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Theatre Research Resources  Tags: theatre  

A guide to help students researching topics in theatre.
Last update: Sep 22nd, 2009 URL: http://uiuc.libguides.com/theatre  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Print Playscripts

The following print tools can help locate playscripts.

Online Playscripts

Below are several online tools that are also helpful.

  • Asian American Drama  
      
    Documents the Asian American experience, from its beginnings to contemporary playwrights, together with associated material such as playbills.
  • Black Drama  
      
    Contains full text of 908 plays written from the mid-1800's to the present by 171 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Carribean, and other African diaspora countries.
  • Database of Nineteenth-Century English Plays  
      
    The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at UIUC has 1,505 English plays and promptbooks published, for the most part, during the nineteenth century (actual publication dates range from 1780-1905).
  • English Drama  
    A unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
  • English Prose Drama Database  
      
    Contains the full text of more than 1600 works written by more than 350 different authors. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.
  • English Verse Drama Database  
      
    Contains the full text of more than 2,000 works by nearly 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works from the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century.
  • Inter-Play  
      
    An online index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals. These call numbers do not match those in the UIUC libraries.
 

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