The largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the English language as it is currently used today.
The famous unabridged is the latest in the long line of dictionaries directly descended from Noah Websters original English-language dictionary of 1828. It is updated on a continuing basis.
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This database provides the full text of more than 1,700 English-language plays (more than 40% of which have never been published before) written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 black playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Among the playwrights included are Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Fully cross-searchable gateway to Black studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more. It combines several resources such as Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), Black Literature Index, and historical black newspapers such as the Chicago Defender (1910-1975) and the Daily Defender (1956-1975).
This database provides the full text of over 13,000 English-language plays by recent and contemporary playwrights of diverse backgrounds, many of which are rare and difficult to find or have never been published before. It combines the complete texts of plays previously contained in the following online collections: Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Contemporary World Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, North American Womens Drama, and Twentieth Century North American Drama.
In addition to the plays, this database also includes posters, playbills, production stills, and other visual materials useful for appreciating the plays in a wider context.
This database provides the full text of many of the most important plays from the English-speaking world from 1891 to 2008, by over 300 noted and lesser-known dramatists.
Among the playwrights included are Amiri Baraka, Noel Coward, Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Brian Friel, David Mamet, Eugene ONeill, John Osborne, Sean OCasey, Harold Pinter, George Bernard Shaw, Neil Simon, Gertrude Stein, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott, August Wilson, and Elizabeth Wong.
This database provides full transcriptions of over 470 texts written by pre-Victorian women in English and published between 1400 and 1850, focusing on works that are rare or inaccessible.
Produced by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University, this database includes fiction, non-fiction, verse, and drama.