{"id":238,"date":"2023-07-03T13:15:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-library-guide\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2023-09-07T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:50:13","slug":"primary-texts-and-performances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-library-guide\/primary-texts-and-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Texts and Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Primary texts<\/h2>\n<p>Many of our original literary works of poetry, drama and prose are within the resources listed below. Remember to also check <a href=\"https:\/\/librarysearch.kent.ac.uk\/\"><strong>LibrarySearch<\/strong><\/a> for primary texts in print and as eBooks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/250\/proquest-one-literature\"><strong>ProQuest One Literature<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> 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 <strong>Penguin classics <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/search.proquest.com\/20ap?accountid=7408\">Twentieth-Century American Poetry<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/about-muse-jhu-edu.chain.kent.ac.uk\/muse\/eliot-prose\/\"><strong>Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/search-proquest-com.chain.kent.ac.uk\/eebo\/\"><strong>Early English Books Online (EEBO)<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Provides access to the full text of 125,000 books from the time period 1475-1700<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/90\/early-european-books-printed-sources-to-1700\"><strong>Early European Books (EEB)<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong> Provides access to books printed in Europe prior to 1701<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=http:\/\/universitypublishingonline.org\/cambridge\/benjonson\/\"><strong>The Cambridge Edition of the works of Ben Jonson online<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chain.kent.ac.uk\/login?url=https:\/\/go.gale.com\/ps\/start.do?p=ECCO&amp;u=uokent\"><strong>Eighteenth Century Collections Online<\/strong><\/a>: Full text of over 150,000 items published between 1701 and 1800<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/174\/london-review-of-books\"><strong>London Review of Books<\/strong><\/a>: Magazine archive of book reviews and essays<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/205\/new-oxford-shakespeare\"><strong>New Oxford Shakespeare<\/strong><\/a>: Includes the full text of all of Shakespeare\u2019s works<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perditamanuscripts.amdigital.co.uk.chain.kent.ac.uk\/default.aspx\"><strong>Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers 1500-1700<\/strong><\/a>: Writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/158\/jstor\"><strong>JSTOR<\/strong><\/a>: Contains primary texts as well as books and journal articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Performances and scripts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/86\/digital-theatre-plus\"><strong>Digital Theatre Plus<\/strong><\/a>: 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.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/88\/drama-online\">Drama online<\/a><\/strong>: Contains a variety of multimedia, e-book collections and reference resources and includes play scripts, recordings, criticism and playwright biographies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/369\/shakespeares-globe-on-screen\"><strong>Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe on Screen 1<\/strong><\/a>: Multi-media collection of Shakespeare\u2019s Globe productions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/377\/shakespeares-globe-on-screen-2\"><strong>Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe on Screen 2<\/strong><\/a>: Multi-media collection of Shakespeare\u2019s Globe productions<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/211\/oberon-books-collection\"><strong>Oberon Books Collection<\/strong><\/a>: 500 full-text plays<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/55\/british-library-sounds\"><strong>British Library Sounds<\/strong><\/a>: A diverse range of spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library-it\/your-digital-library\/digital-resources-directory\/209\/nineteenth-century-collections-online\"><strong>Nineteenth Century Collections<\/strong> <strong>Online (NCCO)<\/strong><\/a>: A primary source collection for the long nineteenth century including playbills and scripts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary texts Many of our original literary works of poetry, drama and prose are within the resources listed below. 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