Drama

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• Theatre in video
  
  Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Includes dozens of BBC Shakespeare productions. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Usage info: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users. ... []

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• American drama
  
  More than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. Usage info: Licensed for four simultaneous users. ... []
• American film scripts online
  
  Full-text searchable database containing more than a thousand scripts for feature films. Most never before published and otherwise unavailable online. Provides details on scenes, characters, and writers. ... []
• Asian American drama
  
  Full-text, searchable database of more than 250 plays representing various ethnicities within the Asian American community. Includes related biographical, production, and theatrical information. Selected playbills and production photographs. ... []
• Bartleby.com: Great books online
  
  Provides a free-of-charge, full-text collection of selected literature, reference and verse. Includes works such as the Oxford Shakespeare, Columbia encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, the Harvard classics, Bartlett's familiar quotations, and Columbia gazetteer. ... []
• Black drama
  
  Coverage: 1850-present
  Contains the full text of more than 1,400 plays, written from the 1850s to the present, by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes information on productions, theaters, and production companies. Also included, selectively, are production photographs, as well as images of playbills and other ephemera. ... []
• British Literary Manuscripts Online
  
  Facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Images of the complete manuscript can be viewed, manipulated and navigated on screen. Please note that the text of the manuscripts themselves is not searchable. ... []
• Deutsche Literatur von Lessing bis Kafka
  
  Call Number: HESB GEN PT 41 .D48 1997
  Unabridged German language texts by 58 authors with biographies and bibliographical notes.
• Documents from the women's liberation movement
  
  "The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writiings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group."--Title screen. ... []
• Early English books online (see EEBO : Early English books online)
  
  Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. ... []
• Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
  
  "The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries." ... []
• EEBO : Early English books online
  
  Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Access info: Content presented as images online, or can be downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line. No plugins required to view images online. ... []
• EEBO TCP: Early English books online - text creation partnership
  
  Subset of Early English books online. SGML/XML encoded with full text searching capabilities. 200-300 titles are added monthly. When complete, EEBO-TCP is to contain 25,000 texts. ... []
• English drama
  
  Provides full text access to the two databases English verse drama and English prose drama, containing 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late 13th to early 20th centuries. Usage info: Licensed for four concurrent users. ... []
• Gallica
  
  Collection of electronic texts, images, animation and sound files of French literature, maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. ... []
• Irish Playography
  
  The Irish Playography is a comprehensive catalogue of new Irish plays produced since the formation of the National Theatre. Currently all plays produced from 1950 to the present day are included. The third stage of the project 1904-1949, will be online at a future date. ... []
• LION, literature online
  
  A virtual library containing more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 200+ full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users ... []
• North American Indian drama
  
  Full text of plays by American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century, information about the plays and their production, and biographical data. The collection represents groups across the United States and Canada , including Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock , and others. Also includes issues of the Native playwrights' newsletter. ... []
• North American women's drama
  
  When complete, this collection will include more than 1,500 plays written by women, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information spanning from the 18th century to the present. ... []
• Si ku quan shu
  
  The Siku Quanshu represents a massive heritage from thousands of years of Chinese civilization. Includes more than 3,000 works of literature, classics, history and philosophy. Electronic edition of the print Wenyuange edition, compiled 1773-1782. Fully searchable by keyword, author, title, subject. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user. Access info: Requires Internet Explorer 5 or higher version browser (does NOT work with Netscape) ... []
• Theatre in video
  
  Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Includes dozens of BBC Shakespeare productions. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Usage info: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users. ... []
• Twentieth century North American drama
  
  Contains more than 1,500 full-text plays by more than 200 playwrights. Includes selected playbills, production photographs, information on related productions, theaters, and production companies. ... []
• Twentieth-century drama
  
  When complete, will contain 2,500 plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present. ... []
• Victorian women writers project
  
  Provides SGML-encoded transcriptions of literary works by British women writers in the late Victorian period, including anthologies, broadsides, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Access info: Click on "Proceed to Victorian Women Writers Collection" and choose your preferred mode of access. ... []
• W.B. Yeats collection (1885-1995)
  
  Contains the major work of W.B. Yeats in all genres, including poetry, plays, criticism and fiction. Where available, the scholarly editions in the Scribner/Macmillan Collected Edition of the Works of W.B. Yeats (Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper, general editors) have been used. ... []
• Women writers online
  
  Contains full-text editions of more than 100 texts by English and American women published between 1500 and 1830. Also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. Has links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi. ... []
• World literature online (see Alexander Street literature)
  
  "... a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. ... features 14 collections and offers over 250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels, along with more than 5,000 full-text plays and film scripts."--Home page. ... []
• 20th century drama (see Twentieth-century drama)
  
  When complete, will contain 2,500 plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present. ... []
• 20th century North American drama (see Twentieth century North American drama)
  
  Contains more than 1,500 full-text plays by more than 200 playwrights. Includes selected playbills, production photographs, information on related productions, theaters, and production companies. ... []