Guides: Theatre: Playscripts

Finding Playscripts Online

All of these resources provide access to full-text access to playscripts.

Theatre in Context
Asian American Drama
Black Drama
North American Indian Drama
North American Women's Drama
Twentieth Century North American Drama
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Provides access to more than 125,000 titles including the full text of titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

For a specific play, try a general keyword search for the playwright's surname and one or two keywords from the title.

For a broader search of Milner's playscript collection:

All of the results returning should be playscripts. You may also further refine the search by topic, language, date of publication, etc.

Play Index
Indexes plays by author, title, and subject. It also includes a cast analysis index, which allows the user to locate plays by type of cast and number of players.
Ottemiller's index to plays in collections : an author and title index to plays appearing in collections published between 1900 and 1985
Provides citations to plays published in collections from the early 20th century through 1985. Provides separate author and title indexes