Creative Spirit: THTR 0807

Drama Online is a digital library of plays from Aeschylus to the present day. It also includes analysis, contextual information, A-Z reference and practical texts.

Black Drama contains the full text plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. This collection also includes previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

Black Drama, Second contains plays by playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

Access guaranteed through May 2027
Black Drama contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.

Access guaranteed through May 2027
Latin American Drama offers plays written by Latin American playwrights in the 19th-21st centuries.

Access guaranteed through May 2027
North American Indian Drama contains 244 plays by 48 playwrights representing the stories and creative energies of American Indian and First Nation playwrights of the twentieth century.

North American Women's Drama contains plays written from Colonial times to the present by more than 100 women from the United States and Canada.

Twentieth Century North American Drama contains the full text of plays as well as related productions, theaters, and production companies, and selected playbills, production photographs and other related ephemera. Each play is indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching.

The New Play Exchange (NPX) is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers. NPX provides an open platform on which writers all over the world can share their work and others can discover that work.

Drama Online is a digital library of plays from Aeschylus to the present day. It also includes analysis, contextual information, A-Z reference and practical texts.

Provides full-text to playscripts of over 1,500 American plays, representing both richness and diversity of the writing. Exhaustive coverage of African American drama to 1915. Includes melodramas, farces, naturalist and realist drama, social and domestic satires and comedies, frontier plays, Civil War drama, Little Theatre Movement, verse drama, dialogues and rhetorical exercises, temperance plays and dialogues, minstrel shows, and adaptations of Shakespeare.

English Drama contains plays in verse and prose from the late thirteenth century - the likely date of the Shrewsbury Fragments - to the early twentieth. It offers coverage of the dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas.

Latino Literature contains pages of poetry, fiction, and plays written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.