Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
Karen Olson
she/her/hers
Online Script Libraries
- Asian American Drama This link opens in a new windowAsian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, so providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field.
- Black Drama, Second Edition: African, African American, and Diaspora 1850 to Present This link opens in a new windowBlack Drama, Second Edition contains over 1,400 full-text plays from the 1800s to the present day. Included are plays of Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Ira Aldridge, Shirley Graham, W.E.B. DuBois, and others.
- North American Indian Drama This link opens in a new windowThese plays demonstrate Native theater's diversity of tribal traditions and communities, approaches to drama, and individual experiences, but also reflect the commonality of the artistic drive of Native writers to give public voice to their own representations of themselves and their culture.
- North American Women's Drama This link opens in a new windowNorth American Women's Drama brings together more than 1,500 plays by more than 300 female playwrights, along with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
- Play Index This link opens in a new windowPublication information for plays written across historical periods. Users can search by title, author, subject, or genre, with the option of limiting results by cast size.
- Twentieth Century North American Drama This link opens in a new windowContains over 1,500 plays from the 20th century, as well as playbills, photos, and other related information.
Print Scripts
Print scripts are shelved by author with other literature from the corresponding language and place.
You can search for scripts in Catalyst using the playwright's name.
You can also run an advanced search with a keyword relevant to your interests, the word drama in the subject field, and books as the material type, like this. This will pull up plays on the keyword, as well as history and criticism of dramas on that keyword. For example, the search below will pull up both plays about World War I and also books about plays and the theater during World War I.
