Dance and Theatre: Books & Play Texts

Finding play texts

Asian American Drama This link opens in a new window
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Plays from Asian American playwrights along with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.
Black Drama This link opens in a new window
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Online collection of plays written by African American playwrights.
Literature Online This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive database emphasizing English and American poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, author biographies, and critical essays.
New Play Exchange This link opens in a new window
The New Play Exchange®, a National New Play Network project, is the world’s largest digital library of scripts by living writers.
North American Indian Drama This link opens in a new window
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Plays by twentieth-century American Indian and First Nations playwrights. Includes issues of the Native playwrights' newsletter.

Tips for searching UW Libraries Search for finding play scripts:

Using "Drama" as a subject term while searching will help limit your results.
Use quotation marks to search for exact phrases or titles, like "The bards of Bromley, and other plays."
Use limits (the links along the left side of your search results) to narrow the scope of your search:
- Use "Resource type" to see only print books, only DVDs or e-Videos, etc.
- Use "Library" to see only resources in the UW Bothell/Cascadia Library. But remember, you can request items from any UW library and have it delivered to our circulation desk!
- Use "Publication Date" to find the newest publications on a certain subject.