Quick Guide:
How to Find Plays, Scenes and Monologues in Hunt Library

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• To find a specific play or a specific playwright
  • search Cameo by entering a title or author to get the exact call number and location in the library

• To find a play or a scene by number of people, gender or subject
  • Ask a librarian for help in searching Cameo and other resources.
  • Find monologues in Cameo by using the word 'monologues' as one of your search terms in to find book call numbers and locations.
  • Try the Play Index online database which identifies published plays by gender, number of people, subject and more

• To browse the playscripts in the book stacks...start at these call numbers and locations:

4th Floor (STACKS-4 and OVERSZQ-4)
PN1997-1997.2 Screenplays
M1500-1527.8 or 782.14026 Dramatic Music and Musical Theatre

2nd Floor (STACKS-2)
PA3544.93-3551 Classical Latin
PA6000-7999 Classical Roman
PA8135-8140 Medieval and Modern Latin
PM171 Indian
PM3087 Mexico and Central American
PQ1211-1241 French
PQ4227-4245 Italian
PQ6217-6239 Spanish
PR1241-1273 English
PS623-635 American
PT1251-1299 Germanic

• Full-text play databases
  NOTE!! The plays in these databases are also linked in Cameo the Library Catalog.

Asian American Drama
Full-text of 250 plays by Asian American playwrights.

Black Drama
Full-text of 1200 plays by black playwrights.

Twentieth Century North American Drama is a growing full-text database, currently containing 850 plays including the complete works of major playwrights as well as plays by emerging playwrights.

• Play Index online

  This database indexes plays in published sources (1949-present) by subject, author, title, style, genre, cast type, by number of people and more with plot summaries and musical, cast, and scenery requirements.

• Play synopses

  International Dictionary of Theatre. Chicago: St. James Press, 1992, 1994, 1996.
  FA-REF PN2035 .I49 (3 Volumes)
  see: Plays (Vol. 1)
  Includes first production information, criticism and other publications; play synopses.

  Play Index Online
  Includes a one or two-sentence summary of plays in published sources (1949-present)

*For more detailed information and resources, link to Drama Research Guide: Literature: Plays or ask a librarian for additional tips!

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Mo Dawley, Art and Drama Librarian
md2z@andrew.cmu.edu
August 18, 2009

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