KSL collections include print and ebooks on theater, cinema, musical theater, specific plays and playwrights, actors and actresses, and directors, as well as history, biography and criticism. Use the library's online catalog to find these materials. Try a subject search on theater, motion pictures, or musicals; or the name (last name, first name) of actors, actresses, playwrights and directors. You can also click on the Search OhioLINK button to search items across our state.
This Introduction explores different styles of theatre that twentieth-century and contemporary directors have created. It discusses artistic and political values, rehearsal methods and the diverging relationships with actors and designers, treatment of dramatic material and approaches to audiences. The authors provide significant examples of the major directorial approaches and reveal comprehensive patterns in the craft of directing and the influence and collaborative relationships of directors
Shakespeare's Songbook is a meticulously researched collection of 155 songs—ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds—that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays. The author brings complete lyrics (many newly recovered) and music notation together for the first time, and in the process sheds new light on Shakespeare's dramatic art.
Distracted Subjects shows how changing ideas of madness that circulated through medical, dramatic, and political texts transformed and gendered subjectivities. The author reveals the mobility and heterogeneity of discourses of "distraction," the most common term for the condition in late-sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.
