Guides: Theatre Arts: Home

Drama Only Databases

Shakespeare Survey
Yearbook of Shakespeare studies, productions, reviews and criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Open-access, peer-reviewed resources, including full text plays & poems, information on the life and times of Shakespeare, production information, and recent reviews of Shakespeare performances.
Digital Theatre Plus
Video library of over productions, documentaries, workshops, interviews and analysis.
National Theatre Collection
Streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering insight into theatre and performance studies.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, multi-cultural studies, and more. coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.
JSTOR
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences book chapters and journal articles. JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering subject disciplines in Arts, History, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Project MUSE
Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities Library
Featured disciplines include ... Media, Cultural & Communication Studies....Sociology, History....
Sage Journals Online
SAGE publishes journals in Humanities, Social Sciences...
Art Full Text
A comprehensive, international resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, and architecture.
Full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995
High-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals
Indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations
Indexing of nearly 200,000 art reproductions
Historical Abstracts
Searchable reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).

Broad Scope Resources

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Academic Video Online
Streaming video titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Books! Search the catalog (search box on the front page of the library website Library.pepperdine.edu) to explore the books we own and books we can borrow from other universities.

We also have several eBooks collections some listed below:

Overdrive
Borrow and read free e-books using your phone, tablet, or computer. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
ProQuest E-Book Central This link opens in a new window
Includes e-books formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
E-Book Collection (EBSCO)
A collection of e-books from EBSCOhost.
JSTOR
Access over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable.

Online Books

Experiencing Theatre by Anne Fletcher; Scott R. Irelan
ISBN: 9781585104086
Publication Date: 2015-06-05
" Experiencing Theatre completely engages the beginning theatre student in the art of theatre. Students become playwrights, dramaturges, actors, directors, designers, adapters and collaborators though dynamic readings and exercises."
Theatre and Christianity by Elizabeth Schafer
ISBN: 9781352005578
Publication Date: 2019-03-22
Explores the fluctuating relationship between theatre and Christianity by focusing on key points of intersection - the challenge of realism and the real, the treatment of women and the role of amateur performance. It covers a wide range of examples from medieval times to today, examining how theatre and Christianity have sometimes clashed dramatically and sometimes embraced one another to great effect.
Choreography and Dance in Theater by Don Rauf
ISBN: 9781502630018
Publication Date: 2017-12-30
Movement is crucial to setting the pace and mood of any play. Whether it's the synchronous movement of a crew of dancers or the seemingly random coordination of actors on stage, this physical activity is part of the vision established by the choreographer. This book explores the methods and techniques that meshes that vision with those of the director to create a unified message.
Performance Spaces and Stage Technologies: A Comparative Perspective on Theatre History by Yuji Nawata (Editor); Hans Joachim Dethlefs (Editor)
ISBN: 9783837661125
Publication Date: 2022-03-27
The history of theatre has often been written as a history of great writers, actors, or directors. This book takes a different approach: The contributors examine the history of performance from the perspective of theatre spaces and stage technologies. Art, literature, religion, law, urbanism, architecture, technology - this interdisciplinary book discusses how these fields relate to theatre and performance. Geographically, it covers a significant portion of the globe; chronologically, it ranges from ancient times to the present.