Walker Library: Dramaturgy: Media &amp; Images

Streaming Video Sources

Ambrose Video (BBC Shakespeare Plays) This link opens in a new window
Streaming collection of BBC's 37 Shakespeare plays. Videos can be viewed in their entirety or by act.
Closed captions and on-screen or PDF transcripts available for all films.
Broadway HD This link opens in a new window
Streaming access to 19 premium performances of plays and musicals from the New York theatre scene. Click through to see video titles.
Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
Performing arts education platform with HD recordings of live performances (musical theatre, theatre and film), study guides on dramatic texts, interviews with actors, directors and backstage crew, and teaching guides.
Interactive Subject Catalog
Complete Table of Contents
Teaching with Digital Theatre+
Drama Online Library This link opens in a new window
Full text editions of over 1,800 popular and critically-acclaimed plays from the Greeks to the present day, as well as videos of stage productions from BBC Drama, Shakespeare's Globe, Donmar King's Cross, and others.
Includes the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 & 2
Find monologues
Browse genres
Browse time periods
Contents list
Video content includes titles from BBC Drama, Shakespeare's Globe on Screen, Stage on Screen, The Hollow Crown, and Shakespeare in the Present.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
33 full length videos for the study of literature, history, religion and theater.
Create a personal account to customize playlists, create clips, and access other features.
Films on Demand Tools & Features
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries.
Contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Title List (Library Catalog search)

Images and Visual Resources

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and science. Please note this warning for users who have a photosensitive seizure disorder.
Warning:
Content that flashes at certain frequencies can trigger seizures in individuals who have photosensitive seizure disorders. A small number of videos on Artstor display flashing at higher than recommended frequencies for viewers with such disorders. Artstor is currently exploring remediation. To avoid seizure, users with photosensitivity should contact Artstor support for more information prior to viewing videos.

The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
Image content and encyclopedia articles on world dress and fashion throughout history. Presented on the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform.
The Berg Fashion Library is a unique online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections – including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more.

Creative Commons Search
Openly licensed content from over 35 different websites. One search box for images, videos, and music. Make sure to read all the copyright restrictions.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Story of art and global culture told through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Pairs essays and works of art with chronologies of major events.
Library of Congress Photos, Prints and Drawings
Consult copyright information for individual images you wish to use.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Images
Look for images labeled OASC (Open Access for Scholarly Content) for images in the public domain that are freely available for scholarly and academic publication.
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Every image on the Met website is NOT licensed for academic use. See http://www.metmuseum.org/research/image-resources#scholarly for more information.
Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design
5000 high-quality scanned images of costume and set designs from the Motley Collection at University of Illinois. The Motley group designed sets and costumes from 1932 to 1976 for plays by Shakespeare and modern classics, opera, ballet, and motion pictures. Their designs were used in productions in the West End of London, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the English National Opera, and in the United States on Broadway.
Oxford Art Online
Use the "Advanced search" and select "Image" as the "Format" in the left column.
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Grove Art Online is not an image provider and therefore cannot grant permissions or advise on issues of rights and usage. Please contact the image providers and copyright holders cited in the captions directly if you wish to use art images. See http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/page/FAQ#GAOimgcopyright for more information.
Production Art Database - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
FreeImages.com
Flickr: The Commons

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