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Welcome to the Library Resource Guide for Theater 841: Classics of African American Theater! Here you can easily find the materials that you will need for the reading and research in the course. Please use my profile box to the right to contact me with any questions about course material, research, or the library more generally. Enjoy!

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Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection This link opens in a new window
Note: Access to Volume II is guaranteed through May 2027
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection contains dramatic works in streaming audio. The plays include dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
Black Drama: Third Edition This link opens in a new window
Access guaranteed through May 2027
Black Drama contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
Black Thought and Culture is an electronic collection of non-fiction writings by black leaders in North America. It includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Performing Arts Periodicals Database (formerly International Index) provides indexing, abstracts and full text journals on dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater and performance art.

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