Online Plays

Contemporary American Plays

American Theatre publishes as many as 10 new, cutting edge plays each year. Plays from 1995 on are available to you free through the library's electronic subscription. You may indentify play titles with the following links:

Play Index: American Theatre
http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/playindex.cfm
To access these titles, you must be signed into the SHSU network. Go to http://library.shsu.edu/ and then to "Find a Journal Title" and then "American Theatre."

Plays in Anthologies and Collections

Individual plays often will be published in collections or anthologies. Inter-Play is an index that may provide the name of the collection or anthology. (Then look up that name in the library's online catalog.)

Inter-Play
http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay//

Public Domain Plays

The Internet Classics Archive (MIT)
For public domain translations of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html

Project Gutenberg
Hundreds of public domain plays are available at Project Gutenberg. A particularly good place to find plays written in English before 1900.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
MIT has one of the best sites for reading (and downloading/copying) Shakespeare:
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Bibliomania
Another good but limited site, particularly for plays in English.
http://www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html