LibGuides: Theatre: OERs

Welcome to OER & Public Domain Resources

This page contains resources that are either Open Educational Resources (OERs) that have a Creative Commons (CC) license or media that is currently in the Public Domain (usually the copyright has expired). When using these resources, please remember to check the licenses or verify that the information is in the public domain.

Open Textbooks

20th Century Costume Pattern Design
Actors and The Art of Performance
Improvisation Recipe Book
An Introduction to Technical Theatre
Late Sophocles: The Hero's Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles' treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die?
The Living Playbook™
Playwriting
Theatrical Worlds
University of Michigan Press: Theater and Performance

Courseware

Mad about musicals! Class Central
Othello: In Performance Class Central
Physical Theatre: Exploring the Slap Class Central
Shakespeare: On the Page and in Performance Class Central

Library Services

Research assistance - help finding sources, evaluating sources
Online workshops for citing and plagiarism are held throughout the semester. To request a citing workshop, please email library@rcbc.edu