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The New Play Exchange (NPX) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers. The NPX, a National New Play Network program, is flipping the script on the ways in which new work is shared and discovered. National New Play Network (NNPN) is an alliance of professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays.

Streaming videos of current leading theater productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries, as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of theater productions and texts.

Includes filmed performances of National Theatre Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings. The Library has access to collections 1, 2, and 3.

Includes 30 filmed live performances of The Globe stage from 2008-2018. We subscribe to Collections 1 & 2.

A streaming video collection of live performances of theatre productions.

A streaming video collection of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

A unique archive of almost every play submitted for license between 1737 and 1824, as well as hundreds of documents that provide social context for the plays.

A fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets and broadsides in all subjects published during the 18th Century in the United Kingdom with digitized images.

Books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs, statistics, and other primary source documents from the 19th century. Focus is British.

Primary source materials of the reconstructed Globe Theatre, including prompt books, wardrobe notes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.

Features prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC that tell the story of Shakespeare's plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Documents are indexed by genre, country, theatre, associated names, and key search terms, and are supplemented by souvenir copies, ephemera, illustrations and drawings, photographs, music scores, and correspondence.

Color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London. Also includes secondary sources such as maps and essays.

Primary source collection of documents on the evolution of crime and punishment. The archive's focus is on the nineteenth century- the most rapid period of evolution for crime and its associated legal/penal systems.

Explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975 in Britain and the U.S. Full-text of documents, images, and video.