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Core Collection

The Core Collection forms the heart of Drama Online. With over 2,000 playtexts and more added each year, this collection is truly the foundation of the platform and offers a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists.

The front cover of Best of Enemies by James Graham where the two main characters, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr, are displayed across a group of six television sets
The front cover of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill where a split screen depicts half a woman ironing and half a woman in office clothing
The front cover of Mum by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm depicting a woman curling her arms around her head and pushing up on her chin
The front cover of An unfinished man by Dipo Baruwa-Etti shows the silhouette of a man falling through clouds
The front cover of Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr shows Clytanmnestra, wife of Agamemnon
The front cover of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall shows Martin Luther King giving a speech

Features preeminent theatre lists and images from:


Provides a comprehensive, world-class collection which offers:

  • The best dramatic texts from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill
  • Student editions and first night programme texts
  • The internationally renowned Arden Shakespeare play editions
  • Major foreign works in translation from Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Frank Wedekind, and more

Contains a wealth of modern classics from authors including:

  • Tom Stoppard
  • David Mamet
  • Alan Bennett
  • Caryl Churchill
  • Simon Stephens
  • Mark Ravenhill
  • Edward Bond
  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Harold Pinter
  • Brian Friel
  • Willy Russell
  • John Osborne
  • David Greig
  • April De Angelis
  • David Hare
  • Shelagh Stephenson




Features playwrights from past and present such as: