Research Guides: Theater 101A: Global Histories of Theater and Performance: Getting Started

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The Arts Library, located in the Luskin School of Public Affairs building, will be undergoing seismic upgrades and as a result, is closed to patrons through early Fall Quarter 2022. We are aiming to reopen by late October 2022, and will post more information when available. Collections will be available to patrons via Page and Pickup services. Please contact us at AskUs@library.ucla.edu with questions.

Arts Library Collections Access and Services During Seismic Construction Closure
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Online Reference Tools

These online encyclopedias and companions are also useful for specific performance-related topics.

Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
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Includes Companions to Literature and Classics, Companions to Music, and Companions to Philosophy, Religion, and Culture.
Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic, and social history, philosophy, and literature of selected countries and subjects. Continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series as soon as they become available.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
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Full text online reference books, covering a number of topics in the arts and humanities.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
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Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. Combines the core Gale Group literary databases: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Complements Literature Criticism Online.
African American literature; African literature; American Indian literature; American literature; Asian American literature; Authors; Bibliograpy; Biographies; Biography; Black literature; Book reviews; Chicano literature; English literature; Eurpean literature; French literature; Italian literature; German literature; Latin American literature; Mexican American literature; Native American literature; Western literature; LRC; literature resource center

African American literature; African literature; American Indian literature; American literature; Asian American literature; Authors; Bibliograpy; Biographies; Biography; Black literature; Book reviews; Chicano literature; English literature; Eurpean literature; French literature; Italian literature; German literature; Latin American literature; Mexican American literature; Native American literature; Western literature; LRC
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Handbooks, now a part of Oxford Academic, provide review articles which summarize and analyze current research and trends in a given discipline. UCLA subscribes to most Oxford Handbooks Online, excluding a few individual titles.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
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Spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. UC subscription allows limited simultaneous users, so if you can't connect try again later.
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Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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Handbooks covering a wide range of humanities, social sciences, psychology and some science topics, published by Routledge, Ashgate and other imprints. Some CRC Press handbooks can also be accessed via this particular site.
Theatre in Context Collection This link opens in a new window
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A reference source that covers multiple aspects of the international theater, including full text of major reference materials and records for individual plays, people, theaters, productions, and production companies. Also includes images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other ephemera. Formerly titled North American Theatre Online.

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