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An excellent resource for literary study and research, including references to scholarly books, theses, journals and other critical materials, and approximately 500,000 literary works from around the globe. Highly recommended for in depth research.
Note: ProQuest One Literature incorporates Literature Online (LION)

Access to millions of pages of primary source collections, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.

This resource contains more than 8,600 digitized items produced for, about and, in some cases, by children and youth in the decades between the 1810s and the 1920s – a key period in the history of juvenile culture that incorporates the era regarded as the first ‘golden age’ of children’s literature.

Dramatic works by playwrights from antiquity to the present day.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains page images of every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473–1700.

Over 180,000 titles published during the 18th Century, including critical information in history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science.

LitFinder provides access to a wealth of literary works and secondary source materials covering literature and authors throughout history and across the globe. It includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and over 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, plays, biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.

A magazine dedicated to women's writing.

Collection of primary material that ranges across a wide variety of subject areas, from philosophy, literature, and theology, to economics, linguistics, and medicine.

Currently providing access to novels, and other writings, from the 18th and 19th century, includes comprehensive introductions, clear explanatory notes, chronologies, and bibliographies available in every book.

With over 125 plays, the Aurora Metro Books collection offers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by black and Asian writers.

Black Drama, now in its expanded third edition, contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.

This collection includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters which span 300 years. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

An archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824, and hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays

Latin American Drama contains plays written by Latin American playwrights in the 19th-21st centuries. Besides serving as a rich resource for literature scholars, the collection also supports the study of American history, ethnic diversity, immigrations issues, and political history.

This includes digitised images of notebooks, manuscripts, drawings and documents relating to Victorian literary figures from the Berg Collection at New York Public Library.

Digitised images of nearly 200 manuscripts from the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds Library.

Searchable database of Greek and Latin texts with English translations.

The Nick Hern Books Modern Plays collection includes over 650 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.

This collection includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. It also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Oberon Books is one of the most exciting publishers specialising in drama and the performing arts, with a reputation for publishing challenging and compelling works.
From ground-breaking British plays to the best of international drama and plays in translation, this is a unique and inspiring collection of over 500 titles that features a diverse gathering of canonical and contemporary drama.

Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University, the project seeks to rediscover early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form.

A major online collection of working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers.

Shakespeare in Performance showcases rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

This resource documents the performance and construction history of the new Globe and the indoor theatre space of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. The material in this archive will be useful to students or researchers interested in Shakespeare in performance, theatre history, early-modern theatre and the cultural history of Shakespeare.