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Core Collection

The Core Collection forms the heart of Drama Online, offering a rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists.

The collection as a whole includes over 2,400 playtexts, with titles from Bloomsbury’s imprints, Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare, as well as Faber and Faber.

The front cover of The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
The front cover of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The front cover of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
The front cover of Endgame by Samuel Beckett
The front cover of Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti
The front cover of The Effect by Lucy Prebble

Discover:

  • The best dramatic texts from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill
  • The internationally renowned Arden Shakespeare play editions
  • Contemporary writers including Katori Hall, James Graham, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Lucy Prebble, and many more
  • Major foreign works in translation including Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello
  • Production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center

New additions include:


The Lady from the Sea: Simon Stone's adaptation of Ibsen's play, a thrilling dissection of desire, loss and rebirth for the contemporary age.

Romans: A Novel: Award-winning writer Alice Birch's monumental, kaleidoscopic portrait of masculinity from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Bacchae: Discover Nima Taleghani's exciting new version of Euripides' tragedy.

The Constant Wife: Can society withstand the force of a woman determined to do things her own way? A sparkling reimagining of Somerset Maugham's subversive comedy by Laura Wade.

Handbagged: Moira Buffini’s wickedly funny hit comedy imagines what Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II talked about behind closed palace doors.

Barcelona: The personal and the political intertwine in Bess Wohl’s seductive thriller.