E-Resources for Modern Languages

Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database is an index covering topics in literature, language, linguistics,film, rhetoric and composition, and folklore. Materials indexed include journals, books, working papers, translations, dissertations, websites, and conference proceedings.

New York Review Of Books publishes articles, essays, and reviews of books on a variety of subjects, including literature, culture, the arts, economics, science, and current affairs.

Provides hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as short stories, dramatic works, audio recordings, video content, biographies and essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements, and techniques. Includes teaching and learning guides, and lesson plans from the Poetry Foundation. Some full text is available.

Provides access to the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, including working notebooks, verse manuscripts, and the correspondence of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and more. Pieces from J. M. W. Turner and other artists of the period illustrate the landscape that inspired the Romantic movement.

Includes two fully-searchable databases containing information from approximately 170 prompt-books for productions of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Productions range from the seventeenth century to the 1980s.

Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 (2008-2015) and Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 2 (2016-2018) include 30 landmark productions from the theater's 2008-2018 seasons. Opened in 1997, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the theatre for which he wrote. Recorded live on the Globe stage in high definition and surround sound, the videos in this collection feature performances from leading actors including Stephen Fry, Gemma Arterton, and Mark Rylance. Highlights include Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Henry IV, The Tempest, and Measure for Measure. 

This site integrates the full text of Shakespeare's plays and poems with the entire glossary database, allowing you to search for any word or phrase in Shakespeare's works, and in particular to find all instances of all words that can pose a difficulty to the modern reader.

Access significant literary plays of The Golden Age (1492-1659) in Spain. Major authors represented include Lope de Vega, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca, and Tirso de Molina. Full text is available in both English and Spanish.

Focuses on adult comic books and graphic novels, from the first underground comix in the 1960s to modern graphic novels. The collection contains over 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, in addition to over 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles.

Access annotated entries for international books, articles, reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and electronic media related to Shakespeare that have been published since 1964.