English Literature: December 2007 Archives

Ninety-six productions have been added to Theatre in Video, bringing the total to 141 plays and 138 documentaries to view.

Some of the new productions include:

As I Lay Dying, Faulkner
The Coach with the Six Insides, Jean Erdman
The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett
Diary of a Madman, Nikolai Gogol
Dom Juan, Moliere
The Enemies, Chekhov
Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett
Street Scene, Langston Hughes, Kurt Weill, Elmer Rice
To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Lorraine Hansberry
Arthur Miller and Israel Horovitz Discuss Theater, 1970 Documentary
Aspects of George Bernard Shaw, 1967 Documentary
Backstage with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, 1970 Documentary
Bertolt Brecht: Practice Pieces for Shakespeare, 1964 Documentary
Edward Albee's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Analysis, 1963 Documentary

Theatre in Video is a database offering streaming video of entire plays, including hundreds of definitive performances of the world's leading plays, such as BBC productions of Shakespeare. 

Beginning in 2008, users will be able to search Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) simultaneously, per an agreement between their creators, ProQuest and Gale.  The agreement will streamline serious research in literature, humanities, history and a variety of cultural studies.

EEBO and ECCO are digital collections of nearly every printed work from the late 15th through the 18th centuries, and are considered to be among the world's most valued research collections. To learn more, read the press release.