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THE 211: History of the Theatre I

Survey of dramatic and theatrical developments from their ritual beginning through the theaters of the Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Italian and Spanish Renaissance, French Neoclassic and Elizabethan periods

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    Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
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    Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
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    Index and abstracts to articles covering world history from 1450 to present (excluding U.S. and Canada), including military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
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    A comprehensive database of humanities content, providing full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world and including all data from American Humanities Index and Humanities International Index.
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    Index to articles, books, and dissertations on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
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    Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Coverage includes more than 871,000 records and spans from 1972 and earlier to present. This database supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.