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Humanities Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes scholarly articles from many humanities journals, as well as interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, & original works of fiction, drama, & reviews. .
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
Literary Reference Center Plus
Literary Reference Center Plus is a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their literary works, including articles, biographies, and reviews.
JSTOR (Arts and Sciences Collections III and V) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to articles in back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography is an index to books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world.

Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing.
Play Index This link opens in a new window
Index to more than 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present.

Additional literary works are available online from our Databases for English as well as Quick Reference: Literature,

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Use these databases to access Drama, Film & Theatre:

American & English Literature: Poetry, Drama and Prose This link opens in a new window
Contains many works of poetry, drama, and prose, based on books and other sources originally published in print.
American Drama This link opens in a new window
Currently contains more than 700 plays from over 300 dramatists of American dramatic literature.
English Prose Drama This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 1,800 plays by approximately 400 authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.
English Verse Drama This link opens in a new window
Contains poetry intended for the stage from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late 13th century through the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods to the end of the 19th century.