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Searching for Books

Search VANCAT by time period and additional keywords (history, costumes, setting, etc...), such as:

time period AND (theater OR theatre)
time period AND (theater OR theatre) AND history
time period AND (theater OR theatre) AND costumes

Examples:

Examples of resources available at the VU Library:

A Theater of Diplomacy by Ellen R. Welch
ISBN: 9780812293869
Publication Date: 2017-03-16
In A Theater of Diplomacy, Ellen R. Welch argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in the early modern period. (JSTOR EBA)
Costumes and Settings for Staging Historical Plays by Jack Cassin-Scott
Call Number: PN 2067 C33 1979 v.2
ISBN: 0823802310
Publication Date: 1979-06-01
v. 1. The classical period.--v. 2. Medieval.
The Elizabethan stage by E.K. Chambers
Call Number: PN 2589 C4
ISBN: 9780198115113
Publication Date: 1923

Searching for Articles

Use similar keywords used to search VANCAT for books. Include the time period AND (theater OR theatre). To narrow down search results, include additional keywords like costumes, setting, etc...

The exception is Literature Resource Center. Read the summary before searching for tips.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Search either by "Name of Work" field (type in the play title) or "Subject" field and type in time period.
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary database with scholarly journals, ebooks, reviews, and pamphlets. Use Journal Filter to narrow down by discipline/subject.
Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
Comprehensive, multidisciplinary database providing access to full-text journals, magazines, newspapers, book reviews, and more.
ProQuest Central
A multidisciplinary, aggregated database; search multiple ProQuest databases simultaneously for ebooks and scholarly articles.
Google Scholar
Search by time period along with additional keywords to narrow down your search. Example: Elizabethan theater costumes. Refer to the Google Scholar page (tabbed above) on how to access articles.

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