These Alexander Street databases collectively include thousands of full-text plays (85% are still in copyright), along with related ephemera such as posters, playbills, photos, and theater diagrams. They also provide detailed information about productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Contains 256 plays by 49 playwrights representing groups such as Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Lenape, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, Hawaiian/Samoan, and others.
Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print or previously unpublished plays. Each play is indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images. Also includes the "Native Playwrights' Newsletter" (1993-96) a unique resource containing original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.
Drama Subcollection of the American & English Literature Collection includes: American Drama 1714 to present; English Prose Drama 1280-1915; and English Verse Drama 13th-19th Centuries
Poetry Subcollection of American & English Literature Collection includes: African-American Poetry 1700-1900 ; 20th Cent. African-American Poetry ; American Poetry 1600-1900 ; 20th Cent. American Poetry ; English Poetry ; 20th Cent. English Poetry. There are over 300,000 poems from more than 2,300 poets.
Provides more than 17,500 works of prose fiction written by Americans from the political beginnings of the United States through World War I.
The Wright bibliography, one of the most comprehensive in existence, contains more than 15,000 titles that comprise some two million pages. For works originating from the period 1911-1920, this collection is based on the Geoffrey D. Smith bibliography and sourced from the William Charvat collection of American Fiction at The Ohio State University, which comprises nearly three-quarters of all adult fiction published in the U.S. These works reveal much about the socioeconomic, political, and religious tenor as America became a distinctly 20th-century nation.
Comprehensive collection of over 11,700 stories from Africa and the African Diaspora, including short stories and folktales, oral traditions and contemporary tales of modern life. In addition to these works, the database includes complete runs of selected literary magazines.
Collection of more than 100,000 pages pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.