THEA 3523/4553 - Stage Makeup & Costume Design: Books

The word Theatre is often spelled as Theater.  Watch for variant spellings of this term.  It could affect search results.

• Keyword searches are those in which you use your own search terms.  They are generally more comprehensive than Subject Searches.

      Examples:

• shakespeare and costumes
• clothing or dress
• fashion design
• women and clothing and medieval
• headgear and Roman 
• masks and African

Subject Searches  are based on Library of Congress Subject Headings.  They are usually more precise than keyword searches.

       Examples:

• Clothing and Dress
• Clothing - History
• Costume
• Costume Design
• Costume Design - History
• Costume - Social Aspects
• Costumes in Art
• Fashion - History - 20th Century
• Masks
• Men's Clothing
• Textiles
• Theatrical Costume
• Theatrical Makeup
• Theatrical Wigs
• Wigs

Set up an Interlibrary Loan account to get loans of books and order articles that are not available in the library.

The World Catalog is a huge database representing holdings of libraries across the United States and some countries abroad.  Many of these holdings, especially books, are available for loan through Interlibrary Loan.

Electronic books in the Boreham Library on theatre and drama are available at this link.  More specific topics can be searched individually.