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Drama Online: TCG Playbooks Collection This link opens in a new window
Offers hundreds of plays from TCG Books, the largest independent trade publisher of dramatic literature in North America.

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Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
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Live performances in high quality, with content from leading global producers, and a distinctive range of curriculum-linked educational resources such as exclusive interviews, full transcripts, and in-depth study guides.
Drama Online: L.A. Theatre Works This link opens in a new window
More than 400 professionally recorded audio plays, including those from leading American playwrights.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. The collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history via interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances.
Royal Shakespeare Company This link opens in a new window
Video recordings of 30 productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Featured Videos: Stephen Sondheim
Videos include filmed productions and interviews.

Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Includes hundreds of plays in these collections: Aurora Metro Books, L.A. Theatre Works, Nick Hern Books, Oberon Books, Playwrights Canada Press, TCG Playbooks.
Drama Texts Collection This link opens in a new window
Over 13,000 plays from the following collections: American Drama, Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Contemporary World Drama, English Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, North American Women’s Drama, Twentieth Century Drama, and Twentieth Century North American Drama
New Play Exchange This link opens in a new window
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The world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers.

International Bibliography of Theater & Dance w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations covering all aspects of theatre and performance for more than 126 countries.
Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
This resource provides full text of journals, books, and other published humanities sources from around the world.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Drama Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Short Story Criticism; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
Oxford Reference Library Collection This link opens in a new window
Database of full-text scholarly reference books on all subjects.

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