Theatre Bibliographies and databases

Berlin 1848: public performances

Checklist created by Paul Ulrich of the Berlin Central Library.

Bibliographie des miracles et mystères français

Liste d’éditions critiques et d’études portant sur le théâtre religieux en langue française des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles. Par Graham A. Runnalls.

Calendrier des spectacles sous Louis XIV, 1659-1715

Chronological listing of theatre, opera, ballet and other performances. (Under development)

Cervantes Project 2001

Superb development incorporating texts, bio, bibliography, images, related links. Edited by Edouardo Urbina. Available in English and Spanish

Documentation of contemporary performance processes  (Recommended by Peter Hulton.)

Arts Archives is a catalogue of some 60 videos and CD-ROMS of international performance practitioners at work, teaching and explaining their practice.

Doollee’s database  (Recommended by doollee.)

Quick checklist of post-1956 plays and playwrights

Dutch Theatre database

(Census Nederlands Toneel) Online searchable listing and bibliography of over 8,000 plays prior to 1803. Massive project by Ceneton at the University of Leiden. Includes translations. The homepage also available in English. Superb

French Medieval Drama Database Project

Dir. Jesse Hurlbut. Highly authoritative portal with links to excellent documentation, including mss.

German plays in English translation

In English and German. Fully searchable bibliography from the Goethe Institut, London

German Theatre of the 90s

Great resource from the Goethe Institut in Lyon. In French and German. Includes full bibliography and biogs

handke theater information site  (Recommended by michael roloff.)

Devoted to the works of Peter Handke

Le Corpus du Théâtre religieux français du Moyen Âge

Les textes sont groupés d’abord selon les genres traditionnels, qui coïncident en gros avec les siècles: (I) les Jeux Religieux des XIIe et XIIIe siècles; (II) les Miracles et autres drames religieux du XIVe siècle; (III) les Mystères des XVe et XVIe siècles. Par Graham A. Runnalls.

Le Théâtre romantique

On trouvera ici, à l’Université de Toronto, toute une gamme d’information sur quelques deux mille pièces de théâtre, présentées, dans leur grande majorité, pour la première fois entre 1800 et 1850. Le corpus des pièces traitées est celui qui est déposé au Centre d’études du dix-neuvième siècle français Joseph Sablé.

Medieval European drama in translation

Bibliographies and some online links

Native American Women’s Playwrights Archive

Parisian theatre during the French Revolution

A comprehensive database of performances earchable by author, title and date, from the University of Chicago

Perseus database

Classical Greek resources. A model of what can be achieved with co-operation by a group of dedicatescholars. Based at Tufts University

SCENIS Stage of Central Europe and Newly Independent States Database of perfoming arts

(Recommended by Sodja Zupanc.)

The database contains performing arts web sites from: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania etc. (Excellent resource, and much-needed. -ed.

The Ball & Plant Bibliography of Canadian Theatre

Standard reference work with good search facility

orld Shakespeare Bibliography

Currently (July 20) advertising one month of FREE trial access. Login at www.worldshakesbib.com as user “shakelib”, password “trialbiblio”. For me (ed.) it worked with Netscape but not with IE5 -- maybe due to a limitation in Microsoft’s javascript implementation.