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There are many websites offering screenplays, books, poetry and more. Not all of them are copyright compliant however so be careful how you use materials and check they are from reliable sources.  

Here is a selection you may be interested in:
 

• Project Gutenberg 
  Includes literature that is typically out of copyright. It includes many historically important documents (especially American ones) and authors such as Shakespeare, Milton and Dickens. It is full text and free to access.

• The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
  Contains over 7,000 items of text, images, audio and video, including collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, such as Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas.
   
• Discovering literature: Romantics and Victorians 
  British Library website with full text books and poems, themes and author information
   
• British Council Writers Directory 
  715 UK writers 
   
• Romantic Circles 
  A refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture
   
• Folger Digital Texts 
  Shakespeare's plays online  
   
• The Blake Archive
  The works of William Blake
   
• The Victorian Web
  All aspects of Victorian society
   
• The online books page 
  A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet
   
• Luminarium 
  Anthology of English literature from the medieval to the restoration period
   
• Outside the book 
  Open University produced series of quirky videos on comedy, tragedy, two styles of love, the author
   
• OU on Sky Arts - My Shakespeare 
  Series of documentaries by leading actors telling the stories and behind some of Shakespeare's greatest plays
   
• Shelley-Godwin Archive 
  Digitised manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft
   
• Wired for Books 
  Poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews with authors
   
• Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature 
  Possible to search for just digitised texts
   
• Chawton House Library
  Some useful biographies of women writers 
   
• Bibliomania 
  Classic Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short Stories and Contemporary Articles and Interviews
   
• GlobePlayer
  Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - some free content, mostly interviews with actors and directors