Theatre Research Guide:Plays

A guide to theatre resources from the Bell Library.

Find Full-Text Plays Online

Plays that are in the “public domain” (no longer covered under copyright law) are published in various locations. Some options include:

Videos of Stage Productions

Scripts

Most plays are published in one of four ways.

  • As an individual book
  • In an author's collected works
  • Part of an anthology of plays
  • In magazines/periodicals/journals

You can search for these on the library's website or in many of the databases we provide.

Some specific resources include: