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Theatre and Drama Premium has everything libraries need to study the dramatic arts—from recent productions by Broadway theatre companies to interviews with Arthur Miller and James Earl Jones to previously unpublished plays from Ed Bullins and Jeannie Barroga.
The package covers all areas of study, from the stage to behind-the-scenes, and provides the tools and content faculty and students need to discover, teach, and interpret all aspects of performance.
Students and scholars can conduct in-depth analyses on key writers, creators, and performers, and create a new understanding of established pieces of the dramatic canon. For example:
Theatre and Drama Premium bridges the gap between Literature and Theatre departments, serving students and faculty in many disciplines, such as theatre, literature, performance studies, theatrical design, dramatic writing, and more. The collection includes the entire contents of the following individual Theatre and Drama products:
COST: $58,500 one-time fee, $1,200 annual access fee
Impact on Students: This resource would positively impact the Theatre and English departments. It would be beneficial to have access to thousands of digitized plays as well as films, and stage productions. The sub-collection "Black Drama" would help support Drake's commitment to diverse resources.
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JSTOR's newest collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements.
This resource supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on writers and texts critical to curricula in literature. And with its focus on journals that use an author or text as a starting place, Lives of Literature also fulfills a scholarly resource need for in-depth study and courses on a single author—a curricular component at many institutions.
COST: One Time Payment option - $36,036.58
Impact on Students: JSTOR Lives of Literature offers students in literary and interdisciplinary studies the ability to deeply explore writers and texts associated with core literary movements. Students in upper level courses and capstones doing in-depth research on a specific author or text will benefit most, as this collection focuses on scholarly journals that use an author or text as a starting place.