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Dance Research Guide: Selected Indexes to Creative Works

Selected Indexes to Creative Works

  • Play Index

    Play Index on WilsonWeb is the electronic version of Play Index. Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form that patrons prefer. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

  • Inter-Play

    An older web resource that finds plays within anthologies.

  • Ottemiller's index to plays in collections : an author and title index to plays appearing in collections published between 1900 and 1985

    Plays are often published in collections, such as BEST PLAYS. Use this index to find full text.

  • Index to plays in periodicals

    This purely for 20th Century. Also see companions: INDEX TO PLAYS IN PERIODICALS 1977-1987, and SUPPLEMENT editions (shelved together in Reference).

  • One Act Plays and Monologes

    This is a guide to finding one act plays and monologues in the MSU libraries.