Theatre and Drama

Contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century - the likely date of the Shrewsbury Fragments - to the early twentieth. It offers exhaustive coverage of the prodigious dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas.

Provides more than 400 texts of ancient Greek and Roman works, including plays by Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Sophocles.

Includes a wide-ranging assortment of texts, with works from all periods and several languages. The database can be searched or browsed, and texts can be downloaded.

The full text of the complete works of Shakespeare as presented in the standard scholarly edition edited by G. Blakemore Evans. (Does not include the introductory essays, footnotes and critical apparatus of the print edition.)

Contains eleven major editions, from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-66, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works, plus adaptations, sequels, and burlesques. Also contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).