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JSTOR

Scholarly journals in arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, excluding full text from the last 3-5 years.

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MLA International Bibliography

International coverage of academic works in modern languages, literature, folklore, language pedagogy, rhetoric, composition, and linguistics.

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Gale Literature

Biographical information, overviews, literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

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Project MUSE

Scholarly journals, e-books, and reviews spanning the humanities and social sciences.

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Arts and Humanities Database

Full text articles from contemporary journals in arts, humanities, cultural studies, philosophy, religion, history, literature, music, and more.

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective

Archive index covering important humanities and social sciences journals published from 1907 to 1984

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Drama Online: TCG Play Collection

Plays representing the diverse voices of contemporary American theatre.

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Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare

Contains major editions of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. Includes more than 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, and Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).

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Drama Online: Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen

Recordings of Shakespeare plays performed live by leading actors on the Globe stage.

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LitFinder

Access to literary works and authors including full-text poetry, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

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Loeb Classical Library

Hundreds of volumes of Latin and Greek texts with English translations Content in this database is not downloadable

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LGBT Thought and Culture

Documents LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.

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Black Thought & Culture

Non-fiction published works (essays, letters, speeches, etc.) of leading African Americans.

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Latino Literature

Poetry, fiction, and plays written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.

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Early English Books Online

Books in English from before 1700.

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Early American Imprints, Series I

Contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Gale Primary Sources

Large set of primary source databases. Includes archival newspapers, government documents, museum archives, and more.

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British Literary Manuscripts

Digitized manuscripts of poems, plays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence, and other papers by British authors from 1660-1900.

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Shakespeare Plays (BBC)

Television adaptations of all 37 plays by William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.

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Digital Theatre +

Video performances across theatre, ballet, opera and classical music as well as interviews with actors, directors, and backstage crew.

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Oxford English Dictionary (Online)

The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.

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Dictionary of American Regional English

Digital version of the dictionary featuring American regional vocabulary.

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