Streaming video collection of films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources.

Multimedia collection designed to support literature and drama courses; contains playtexts, audio plays, streaming video, and ebooks from theatre publishers and companies.

Provides articles, reviews, and more from primarily English-language journals and magazines in theater, dance, and the performing arts, including cinema, opera, comedy, drama, mime, and puppetry.

Archive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by title).

Modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres including materials from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.

Information on a large number of authors and literary works.

Contemporary drama collection of scripts and monologues by living writers from 40+ countries. Find scripts for directing projects and monologues for auditions, rights, and playwright contact.

Coverage of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, comedy, storytelling, opera, and more. ProQuest.

Database of plays written from Antiquity to present, written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Comprehensive database of all Broadway shows associated with Playbill, starting with the 1930-31 season.

Journals and ebooks covering art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, history, ethnic and cultural studies, music, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology and women's studies.

Digital newspaper archive of various editions of New York Times, with coverage from from 1851 to 2021.

Digitized archives of Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) document the history of theater performance, set and costume designs, prompt books, music, props, photographs, production records, and more.

Annual yearbook of Shakespeare studies and productions (1948-present), includes reviews of the year’s textual and critical studies and major British performances.

Archive documenting 200 productions (1997-2016) in the reconstructed Globe Theatre, including architectural plans, costume designs, prompt books, music, interviews, performance photographs, and more.

Streaming video collection of distinguished plays, video documentaries, and interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors.

Large, multidisciplinary EBSCO database encompassing most topics.

Contains digitized images and sounds related to Africa studies contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Useful for finding primary sources.

Digitized images of American magazines and journals published in the United States from 1740-1940.

Collection of the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare, as presented on television by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The dramatic, poetical and theoretical texts of Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956).

Collection of plays written between the 1850s to present by Black dramatists from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Comprehensive listing of Bertolt Brecht's works published in English translation, with ongoing updates.

Searchable database of approximately 500 British journals covering literature, philosophy, history, science, fine arts, social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.

Ebook guides to writers, composers, philosophers, genres, and literary fields with context and analysis.

Presents Ben Jonson’s complete writings in light of current editorial thinking and scholarly interpretation. Includes contextual documents, essays, images, and more, with a cross-linked bibliography.

Online reference collection covering the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.

Bibliographic database of plays in sixteen Indian languages, published in India from the 1840s to the present.

Archive of play manuscripts submitted for license in the United Kingdom (1737-1824); related documents and visual materials; London Stage list of performances (1660-1800); biographical dictionary.

Digital archive of rare journals printed between c.1685 and 1835 document all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life of the time.

Plays in verse and prose from the late 13th century to the early 20th century.

Core archive of trade magazines in the fields of film, music, broadcasting, theater, and video games through 2020.

High-quality, downloadable digital texts of Shakespeare's plays, based on source texts taken from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions (using the same page numbers and layouts as in the Folger p...

The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL) is a collaboration between New York University Libraries and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that provides a digital li...

Humanities journals, weekly magazines, and limited newspapers published in the UK and other English speaking countries.

EBSCO database of journal articles, books, essays, and reviews covering all aspects of the humanities, with a focus on literary, scholarly and creative thought.

The Web offers many possibilities for exploring the cultural production of Shakespeare's works. A profusion of sites provide full texts of Shakespeare's plays; multimedia capabilities make it possi...

Broadway's Hits and Flops. From Aristophanes to Ziegfeld.

Digitized collection of printed ephemera (Bodleian Library in Oxford, England), documents various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Collection of more than 100,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, novels, and more than 450 plays by people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, and South American heritage.

Reference resource for literature, authors, literary criticism, and literary works across disciplines and timeframes.

Modern Language Association International Bibliography includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, film, and folklore.

Digital magazine archive of The New Yorker (1925-present), covers politics and culture, people, humor, fiction and poetry, and reviews and criticism of literature, the arts, and fashion.

NINES is a searchable and tagged site linking the material, cultural and literary archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first. The NINES site is a sou...

Collection of plays representing the stories and diversity of tribal traditions and approaches to drama of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.

Subject-based research guides containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars in the field. Handbooks contain topical introductions and reviews of the key issues and major debates.

Collection of original Latin and Greek texts with English translations, commentaries, and research tools; Modules cover Greek and Latin Poetry, Prose, Drama, History, Homer, Herodotus, Plato and more.

Prompt books for performances of Shakespeare's plays between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Includes ephemera, photographs, illustrations, music scores, correspondence, and illustrations.

Full text archive of the Times Literary Supplement, which contains reviews of books, theatre and musical performances, art exhibitions, film, and other cultural events.

Open access archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music.

Primary source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, includes objects, printed books, ephemera, posters, photographs and playbills.

Early films made between 1895 and 1913 document the works of early filmmakers and daily life of late Victorian culture and society in Britain and locations in Europe.

Bibliography of international Shakespeare scholarship including articles, books, chapters, dissertations, editions, adaptations, and digital projects.