Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Fully annotated and printable texts of Shakespeare's plays and poems, multimedia materials and records of his plays in performance, and historical information about Shakespeare's life and the Renaissance. The Internet Shakespeare Editions is a non-profit organization supported by the University of Victoria and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. UCSB Library is a supporting member of ISE.
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714–1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.
North American Women's Drama contains 1,517 plays by 330 playwrights and brings these writings the attention they deserve, by publishing the full text of plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.
North American Theatre Online is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes major reference materials, and information about plays, people, theatres, productions, and production companies.
The Perseus Digital Library is a collection of materials in the humanities housed on the servers of Tufts University. Its primary collection is of primary and secondary sources for the study of classical Greece and Rome, including full texts of classical authors and an image collection of classical art and archaeology, but it also has Arabic, Germanic, Renaissance and 19th Century American materials
A unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, poetry, selected apocrypha and related works and more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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