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University of Gloucestershire Library

Performing Arts, Drama and Dance: Books

For the Performing Arts and Production group of courses, as listed in the title of the guide.

Finding books in the library

UoG Library book collections

Search Library Discovery for our print and eBooks. Results show the book location, organised on shelves by topic.

Remember to limit your search results to University of Gloucestershire to just display our own holdings.

Finding books with Library Discovery

Using our eBooks

eBook collections at UoG

UoG eBooks are available in Library Discovery. They can also be accessed via our eBook provider platforms.

Our main eBook provider is 

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Benefits of eBooks

  • Search book for particular words, or names
    Find relevant content on a particular topic, enabling you to locate content quickly.
  • Download eBooks
    eBooks can normally be downloaded for short 24hr periods onto your local device.

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Library Discovery

New Books

The actor speaks: voice and the performer
The Disney musical on stage and screen
Impacting theatre audiences
Dance your Way home: a journey through the dancefloor
Improvisation in the expressive and performing arts
Stagecraft fundamentals
Real-ish : audiences, feeling, and the production of realness in contemporary performance
Introducing Barthes
Auditions (2nd edn.)
Devising theatre and performance
Acting professionally

New books list

Have a look at the full list of new resources for Performing Arts, Drama and Dance.

Inter-Library Loan service

Book not in the library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain print books and chapters from print or electronic books not held by the university. The service is primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers and academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans

Main subject areas in the Library

Topic Shelf number
Research methods 001.42 / 3
Research in the arts 700.072
Music 780
Performance 791
Direction and Production 792.023
Acting 792.028
Research in performance 792.072
Musical theatre 792.6
Dance 792.8
Research in dance 792.8072
Play texts: American drama 812
Play texts: English drama 822
Shakespeare 822.33

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