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THTR 203 - The Thanksgiving Play dramaturgy notes

The Thanksgiving Play

What is dramaturgy

Oxford English Dictionary
Meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary. A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy by Magda Romanska (Editor)
ISBN: 9781135122898

Publication Date: 2014

Diverse, deep and learned reflections on the profession. See especially Dramaturgy in Action - even if it's not as a dramaturg for real life career narratives.

Tips for Dramaturgy (Katie Poushpom) YouTube
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
Professional organization for dramaturgs

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Subjects: English, Film Studies, History, Literature, Philosophy, Theater Arts, World Languages and Cultures

Library databases

Reviews

Nexis Uni
Searchable published news, legal, medical and business information.
The news section delivers the full text of international, national and regional newspapers along with wire services, broadcast transcripts, magazines, and non-English language sources. The legal section contains U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews and international legal information. This includes Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. The medical section supplies information from news and medical journals, and provides abstracts to medical news from Medline. The business section includes business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
US Newsstream
1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Access World News: Research Collection
Newspaper articles from 7,400 + sources, including 50 Nevada titles.
Local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video.
Newspaper Source Plus
Regional newspapers and broadcast television transcripts.
Newspaper Source provides full text coverage for 40 national and international newspapers including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. Selected full text is offered from more than 330 regional newspapers including The Buffalo News, Orange County Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Full text transcripts are available from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio, and more.

Theory and Criticism

ProQuest One Literature
Poetry, drama and prose; also literature criticism journals, ebooks, and key reference resources.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
1926-
Literary criticism published in journal articles, book chapters, books and more. Video tutorial for MLAIB
Drama Online
Good for: Reading play scripts and scholarly books analyzing drama.
Contains: Scripts for over 1000 plays, from Aeschylus to the present day, including modern classics from Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Caryl Churchill and many more.

Design

Bloomsbury Design Library
Images, encyclopedias and ebooks about design and crafts worldwide, from 1500 BCE to the present day.
Performance Design Archive Online
Books and periodicals, archival material, and specially commissioned instructional videos about design concepts for a broad range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.
Performance Design Archive Online is the first comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more.

The Lighting Archive
performance designs
Production Art Database (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Theatrecrafts.com

Primary Sources

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

JSTOR
Try the Images search to search across digitized collections created by universities and cultural heritage organizations
JSTOR digitally archives more than 700 scholarly journals. Subjects include African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, business, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, and more.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
1828-2016
Includes national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications from an Indigenous perspective.
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
1400-1950s
Primary sources for American Indian history in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books from pre-contact through the mid-20th century.

Good newes from New-England: or A true relation of things very remarkable at the plantation of Plimoth in Nevv-England.
Primary source describing interactions between Native Americans and European colonists.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries
1770-1950
Diaries, journals, and letters written by famous and not-so-famous North American women.

Production history

(these resources won't be up to date enough to include The Thanksgiving Play)

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.
Theatre in Context
Reference texts in American theater, as well as images of posters, playbills, photos, architectural images, floor plans, and other ephemera.
Update frequency: quarterly

Theatre guide

Theater Arts Websites

Broadway League
Grosses for NYC and touring shows, theatre directory, more
IBDB (Internet Broadway Database)
Database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics.
Internet Off Broadway Theatre Database (Lortel Archives)
Off-Broadway refers to any production that has satisfied the following requirements:
1. Played at a Manhattan theatre with a seating capacity of 100-499
2. Intended to run a closed-ended or open-ended schedule of performances of more than one week
3. Offered itself to critics and general audiences alike
Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
Categorized index of theatre and stagecraft history sites.
Musicals 101.com - The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musicals
An incredible collection of information about musical theatre - history, practice and study & teaching.
Playbill
Details of Broadway shows by season, grosses, venues and more.
British Library Playbills

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