Full-text American plays from the colonial period through to the end of this century. When complete, the collection will feature the complete texts of over 2,000 plays written by American dramatists.

Part of the Shakespeare Collection described below.

This edition of Black Drama contains 207 plays by 64 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,200 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition, it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and ninteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).

Part of the WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama. This site links to full-text electronic versions of plays from the English Renaissance, Spanish Golden Age, French Classical Era and other areas of interest.

English Prose Drama contains 509 works written by 184 different authors. The database includes plays, masques, entertainments, and certain closet dramas.

English Verse Drama contains more than 2,000 works by around 450 named authors and approximately 230 anonymous works, from the Shrewsbury Fragments of the late thirteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. The database contains works acted on or intended for the stage, which are either wholly or predominantly in verse. Masques, entertainments, translations and adaptations are included, along with certain closet dramas omitted from the English Poetry Full-Text Database. The choice of editions has been made under the guidance of the Editorial Board. Generally, the first authorized edition of each play has been used, except in cases where authorial revision or enlargement renders a later edition preferable. The entire text of each verse drama is included. Any accompanying text written by the playwright and forming an integral part of the work, such as epigraphs, dramatis personae and notes, is generally also included, along with commendatory and prefatory poems by both the playwright and others.

The collection features stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, administrative documents, and 68 scripts. The scripts are reproduced as images, not as searchable text documents.

A very large database including texts from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. Look especially under Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verseand Modern English Works

The Internet Classics Archives includes over 440 texts from Classical Greece and Rome, including translations of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes (but as of Jan. 2001, none of the Roman playwrights). The translations do not appear to be dated -- probably most are old and so are in the public domain. Caveat lector!

Includes sections with Noh and Kabuki plays, some with both Japanese and English versions.

Latin American Women Writers (LAWW) will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America when complete. In this prototype version there are about 4200 pages of prose and poetry. Drama will be added in the next release.

A fully searchable library of more than 349,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. A search in this database also automatically searches the MLA Bibliography, ABELL (the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), and selected Web resources.

A source for a wide range of medieval texts. In the "Middle English" section (under Full Text Sources) there are links to full-text versions of Everyman, the Towneley Cycle Plays, and the York Cycle Plays. The plays of Roswitha are also available in the Christopher St. John translation. In addition, there are resources on studying medieval history, each major period of the Middle Ages, various countries, and special topics such as the Church, sex and gender, Jewish life, and politics.

One of the largest electronic text archives in the world. The collection includes materials from all eras and many languages, and can be searched by author and title, and browsed by author, title and language. Texts can usually be downloaded, though the process can be a bit awkward. Most of the scripts are available in a plain ASCII version; some versions have SGML markup which requires special software. Usage note: Once you've searched a title, to download the text place a checkmark in the pink box next to the title, and then click "Download Selected Texts."

When complete North American Women's Drama will bring together more than 1,500 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson in colonial times and will span the 19th and 20th centuries to the present. It is planned to include contemporary playwrights, such as Tina Howe, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Maria Irene Fornes, Megan Terry, and Paula Vogel.

The innovative multimedia database contains interactive sources and studies on Ancient Greece, including primary texts such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, with an English translation by A.T. Murray; Apollodorus, the Library, with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer; and Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Wier Smyth. In terms of visual texts, Perseus has a library of over 4,000 vase, sculpture and coin images from collections such as the Agora Museum and the Acropolis Museum in Athens; the Antikensammlungen in Munich; the British Museum in London; and the Arthur S. Dewing Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Poetry in Motion brings contemporary poetry alive--presenting film footage of performances by and interviews with poets including: Amiri Baraka, John Cage, Ntozake Shange, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, Jaune Cortez, Robert Creeley, and many others.

All of the plays are available for download, either by scene or as a whole. Be aware of the usual questions of textual editing.

A comprehensive and authoritative online resource for Shakespearean research, bringing together general reference data, full-text scholarly periodicals, reprinted criticism, primary source material and the full-text annotated works from The Arden Shakespeare.

All of the plays are available for download, either by scene or as a whole. Be aware of the usual questions of textual editing.

Twentieth-Century Drama will contain 2,500 plays in English from around the world from the 1890s to 2003. Unlike other drama collections available today, it features mostly copyright texts unavailable elsewhere in electronic form including many out-of-print works that are difficult to obtain.

This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 319 plays by 53 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.