LibGuides: LRC resources for performing arts: Subject specific databases and websites

British Library Sounds

British Library Sounds
British Library Sounds presents 90,000 unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Students and staff can listen to all recordings online; most recordings can be downloaded for academic use, referencing the title and copyright owner of the material used.

In the Arts, literature and performance section there is access to the Theatre Archive Project. Recordings from this project aim to reinvestigate

British theatre history 1945-1968, from the perspectives of theatre-goers, actors, directors, producers, stage designers, writers and critics.

Credo Reference

Credo Reference
A digital reference library containing 250 dictionaries and encyclopaedias. An ideal starting point for research on any subject.

Access
To access from off campus, enter your college username and password on the Vision West Nottinghamshire College authentication page.

Topic pages

Credo Reference has thousands of subject specific topic pages - a great place to start exploring a topic. Each topic page provides an

encyclopaedia entry or dictionary definition, entries from other books on Credo, YouTube videos, images, links to news articles, and an interactive

mind map of your topic and related topics. Find some example topic pages below:

Acting	Actors and Actresses	Commedia Dell'arte
Directing	Drama	Performing Arts
Romeo & Juliet	Screenwriting	Theatre

ProQuest Learning: Literature

ProQuest Learning: Literature
ProQuest Learning: Literature is a fully searchable, growing collection of literature resources, ranging from author biographies, student guides and dictionaries of literary terms to specialist research materials such as current full-text journals and bibliographic citations.

Access
To access from off campus click on "Login through your library or institution”, select "United Kingdom” as your region, choose West Nottinghamshire College from the list and click Login, then enter your college username and password on the Vision West Nottinghamshire College authentication page.

The 'Authors' section allows you to search for playwrights and retrieves journal articles, a bibliography of their work, a biography and links to relevant websites. Some examples include:

Samuel Beckett	Bertolt Brecht	Anton Chekhov
Caryl Churchill	Arthur Miller	Joe Orton
William Shakespeare	Tom Stoppard	Tennessee Williams

The 'Criticism' section includes journals, such as:

The Journal of American Drama and Theatre	Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England	Asian Theatre Journal (ATJ)
Shakespeare Quarterly	Multicultural Shakespeare	Theatre Research International

The 'Reference' section contains KnowledgeNotes student guides which provide an overview of the author and characters in a play, a summary of the plot and themes, and picks out highlights in the key acts and scenes. Some of the KnowledgeNotes available include plays by:

Aeschylus	Samuel Beckett	Anton Chekhov
Euripides	Henrik Ibsen	Arthur Miller
William Shakespeare	Tennessee Williams	Virginia Woolf