Discover – Read – Study – Perform

Available for trial in October 2012, Drama Online is the ultimate online resource for plays, critical analysis and performance for libraries, educators, students and researchers. 

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Drama Online will be distributed by Publishers Communications Group and will be available from Spring 2013, with trials from October 2012. If you have any queries about pricing or trials, please contact PCG at dramaonline@pcgplus.com or on 001 617 395 4065.

Developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Faber and Faber Ltd, Drama Online will feature the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists to form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and half thousand years.

In addition, it provides expert student guidance in the form of scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information. Performance and practitioner texts from theory to backstage and acting guides, coupled with video and audio material, will make this an essential study tool meeting the full range of drama teaching needs.

‘The new Drama Online library website is the next generation of sophisticated online tools for students, actors, researchers, librarians, and lovers of theatre. Take Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Bloomsbury and Faber, with their extraordinary collections and preeminent scholarship. Combine their resources. Place them into an elegant, intuitive and deep interface. And watch this become the most important bookmark on your browser.’
Professor Rocco Dal Vera, University of Cincinnati

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Features & Benefits

  • Instant access to hundreds of plays, critical and reference works and performance guides
  • Powerful full text searching and across authors, periods and genres
  • Simple navigation and intuitive interface
  • Personalisation features: save, share, extract, cite
  • Find monologue speeches and plan rehearsals
  • View 'Part Books’ for individual characters
  • Representing the highest quality work from leading dramatists and practitioners
  • Regularly updated with the very latest contemporary writers

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