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German Language Humanities : Theater -- Print Resources
A guide to research materials in the areas of Germanic languages and literature
Works of Selected Dramatists
German Theater Resources at Memorial Library
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Electronic Resources | Guides and Handbooks | Select Topics
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in Theater Studies (many with an emphasis on Germanic Theater Studies)
- Dramenlexikon des 18. JahrhundertsLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT643 D73 2001
Non-Circulating - Historical Dictionary of German TheaterLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN2657 G73 2006
Non-Circulating - Lexikon Theater internationalLocation: Memorial Library Reference Non-current (Basement North)
Call number: PN2035 L45 1995
Non-Circulating
- International Bibliography of Theatre & DanceDatabase of full-text articles and books for the study of theater and the performing arts. Titles include: Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, TDR: The Drama Review, History of European Drama and Theatre, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Studies in Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Theory and Performance, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, and many more
- International Index to Performing ArtsCovers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more. Draws current content from more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews, and events. Currently 25 of the 200 periodicals contain full-text articles. Although the majority of titles begin in 1998, 46 important journals have been added retrospectively, some back to 1864
- Play IndexCovers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, with links to full text, criticism, and other useful information
- Bibliographia dramatica et dramaticorum. Kommentierte Bibliographie der im ehemaligen deutschen Reichsgebiet gedruckten und gespielten Dramen des 18. Jahrhunderts nebst deren Bearbeitungen und Übersetzungen und ihrer Rezeption bis in die GegenwartLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT1265 M49 1986
Non-Circulating - Deutsche Dramatiker des 20. JahrhundertsLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT666 D45 2000
Non-Circulating - Das deutsche Trauerspiel des 18. Jahrhunderts. Eine Bibliographie mit ca. 1250 Titeln, einer Einleitung sowie Verfasser- und StichwortverzeichnisLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT671 M49
Non-Circulating - Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Biographisches und bibliographisches HandbuchLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN2657 K6
Non-Circulating - Dramenlexikon des 18. JahrhundertsLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT643 D73 2001
Non-Circulating - The German Stage, 1767-1890: A Directory of Playwrights and PlaysLocation: Memorial Library Reference Non-current (Basement North)
Call number: PT641 R5 1987
Non-Circulating - German Theatre: A Bibliography from the Beginning to 1995Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PN2641 P28 1996
Non-Circulating - Handbook of East German Drama, 1945-1985 = DDR Drama Handbuch, 1945-1985Location: Memorial Library Reference Non-current (Basement North)
Call number: PT3721 L43 1987
Non-Circulating - Kleines deutsches DramenlexikonLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PT613 K44 1983
Non-Circulating - Kürschners biographisches Theater-Handbuch: Schauspiel, Oper, Film, Rundfunk. Deutschland-Österreich-SchweizLocation: Memorial Library Reference Non-current (Basement North)
Call number: PN2657 K8
Non-Circulating - Schweizerische Bühnenwerke in deutscher Sprache; BerufstheaterLocation: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: Z2784 D7 J6
Non-Circulating - Twentieth-century German Dramatists, 1889-1918Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PS221 D5 v.118
Non-Circulating - Twentieth-century German Dramatists, 1919-1992Location: Memorial Library Reference Stacks (2 South)
Call number: PS221 D5 v.124
Non-Circulating
Select Topics (To discover more, click on subject headings in individual records)
Want it all? Search the library catalog for "German drama"
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German Drama: PT 605 - PT 709
German Drama--Collections: PT 1251 - PT 1299
Link to Wikipedia's List of German Dramatists and Playwrights
- Die Aufklärung ist weiblich. Frauenrollen im Drama um 1800Call number: PT643 P45 2011
- Das deutsche Künstlerdrama. Von der Aufklärung bis zur GegenwartCall number: PT641 J37 2004
- Die Frau hinter dem Spiegel. Weiblichkeitsbilder im deutschsprachigen Drama der ModerneCall number: PT668 B637 2011
- Politisches Theater nach 1950Call number: PN2654 M357 2010
- Postdramatic TheatreCall number: PN2654 L35 2006
- Radikal weiblich? Theaterautorinnen heuteCall number: PN2657 R33 201
- The Swastika and the Stage: German Theatre and Society, 1933-1945Call number: PN2044 G4 S77 2007
- Theater als soziale Praxis. Ostdeutsches Theater nach dem SystemumbruchCall number: PT668 J46 2011
- Women and German Drama: Playwrights and Their Texts, 1860-1945Call number: PT619 C65 200
German Databases
- BDSL-onlineDatabase for German language and literature, literary history and criticism. Covers books, pamphlets, articles, chapters in books, dissertations and reviews
- GermanistikInternational index of materials in German language and literature
- IBZ OnlineLists more than two million articles in a wide variety of German and non-German journals, annuals, learned society yearbooks, conference proceedings, newspapers, etc. in all fields of knowledge and all languages, from a German point of view
- MLA International BibliographyCoverage from 1926 to the present. Literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide