Subject Guides: Theater: Books

Browsing Theater Books

Theater books are generally located on the 3rd floor.

PN 1720-1861    Drama History
PN 2061-2071    Art of Acting
PN 2080             Monologues
PN 2131-2193    By Period
PN 6110.5-6120 Collections of Drama
PR 6000-6126    British playwrights
PS 3500-3576    American playwrights

eBook Collections

Search for eBooks from all of our collections.

Drama Online: Critical Studies and Performance Practice
This collection features nearly 600 academic books from the Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints.The titles in this collection are grouped under two broad areas: Context and Criticism and Theatre Craft. The collection also includes 60 actor training videos through PATAZ: Physical Actor Training - an online A-Z.

Other eBook Collections

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books): Theatre Studies
Provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books.
Google Books
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HathiTrust Digital Library
A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Internet Archive
A non-profit library of millions of free books, including plays.

Special Collections
The Department of Special Collections houses the college’s archives and its rare book collection.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

If the Library does not own the book you want, search for it in WorldCat and request it through Interlibrary Loan.

Lucy Scribner Library

Theater: Books