New Digital Resources: 20th Century Drama via ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey
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Twentieth Century Drama is a full text database of modern drama from 1890s to the present day. Upon completion, it will contain some 2,500 plays in English from around the world. Almost all works will be copyright texts unavailable elsewhere in electronic form; many will be out-of-print works difficult to obtain outside the collection. Twentieth-Century Drama will cover a broad range of dramatic genres with canonical authors featured alongside radical theatre, previously neglected women writers, improvised and collective theatre, writing from postcolonial and minority literatures, and popular forms such as farce, musical comedy and thriller that are often under-represented in academic surveys of the period. Coverage is global; authors from the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Africa, the Caribbean, India and Australasia reflect a diverse range of local, national, ethnic and regional theatre traditions. |
The current release includes over 230 plays from Britain, Ireland and Australia, by authors such as J.M. Barrie, Lady Augusta Gregory, R.C. Sherriff, Arnold Wesker and David Williamson who were influential from the 1890s to 1920s. Full details of the works found in the collection are listed in the bibliography.
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