Theatre Fundamentals: Evaluating Web Sites

Why is it important to look at web sites with a critical eye? Because anyone may create a web site. You need to evaluate web sites just as you would evaluate a book or a journal article. Here are two GREAT guides/tutorials to evaluating web sites: Evaluating Web Sites, from the University of Maryland. Internet Dectective, from the University of Bristol and the Manchester Metropolitan University.

• The History of the Globe Theatre:
  http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/Globe/GlobeHistory.html

• Queer Play: The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama:
  http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/papers/clark.html

• The English Theatre, +1642-1800:
  http://www.cwu.edu/~robinsos/ppages/resources/Theatre_History/Theahis_10.html

• What is Commedia dell'Arte:
  http://www.commedia-dell-arte.com/commediainfo.htm

• Kabuki: a history:
  http://www.theatrehistory.com/asian/kabuki001.html

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