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| Use the table below as a guide for keywords to enter when searching library catalogs (searching for books), periodical databases (searching for articles), and Web search engines (searching for Web pages). Remember, many of these terms were derived from standard texts on the theatre and are only intended to serve as examples and starting points for your searches. You can add to these suggestions or change them as you read articles, essays, and books that relate to your specific topic. |
| Search for: | Examples: |
| Words
that describe the mechanics of theatre production and performance practice |
theatre
architecture theatrical machinery make-up masks costumes stage lighting stage design stage technology stages |
scenery scene design scene painters scene shifting panoramas actor, actors, acting actor training performers |
| Words that describe theatre movements and concepts | romanticism realism antirealism naturalism expressionism futurism Dadaism surrealism fantastic realism orphism feminism deconstruction |
postmodernism poststructuralism positivism epic theatre theatre of the absurd theatre of cruelty total theatre open theatre feminist theatre |
| Words
for persons and places associated with the theatre |
Bertolt
Brecht Kurt Weill William Butler Yeats Wendy Wasserstein Emile Zola Tennessee Williams Orson Welles Henrik Ibsen August Strindberg Tom Stoppard George Bernard Shaw Eugene O'Neill Luigi Pirandello Heiner Muller Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
Adolphe Appia Gordon Craig Vsevolod Meyerhold Ballets Russes Black Theatre Bread and Puppet Theatre Intimate Theatre Living Theatre Polish Laboratory Theatre New Theatre Federal Theatre Project National Theatre, London Moscow Art Theatre Mercury Theatre Grand Magic Circus |
| Words
that represent time periods |
Victorian 19th Century 20th Century Modern Era Postwar Interwar Between Wars |
Roaring
Twenties Great Depression Fifties Sixties Seventies Eighties |
| Words
that describe nations or regions |
Asia Asian China Chinese Japan Japanese Europe European England English Great Britain |
France French Germany German Italy Italian Russia Russian Soviet Union Soviet United States America American |
All quoted material is from the respective source.
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