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Provides access to hundreds of BBC television and radio broadcasts of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Contaiins documentaries about Shakespeare, interviews with key Shakespearean actors and more than 1000 photographs of Shakespeare productions

Full text plays from new and established writers together with scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis, and audio and video content.

Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Digital facsimile page images of works printed in Europe before 1701 and works in a European language printed anywhere in the world before 1701.

Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Provides access to Shakespeare resources including specially commissioned videos, articles and interactive content.

Index and full-text databases covering library and information science.

The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.

Over 60,000 biographies and 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.

The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and they have been sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA

Proquest One Literature contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Enhanced by interpretive sources such as book reviews and criticism sourced from wider, interdisciplinary publications in the fields such as humanities and history, it provides diverse, global perspectives with sources from all over the world – Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America - the majority of which are in full-text. It is worth noting that there are 30,006 ebooks included in this package that are on the Ebook Central platform, which can be viewed within the database.

Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection provides access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.

This full text archive of the complete Times Literary Supplement contains every page of every copy of the TLS published from 1902 - (present - 5 years rolling horizon).

Featuring plays from noted playwrights as well as lesser known dramatists, the collection includes works by over 300 writers.