Theatre: Scripts
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Online Script Collections
- American Drama 1714-1915 This link opens in a new windowFull text of more than 1500 plays from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, written by early American dramatists.
- Black Drama, 3rd Edition (1850 to Present) This link opens in a new windowMore than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from English-speaking Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere in the African diaspora.
- Drama Online This link opens in a new windowPlay texts, books on theater, filmed performances, master classes, documentaries and more.
- English Drama This link opens in a new windowMore than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval period through the twentieth century.
- Latin American Drama This link opens in a new windowThis collection includes plays written by Latin American playwrights in the 19th-21st centuries (Alexander Street Press).
- Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction This link opens in a new windowThis collection consists of "poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Among the gems of the collection are nearly 800 items (poems, novels, and plays) that have never been published before (Alexander Street Press)." This collection is part of ProQuest's World Literature Collection.
- Twentieth Century North American Drama This link opens in a new window20th Century North American Drama contains 1,530 plays by 223 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
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