links/index.html
Theatre-links.com
Links to academic programmes, research resources, Broadway and the West End, casting and contract services, news, Shakespeare, venues, groups and related topics.
URL: http://www.theatre-link.com/
Theatre Central
Claims to be the largest compendium of theatre links on the Internet, from celebrity sites to script archives and unions.
URL: http://www.playbill.com/theatrecentral/sites.html
Visual and Performing Arts - Infomine
A comprehensive indexed listing from Infomine which is 'librarian built'. The Visual Arts Section allows you to search via Table of Contents; Keyword; Subject and Title.
URL: http://infomine.ucr.edu/search/artssearch.phtml
The Virtual Library: Theatre
This is the Theatre and Drama section of the WWW Virtual Library which was founded in 1996. It points to resources in more than 40 countries
URL: http://www.VL-Theatre.com/
Artslynx InternationalTheatre Resources
Takes you to the large sites that link with theatre companies and hard to locate resources in theatre including design.
URL: http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/
Didaskalia
Didaskalia is a web-site and journal dedicated to the study of ancient Greek and Roman theatre in performance, and to the legacy of ancient theatre.
URL: http://www.didaskalia.net/
Associations, Departments and Theatre Groups
Centre for Performance Studies
The University of Sydney's own performance studies department. Information on courses, staff, publications, projects and facilities.
URL: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/perform/about_us/profile.shtml
BUBL Link
A listing of theatre groups throughout the world, with emphasis on Britain.
URL: http://link.bubl.ac.uk/theatre/
Full Text Archives
About Performance
About Performance is the refereed journal of the Department of Performance Studies. Faculty of Arts. University of Sydney.
URL: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/perform/research/publications.shtml
DPA: Digital Performance Archives
This site documents developments taking place which combine performance activity with new digital technologies. It also collates examples of how computer technologies are being used to create, document or analyse performance.
URL: http://dpa.ntu.ac.uk/dpa_site/
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Representing the American Theatre by publishing and licensing the work of new and established playwrights. Formed in 1936, it has grown steadily to become one of the premiere play licensing agencies in the English speaking theatre. Offering an extensive list of titles, including a preponderance of the most significant American plays of the past half century. Includes Playfinder, where you can browse or search the catalogue by cast size, title, author, keyword or ISBN, order books and apply for rights online(updated weekly).
URL: http://www.dramatists.com/
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
The Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare Full Text Database contains 11 major editions from the First Folio (1623) to the Cambridge Edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition, it contains over 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's plays (1774).
NB Available through the Library's SETIS collection, these databases can only be accessed from the University of Sydney network.
URL: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/shake/
English Drama Databases
The English Verse Drama Database contains 2284 plays wholly or predominantly in verse, written by 524 authors. The English Prose Drama Database contains 509 plays written by 184 different authors.
NB Available through the Library's SETIS collection, these databases can only be accessed from the University of Sydney network.
URL: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drama/
Project Gutenberg
The full text of classic books and plays generally published before 1923.
URL: http://www.promo.net/pg/
Theatre and Drama: electronic text archive
Links to plays available on the Internet
URL: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/VL/theatre/eta.htm