To browse a collection of acting scripts selected by the Theatre Arts Department select Form/Genre and then  Acting Scripts from the Library Catalog.  This will collect all the acting scripts in the libraries collection.  You can browse through them in alphabetical order.  To search from within this collection, click on Limit from the catalog's menu (top or bottom of screen).  You can then perform a variety of limits including author, title, and words in title.

If a play has been published in an anthology of works by many playwrights, a WORD search may pick up titles listed in the contents section of a catalog entry.  For example, if you are looking for the play A Picture Perfect Sky, select WORD search and enter "picture perfect sky."  This search will retrieve the book Plays by Women: an International Anthology.  You will see A Picture Perfect Sky listed in the Contents section of this record.

Using Play Indexes

When a play has been published in an anthology of plays by multiple authors, you will need to use an index to plays in anthologies. Some plays are published in periodicals and must be located with an index.

The following specilized indexes are located in the Reference Collection on Haggard 2:

• Index to plays in periodicals / Keller, Dean H.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PN1655 .K396 1979
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• The drama scholars' index to plays and filmscripts: a guide to plays and filmscripts in selected anthologies, series, and periodicals / Samples, Gordon.
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PN1655 .S25
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• Chicorel theater index to plays in anthologies, periodicals, discs and tapes
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PN1655 .C486
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• Chicorel theater index to plays in periodicals / Chicorel, Marietta.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PN1655 .C487
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• Ottemiller's index to plays in collections : an author and title index to plays appearing in collections published between 1900 and 1985 / Ottemiller, John H. (John Henry), 1916-1968.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference PN1655 .O85 1988
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• Index to twentieth-century Spanish plays : in collections, anthologies, and periodicals / Harvell, Tony A., 1952-
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PQ6115 .H17 2000
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• Inter-Play: an Online Index to Plays in Collections, Anthologies and Periodicals
  This web site provides access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals published since the late nineteenth century..  Most of the plays cited are not indexed in the standard printed play indexes listed above.  Inter-Play is searchable by author or title, and/or date.
  

• Corefiche: World's Best Drama
  • Location: Wilson 2W - Microfiche - PN6111 .C64 1989 no.1-no.160
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• Early English Books
  • Location: Wilson 2 West Microfilm - PR1127 .E2 reels 1-
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  This microfilm series contains everything published in England or in English from the advent of the printing press in 1475 to 1700. With this series you can see copies of plays and other works from the Renaissance and seventeenth century as they were originally published . Indexed by the library catalog and the print Short Title Catalog shelved with the collection.
  

• Monologue Indexes

• Actors guide to monologues;;an index of 700 monologues from classical & modern plays for auditions & classwork
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PN4321 .A3
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• A guide to scenes & monologues from Shakespeare and his contemporaries / Daw, Kurt.
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PN2080 .D38 1998
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• Women's scenes and monologues : an annotated bibliography / Devlin, Joyce.
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PN2080 .D48 1989
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• Guide to monologues, men : an index of over 800 monologues from classical and modern plays
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PN2080 .G84 1988
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• Guide to monologues, women : an index of over 800 monologues from classical and modern plays
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PN2080 .G85 1988
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• The Smith and Kraus monologue index
  • Location: Wilson 3W -Books PN2080 .S6 1995
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• Monologue and Audition Anthologies
  

  To browse the shelf for collections of monologues, look under PN 2080 as most books of monologues and scenes are shelved under this number; a secondary location is PN 4305 .M6. To locate anthologies of monologues search by SUBJECT in the Western Libraries' Catalog  using the subject headings monologues and acting auditions.  The following entries are samples of monologue anthologies in the general collection:

• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  Search here for any Shakespeare text in any play. The search engine will display a summary of where the test was found with a line of context. From there you can view any part of any play and browse the entire script.

• Dramatist Play Service
  Access the Dramatist Play Service Catalog, searchable by title, author, or by the number of characters in the play.

• EServer Drama Collection
  This site contains a collection of original plays and screenplays, criticism and links to other sites concerned with theater. It publishes both classic and contemporary works and accepts submissions of works for editorial review and possible publication.  Links to newsgroups, theater schedules, and information on playwrights.

• Noh Plays from Japan
  This site contains a selection of Noh plays from  medieval Japan. Included are English translations, comments, and background information.

• Play Texts (Association for Hispanic Classical Theater)
  This web page is devoted to the Spanish Golden Age comedia, either as a literary form or as a performance art. Comdedia texts, both in Spanish and in English translation are available for downloading.

• Shakespeare's Monologues
  Search for a monologue from Shakespeare's classics.  Links from men or women will lead you to categorized lists of the monologues with play, act, scene and line numbers of each.

• Théâtrales
  Coming from University of Quebec in Montreal, this site is a collection of links to French drama texts, mostly in French with a few in English.

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