Literature & Theatre Databases
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= Alabama Virtual Library
A library of English and American poetry, drama and prose, full-text literature journals, and criticism and reference resources.
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline.
MLA via Literature Online (LION)
Research tool for the humanities indexing international scholarly materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore.
Ambrose Video (BBC Shakespeare Collection and History of Civil Rights in America)
Streaming video access to 37 BBC Shakesepare Plays and the series “A History of Civil Rights in America”
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Index of 19th century source material, including books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives.
Biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
A catalogue of holdings in more than 2000 libraries world-wide, including the British Library.
Backfiles of scholarly publications including the full runs of each journal which allows viewing of the articles exactly as they appear in print.
Access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more.
Online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
Essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres.
Full text of 200 frequently used books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
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