Research Guides: Literature: Drama and Shakespeare

Award-Winning Plays (Ebooks)

4000 Miles and after the Revolution

Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2013

Bottle Fly

Yale Drama Series award, 2017

Celia, a Slave

Yale Drama Series award, 2016

The Country House

L.A. Ovation Award, 2014

Dead Man's Cell Phone

Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play, 2008

Doubt: A Parable

Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2005
Tony Award for Best Play, 2005

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 And 3)

Obie Award, 2015

The Flu Season and Other Plays

Oppenheimer Award, 2004

God Said This

Yale Drama Series award, 2018

Good People

New York Drama Critics' Circle, 2011

Grenadine

Yale Drama Series award, 2009

How I Learned to Drive

Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1998

In the Wake

Lilly Award, 2011

Maybe Tomorrow

ANA Drama Prize, 2014

Oslo

Tony Award for Best Play, 2017
Lucille Lortel Award, 2017
New York Drama Critics Circle Award, 2017

Ruined

Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2009
Obie Award, 2009
Drama Critics' Circle Award, 2009

Serial Black Face

Yale Drama Series award, 2014

Still

David Charles Horn Prize, 2013
Yale Drama Series award, 2013

Sweat

Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2017
Obie Award, Best New American Play, 2017
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2016

What the Constitution Means to Me

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, 2019
Obie Award, 2019

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Featured Reference Books

An A-Z Guide to Shakespeare (2nd ed.)

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2nd ed.)

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance

Oxford Dictionary of Plays (2nd ed)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

World Theatre: The Basics

Drama Resources

Digital Theatre Plus Streaming video of award-winning productions, plus accompanying interviews, essays, and expert insights into the theatre-making process

Digital Theatre Plus for English

Films On Demand Streaming videos including educational films, archival footage, and newsreels in most subject areas
Met Opera on Demand Streaming video of full-length Metropolitan Opera performances

Featured Journals

Comparative Drama

Modern Drama

TDR: The Drama Review

Renaissance Quarterly

Shakespeare

Shakespeare Bulletin

Shakespeare Quarterly

Shakespeare Studies

Borrowers & Lenders

Shakespeare Resources

Folger Shakespeare Library This HUGE resource holds the world's largest Shakespeare collection. Manuscripts, images, scholarly materials and more. Compare 19th-century productions of Shakespeare with today's through historic photographs and promptbooks. Look at letters written by Queen Elizabeth I. Examine rare paintings in "up close and personal" detail. Read diary entries from over 200 years ago.
American Shakespeare Center Field-trip worthy: 1.5 hours away! By re-creating Renaissance conditions of performance, the ASC explores its repertory of plays for a better understanding of these great works and of the human theatrical enterprise past, present, and future. Educational resources, Shakespeare experts, and more.
Discovering Literature: Shakespeare & Renaissance from the British Library
Harvard's Shakespeare Research Guide Reliable editions and key scholarship as well as useful databases, reference works, and research tools. You may not have access to some materials. Be sure to browse the Shakespearana section.
Open Source Shakespeare Concordance Find the words you're looking for across any of the Bard's works.
The Hare The Hare is a peer-reviewed, online academic journal published three times yearly. The journal publishes short essays on the dramatic, poetic, and prose works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The journal also publishes academic book reviews, and provides a public forum for open exchange between scholars in the field.