This is a general guide to research in the scholarship of the History of Theatre. For a guide to Period Resources (for images and scholarship in material culture) please see: http://blog.lib.msu.edu/libdata_pos/page.phtml?page_id=1373 .
When complete, Black Drama will contain the full text
of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than
100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the
Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are
rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection
will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as
Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri
Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. Each
play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and
multi-fielded searching. The plays are accompanied by reference
materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance
database, and images.
Within Literature Online are several databases of full-text
plays: AMERICAN DRAMA 1714-1915, and ENGLISH DRAMA. For access to
standalone databases within LION choose the Individual Collections
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