http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 15:17:10 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 15:17:10 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84418 A vast range of neatly arranged thumbnails linked to 100k graphics, in colour, from the mid-19th Century handbook of historical costumes. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83824 The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs and 29 memorabilia items documenting the life and career of Harry Houdini. Groups of theater posters and additional sound recordings will be added to this anthology in the future. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84620 A collection of information on Vaudeville in America. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=452696 According to Shakespeare Quarterly, Bard Box ״periodically posts the best animations, mash-ups, student projects, soliloquies and even campaigning films relating to Shakespeare performance, all curated by McKernan. Each video post is accompanied by a set of basic metadata, including title, date, cast and credits, as well as a brief description of the film and its main points of interest. McKernan also uses the “Categories” feature of Wordpress templates to organize the various types of videos but warns that “there is not a set of controlled terms used”: currently, the sidebar features categories ranging from “experimental” and “eggs” (which contains not one but two adaptations performed by eggs) alongside “Star Wars” and “street Shakespeare.” A tag cloud of Shakespeare’s works also orients the user.BardBox is largely the product of a single expert curator, rendering it cohesive as a collection but closed to the kind of user input that would make it a rich pedagogical tool. Nonetheless, the structure of the collection engages with common web literacies by distributing its content via an RSS feed, both through the WordPress blog and by “favoriting” the chosen clips on YouTube. These functionalities are not trivial: syndicating content makes it active and portable. Instead of having to visit the website to check for new videos (although one may still do this), the user can subscribe to BardBox to be notified of new content via a feedreader, some of which send updates to “live bookmarks” or email. Suddenly, an otherwise static archive becomes mobile across different platforms and devices.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84610 A free service for playwrights and play readers, that provides links to all plays known about that are available full text, online, for free. (from site) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83831 The International Dialects of English Archive, IDEA, was created in 1997 as a repository of primary source recordings for actors and other artists in the performing arts. Its home is the Department of Theatre and Film at the University Of Kansas, in Lawrence, KS, USA; while associate editors form a global network. All recordings are in English, are of native speakers, and you will find both English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84612 A personal collection of approximately 200 links to sources on medieval drama, from costumes to texts, to design, and more. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83309 Website repository of links to all current musicals and those most popular from the recent past, including revivals. Also, a great deal of information relating to all aspects of musical theatre. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84856 THR215 Dramatic Literature and THR413 Playscript Analysis web-supported classes http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84607 An international scholarly project that establishes the broad context from which the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew. (from site)