Research Guides: Theatre & Performance Studies Research Guide: Performance

Monologues

Did you know that MSPAL keeps a stash of

monologue books in the Reference Section?

Check out the call number range starting at

PN2080

A list of bibliographies created in WorldCat UM hightlighting SOME of the performance and acting resources available in the UM Libraries.

History and Theory of Performance
Books on Performance History & Theory, and a few on Performance Studies.
Movement for the Actor
Movement & Stage Combat resources
Voice for the Actor
Dialects, accents, period styles, voice for stage.
Performance Styles: Classical
Resources for period acting styles - pre-20th century.
Performance Styles: Contemporary
Stanislavsky, and beyond!
Theatre - General Reference Works
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies on all aspects of theatre - including performers and performance theory.

The Speech Accent Archive - GMU
"The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers."