Dictionaries and encyclopedias
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Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Historical dictionary of the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Literary commentary, analysis, and criticism on a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Plays by
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Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater by
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A Dictionary of Shakespeare by
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The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance by
Publication Date: 2019
Drama databases
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American Drama This link opens in a new windowContains more than 700 plays from over 300 dramatists, with more to be added
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Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare This link opens in a new window
Complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, printings of individual plays, and many adaptations, sequels and burlesques.
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English Prose Drama 1280-1915 This link opens in a new window
Full text of English plays, including any accompanying text written by the author. Contains works from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century.
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Women Writers Online This link opens in a new window
Women’s literary works in the early modern period, from 1526-1850. Texts are of verse, drama, fiction, and non-fiction.
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William Butler Yeats Collection (via American & English Literature) This link opens in a new window
A complete collection of William Butler Yeats work, including 22 printed volumes, critical and fictional prose, poetry, plays, and autobiographical works.
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Listener Historical Archive (BBC) This link opens in a new window
Archive of weekly BBC publication "The Listener" from 1929-1991. The Listener reproduced radio broadcasts and television programs in print and also discussed major literary and musical programs.
Biographical reference sources
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Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new window
Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.