Research Guides: THEATRE_140-2: Theatre in Context: Plays & Monologues

Scripts: Print editions

Northwestern owns thousands of scripts. Look them up by author/title in NUSearch.

Monologue books are also available. Search NUseach: book tab, Advance Search, Subject: monologues.

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NUsearch is the main search tool for Northwestern University Library, combining the library catalog with a wealth of other databases and online collections.

Monologues and Scenes

Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Access limited to text and images of selected collections of plays. Video and audio not included with our access.

Includes the full text of plays from across the history of the theatre, ranging from Aeschylus to the present day. Includes non-English-language works in translation, scholarly and critical editions, first night program texts, and critical analysis and contextual information.

There are a number of books containing monologues. Search for Monologues using NUsearch's Subject Browse . We have a 4 volume set of scenes for actors: The Ultimate Scene Study Series on 3 South in the library: 808.82.U47.

Shakespeare's Monologues

Full Text

Asian American Drama This link opens in a new window
This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Black Drama: Second Edition This link opens in a new window
Contains full text of more than 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays.Includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Drama Online This link opens in a new window
Access limited to text and images of selected collections of plays. Video and audio not included with our access.

Includes the full text of plays from across the history of the theatre, ranging from Aeschylus to the present day. Includes non-English-language works in translation, scholarly and critical editions, first night program texts, and critical analysis and contextual information.

North American Indian Drama
Full text of plays by American Indian, First Nation, and Pacific Islanders playwrights of the 20th century; information about the plays and their production, and biographical data.

Twentieth-Century Drama This link opens in a new window
2,500 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day.

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