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Electronic text archives and plays online

Plays online (listed by author)

This is a free service for playwrights and play readers.

Readers will find here links to all the plays we know about that are available in full text versions online for free.

Playwrights are invited to tell us of plays they have made available online. In some circumstances, we may be able to host texts for playwrights who do not have access to their own web site. Please email Barry (Contact Us) for details.

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 a new way to license plays for production  (Recommended by Dennis Wickline.)

These scripts are available electronically as text document attachments. These scripts have been produced in intimate venues around the country.

 A Twentieth Century Trilogy  (Recommended by Beverly Jones.)

Valuable drama online

 ACTORFEST 2002  (Recommended by Kevin Brendle.)

Great place to network with NY's finest agents, casting directors, managers, and actors.

 Animal Theatre Site  (Recommended by Norman Wall.)

Plays for theatre-interested supporters of animal rights and welfare issues.

 Chrononhotonthologos (1734), by Henry Carey 

Welcome addition to the online corpus of the play than contains the famous line, 'Exit in a Huff', much beloved of Thespians since. The most tragical tragedy that was ever tragediz'd by any company of tragedians...

 Complete online texts of selected plays by O'Neill  (Recommended by Marilyn Wu.)

In fact the whole website is great!

 CONTEMPORARY GREEK DANCING COMPANY  (Recommended by Evi Sfikaki.)

The only European dancing dompany with 5 dancing project from KALEIDOASCOPE to CULTURE 2000

 Douglas Young Playwright  (Recommended by Douglas Young.)

The site features Synopsis of Plays written by Douglas Young and information on obtaining the performance rights to them. It also list the books published by Dr. Young and a short biography.

 DRAMATIC EXCHANGE  (Recommended by John Baca-Saavedra.)

This is a free online service that publishes plays.

 Dramma.it  (Recommended by Marcello Isidori.)

Italian contemporary plays available for free reading and downloading on line

 DREWSHI's Listening Station  (Recommended by John S. Drew.)

Original audio dramas written by John S. Drew, includes an ongoing science fiction/horror soap opera.

 excellent links to authors and artists  (Recommended by Rob Walling.)

The links have all been immensly useful to me.

 French Medieval Plays and Mysteries 

An authoritative collection of high-quality texts prepared with great care. Recommended.

 Hippopotamus dreams  (Recommended by Victor Liapin.)

New Russian play.

 Hristo Boytchev - playwright  (Recommended by Hristo Boytchev.)

Boytchev's plays & productions over the world

 Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder (1600) 

Fine transcription by Richard Bear for Renascence Editions (Oregon).

 La page Moli�re  (Recommended by Philippe Parker.)

Complete works of Moli�re, biographical information and other links.

 LA Theatre Works  (Recommended by Jo Jo.)

Over 125 award-winning plays,musicals, docudramas recorded in front of a live audience.

 Lazy Bee Scripts - complete scripts for pantomimes and plays on line  (Recommended by Stuart Ardern.)

Complete scripts of (British) pantomimes, plays for adults and plays for kids can be read on line (in a Java applet). Includes Cinderella, Aladdin, Snow White, Dick Whittington and Puss-in-Boots.

 Litt�rature francophone virtuelle 

Superb site maintained by Carole Netter at Swarthmore. Covers full range of French literature with special emphasis on contemporary writers

 LOS MALDITOS  (Recommended by Ra�l Hern�ndez-Garrido.)

It�s the text of a spanish awarded play now coming to stage. Award Calderon de la Barca.

 Middle English Moral Comedies 

Full-text versions published by Gerard NeCastro at UMM

 Open Wardrobes: The Theatre of Colorado Tolston  (Recommended by Colorado Tolston.)

Site contains original plays in genres such as fantasy, religious, and mystery.

 Original Plays by Bradley Hayward  (Recommended by Janet Millar.)

We are a school theatre group and we have used two of Mr. Hayward's plays. They are terrific and should be "out there".

 Perseus Project Home Page  (Recommended by Weldon B. Durham.)

Excellent source for classical texts, images; links to other sites of interest to scholars of classical theatre and culture.

 play scripts in English and Danish  (Recommended by Kaj Himmelstrup.)

play scripts in English and Danish, free download

 play texts for free download  (Recommended by Kaj Himmelstrup.)

Plays in English. Free download.

 Plays For Kids To Do  (Recommended by James J. Brunelle.)

Fun, smart one-act plays for young players. Free monologues.

 Plays For Production 

This page provide original plays by new playwrights at extremely affordable prices.

 plays in english and danish  (Recommended by Kaj Himmelstrup.)

full playtexts, also plays for children,

 Playscripts.com - Your source for new plays  (Recommended by Jonathan Rand.)

A publisher of new plays for stage performance, offering free online perusal of full scripts.

 ProPlay  (Recommended by Frank Moher.)

Online publisher of professionally-produced stage plays, available for immediate reading.

 Radio Drama 

Scripts and teaching notes

 radio drama  (Recommended by steve walker.)

unique site of playtexts of radio drama, largest on the www, by award-winning playwright

 Renaissance Electronic Texts 

A series of old-spelling, SGML-encoded editions of early individual copies of English Renaissance books and manuscripts, and of plain transcriptions of such works, published on the World Wide Web as a free resource for students of the period by the University of Toronto Library

 Rotgans's play Scilla (in Dutch)  (Recommended by Antonius Harmsen.)

Dutch eighteenth century tragedy

 Shakespeare parodies  (Recommended by Richard Nathan.)

Full length parody scripts of "Hamlet," "Macbeth" and "King Lear."

 Shakespeare: Old-Spelling Transcripts of the Plays  (Recommended by Michael Best.)

Accurate transcripts of Shakespeare's plays as they were first printed -- with original spelling, including mistakes, and original punctuation.

 Shakespeare: The Complete Works 

Matty Farrow's site in Australia. All the plays, plus a neat search engine and links to other Shakespeare sites

 Short plays from Portugal (English version)  (Recommended by Teixeira Moita.)

A page with some information about the author and online powerful short plays.

 Six Characters in Search of an Author, L. Pirandello, 1921  (Recommended by Steve Lee.)

The entire text of "Six Characters in Search of an Author" online plus at site there are other online works

 Spanish Golden Age texts 

Links to a vast collection of online Spanish plays. Maintained by Vern Williamson, who deserves a medal

 Stefan Caraman : Plays from Romania 

 Texeira Moita: Plays and other writings 

Texts in English and Portuguese

 Textes dramatiques 

A key location for tracking down online French play texts. Maintained by Andre Bourassa at UQAM

 The Digital Performance Archive - charting cybertrends in performance  (Recommended by Stuart Simpson.)

The Digital Performance Archive (DPA) traces the rapid developments taking place which combine performance activity with new digital technologies -from live theatre and dance productions that incorporate digital projections, to performances

 The Gutenberg Project -- Public Domain Literature and Plays Online  (Recommended by Marcus Wright.)

Free site that contains the complete text of thousands of public domain plays and works of literature. A must for the starving college student.

 The Hamlet Page 

 The Live Art Archives  (Recommended by Stuart Simpson.)

The Live Art Archive holds information about existing Live Art / Performance Art materials, records and publications primarily in England and the UK. Developed by Nottingham Trent University supported by the Arts Council of England

 The Macbeth Page 

 The Plays of Bryon Burruss  (Recommended by Bryon Burruss.)

Contemporary and controversial new Amewrican plays

 The Tech Classics Archive 

Part of the Internet Classics Archive at MIT. Hundreds of plays available, supported by a strong search engine. Bring your own toga

 The Thomas Middleton Page 

 Th��tre et Arts du spectacle 

More from Carole Netter at Swarthmore. Check out the 'Actualit�s' section, which often has great features

 Theatre Links  (Recommended by TeatroLinks.)

International Theatre Links, festivals, history, drama, schools

 Three Unusual Scientists  (Recommended by Beverly Jones.)

Valuable drama online by playwright Martha Keltz

 Translations of plays by Alexandre Dumas pere by Frank J. Morlock  (Recommended by Frank J. Morlock.)

Plays by the author of the Three Musketeers not previously available in English. Dumas, along with V.Hugo was the leader of the French Romantic movement. Titles include: Hamlet, The Musketeers, The Vampire, Napoleon, Lorenzino

 Two Dramatic Plays  (Recommended by Timothy MacDonnell.)

The page includes excerpts from "Two Dramatic Plays: Reunion/ The Rise & Fall of Cyrus the Great", ISBN 0-595-13117-4

 Victor Hugo -- Translation of Hugo's plays by Frank J. Morlock  (Recommended by P.A. Teter.)

Plays by Victor Hugo not previously available in English. Frank J. Morlock's excellent translation of the play _Ninety-Three_ by Victor Hugo and Paul Meurice, based on Hugo's novel _Quatre-vingt-treize_, is now available on online.

 Wissensdrang.com  (Recommended by Dr. Roger Peters.)

A suite of comedy-dramas for high school students, written in English & French, which partially bridge the prevailing literary & scientific cultures