Kent Library

A definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from as far back as 1910, this database is an important reference tool for students of U.S. and Canadian history.

The Arts Resource Center provides access to special collections in art, music, theatre, and dance. Materials may be obtained at SEMO’s River Campus or requested for pick up at Kent Library.

This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Phillip Kan Gotan...

Provides hundreds of important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation's premiere radio theatre company. Plays are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

Contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print.

Provides more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century - the likely date of the Shrewsbury Fragments - to the early twentieth. It offers coverage of the prodigious dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality...

A database of biographical and critical articles on literary figures. Includes the full-text content of Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography, plus partial content from numerous other Gale literary biography publications.

A resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. This database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

JSTOR is a multidisciplinary archival database with the full-text and full page image scholarly journals from the first issue up until the last 2-7 years. A recent expansion of content brings the total number of journals to 1306.

Database of over 500 full-text plays written by Latin American playwrights in the 19th-21st centuries. This database includes well-known and previously unpublished works of dozens of playrights, including Sara Joffre, Josefina Baez and Oliver Mayer.

Biographical and critical articles on literary figures. Includes the full text content of Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography, plus partial content from numerous other Gale literary biography publications.

MLA International Bibliography offers a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and...

The full-text of the New York Times from 1851 to 4 years ago - another year is added onto the front end each year. The text is searchable, and images of individual articles and entire pages (including advertisements and photographs) are available.

Provides 250+ full-text plays representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century. Many of the plays are previously unpublished or hard to find, and they represent a wealth of dramatic material that is often overlooked or inaccessib...

Provides full text of 1,500 plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Almost a quarter of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.

A comprehensive, international collection that covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more.

Project MUSE offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.