Primary Texts and Performances

Primary texts

Many of our original literary works of poetry, drama and prose are within the resources listed below. Remember to also check LibrarySearch for primary texts in print and as eBooks.

• ProQuest One Literature: Contains full text of more than 500,000 works of poetry, drama and prose from the eighth century to the present day and includes all Penguin classics and Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
• Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition
• Early English Books Online (EEBO): Provides access to the full text of 125,000 books from the time period 1475-1700
• Early European Books (EEB): Provides access to books printed in Europe prior to 1701
• The Cambridge Edition of the works of Ben Jonson online
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Full text of over 150,000 items published between 1701 and 1800
• London Review of Books: Magazine archive of book reviews and essays
• New Oxford Shakespeare: Includes the full text of all of Shakespeare’s works
• Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers 1500-1700: Writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama
• JSTOR: Contains primary texts as well as books and journal articles

Performances and scripts

• Digital Theatre Plus: Includes films of leading British theatre productions plus documentaries, interviews with the cast and the creative and production teams, guides and essays including works by Shakespeare.
• Drama online: Contains a variety of multimedia, e-book collections and reference resources and includes play scripts, recordings, criticism and playwright biographies.
• Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 1: Multi-media collection of Shakespeare’s Globe productions
• Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2: Multi-media collection of Shakespeare’s Globe productions
• Oberon Books Collection: 500 full-text plays
• British Library Sounds: A diverse range of spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): A primary source collection for the long nineteenth century including playbills and scripts.