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Contemporary American Plays
 
American Theatre publishes as many as 10 new, cutting edge plays each year. These are available to you free through our library's electronic subscription. Note: Only issues since 1995 are available online. You may indentify play titles with the following links:
 

American Theatre (full text of plays online; you just need to know the year and month)
http://web.ebscohost.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=6&sid=3f4a7d57-1418-4c88-bce2-cfcc597cf7b2%40SRCSM1


Plays in Anthologies and Collections
 
Quite often, individual plays will be published in collections or anthologies. Inter-Play is an index you can use to determine the name of the collection or anthology. (Then you look up that name in the library's online catalog.)
 
 

Public Domain Plays
 
The Internet Classics Archive (MIT)
Here you can find public domain translations of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and 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