Playwrights & Dramatists, Texts & Criticism

General

Théâtrales - collection of links to French drama texts (in both French and English)

Theatre History.com - Script Archive - divided into categories of plays, and monologues

WWW Virtual Library - texts and plays online

Moonstruck Drama Bookstore

Individuals

Beckett:

Samuel Beckett Online Resources and Links Pages

O'Neill:

An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive - Contains online texts, essyas, audio files, and information on stage, radio, television and film productions.

Pinter:

Harold Pinter.org - Official website of the "playwright, director, actor, poet and political activist".

Shakespeare:

Complete works - 'The Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993'.

Internet Shakespeare Editions - The aim of the Internet Shakespeare Editions is to make scholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays available in a form native to the medium of the Internet. Has various sections entitled Foyer, Library (for texts, reference works and essays on Shakespeare), Theater (records of the performance of Shakespeare) and Annex (links to other texts, articles and essays).

Moonstruck Shakespeare page - The plays, films, biographies and studies, and links to further information.

Open Source Shakespeare - A site presenting the text of all plays, poems and sonnets ordered alphabetically, by genre, by date or by number of lines.

You can also retrieve all lines spoken by a specific character. In addition there is a searchable list of characters, a concordance, and statistics.

Rhymezone - Shakespeare - Gives access to the works of Shakespeare, as well as enabling users to search for specific lines or quotes.

Shakespeare at eNotes - Thousands of pages of content on the life and work of Shakespeare including eNotes to more than 20 titles.

Shakespeare and the Globe: then and now - Presented by the Encyclopedia Britannica, this website offers links to plays, criticism, study resources and articles on disputed authorship.

Shakespeare Mystery - Contains debates and articles on the 'identity' of Shakespeare, and investigates the theory that he was in fact Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford.

Shakespeare mystery

See also "Who was Shakespeare" in the November 2006 edition of Focus, p.72-77. This magazine is held in the Taylor Library

Shakespeare Online - Comprehensive site giving access to texts of the plays and poems, guides to the plots, critical analysis and essays, journals, and information on Shakespeare's theatres and sources.