Literary Criticism: Library Online

Full-Text. Coverage: Various.

Description: Contains current literary information from more than 650,000 full-text articles, critical essays, and biographies of over 130,000 authors. It also and features more than 150,000 full-text poems, short stories, essays, speeches, and plays. This database includes the content of Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors series.

Coverage: Various
Description: Access almost 1.75 million articles from over 390 scholarly journals in subject areas such as: history; political science; sociology; mathematics and statistics; African, African American, Asian, Classical, and Middle Eastern studies; philosophy; ecology and evolutionary biology; geography; archaeology; economics; population studies; and the history of science and technology.

Coverage: Various

Description: Over 200,000 reprinted essays from ten of Gale's literary reference series, covering twenty to thirty years of critical analyses and introductory materials on authors and their works, types of literature, regions, and time periods. This database contains almost the entire scanned content from the following print series: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review.

Videos. 1978-1985.

Description: Streaming videos of the BBC's productions of all of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays. Watch the entire play or individual acts and enjoy the quality productions featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent: Derek Jacobi, Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, John Cleese, Charles Gray, Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, David Gwillim, Anthony Quayle, and many more.

Videos. Coverage: 1937 - 2011.

Description: This database contains over 250 performances of leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries. The plays were recorded while performed before a live theatre audience, and the documentaries cover various aspects of theatre. Additional works will be added to the collection in the future to cover a wide range of twentieth century theatre history. Works by well-known playwrights, directors, actors, and acting companies are represented in Broadway and off-Broadway productions for each decade from the 1930s through the 2010s.