English Language & Literature

Contains citations and annotations to Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide since 1961.

Contains facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the Restoration and Victorian era.

Contains works published in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from 1473-1700. Includes novels, pamphlets, broadsides, calendars, sermons, almanacs, and much more.

Contains works published in Great Britain and the early Americas during the eighteenth century.

Contains maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books devoted to colonial history, politics, culture and society.

Contains dramatic works published in the British Isles from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Includes Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, as well as Medieval morality plays, mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas.

Contains poems published in the British Isles from the eighth century to the early twentieth century. Includes canonical and lesser known poets, including women poets.

Contains poems published by poets in the British Isles and the British Empire, including Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries.

Brings together 16th- and 17th-century British State Papers and links these rare historical manuscripts to their fully text-searchable Calendars, offering behind the scenes glimpses of the workings of the Tudor and Stuart governments.