Theatre and Performance: Play Scripts

Here are some helpful Subject Headings to find play resources using our Library's catalog.

Click on following links to run subject searches in our catalog:

Playwriting

Playwriting--History

Drama--Technique

Drama--Social aspects

Drama--History and criticism

Dramatists

Dramaturges

 How to find plots in our catalog, click on the following links:

Plots (Drama, novel, etc.

Drama--Stories, plots, etc.

American drama--Stories, plots, etc.

Doollee 

Provides information on more than 30,000 writers and catalog lists to over 100,000 plays.

Dramatists Play Service Inc. 

Offers an extensive list of titles including the most significant American plays of the past fifty years

  Find a play.com 

  Playscripts, Inc.   

  Playwrights on the Web

  Project Gutenberg

   E-script An internet scriptwriting workshop

Selected Reference Books on Plot Synopses

Click on the following titles to see their bibliographic records in our catalog.

 A Digest of 500 Plays; Plot Outlines and Production Notes. Theodore J. Shank. New York: Crowell-Collier, 1963.

 Masterplots II. Drama series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 1990.

 Drury's Guide to Best Plays. Francis K.W. Drury. Washington: 1987.

 The Plots of Some of the Most Famous Old English Plays. Henry Grey.London: 1900.

 The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama. Ed. John Gassner and Edward Quinn. New York: Crowell, 1969.