Literature Criticism Databases
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Literature Criticism Online (Gale)Excerpts and full text of articles and essays providing critical discussion of authors and their works.
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MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCOhost)Critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature: long fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+)Indexes critical literary and language scholarship in journals and serials published worldwide.
English Resources
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) (ProQuest)
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Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Available on the ProQuest platform. The Chadwyck Healey platform is no longer available. - Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) - Parts I & II (Gale)
Full text and digitized images of books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and other works published in the UK during the 18th Century. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
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Notable Plays
English Restoration Comedy (1660 – 1720)
- George Etherege – The Man of Mode
- Elizabeth Inchbald – Lovers’ Vows, To Marry or Not to Marry, Everyone Has His Fault, Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are
- Aphra Behn – The Rover, The Lucky Chance
- William Wycherly – The Country Wife, The Plain Dealer
- John Vanbrugh – The Relapse
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham – The Rehearsal
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – Sodom: or the Quintessence of Debauchery
- John Dryden – Marriage à la Mode
English Restoration (Heroic) Tragedy (1660 – 1790)
- John Dryden – All for Love, The Indian Emperour, The Indian Queen
- Elkanah Settle – Cambyses King of Persia, The Empress of Morocco
English Sentimental Theatre (18th century)
- Richard Cumberland – The West Indian
- George Farquhar – The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Recruiting Officer
- John Gay – The Beggar’s Opera
- Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to Conquer
- Hugh Kelly – False Delicacy
- George Lillo – The London Merchant
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan – The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Critic
- Richard Steele – The Conscious Lovers