Much of the world's most enduring dramatic literature is available via electronic texts on the World Wide Web. Most of the available plays are in the public domain, but you will even find some contemporary scripts. Each of the following sites contains an index and links to a range of plays.

• Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet both a searchable index and a catalog to browse this collection of public domain books and plays
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare the well known MIT site which includes links to other Shakespeare sites, a tool to search the texts and complete editions of all the plays
• Electronic Text Center links to literary resources and electronic texts online
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet Terry Gray's guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet
• The Online Books Page an interactive index of thousands of on-line books and relevant databases
• Playwrights on the Web a database of contemporary playwrights and their web sites
• Project Gutenberg this ground-breaking effort, which now includes more than 6,000 public domain books, also contains a wide range of important plays