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Finding Play Texts and Information about Plays

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Type the name of the play or the author's name in the search box. To limit to resources owned by the library, click on the Stetson Collections Only button.

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Gale OneFile: Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and film making.
International Bibliography of Theater & Dance (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for more than 100 journals.
Journals include Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 100 reference & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.
Shakespeare Bibliography This link opens in a new window
A searchable database of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide from 1960 to the present.

Indexes of Plays on the Web

32 Plays You Need to Read Before You Die
A list of 32 must-read plays, according to BuzzFeed staff writer, Erin La Rosa.
50 Best Plays of All Time
A list of the 50 best plays of all time, according to TimeOut New York.
50 Best Plays of the Last 100 Years
A list of the 50 best plays from the last century, according to New York Theater. The list was generated in 2013.
American Theatre Play Index
A complete (and constantly updated) alphabetical list of plays that have graced the pages of American Theatre (a publication of Theatre Communications Group), organized by last name of the playwright. Click on hyperlinked play titles to read the accompanying interviews with the playwrights about their respective plays.
Best Modern Plays
A list of the best modern plays according to StageMilk.
Top 25 Plays of the 21st Century
According to the OnStageBlog, the top 25 plays of the 21st century are listed in this blog post.

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Interlibrary loan is a service available to Stetson University faculty, students, and staff. To aid in your research, we will borrow from other libraries items not held in the Stetson Library.

Complete a request form for each item needed and allow one - two weeks for delivery of physical items (books and dissertations) and one week for delivery of electronic items (journal articles). Plan ahead and put in requests early for best results.

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