You can find a large number of playtexts in the Arts and Social Sciences Library. Many playtexts are also available electronically via Library Search. To find specific playtexts use Library Search to search for the title of the play or name of the playwright.
Here is a selection of some of the playtexts we hold in the collection:
The Library also subscribes to Drama Online's core collection. You can use this database to browse and search new and iconic playwrights, with contextual and critical background. You can also browse discrete collections within Drama Online.
Dramatic works by playwrights from antiquity to the present day.
The Nick Hern Books Modern Plays collection includes over 650 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.
Oberon Books is one of the most exciting publishers specialising in drama and the performing arts, with a reputation for publishing challenging and compelling works.
From ground-breaking British plays to the best of international drama and plays in translation, this is a unique and inspiring collection of over 500 titles that features a diverse gathering of canonical and contemporary drama.
