Theatre and Performance Studies

Tips for searching in Discover@MU:

Plays may be published individually or in anthologies or collected works. Those in our library collection will be listed in Discover@MU by title and author.

• If you're not looking for a specific play, search Drama as a subject. This retrieves books about drama, but also examples of drama, individual plays and collections.
• You can also do a subject search for plays dealing with a specific topic or set in a specific place:

prejudices--drama
Missouri--Lebanon--drama

• Monologues are often published in collections.
  • To find these in Discover@MU, search for "monologues" as a subject.
  • Use the quotation marks to force a search for the plural, so you don't retrieve things on the rhetorical concept of monologue.
  • To exclude the many records of musical monologues add NOT music to your search.
• To limit your search to online materials, run a search, then look in the left sidebar for Filter by Format and click to limit to ebooks. (Note that access to some ebooks is limited to a students/employees of a specific campus.)

Other databases to find repertoire

Play and monologue indexes

The following indexes are also helpful for finding plays and monologues published within books or in periodicals.