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Currently containing more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up  to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714-1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented.

Early landmark texts include Robert Hunter's satire Androboros (1714), the earliest printed American play, and Thomas Godfrey's tragedy The Prince of Parthia (1765), the first American play professionally performed on an American stage. Highlights from the 19th century include George Aiken's stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Major dramatists such as William Dean Howells, Augustin Daly, David Belasco, and John Brougham are featured.  Details for the works covered in American Drama 1714-1915 can be found in the bibliography.  Plays are also cross-searchable according to a range of criteria, including date and place of first performance and the nationality and ethnicity of the author.