LibGuides: Drama: Play, film and TV scripts

Find play, film and TV scripts in the Library Catalogue

To find a script in the ANU Library Catalogue search by:

Title of the play, film or television program/series. eg. The Boyce trilogy; The sound of one hand clapping
Author - type in their last name, then first name, eg. Shakespeare, William; Goldoni, Carlo; Esson, Louis
Subject - eg. Drama; Motion picture plays; Television scripts; Television plays
Keyword - type in drama or plays or screenplay and other keywords from title, author etc., eg. Aeschylus AND plays.

To find plays in anthologies search the Library Catalogue by keyword 'antholog* AND plays'.

To find monologues and scenes for acting auditions search the Library Catalogue by keyword 'monologues'. A subject search for monologues will produce more pointed results.

Find play, film and TV scripts online

AustralianPlays.org
Australian Plays hosts the world’s largest online showcase of the best Australian playwriting, featuring the combined catalogues of Australia's leading theatrical publishers. The database provides access to the full text of thousands of titles and a huge selection of hand-selected monologues for audition and study. Free extracts of scripts are also available.
Drama Online
Drama Online is a digital library of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from Aeschylus to the present day. The unique Play Tools with Character Grids, Words and Speech graphs and Part Books offer a new way to engage with plays for close study or for performance.
LION: Literature Online
A large collection of full-text original works of prose, poetry and drama from the 8th century to the present, with a huge library of criticism and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and links to authoritative websites.
Loeb Classical Library
The Digital Loeb Classical Library, a part of Harvard University Press, provides electronic access to Classical Latin and Greek literature and includes more than 520 volumes. Users can easily browse, search, annotate and share digital content via a functional, user-friendly interface. All texts are up-to-date, and include accurate English translations. It includes works of epic and lyric poetry, history, philosophy, oratory and much more.
New York Film Academy: student resources - screenwriting
This site includes 10 great websites that allow you to download movie scripts and plays.
Screen Studies
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond – offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber to support moving-image studies. It comprises an exceptional collection of award-winning screenplays, critical and contextual books on film from the late nineteenth century to the present, and an interactive timeline of cinema history.
Understanding Shakespeare (JSTOR)
Understanding Shakespeare is a collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library. It's a research tool that allows students, educators and scholars to use the text of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets to quickly navigate into the scholarship written about them. Users simply click next to any line of text in a play and relevant articles from the JSTOR archive immediately load.