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To find plays in the Library, search by play title and/or playwright in the Library's catalogue.
Full-text of plays (some not previously published). Database includes biographical, production, and theatrical information.
Coverage: 1891 - present
Full text of plays by writers from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries.
Coverage: 1850 - present
Fiction, poetry and plays written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.
Coverage: late 19th century - present
Plays, documentaries, interviews, and instructional materials in more than 550 hours of streaming video.
Coverage: 1930s - present
Definition
Firsthand observations of a time, person, event, or material culture associated with a time, person, or event.
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Source: Francisco San Martin, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons.
Find images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other ephemera resources relating to Canadian and American theatre.
Coverage: 16th century - present