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Concise Oxford Companion to Theatre
Oxford Companion to American Theatre

Print References

Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
Cambridge Companion to 20th Century Irish Drama
Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Drama
Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre
Companion to Post-War British Theatre
Companion to Theatre in Australia
Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology
Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama
Continuum Companion to 20th Century Theatre
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
New Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre
Oxford Dictionary of Plays
The Theatre Guide

Biographical

Contemporary Dramatists
Showcast
Who’s Who in the Theatre

Shakespeare

Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, a Textual Companion
Rough Guide to Shakespeare
A Shakespeare Companion
Shakespeare, an Illustrated Dictionary

List of useful books @ VCA Library by Subject

Australian Drama, 20th Century @ VCA Library
Shakespeare @ VCA Library

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Literature Online (LION PQ) - a service currently offering more than 349,000 works of English and American literature from the 8th century to the present day.

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AustLit - provides access to information on both creative and critical Austalian literature workds and their authors. Includes over 60,000 Australian authors and includes literature from 1780 to the present.

APAFT Australian Public Affairs - Full Text, provides internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.

APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service). Database provides links to articles from hundreds of leading Australasian journals.

ERIC - Education database. Full text access dependant upon contributor permission. Covers articles in Education including the arts.

Expanded Academic ASAP- indexes across all academic disciplines access to abstracts and some full text articles.

JSTOR - is an archive of scholarly journals covering a wide variety of disciplines. JSTOR does not include articles published in recent years, but may provide a link to them.

MLA International Bibliography -a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics since 1926.

Project Muse - is an online resources which indexes a range of full-text scholarly journals. Subjects covered include the arts humanities and social sciences.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index - Web of Science - a citation index that also includes Social Sciences and Science. From 1975 to the present

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American Drama
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Arts Hub  Online information for Australian arts workers, jobs worldwide, and industry news from Australia and the world.

AusStage - Gateway to the Australian Performing Arts. Information about events, artists, organisations and venues.

Australian Script Centre  -collects, catalogues, promotes and distributes  unpublished Australian plays.

VCA School of Drama

Citing and Referencing - University of Melbourne guide
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Finding Information on the Internet
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Goldoni
Websites:
Biography of Carlo Goldoni
Eighteenth Century Italian drama
Visual History of Eighteenth Century European Dress
Eighteenth Century costume links
The European Enlightenment

Journal Articles:
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'Commedia unbound. (Eighteenth Century playwright Carlo Goldoni)' from American Theatre, Vol.12, No.3, March 1995 p.8

Moliere
Websites:
Biographical information about Moliere from Discover France web site
Biographical information about Moliere from Theatre Database

Journal Articles:
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'Moilere and farce' from Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 8, No.2, 1963 p.133
Music, fantasy and illusion in Moliere's 'La Malade Imaginaire'' from Music and Letters, Vol.73, No.2, 1992 p.222
'Moliere, Commedia dell'arte and the question of influence in early modern European theatre' from Modern Language Review, Vol.100, No.2, April 2005, p.444

Books:
Books on Moliere & Goldoni, and French & Italian history @ University of Melbourne Libraries