Scholarly Books and Major Reference Works
Below you will find the scholarly book and reference collections to which an institution can subscribe on Drama Online. To see the collections you can access, please log in and visit the Browse Collections page.
Discover this indispensable collection of 85 guides that offer a wealth of resources for aspiring and working actors as well as support for careers in directing, stagecraft, theatre management, and arts marketing and benefit from the perspectives of leading voices in contemporary theatre.
These 850 books from Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints offer invaluable critical, contextual, and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance, and Shakespeare studies. The titles in this collection are grouped under two broad areas: Context and Criticism and Theatre Craft. The collection also includes 60 actor training videos through PATAZ: Physical Actor Training - an online A-Z.
Find support for those taking practical courses relating to the theatre industry, whether in front of the curtain or behind the scenes, in these 72 guides, handbooks, toolkits, and masterclasses.
This substantial new scholarly collection comprises over 30 volumes of original research and curated content that iIluminates, analyses, and re-evaluates the contribution of key theatre artists from North America and Europe. Field-defining articles provide new readings in theatre history, theory, practice, and legacy spanning the last century. This resource offers a significant collection of criticism on modern and world drama and on theories of performance from across the world.
Explore connections between theatre and topics in the wider world through the Theatre And series which captures the interdisciplinary energy of theatre and performance. These 55 books, written by leading scholars, ask how the theatre might illuminate a topic and how that topic might illuminate theatre. Topics include Empire, Feminism, Disability, Education, Animals, and Photography.
