Drama Web Sites

Drama

• Guide to Reading Drama
  • http://www.sifc.edu/english/WritersGuide/86TRRdLit_Drama_1.htm
  • This is the SIFC Guide to reading plays
• Bedford/St Martins Guide to Reading Drama
  • http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/drama/read_drama.htm

   

Meta sites--links

• Performing Arts Data Service Homepage
  • http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/
  • Probably the best site so far on drama. Links to all sorts of online theater journals, etc.
• Voice of the Shuttle: English Literarture by Genre: drama
  • http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2744
• Internet Theater Resources
  • http://www.furman.edu/~bryson/dramadept/resources.html
  • A collection of theatre web links in the categories of: Theatre Links/Guides, Scene Design, Stagecraft, Lighting Design, Costume Design, Sound, Acting, Directing, Playwrighting, Dramaturg, Theatre History/Literature, Magazines/Publications, Theatre Companies/Schools, Professional Associations.
• McCoy's Guide to Theater and Performance Studies
  • http://www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html
  • Ken McCoy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Communication Studies and Theatre Arts Stetson University--
  • This is an amazing site filled with links to just about everything.
• Literary Resources-- Theater and Drama
  • Jack Lynch
  • http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/theatre.html
    

History of Drama

• Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
  • http://didaskalia.berkeley.edu/
  • These pages from Didaskalia will help imagine some of the terms regarding Greek drama that were used in the text's overview of Greek drama.
• Introduction to Ancient Theater
  • http://didaskalia.berkeley.edu/Didintro.html
• Recreations of the Theater of Dionysus in Athens
  • http://didaskalia.berkeley.edu/stagecraft/TDA/index.html

Sites Devoted to One Author or Work--Drama

• Arthur Miller Society Official Web Site
  • http://metalab.unc.edu/miller/
• Death of a Salesman Broadway Production Revival Web Site
  • http://www.deathofasalesman.com/
• Concordance to Death of a Salesman
  • http://www.public.iastate.edu/~spires/Concord/death.html

Tennessee Williams

• Perspectives A Curriculum Guide to Hippodrome Production of Streetcar Named Desire
  • http://hipp.gator.net/scarperspect.html
• The Mississippi Writer's Page on Tennessee Williams
  • http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide to Tennessee Williams
  • http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/williams.html

• Shakespeare
  • http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Susan Glaspell, "Trifles"

• Here again is the Annenberg/CPG site's treatment of the short story "A Jury of Her Peers" which she wrote after the play, "Trifles." <http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/index.html>
• Here is a page archiving student essays on "Trifles" and other plays from the University of Missouri.
  • http://web.missouri.edu/~engbob/courses/370/archives/pre2/2pr.html
• Brief Overview of Susan Glaspell
  • http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5379/glaspell.html
• American Literature Research and Analysis Web Site of "Trifles"
  • from the students of Dr. Jim Wohlpart at the University of South Florida in Fort Myers. It includes the text and several hypertext interpretations of key images.

David Ives

• Theatre Store: Plays : by Playwright : David Ives This site links to sources for purchasing Ives' plays.

Samuel Beckett

• And here, without a doubt, is the most extraordinary page of links for Samuel Beckett.

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