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Covers every important play ever written!  Available for the first time on WilsonWeb, the online edition of this renowned resource will make finding information about plays easier than ever. Since important classic and historical plays (e.g. the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, Moliere’s works, Shakespeare’s dramas, works of George Bernard Shaw or Ibsen), are reprinted in collections and anthologies, you will find virtually any play being studied or performed in Play Index.  This unique resource also covers the works of contemporary playwrights, including new editions or translations.

• Find citations to some 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form patrons prefer.

• Search over 600 monologues for auditions or course assignments.

• An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources.

• Limit your results to plays with a specific number of male and/or female roles, or size of total cast.

• Search for plays appropriate for preK-6, grades 7-12, and adult.

• A descriptive annotation summarizes the plot and indicates any musical requirements:  chorus, singing, dancing etc., and indicates number of sets, noting whether scenery requirements are interior or exterior.

• Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

• Search for plays by title; author; subject (culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more.

• Updated continuously, with new material added to the database at least weekly.

 

 

Locate Plays with Ease

Play Index provides the full publication details you need to locate the play.   For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information.

 

Ideal for Many Users

Play Index will be heavily used by teachers, students, drama coaches, theater groups, directors, performers, and researchers.  No other resource provides access to plays by cast and scenery requirements or by subject.

 

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