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Regularly updated with new content including contemporary plays, scholarly books, and new collections
Support for outbound OpenURL linking from citations
Play-level and chapter-level DOIs
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MARC records at volume level for all book titles, all play titles, and all video and audio content
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Features and Benefits for Users
Interactive Transcript Player: Full transcripts are available for all video content, with real-time tracking of lines spoken, automatic text scrolling, hyperlinked text for easy navigation to the relevant timestamp, and a ‘search transcript’ function
Play Finder: Select plays based on cast size, gender of roles, word count, period, and playwright
Related Content: All content on Drama Online is linked by genre, period, and theme keywords, making it easy to discover and compare and contrast works for projects and research
Personalization Features: Save searches and bookmark content
Monologue Search: Find monologues by keyword, gender, and word count
Character Grid: Each play includes a character grid that shows character appearances by part and scene with circles that correspond in size to the number of lines spoken, showing how and when characters interact
Words and Speeches Graph: Each play includes a bar graph showing the number of words in each scene by total or by individual character
Develop a Part Book: View lines and stage directions for individual roles
Create bespoke video clips: Create and save video clips to support teaching and learning
Read annotated plays intuitively: The seamless eReader includes in-text annotations and citations, with page numbers and line numbers
Performance Rights Information: Each play includes production enquiry information on who owns rights for the play and how to contact them
