Theater Research Guide

Access full-text American dramatic literature from the colonial period to the present.

Brings together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material, and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare.

Access plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by authors from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Contains introductions, texts, and translations of ancient Greek and Latin writings. Access many discrete volumes spanning from Homer (700 BCE) to Bede (700 CE).

Contains full-text plays and recorded productions from ancient Greece to the present, as well as scholarly annotations and special tools for study and performance.

Access major editions of Shakespeare plays from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6. Includes printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha, and related works.

Contains plays in verse and prose in English from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Contains a large collection of poetry, fiction, and plays by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.

The New Play Exchange (NPX) is a digital library of scripts (playtexts) submitted by living writers. It is produced by the National New Play Network (NNPN), an alliance of professional theaters that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays. Individual plays are downloadable as PDFs. An individual subscription is required to share your own scripts, read and write script recommendations, and get notified of new works by writers.

Contains over 240 plays by 48 playwrights. The collection includes American Indian and First Nation playwrights from groups including Cherokee, Creek, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navaho, and more.

Access English-language plays from noted playwrights and dramatists.