Performing Arts

Includes the full text of plays from across the history of the theatre, ranging from Aeschylus to the present day. Includes non-English-language works in translation, scholarly and critical editions, first night program texts, and critical analysis and contextual information.

Black Drama (Third Edition) contains plays together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Coverage: 1850 - present

Coverage includes literary criticism and theory as well as Theatre and Film.

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the most-studied authors.

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Taken together, these massive databases contain text-images of books published in England from 1475-1800. Original editions of plays can be found here as well as many other texts useful to the dramaturge.