Research Guides: History of Theatre: Finding Articles

Texts of Plays

Black Drama: Third Edition (via Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Subjects: Performing Arts, Plays
Info type: Documents, Plays

Finding Articles

A quick search of most of the library’s books, articles, ebooks, dissertations, videos, music, and more.

Off-campus access to the databases below requires my.emich authentication.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Covers most Arts and Humanities topics
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles
Google Scholar with EMU Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search for scholarly materials on any topic
Info type: scholarly articles, books, research reports, theses, working papers, cited sources
Access Tips: Use link above to get access to EMU subscriptions with Findtext+ links.
If this link does not work and you receive an error message from Google then use this alternate link to Google Scholar and also set your Google Scholar preferences to show EMU library access links.
Search Instruction: Google Scholar Video
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of back issues for many journals, some academic ebooks, and research reports.
Subjects: Covers most subjects
Info type: scholarly journals, professional periodicals, ebooks.
Access Tips: Usually the most recent 3-5 years are not available in JSTOR. However, EMU may have a current subscription. Check the Journal Titles search.
MLA Bibliography (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Literature, Folklore, Film, Theater, Languages, Linguistics
Info type: scholarly articles, book info
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Large collection of journals published by universities and scholarly societies.
Subjects: Humanities & Social Studies--especially History, Literature, Political Science, Women's Studies, some Science and Mathematics
Info type: scholarly journals, literary magazines
ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Search the text of literary works and find literary criticism.
Subjects: Literature, Literary Criticism
Info type: ebooks, novels, poems, plays, scholarly articles, professional articles, reference book entries

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