Oxford Reference Online
- Oxford Reference Online » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new windowOxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
Oxford Bibliographies
- Oxford BibliographiesAuthoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.
Oxford Handbooks
- Oxford Handbooks Online » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new windowPresentation of major topics in business and management, philosophy, political science, and religion. The handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars.
Theatre Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia"The Encyclopedia collects and disseminates information on plays, playwrights and theatre practitioners. It does not respond to requests for information, auditions, bookings, or tickets."
- Continuum companion to twentieth century theatreIncludes over 2500 entries that range widely over theatre in the last century.
- Dictionary of the theatre : terms, concepts and analysisPatrice Pavis is one of France's most brilliant semioticians and a leading expert internationally in theory of theatre. Dictionary of the Theatre is an English translation of Pavis's acclaimed Dictionnaire du theatre, now in its second printing in France.
- North American Theatre OnlineNorth American Theatre Online is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to approximately 30,000 plays, 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, 22,000 productions, and 2,500 production companies. Each year we'll add more than 20,000 new records. The collection also includes approximately 10,500 images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources.
- Oxford Dictionary of Plays (2nd Ed.)Provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast; there is also a summary of the play's plot, and a brief commentary.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and PerformanceThis encyclopedia provides authoritative and up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions. Entries range from short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres and movements, such as feminism and psychoanalytic criticism. Entries on cities and regions place performance in its local social and political context.
Companions (Oxford)
Oxford Concise Companion to the Theatre (2nd edition) by " This handbook for the theatre-goer, a concise version of the acclaimed Companion to the Theatre, provides international coverage of theatre of all ages."
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre by "First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Accessible and authoritative, this valuable A-Z reference is ideal not only for students and scholars of theater, but everyone with a passion for the stage."
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre by The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre offers 680 entries written by 155 contributors that provide biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, and designers; major theaters, including 19th-century theaters, and companies; major plays; and numerous miscellaneous subjects such as collective theater, design, directing, ethnic theater, musical theater, radio and television drama, and local theater. "
The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance by Publication Date: 2010The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance is a concise adaptation of the celebrated Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, covering styles and movements, buildings, organizations, regions and traditions, and in particular, a strong focus upon biographies of actors, playwrights, directors, designers, and critics."
