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Oxford Reference
Provides full-text access to information and background articles about every topic from across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.

Dates of Coverage: Various
Drama Online
Limited subscription. Includes access to selected playtexts and scholarly works from British and Canadian publishers.

Subject Matter Timeframe: Aeschylus to the present day
Dates of Coverage: 499 B.C. - Current

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Articles on literary critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.

Dates of Coverage: Comprehensive Historical Survey (Updated Annually)

Black Drama
Includes plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Subject Matter Timeframe: 17th Century - 21st Century
Dates of Coverage: 1846 - Current
Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project
Provides access to relevant citations in reviews, criticism, promotional materials, and other scholarship that deals with Canadian adaptations of Shakespeare and Shakespearean studies in general.

Subject Matter Timeframe: Elizabethan Era (1560 - 1630) or Mid-16th Century - Mid-17th Century
Dates of Coverage: 2004 - Current
North American Theatre Online
Provides information about playwrights, plays, theatres, actors and production companies from Canada and the United States.

Dates of Coverage: Colonialism - Current
Theatre in Video: Volume I
Brings together hundreds of the world’s most important plays, documentaries, instructional materials, and interviews with writers, directors, actors and designers covering a wide range of 20th century theatre history.

Subject Matter Timeframe: 20th Century

MLA International Bibliography
Provides access to books, articles, film criticisms, and websites on topics in literature, modern languages, folklore and linguistics.

Dates of Coverage: 1925 - Current
Google Scholar
A search engine for articles, theses and reports produced by academic publishers, universities, and preprint depositories

Dates of Coverage: All Time Periods
Project MUSE
Full text of books and journals from university presses and scholarly societies in the humanities and social sciences.

Date of Foundation: 1993
Dates of Coverage: Various

Canadian Newsstream
Contains full-text newspaper articles, columns, editorials, and features from over 275 Canadian newspapers, dating from the late 1970s to the present.

Dates of Coverage: Late 1970's - Current
Globe and Mail, Canada's Heritage from 1844
Scanned full text of this Canadian national newspaper, including articles, editorials, advertisements, classified ads, photos, editorial cartoons, etc.

Dates of Coverage: 1844 - 2012
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times
Full-page, full-text access to the New York Times newspaper articles and associated images starting from 1851.

Dates of Coverage: 1851 - 2012
Times Digital Archive 1785-2011
An online archive of every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement published in The Times (London).

Dates of Coverage: 1785 - 2011

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