Literature Criticism Databases
- Literature Criticism Online (Gale) This link opens in a new windowContemporary Literary Criticism Online covers more than 3,000 authors currently active or active during the later 20th century.
Almost 95% of critical essays from the print series Contemporary Literary Criticism Online are reproduced in full in this online collection, which combines multiple search and browse options with an engaging format that matches the look and content of the print originals.
Clear and accessible introductory essays are followed by carefully selected critical responses to help users engage with a variety of scholarly views and literary conversations. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary literature will find this resource valuable.
- MagillOnLiterature Plus (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowMagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, is the premier literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.
- MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost) (1926+) This link opens in a new windowProduced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
English Resources
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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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) This link opens in a new windowEighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop—a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. It currently contains over 180,000 titles amounting to over 32 million fully-searchable pages.*
ECCO is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.
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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