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Below are a selected few reference books about Theatre. Be sure to browse the reference shelves in the MT's for Musical Theatre and PN2000to PN 3307 for Theatre to find more materials.
Find biographies of people, searching by occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth and death date, and of course by name. Courtesy Massachusetts Library System.
Search hundreds of reference sources - dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases - for topic overviews and links to our other online resources. Includes mind map/concept map search feature.
Start here for all art topics. Find articles, images, art terms, timelines and lesson plans for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, with links to ARTstor and Art Resource. See Oxford Reference for other Art reference works. Three users can access at one time.
Find articles on all aspects of music. Oxford Music Online includes Grove Online plus Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. See also Oxford Reference for relate works. Three users can access at one time.
Find plot summaries, synopses, overviews, literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, poetry, short stories and more. An alternate graphical interface is also available.
Find author biographies and critical analyses from every age and literary discipline, from many Gale sources including Contemporary Literary Criticism. A new mobile-friendly interface will be launched September 25, 2015. Courtesy MBLC & MLS.
The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium tracing their meaning, history, and pronunciation, both present and past.