Theater: Indexes & Databases

Features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. Dates of Coverage: NA.

Searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present. Includes mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type. Dates of Coverage: Antiquity-Present.

Contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers...Includes almost 60 titles from JSTOR'S language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Dates of Coverage: 1920-Present.

British Politics and Society looks at the political and social history of Britain, including topics such as "British domestic and foreign policy, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure and many others." Sources include "manuscripts, maps, drawings, newspapers, periodicals, government correspondence, letters, diaries, photographs, poster, pamphlets and more." Dates of Coverage: NA.

Features Shakespeare’s Globe stage productions. Recorded live on the Globe stage in high definition and surround sound, 2008-