This database from Gale includes articles, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works (poems, short stories, and plays), plot summaries, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements. Its content comes from Gale's proprietary titles--Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography-- as well as from Gale's other series that reproduce previously-published literary criticism, essays, reviews, etc., including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review, plus much more.