Twentieth Century North American Drama
Publication Coverage: late 1800s to present.
Many of the works are rare, hard to find, out of print, or previously unpublished. The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images.
Twentieth-Century Drama
Publication Coverage: 1890 to present.
This collection contains plays by playwrights from North America, Britain and Ireland, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean.
Drama Online
A digital library created as a high quality research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. The only resource to combine playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.
North American Women's Drama
Coverage: Mid-1700s to present
North American Women's Drama brings together more than 1500 plays by more than 300 playwrights, along with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theatres, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays.
English Drama
English Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth. The works were acted on or intended for the stage, and includes masques, interludes, short dramatic pieces, translations, and adaptations.
Black Drama - Third Edition
Coverage: mid-1800s to present
Black Drama, Third Edition contains the full text of more than 1.700 plays from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The collection includes musical comedies, domestic dramas, folk dramas, history plays, anti-slavery plays, one-act plays, and other works.
American Drama
Full text of more than 1500 works by American dramatists from the early 18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century.
Asian American Drama
Coverage: late 19th century to contemporary (ongoing)
Contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theatres, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs, and other ephemera related to the plays.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
Coverage: 19th century to present
Contains more than 100 000 pages of poetry, fiction, and over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin writers working in the United States.
The collection includes published, unpublished, and rare materials dating primarily from the Chicano Renaissance to the present. Additional resources such as playbills and performance reference material, book covers, and flyers are included. Researchers will also find numerous Chicano folk tales and audio files of selected poems and plays.
Playwrights Canada Press
Also known as Drama Online.
Over 170 plays from established and emerging Canadian playwrights.
Oxford Reference Online
A selection of performing arts dictionaries, companions, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press.