LibGuides UFV: Theatre & Musical Theatre: Plays Online

Play Publishers

Dramatists Play Service
Publisher of plays written by established and new American playwrights. Can purchase print plays, acting editions, scores, cast recordings, etc from their online store.
Concord Theatricals: Samuel French
Flexible casting play publisher and authors' representatives. You may purchase copies of plays from their store, and arrange for licensing (royalty) fees for productions.
Talonbooks
Canadian publisher of drama.

UFV Library e-books
A variety of different books. You may have to look a bit harder for actual playscripts but they are there.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Facsimile editions of over 136,000 books, plays, essays, broadsides and more published in the 18th century.
Digital Theatre +
A vast collection of live theatre performances, stagecraft, lighting and interviews along with accompanying teaching materials.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Freely accessible digitized books in the public domain, as well as in copyright works from major library collections.
Google Books
Google Books contains the digitized copies of books in the public domain and in-copyright, and is a powerful tool allowing users to search the full text content. Views of the book vary from full view to no preview available.
Project Gutenberg
Copyright free versions of a large variety of publications.
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Provides high quality resources on Shakespeare's works, his plays in performance and his life and times. UFV is a Friend of ISE.

Oxford University Text Archive
Extensive list of electronic texts, including many classic plays. Note: you need to request the text and will be sent an email link to download a zip file.
Virgo (University of Virginia)
Check the Digital collection of over 11,000 items. Includes English poetry, drama and more. Texts are well laid out and easy to use.
Concord Theatricals: Tams-Witmark Music Library
Tams-Witmark licenses the performance rights to a number of well-known Broadway musicals.
Musical Movie Scripts at IMSDb
Stage Musical Rights Index - USA
This site lists 500 musicals and indicates the publishing company to contact for the rights.
Perseus Digital Library
Full text of Greek and Roman plays
Internet Archive: Musicals and Operas
Digitized books for a selection of older musicals.
The Drama Book Shop, Inc.
A New York bookstore specializing in drama.
Inter-Play
Online index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Type in the title of a play or a playwright's name and you will be given the title of the book in which the play or the playwright's work appears.