LibGuides: Theatre Research Guide: Plays

Plays found in Databases

How to locate a play through a database.

Theatre in Context Collection This link opens in a new window
Database of theatre research materials which includes play information, simply click on PLAYS. If the full-text is included, you will see the link. About 10% of the plays listed include the full-text
Play Index This link opens in a new window
Provides citations for over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to present. Play Index includes plays written in, or translated into, English. Search for plays by title, author, subject, style, genre, cast type, and more. Play Index does not provide the full-text of the play, but click 'Find this play in a book,' or the 'Find It' button to locate a copy of the play.

How to locate a play in a book so that you can check it out.
1. Start with the Library Catalog

2. Do an Author search to see everything we own by your playwright Example: Williams, Tennessee (Last Name, First Name)

3. Do a Title Search by the name of the play.
Example: The Glass Menagerie

4. Do a Keyword search entering the name of the play and the playwrights last name.
    Collections of plays will sometimes include your play.
     Sample collection of plays: Best plays of the seventies / edited by Stanley Richards
   Sample Keyword search: Elephant Man Gray

5. After searching for your play, click on the WorldCat (upper right-hand of the screen) to look for copies held at other libraries.

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