Plays and Playwrights 

Bobst Library's holdings of Old English and Middle English manuscripts in facsimile, and also notes the guides and indices which accompany these holdings.
N.B.: Not all series are complete. Where indicated, the order request date has been included.

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Facsimile of MS Bodley 175. R. M. Lumiansky & David Mills, eds. 1973.
PR1260.C36 1973 Oversize

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Facsimile of British Library MS Harley 2124. David Mills, ed. 1984.
PR1261.C54 1984 Oversize

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Reduced Facsimile of Huntington Library MS 2. R. M. Lumiansky & David Mills, eds. 1980.
PR1261.C52 1980 Oversize

The Digby Plays: Facsimiles of the Plays in Bodley MS Digby 133 and e Museo 160. Donald C. Baker & J. L. Murphy, eds. 1976.
PR1260.D49 1976

The N-Town Plays: A Facsimile of British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D.VIII. Peter Meredith & Stanley J. Kahrl, eds. 1977.
PR1260.C64 1977

Non-Cycle Plays and the Winchester Dialogues: Facsimiles of Plays and Fragments. Norman Davis, ed. 1979.
PR1260.N66 Oversize

The Towneley Cycle: A Facsimile of Huntington MS HM I. A. C. Cawley & Martin Stevens, eds.
PR1260.T65 1976b Oversize

The York Play: A Facsimile of British Library MS Additional 35290. . . . Richard Beadle & Peter Meredith, eds. 1983.
PR1261.Y67 1983 Oversize

There are several tools to help you discover the collection that includes an individual play. Some are listed below. There's also a free web resource, Inter-Play, that serves as an index to several thousand plays found in collections and periodicals.
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Finding Plays

• Play Index. 1949- .
  Bobst REF1 Index Z5781.P53
  Electronic Access: see link below
  Description: Each volume contains several parts, listing plays published during the years covered by that volume, including English-language translations. Coverage includes plays in collections and single plays, one-act plays, full-length plays, radio, TV and Broadway productions.
  Organization: Part I includes an author, title, and subject index with a brief description of the play. Another section provides a cast analysis, with listings of all-female and all-male casts. The final section lists the indexed collections.
• Index to Plays in Periodicals. Keller, Dean H. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979, 1990.
  Bobst REF1 Z5781 .K43 1979 ; 1990
  Description: Lists plays published in periodicals through 1990.
  Organization: Organized in two parts, with an author index and title index.

Play Annuals

• Best plays of ... 1894- .
  Bobst PN2266 .A2B5
  Description: For each season, digests and provides critical comments on select plays. Also has information about the theater in several US cities, with an extensive entry on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in New York City. Lists the Pulitzer Prize winners and Drama Critics Circle Awards.
  Organization: Divided into several sections, with an author, cast and production index for each volume. This series is indexed by Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections (through 1985)--see above.