Drama (Plays, Screen Plays, and Scripts)
The following guide provides Web site links, links to books in the Rio Hondo College Library, and access to online periodical articles about this subject. The Web site link(s) have been researched, evaluated, and annotated by Rio Hondo College Librarians. The Librarians have specifically selected these Web sites to meet the research needs of Rio Hondo College students

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Bartleby.com : Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/
Click on the "fiction" tab and search by author, title of play, or the keyword plays.  Plays listed are free of copyright and available free online.

Electronic Text Archives and Plays Online
http://www.vl-theatre.com/list4.shtml
An extensive list of links to plays, screenplays, and scripts that are available online (free).  This list is maintained by the reputable and hard-working staff at the WWW Virtual Library.

EServer Drama Collection
http://drama.eserver.org/plays/
Complete texts of historical plays.  Complete texts of some Greek and Roman plays (Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Aeschylus).  Also a selection of historical plays from other periods up to the 19th century.

Guttenberg Project
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Contains plays that re fee of copyright and available free online.  Search by author, tile of play, or the keyword(s) play(s).

Historical database of Folk Play Scripts
http://www.folkplay.info/Texts.htm
The "Traditional Drama Research Group" has compiled a vast collection of plays from England's past.  Good source for historical plays, featuring holiday events, Renaissance festivals, mummers and Robin Hood.

Justin's Theatre Links
http://www.theatrelinks.com/
A large collection of links to all aspects of theater, including history, practitioners, genres and styles, playwrights, scripts, companies, stagecraft, costumes, education and curriculum resources, and much more Searchable.  Maintain by the head of the drama department of Avila College, Melbourne, Australia.

Pro Play : Professional Stage Plays on the Web 
http://www.singlelane.com/proplay/
Whole and partial scripts of plays available free on the Internet.  Available in .pdf format.  Both well-known and new playwrights. 

SimplyScripts - Movie Scripts and Screenplays
http://www.simplyscripts.com/
This site provides links to scripts including recent films.  Scripts include movie and screenplay scripts as well as television scripts.  A blog features updates to the site and new script links.  Links are provided to other script services.

Online Databases (Rio Hondo Students only)    top
Rio Hondo College databases.`

Shakespeare on Disc
Complete plays of William Shakespeare available from Library computers.

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The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books
Non-circulating:

The Oxford dictionary of plays
Call number: Ref PN1625.P38 2005

Drama criticism
Call number: Ref PN1601.D59

American drama--Mexican American authors

American drama--20th century

English drama--20th century

Dialogues

Drama

Monologues

Motion picture plays

One act plays

Library Catalog     top
Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Note: Finding plays in Library Catalog
If you are looking for a specific play, type in the title and click on "GO" to do a keyword ("Any Field") search.  Many plays are published in collections or anthologies, and a keyword search is the most effective way to find them.

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The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database.  If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below.   To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, first click here: https://rioweb.riohondo.edu/library/.  Input your student ID number and password [your birthdate].  You will see a list of all the online databases to which you have access.  Click on ProQuest and enter the database.  You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

SU(theater) AND SU(reviews)

Researched and evaluated by:
A. Enright, Librarian 10/2006
updated: C. Oldham, Librarian 3/2010

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