August: Osage County (Tracy Letts)
No supplemental material beyond production history; no page numbers on pages of ebook but page numbers are visible through ebook interface
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
No supplemental material; clean text; easy to navigate
Fairview (Jackie Sibblies Drury)
No page numbers on pages of ebook but page numbers are visible through ebook interface
Fefu and Her Friends (Maria Irene Fornes)
Includes photos of the different sets and a floor plan showing the complete set, which is useful when discussing the way the play was originally performed
For colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (Ntozake Shange)
Clear pagination; able to be downloaded as a searchable PDF
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Good accessibility; good critical introduction; mobile-friendly; available in multiple formats, including TEI
Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Will Arbery)
Downloadable and printable, but downloadable version is not searchable; online version is searchable
Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
No supplemental material; clean text; easy to navigate
Indecent (Paula Vogel)
No supplemental material; clean text; easy to navigate
Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
Good accessibility; good critical introduction; mobile-friendly; available in multiple formats, including TEI
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Good accessibility; good critical introduction; mobile friendly; available in multiple formats, including TEI
Othello (William Shakespeare)
This also has good accessibility and a good critical introduction, but it is more difficult than the Folger edition to navigate. Not available in multiple formats.
Poof! (Lynn Nottage)
Collection of Nottage's plays including Poof!; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Por'knockers (a political satire); Mud, River, Stone; and Las Meninas
Red Letter Plays (Suzan-Lori Parks)
No supplemental material beyond production history; no page numbers on pages of ebook but page numbers are visible through ebook interface
Slave Play (Jeremy O. Harris)
Clean text; downloadable; searchable
A Strange Loop (Michael R. Jackson)
Clean text; searchable; downloadable but limited to 100 pages per user
Trifles (Susan Glaspell)
Good accessibility; reliable text; no supplemental notes
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
Good accessibility; good critical introduction; mobile-friendly; available in multiple formats, including TEI
We're Gonna Die (Young Jean Lee)
Easily readable on web and mobile; includes original production info, author's note, and Chord Sheets for songs; NOTE: Chord Sheets have an issue in the online ebook but this is not an issue in PDF; no page numbers on pages of ebook but page numbers are visible through ebook interface
The Wolves (Sarah DeLappe)
Clean text; searchable; hyperlinked sections for ease of navigation within text
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