LibGuides: Music Theatre: Essential resources

Essential

Drama Online

The following resources are considered the most useful to use for your course:

Drama Online is an award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world's leading drama publisher. It offers over 5,000 playtexts, more than 800 hours of video, 450 audio plays, over 900 scholarly books and over 30 volumes of major works.

Drama Online

Dance journals available via Taylor & Francis Online
The journals title available to browse and search include: Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy; Dance Chronicle; Dance Education in Practice; International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media; Journal of Dance Education; Research in Dance Education; Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.

Recommended resources

The Shakespeare Archive includes over 1,000 programmes covering plays, poems and sonnets. Now, more than 75% of this content includes subtitles.

BBC Shakespeare Archive

O'Reilly for Higher Education

Explore the online books available at O'Reilly for Higher Education to upskill your knowledge and maybe get inspired as well. Topic coverage includes full-text books on Theatre, Music & Audio, Acting, Directing and more ...

O'Reilly for Higher Education
Books and videos can be read online but can only be downloaded via the O’Reilly mobile App which can be obtained from the App Store or Google Play.

For guidance on using O’Reilly please visit their help pages at https://proquest.libguides.com/oreilly/features The Platform Features and Content sections are especially useful

Can I access this resource?
To access O'Reilly for Higher Education you must be either:
- A Teesside University undergraduate or postgraduate
- A member of Teesside University staff
- A TUCP student
If you are not a member of any of these groups then unfortunately our licence does not allow access to the resource

Use of licenced material
All electronic databases are covered by licences, and failure to adhere to the terms of the licences could result in the University losing access to these resources.
All databases are provided for educational use only.
A copy of the full terms of the O'Reilly for Higher Education licence can be found below.
List of electronic resource licences (M to P)

Go to a more comprehensive list of resources for Creative Industries

Search Discovery

Find books, ebooks, articles, video and more

Searching Discovery

Discovery is a useful resource to use to get started with searching for literature. It searches the wealth of our library collections and many of our academic databases simultaneously. Below is a link to the Discovery search, as well as two short video guides that demo how to search it more effectively ...

Basic search video guide

Advanced search video guide

Journals

Journals - what and why?

What are journals?

They are: An image of several journal titles

like magazines but of a scholarly nature
published at regular intervals
contain articles on a variety of topics
the articles are written by multiple authors.

Why should I use them?

using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
journals articles give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
quality research - academic rigour - peer reviewed.