Theater Arts and Drama
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Play Texts, Reviews and Plot Summaries
Play texts online; Play texts-indexes; Reviews ; Plot Summaries
PLAY TEXTS--ONLINE
20th Century Drama (Available only to UA Students, Faculty and Staff) Contains nearly 2,500 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. Coverage: 1890's-present.
20th Century North American Drama (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff) Major American and Canadian plays from the twentieth century. Coverage: 1900-1999
American Drama, 1714-1915 (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff) Contains more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Asian American Drama (Available only to UA Students, Faculty & Staff) Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information.
Black Drama, 1850-present (Available only to UA Students, Faculty & Staff) Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present. by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Comedias (Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc.) Includes links to Hispanic dramas, organized by playwright. Other Hispanic theater resources are also available at this site.
English Drama (Available only to UA Students, Faculty and Staff) English Drama contains more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth. In addition to works by major dramatistsm English Drama includes the dramatic writings of many more neglected writers long inaccessible in print form. Coverage: 1300-1900.
EServer Drama Collection This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works.
Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama and Fiction (Available only to UA Student, Faculty and Staff) Although the collection includes materials from the Nineteenth Century, the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to the present. The three major groups are represented, Chicanos, Puerto Rican and Cubans, as well as other regions of the Americas.
Literature Online (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff) Full text database. Contains English and American literature, including poetry, drama and fiction.
North American Theater Online (Available only to UA Students, Faculty and Staff) Contains tens of thousands of bibliographic detail records for people, places, theatres, productions, production companies, and more, drawing from multiple sources. Covers everything related to the North American stage from the 1600s to the present.
North American Women's Drama (Available only to UA Students, Faculty and Staff) Brings together more than 1,500 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. Coverage: colonial times and will span the 19th and 20th centuries to the present.
Shakespeare--Online Lists the complete online works at MIT and Bartlett's Shakespearean Quotations.
World Wide Web Virtual Library of Play Texts Search by author.
PLAY TEXTS - INDEXES
Inter-Play an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals
Lists citations to plays, many of which are not included in the standard printed play indexes. Search by author and/or title.
Play index Online Covers plays of all kinds by author, title, subject, and number and kind of cast.
REVIEWS
Academic Search Complete
A scholarly academic multi-disciplinary database, covering a broad range of disciplines. Includes some full text coverage for more than 3,600 journals.
Historical Newspapers Online
Indexes articles in the New York Times and the Times of London with full-text access to the latter.
General OneFile (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff)
An index to articles and reviews in over 1,400 scholarly journals and general interest magazines.
Newsbank
Indexes to newspaper articles; good for theater performance reviews, especially regional U.S. theater.
New York Times Theatre Reviews. 1870-1919, 6 vol., 1976: 1920-1970, 10 vol., 1971; 1977 - PN 2266 N48 Info Commons Ref.
Contains reprinted reviews for theatre productions as they appeared in the New York Times. Arranged chronologically.
PLOT SUMMARIES
Literature Online (Available only to UA Students, Faculty, & Staff) Full text database. Contains English and American literature, including poetry, drama and fiction. Also includes biographical information as well as synopses and summaries of plays.
Masterplots II: Drama Series. Main Library Ref. PN6112.5 .M37 2004. Treatment given to over 300 English language plays. Includes production histories and lists of major characters as well as a plot summary followed by information describing other aspects of the play. Also includes biographical and bibliographic information.