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Theater Arts: Home
A guide with resources on drama, the performing arts, and theater.
Access to a yearbook of Shakespeare studies, production and criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
Delivers open-access, peer-reviewed Shakespeare resources, including full text plays & poems, information on the life and times of Shakespeare, production information on Shakespeare plays, and recent reviews of Shakespeare performances.
Digital Theatre Plus brings live performance into the classroom, accompanied by a range of educational resources for illustration, explanation, and critical reflection. Includes several theatre resources, including over 200 productions, 18 master classes, 27 documentaries, 260 interviews and 62 practical guides.
The National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.
Access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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:
Borrow and read free ebooks from the Libraries using your phone, tablet, or computer. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
Includes e-books that were formerly in Pepperdine's ebrary and EBL collections.This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
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.
Featuring full-text articles (from more than 300 journals), indexing and abstracting of an international array of publications, Art Full Text™ is a comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture and much more.
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