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Core Collection

Home of The
Arden Shakespeare
play editions

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 2,300 playtexts, with titles from Bloomsbury’s imprints, Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare, as well as Faber and Faber.

The front cover of Othello by William Shakespeare
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:

Ballet Shoes by Kendall Feaver: Following the three Fossil sisters as they work to create their own future against the odds, Feaver’s play adapts the classic novel by Noel Streatfeild.

How I Learned To Swim by Somebody Jones: Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, Jamie's taking on her biggest fear - the ocean. Brilliantly witty, deeply heartfelt, this play explores what lies beneath the surface of the Black diasporic relationship to water.

Kyoto by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson: As time runs out at the Kyoto Conference in 1997, the world’s nations desperately try to find a way to agree on emissions targets in the face of stiff opposition in this RSC and West End hit.

Boys From The Blackstuff by James Graham: Adapted from Alan Bleasdale’s BAFTA award-winning TV series. In 80s Liverpool, Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and no money. What are they supposed to do? Life is tough but the lads can play the game.