American Drama (1714-1915) This link opens in a new windowProvides 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.