Electronic resources for Theatre

  • Digital Theatre Plus
    • Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.

  • Oxford Scholarship Online
    • Oxford Scholarship Online currently provides AUC with unlimited access to over 20,000 Oxford University Press books, including some of their latest published titles and prestigious series. These titles cover all subjects and disciplines due to the EBA subscription in 2022. Oxford Scholarship Online is a searchable, full-text database of classic scholarly books from Oxford University Press online up to and including Jan 2009. AUC Libraries provide access to the collections Business and Management, Classical Studies, Economics, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology. In addition AUC Library has access to Biology (to 2018),Economics and Finance (to 2018) plus Apr.2019-Mar.2021 updates, Law Top Up 2018-19 (105 titles) plus 2019-20 & 2020-21 updates, Literature Apr 2018- Mar 2021 updates, History top up 2017-19 (232 titles), Psychology April 2019-Mar.2021 updates and Religion (to 2016) & top up 2017-19(270 titles), Social Work (to 2018). *Availability online is based on the year of Oxford Scholarship online publication and not the print publication.

  • Play Index (EBSCOhost)
    • Play Index covers one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama and monologues from playwrights such as Shakespeare, Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere and many more.

  • Theatre in Video
    • brings together hundreds of the world’s most important plays, documentaries, interviews, and instructional materials in more than 550 hours of streaming video. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders.