There are several ways to find plays via the online catalog: title, author, and sometimes publisher. Sometimes, a play will be included in a collection of works and thus, when you search for it by its individual title, the book in which it is included will come up instead.

Here are some indexes that can help in locating one-acts and other plays. Note: the following links do not provide full-text plays.

The following links are useful for purchasing plays, or simply browsing their catalogues and web sites.

Here are some historical newspapers that provide theatre reviews dating as far back as 1831!

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, literary criticism is "the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and character of a literary work; consideration or analysis of a text in relation to language, structure, biography, history, etc., or by a particular philosophical, political, or linguistic method; (also) an instance of this, esp. in a written form; a school or method of criticizing literature." This same definition applies to theatre/dramatic criticism. Dramatic criticism is generally given by a professional or scholar in the field of theatre.

In addition to the following resources, dramatic criticism can be found through online databases such as JSTOR, ProQuest, Gale, etc.

A resource for finding full-text plays, books about playwrights, essays about plays, and other resources that are in the public domain.

Examples: Some information about and works by...

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

Henrik Ibsen

Anton Chekov