Research and Course Guides: Theatre: Plays

Key resources

Drama Online This link opens in a new window
1,500+ play texts, videos of Shakespeare plays performed at the Globe Theatre & of major Early Modern British plays, 350 audio recordings from the L.A. Theatre works, play criticism, & more

Drama Online play characteristic(s) search
Use keyword searching to find plays. Can limit by number of scenes, roles, and words, as well as author, genre, period, theme, and setting.

Theatre Performance & Design Collection (previously Theatre in Video) This link opens in a new window
filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material
Twentieth Century North American Drama This link opens in a new window
plays by U.S. and Canadian authors published from late 1800s - present plus information on productions, theaters, production companies and selected playbills, photographs and ephemera
Literature Online This link opens in a new window
English and American poetry, drama, and prose plus 240+ full-text literature journals, other criticism, and reference resources
Note: Can click Browse and then Literature Collections to browse or search titles in American Drama 1714-1915 and in English Drama collections

Scripts: keyword search: author's last name and title words; put multi-word titles in quotation marks (ex. shepard "true west")
- You can also browse titles in 20th Century North American Drama, Literature Online, and Drama Online.
Video (streaming or DVD): in results page, under Content type, select Videos
- You can also browse titles in 20th Century North American Drama and Drama Online.
Collections of one-act or ten-minute plays: "one act plays" or "ten minute plays"
Improv materials: "improvisation acting"
Recording of plays: <author's last name> <title words> (ex.: shepard "true west"); on results page, under Content type, select Audio

PASCAL Delivers
Change Articles, Books, and More to PASCAL Delivers before or after searching
Interlibrary Loan
For books PASCAL can't provide and for audiovisual materials