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Play Text Sources
This list includes electronic text collections, bookstores, libraries and any other sources of play texts.
Alex
Unfinished collection at NCSU. Plain ASCII texts of dramatic and literary classics. Authors include Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Aphra Behn, Euripides, John Gay, Ibsen, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Edmund Spenser.
Amazon.com
Voluminous Internet bookstore that allows searching by category, author, and title.
Barnes and Noble
Large Internet bookstore.
Dramatic Publishing Company
Publisher of plays.
Electronic Text Center
Extensive collection of digitized historical documents, English prose drama, poetry and fiction at University of Virginia. Authors include Moliere, Racine, Corneille (French collection), Hoffmanstahl (German collection), In future, promises to have Japanese Noh plays. Unfortunately, some parts are open only to UVA members.
English Server
Large collection of dramatic and literary works at Carnegie Mellon. In plain ASCII text. Ben Jonson, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Sophocles are well-represented. Also included are assorted plays by John Gay, Moliere, Goethe, "Gammer Gurton's Needle", Thomas Middleton, Broadway musical lyrics, Ibsen, Aphra Behn.
Eris Project
Electronic text collection at Virginia Tech. Mostly literary works, but some playwrights, including Aeschylus, Aphra Behn, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Edmund Spenser, Euripides, Ibsen, Goethe, Oscar Wilde (non-dramatic writings only), Sophocles, Shakespeare, W. B. Yeats.
Etexts Archive, The
Musical lyrics and miscellaneous theatre info, including Tonys. Includes links to Project Gutenberg and Project Libellus.
Internet Classics Archive
Searchable, HTML-formatted electronic texts of the Ancient Greek classics.
Library of Congress: Electronic Texts
Index of literary texts and resources
Library of Congress: Greek and Latin Classics
Index of Greek and Latin texts and resources
Project Gutenberg
Large representation of classic literary authors but few playwrights.
Project Libellus
Ancient classics companion to Gutenberg Project, at The E-Text Archive. Theatre-related texts are limited but include Bullfinch's Mythology, Medea and Oedipus Rex. Unfortunately, files are in x-gzip format.
Samuel French Bookshops
Most widely known play and theatre book publisher. "Sources of our plays range from Broadway and England's West End to publication of unsolicited scripts submitted by unpublished authors. " Publishes Catalogue of "plays, monologues, audition material, classroom guides, classic works and the latest plays from the professional theater," available for $3.50 (US). NY Tel: (212) 206-8990; L.A. Tel: (213) 876-0570.
Wiretap Collection
Large collection of historical and literary texts. Playwrights include John Gay, Shakespeare and Sophocles. In plain ASCII.
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