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Play Index ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY

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Description: 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. Search for over 30,000 plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type; and more. Play Index provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations. For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Play Index includes plays published as single volumes and also plays in anthologies and collections. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information.

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Coverage: Plays written from Antiquity to present and published from 1949 to present

Subject(s)
Literature & Language
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