Online Research

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

Compilation of literary commentary. Scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.

Provides researchers with literary resources to support their literary responses, literary analysis, and thesis statements through a diversity of scholars and critics that ensure all views and interpretations are represented.

Provides access to biographical information on over 149,000 modern novelists, poets, writers, and more.

Explore the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres; multi-series.

Provides access to a wealth of literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Including full-text poems and poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.

Offers full-text, in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.