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 Humanities Abstracts
Description: Indexed journals in art, classics, history, language, music, philosophy, and religion; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
 International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Description: Indexes journals in dance, film, television, drama and theater; with abstracts and some full text. Includes playscripts from American Theatre.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
 Theatre in Video
Description: Supplies streaming video of the world's leading plays, as well as the BBC's Shakespeare series. This first release contains over 180 titles, and users can bookmark scenes and create playlists. Limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
1Humanities Abstracts
Description: Indexed journals in art, classics, history, language, music, philosophy, and religion; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-present
Use to locate: Articles
2International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Description: Indexes journals in dance, film, television, drama and theater; with abstracts and some full text. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1864-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
3Saskia Digital Image Archive
Description: The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Images
4Theatre in Video
Description: Supplies streaming video of the world's leading plays, as well as the BBC's Shakespeare series. This first release contains over 180 titles, and users can bookmark scenes and create playlists. Limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Plays, Streaming media, Video
1Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Description: Authoritative and up-to-date information about dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
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1American Theatre
Description: Covers a wide variety of contemporary theatrical disciplines from acting and writing to directing, design, managment and trends in American and international theater. Includes complete playscripts from contemporary playrights.
2Variety
Description: One of the premier sources of show business and entertainment news.
See Journal & Newspaper Articles for more
1American Drama 1714-1915
Description: Contains 1,500+ dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth. Includes plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and etc.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1714-1915
Use to locate: Plays
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
2American Theatre
Description: Covers a wide variety of contemporary theatrical disciplines from acting and writing to directing, design, managment and trends in American and international theater. Includes complete playscripts from contemporary playrights.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Journals
3English Drama
Description: A unique collection of 3,900+ plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Plays
4Humanities Abstracts
Description: Indexed journals in art, classics, history, language, music, philosophy, and religion; with abstracts.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1984-present
Use to locate: Articles
5International Dialects of English Archive
Description: Recordings of native English speakers, and include both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Web Sites
6International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Description: Indexes journals in dance, film, television, drama and theater; with abstracts and some full text. Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Dates Covered: 1864-present
Use to locate: Articles, Reviews
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
7Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Description: Authoritative and up-to-date information about dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Encyclopedias
FULL TEXT Full-text available for many items.
8Saskia Digital Image Archive
Description: The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Images
9Speech Accent Archive
Description: Audio database of native and non-native speakers of English reading the same short paragraph.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Web Sites
10Theatre in Video
Description: Supplies streaming video of the world's leading plays, as well as the BBC's Shakespeare series. This first release contains over 180 titles, and users can bookmark scenes and create playlists. Limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Restrictions: DePaul users only
Use to locate: Plays, Streaming media, Video
11Variety
Description: One of the premier sources of show business and entertainment news.
Restrictions: None
Use to locate: Journals
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