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Links Database: Stage and performance history

• Bibliography: Shakespeare in Performance- University Libraries of Notre Dame

  http://www.nd.edu/~colldev/subjects/theatre/biblio.htm

  A bibliography of Shakespeare in performance compiled by Joseph H. Huebner, a Communications and Theatre Librarian at the University of Notre Dame. Unfortunately, this site has not been updated since February 1999:

  keywords: book, bibliography, libraries, performance

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660

  http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bd/

  David Kathman has developed "a complete annotated list of all playwrights, actors, patrons, musicians, and miscellaneous other people active in English drama before 1660":

  keywords: biographical, drama, renaissance, index, theater

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Centre for Electronic Text & Image

  http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/furness/learimages/index.html?

  Images for Performances of King Learis the creation of CETI, Center for Electronic Text and Image, of the University of Pennsylvania Library. It is no longer supported but the images of beautiful drawing nineteenth and eighteenth century depictions of King Lear can still be viewed at:

  keywords: actors, eighteenth, nineteenth, portraits, images, king lear, lr

  valid as of 2005-10-18

• Early Modern Plays in London

  http://homepage.mac.com/tomdalekeever/earlymodern.html

  This table created by Tom Dale Keever organizes the most accurate available data on the performance of Early Modern English drama in London from 1576, when the first public playhouse was constructed, until 1642, when the playhouses were closed by Parliament. Data can be sorted by Title, Date, Playwright, Company, and Theater. This HTML page can be downloaded and converted to a word-processable tabled document or to a database like MS Excel so that individuals can work with the data however they please:

  keywords: performance, theater, company, playwrights, london, globe, chamberlain's men, king's men

  valid as of 2007-07-03

• McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies

  http://www.stetson.edu/csata/thr_guid.html

  Ken McKoy has writtenA brief Guide to internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies:

  keywords: guide, performance, theatre

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• REED - Patrons and Performances

  http://link.library.utoronto.ca/reed/

  Professional performers of all kinds in England and Wales toured to provincial towns, monasteries and private residences before 1642. The Records of Early English Drama: Patrons and Performances project (REED) is designed to include a wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the provinces - their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom. Interactive maps are also available:

  keywords: performances, England, Wales, Cheshire, troupes, maps, records, drama

  valid as of 2007-05-04

• REED Presents: WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2

  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html

  Records of Early English Dramahas extensive links to Medieval, Shakespeare and paleographical sites of interest on theirWWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music 2page:

  keywords: drama, renaissance, history, medieval, music, theater

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Shakespeare Online

  http://www.shakespeare-online.com/index.html

  Amanda Mabillard's frequently updated Shakespeare site offers a wide range of resources including information about Elizabethan theater history, a Shakespeare biography, and essays relating to the plays and sonnets. Shakespeare Online also provides links to Mabillard's About Shakespeare articles:

  keywords: performance, sonnets, essays, biography

  valid as of 2007-05-04

• Shakespeare's Staging

  http://shakespeare.berkeley.edu/

  This site, maintained by Hugh Richmond at the University of California Berkeley, provides a survey of current information and opinion about staging by registering the best available explorations of the original nature of Shakespearean performance during his lifetime, and of its development through four centuries thereafter. It includes an extensive image gallery:

  keywords: images, opinion, perform, performance, stage

  valid as of 2008-02-25

• Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century

  http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/index.html

  The University of Virginia's "Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century" provides extensive historical materials on early prompt-books as well as its collection of prompt-books edited by G. Blakemore Evans:

  keywords: collection, historical, seventeenth, prompt-book

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Templeman Library Theatre Collections

  http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/Development%20Area/theatre.htm

  This site contains Victorian and Edwardian performance records for Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean plays. Records are categorized by theater and often include cast and crew members, but unfortunately, most of the artifacts are not available online:

  keywords: actors, melville, performance, theater

  valid as of 2008-02-25

• The Elizabethan Theatre

  http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/shakespeare/

  This site contains a lecture by Professor Hilda D. Speare on the topic of Elizabethan Theatre:

  keywords: theater, elizabethan, speare

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• The Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection

  http://www.mander-and-mitchenson.co.uk/

  The Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection is one of the largest collections of theater and performance related materials in the UK. Their website offers a picture gallery of over 300 Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean images, as well as other various artifacts located in their collection:

  keywords: archive, images, performance, theater, uk

  valid as of 2008-02-25

• The Shakespeare Revue

  http://www.shakespeare-revue.com/index.htm

  The Shakespeare Revueis a well-designed site with many interesting features including reviews of recent Shakespeare performances, spotlights on Shakespearean actors, photographs, interviews, videos and more:

  keywords: actors, review, photographs

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Theatre Central

  http://www.playbill.com/theatrecentral/sites/category/2049

  Theatre Centralis a well maintained and comprehensive meta-site on theatre; the site also contains a news section:

  keywords: index, theater, festivals, links

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Theatre Database

  http://www.theatredatabase.com/

  Information and articles on Ancient, Medieval, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th century theater is included on this site. Unfortunately, there are distracting advertisements:

  keywords: ancient, biographies, history, theater

  valid as of 2008-02-25

• Theatre Museum of Waseda University

  http://www.waseda.jp/enpaku/index-e.html

  Waseda University's Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum is dedicated to the memory of Tsubouchi Shoyo, the first person to translate Shakespeare's plays into Japanese. An English version of this site exists alongside the Japanese one:

  keywords: theater, japan, japanese, translation, tsubouchi

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• Theatre Resources from Artslynx

  http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/index.htm

  Artslynx International Theatre Resources, includes a list of "this month in theatre history" and contains links to everything from acting and performance resources to puppetry. This site also includes a section devoted to Shakespeare links:

  keywords: history, international, performance, theater

  valid as of 2005-09-09

• University of Bristol Theatre Collection

  http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/

  The Collection is dedicated to the study of British theater and holds a vast collection of performance artifacts from theaters, actors, designers and much more. The site includes archive records of the Old Vic theater that includes many Shakespearean artifacts. Many artifacts are available online:

  keywords: archive, artifacts, images, costume, database, performance, theater, vic

  valid as of 2008-02-25