LibGuides: Theatre: Books /eBooks

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EBook Databases

ACLS Humanities E-book Project
(American Council of Learned Societies) Electronic works of major importance to historical studies and other areas of the humanities.
Ebook Academic Collection
The eBook Academic Collection is a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter.
Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost)
With over 100,000 titles this is our largest ebook collection. Accesses a wide range of research, reference and reading materials online. The reader can search every word in every eBook our library has, as well as search within a particular eBook. Plus, each eBook is embedded with the American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language, 4th Ed. These ebooks can be viewed online or checked out and downloaded to your computer or compatible mobile device.
JSTOR eBooks
A DDA (Demand Driven Acquisition) resource of nearly 45,000 Academic eBooks from a variety of disciplines.

EBooks - Samples

Theater Careers by Tim Donahue; Jim Patterson
ISBN: 9781611170818
Publication Date: 2012-06-15
Theater Careers is designed to empower aspiring theater professionals to make savvy, informed decisions through a concise overview of how to prepare for and find work in the theater business.
Trickster Theatre by Jesse Weaver Shipley
ISBN: 9780253016454
Publication Date: 2015-06-22
Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres.
Musicality in Theatre by David Roesner
ISBN: 9781409461012
Publication Date: 2014-07-02
This study reveals both the continuous changes in the understanding of music as model, method and metaphor for the theatre and how different notions of music had a vital impact on theatrical innovation in the past 150 years.
American Theatre by Theresa Saxon
ISBN: 9780748625925
Publication Date: 2011-10-11
Argues for the recognition of American theatre history as long, rich, diverse and critically compelling. Embracing all epochs of theatre history.
Applied Drama/Theatre As Social Intervention in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts by Hazel Barnes; Mariè-Heleen Coetzee
ISBN: 9781443853972
Publication Date: 2014-02-15
This book explores the use of drama or theatre texts about, as approaches to, or methodologies for, interventions in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
The Reflexive Teaching Artist by Kathryn Dawson (Editor); Daniel A. Kelin (Editor)
ISBN: 9781783202218
Publication Date: 2014-09-15
Explores a series of foundational concepts, including intentionality, quality, artistic perspective, assessment and praxis, all used as a reflective framework to illuminate case studies from a wide range of teaching artist practice.
Modern Drama by Ric Knowles (Editor); Joanne Tompkins (Editor); W. B. Worthen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780802086211
Publication Date: 2003-08-11
Modern Drama – a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars – investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances of the terms inherent in the concepts of 'modern' and 'drama.'