Drama: Research Articles (Scholarly Journals, etc.)

Searches multiple Gale drama and literature databases. One can find scholarly author/playwright biographies, critical essays about plays, play reviews, and more from time periods contemporaneous to the original plays to the present. Includes articles from notable series like Drama Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Contemporary Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Provides full text for over 100 different theatre journal titles, such as Canadian Theatre Review, Contemporary Theatre Review, Asian Theatre Journal, Journal of American Drama & Theatre, etc. Use this database to locate both scholarly articles and also keep track of what's occurring in the profession across the world. Provides access to materials since the early 20th century, but majority of coverage is from 1984-present.

Scholarly index for journal, trade magazine, and popular magazine articles in the fields of dance, drama, and film.

Compiles a collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.

An absolutely enormous scholarly interdisciplinary article database. You can find articles on all topics here. Is particularly excellent for locating older materials. Coverage generally stops about 3 years prior to current date.

Contains both journals and books. Includes journals like Asian Theatre Journal, Comparative Drama, Latin American Theatre Review, Shakespeare Quarterly, and many more.

A psychology database and includes topics like neuroscience, cognition, etc. If you are performing a character analysis and attempting to understand motivation, this might be a good place to explore classic psychological motivation and how you might apply that specifically to them.

Selectively indexes scholarly writings about music occurring in journals, books, dissertations, festschrift, conference proceedings, and other similar publications. Primarily focused on Western art music, but one can locate some interesting literature related to musical theater also. Indexes writings that were published from early-20th century to the present.

RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals is a collection of full text primary source material for the study of music and musical life from approximately 1760-1960. Its collection is comprised of music-focused periodicals, music-centric articles from general newspapers and literary periodicals, etc. While focused on music, these resources are an excellent way to study popular culture of the 19th and early 20th century.

A scholarly, multidisciplinary database that provides access to journal articles covering a range of topics, including archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. It also indexes monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.

Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Periodicals archive online makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages. It is international in scope, with the inclusion of more than 150 foreign-language titles.