How to Find a Play

This database contains the full text of more than 1,500 American dramatic works from the early 18th century to the early years of the 20th century. Included are plays in verse, farces, melodramas, frontier plays, temperance dialogues, realist plays, and many other genres.

This database provides the full text of more than 1,700 English-language plays (more than 40% of which have never been published before) written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 black playwrights from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

This database provides the full text of over 13,000 English-language plays by recent and contemporary playwrights of diverse backgrounds, many of which are rare and difficult to find or have never been published before. It combines the complete texts of plays previously contained in the following online collections: Asian American Drama, Black Drama, Contemporary World Drama, Latin American Drama, North American Indian Drama, North American Women’s Drama, and Twentieth Century North American Drama.

This database provides the full text of more than 3,900 English plays in verse and prose – from the medieval morality and mystery cycles in the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.

This database contains the full text of many of the most important plays from the English-speaking world from 1891 to 2008, by over 300 noted and lesser-known dramatists.