A shared digital repository of books from a consortium of research libraries. A treasure trove of titles and editions.

Contains an amazing amount of original works full text from English and American authors. Poetry, drama and fiction included.

Choose "America's Historical Imprints." The Archive of Americana, Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker series, offers more than 100,000 early American books, pamphlets, broadsides and rare printed materials. The archives feature extensive indexing and full bibliographic information.

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short- Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700).

Describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. 1473-1843

Contains full text of all surviving material in Old English, excluding some variant texts. Includes over 3000 different texts. Before 1100 A. D.

Includes 3 major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of theMiddle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and electronic resources, including Middle English texts. 1100-1500

Digital images of every page of more than 150,000 books published during the 18th Century, with full-text searching capabilities.

A huge collection of primary resources from 19th Century Britain. Includes manuscripts, books and newspapers.

Merges every relevant index to 19th- century newspapers, periodicals, books and government documents into a single, searchable site. 1787-1922

1789 to present. Digital copies of the original documents.

contains plays together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

The Black Drama contains around 1000 plays by more than 170 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Black Short Fiction contains approximately 4370 stories and folktales by 272 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. It includes short stories published from the mid-1900s to the present, as well as fables, folktales and more.

Features hundreds of published and unpublished plays and thousands of pages of poetry and fiction.

Brings together the full text of plays of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the 20th century. Many of the plays are previously unpublished or hard to find.

Contains plays together with detailed information on productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Focuses on gender roles and relations, American consumerism, views of democratic citizenship, character development for children, changes in reaction to each major war, class relations, and adjustments to new technology.

A scholarly online collection for researchers and students of adult comic books and graphic novels, with full-text. Includes commentary, criticism, interviews and more.

Brings together approximately 50,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including a strong core of documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Primary docs and much more.

Films Media Group (FMG) is a collection of nearly 5000 high-quality educational videos available for video streaming to your computer. Titles cover a wide range of topics. Includes a large number of titles on literature and theater.

Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.

TV adaptations of Shakespeare's plays from the BBC.

An incredible collection of over 26,000 films in a Netflix style format. Documentaries, classic films, feature and independent movies, the list goes on.

Many thematic collections of primary works from the Library of Congress.

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.

A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

A shared digital repository of library books and journals converted from print owned by research institutions. It is an emerging repository which has collection spans over several centuries, and in hundreds of languages.

Covers virtually every important play ever written, including new editions or translations, published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. The index includes links to the full text of plays available on the Web.