Drama
| Department: | Department of Drama |
| Library: | Stauffer Library |
| Faculty Representative: | Natalie Rewa rewan@queensu.ca 74334 |
Liaison Librarian: | Elizabeth Gibson |
Recommend a New Collection Acquisition
Collection Policy Outline
General Purpose:
- To serve the undergraduate programme of the Department of Drama to the four-year Bachelor's level.
Languages:
- English and western European.
Geographical Areas:
- Continental Europe (including Classical Greece and Rome), British Isles, The Americas, and, to a lesser degree, the Far East and Africa.
Chronological Limits:
- Classical times to the present.
Type of Material Collected:
- Books: plays, selected criticism, bibliographies, indexes and monographs
- Serial Publications: series and periodicals
- Indexing and abstracting services
(Note: any of the above may be in print, microform, or electronic format.) - Audio-visual materials
Areas of Concentration:
- Theatre history
- Dramatic text
- Production techniques
- Interpretation and creative imagination
Subjects and Collecting Levels:
(Explanation of Collection Policy Levels)
Areas to be collected at level C:
- Western theatre history: 5th century B.C. to present
Greece, Europe, North America, Classic Greek tragedy, 5th century
B.C.
- Contemporary drama: Samuel Beckett, Bertold Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Brendan Behan, Tom Stoppard, Jean Genet, David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Rolph Hockhuth, Peter Weiss, Max Frisch, Friedrich Dorrenmatt.
Areas to be collected at level D:
- Costume
- Drama in education
- Major dramatists - especially Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov
- Play production and direction
- Text analysis
- Theatre design
Policy last revised: 3 March 2005