English Language & Literature: A Guide to Research: Databases & Journals

Contains full-text of 252 plays by 42 playwrights. Also includes information on related productions, theaters, and production companies.

Gives citations to sources of biographical information for contemporary and historical figures around the world.

Black Drama, Second Edition contains approximately 1,462 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Some 600 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of James V. Hatch, co-author with Errol G. Hill of A History of African American Theatre and a leading expert in this area.

Guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, drama, and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references.

Master index to 40 Gale literary publications including Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Resource Center.Updated twice/year.

Includes both Humanities Full Text and Humanities International. Contains over 1400 full text journals with citations to over 3,500,000 articles.

Iter, meaning a journey or a path in Latin, is a not-for-profit research organization focused on study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes bibliographies, indexes, and a few full-text journals.

Provides over 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry representing Chicano culture and the various ethnicities of Latin American writers working in the United States, together with over 450 plays.

Contains full text for more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, and about 250,000 author biographies. Covers about 460 literary journals. Also includes book reviews, poems, short stories, more than and more than 8,000 classic texts.

Includes both Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism.

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines. Includes critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies. Covers about 120,000 authors, their works, and literary movements.

Cross-platform search for literature resources, including coverage of authors, literary works and movements, book reviews, and more. Includes Gale Literature Resource Center, Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, and Gale Literature: LitFinder.

Resource for full-text literary works, including poems, short stories, novels, essays, plays and speeches.

Contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text. Coverage is from about 1920.

Provides about 250 full-text plays by 48 of the most important American Indian, First Nation, and Pacific Islander playwrights of the twentieth century. Groups represented include Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, and Hawaiian/Samoan. More than half the plays are previously unpublished.

A comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to approximately 30,000 plays, 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, 22,000 productions, and 2,500 production companies.

Provides over 1,500 full-text plays by 330 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, and production companies.

A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words past and present from across the English-speaking world.

Provides access to back files of over 550 complete full-image journals spanning 200 years in the arts, humanities, and social sciences

Provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature. This resource offers researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century. Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 includes all the information from 44 Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature annuals, as well as access to over three million articles from approximately 550 leading magazines.

Reference sources currently available: Critical Insights: Authors, Gabriel García Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut; Critical Insights: Works, House on Mango Street, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Poetry of Poe; Critical Surveys, Graphic Novels: Heroes & Superheroes, Critical Survey of Mythology and Folklore: Heroes & Heroines; Graphic Novels: Independents & Underground Classics, Love, Sexuality, and Desire; Manga, History, Theme, and Technique; World Mythology.

Index to over 140,000 English language short stories published from the 1830s to the 1980s that have appeared in selected collections and periodicals.

Biographical information on thousands of authors. Online access begins with volume 240.

Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries representing leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Can be used for course content: Excellent drama and theatre streaming video.

Contains books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting women's reform activities and social movements from 1600-2000.
Can be used for course content: Excellent primary source collections.