Library Services
How to Find Plays
Online Catalog:
Use the Online Catalog to look up a play by Title, Author, or Subject heading. Double check the author listing for "collected" or "selected" plays.
- Example: Search
by Title = Death of a Salesman
Search by Author = O'Neil, Eugene
Search by Subject = Plays
Christmas Plays
Children's Plays
Indexes:
- Chicorel theater index to plays in anthologies, periodicals,discs and tapes, R808.82 C533
- Index to full length plays (1944 - 1964), R808.82 T4842
- Index to one act plays and supplement, 1924 - 1931, R808.2 L831 Suppl. 1924/31
- Index to one act plays and second supplement, 1932 - 1940, R808.2 L831 Suppl. 1932/40
- Index to one act plays and third supplement, 1941-1948, R808.2 L831 suppl. 1941-48
- Index to plays 1800 - 1926 (with a supplement 1866 - 1937), 808.82 F523
- Ottemiller's index to plays in collections, R808.82 O89
- Play index, 1949 - 1987, R808.82 P722 1983/87
- Samuel French's basic catalogue of plays, 808.82 S193
Internet:
- Inter-Play: an online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals (http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/)
- Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (http://www.dramatists.com/index.asp)
- Samuel French, Inc. (http://www.samuelfrench.com/)
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (http://tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html)
- McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies (http://www.stetson.edu/departments/csata/thr_guid.html)
- Electronic text archives and plays online (http://www.vl-theatre.com/list4.shtml)
At the Central Library, the Play Index card file on the 2nd floor locates older plays in collections owned by the Central Library.
For further help, ask at an Information Desk.