Theatre and Performance Studies

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The full text of 706 plays written by over 300 American dramatists between 1741 and 1911.

The complete text of eleven major editions of Shakespeare's works, from the First Folio (1623) to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6. It also includes twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works, and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

The full text of more than 1,800 prose plays by approximately 400 authors from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Works were selected from the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and the text taken from early or collected editions of the works. Selected page images are linked from the searchable full text.

The full text of more than 2,200 works by over 800 authors (some anonymous), from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century through the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods to the end of the nineteenth century. Works were selected from the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, and editions contemporary with their authors were used. Major verse dramas as well as masques and short dramatic pieces written primarily in verse, selected translations, works written for children, and numerous adaptations are included.