A new way to engage with plays

Drama Online provides easy access to over 1,500 plays and 350 audio plays from leading theatre publishers

Our rapidly expanding collections meet the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools. In addition to the play texts and recordings of productions, invaluable contextual and critical background is provided through access to a growing range of annotated student editions, scholarly works and practical guides from renowned publishers and imprints.

Collection 1: Playtexts Collection 2: Audio plays Collection 3: Nick Hern and scholarly works from L.A. Theatre Works Books Collection

With 1,277 texts and counting*, this continually 350 audio recordings from one of the most A collection of almost 400 titles from specialist updated collection features the pre-eminent important audio theatre companies in theatre publisher Nick Hern Books. Since theatre lists of Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama America today. LATW carefully records stage its founding in 1988, Nick Hern Books has and The Arden Shakespeare, Faber and productions for listeners producing thought- cultivated a list of plays that includes work Faber as well as production photos from provoking and compelling audio versions of by many of the UK and Ireland’s pre-eminent the Victoria and Albert Museum and The the highest quality, with leading actors such playwrights, as well as some of the most American Shakespeare Center. as Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, exciting emerging writers. Helen Hunt, John Goodman and hundreds of Highlights: Highlights: others. Study guides, images and background • Leading scholarly editions from The Arden materials are also provided. • Modern classics from Howard Brenton, Shakespeare Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, Highlights: • Realist works from Ibsen and Chekhov David Edgar, Helen Edmundson, • Thought-provoking drama from canonical Liz Lochhead, Conor McPherson, • Major foreign works in translation from texts such as Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls Enda Walsh and Nicholas Wright Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello and more • Literary classic Twelve Angry Men • Titles from the popular Drama Classics • Comic masterpieces from Oscar Wilde and series, including foreign works in translation Noël Coward • Iconic modern works from the oeuvre of leading American playwrights: Arthur Miller, from Nikolai Gogol, Alfred Jarry, Molière • Modern classics from David Mamet, David Mamet and Eugene O’Neill and more Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl • The complete published works of leading Churchill, Simon Stephens, Alan • Pulitzer Prize-winning titles from Neil 20th-century dramatist Terence Rattigan Ayckbourn, Mark Ravenhill, Brian Friel, Simon, Paula Vogel, Tracy Letts, Wendy Willy Russell and many more Wasserstein, Sam Shepard and David • New writing from exciting contemporary Auburn dramatists such as Mike Bartlett, Alecky • New writing from Polly Stenham, Blythe, Alexi Kaye Campbell, debbie Katori Hall, D.C. Moore, James Graham, • Contemporary works such as Lucy tucker green, Ella Hickson, Lucy Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Lucy Prebble Prebble’s Enron Kirkwood, Nina Raine, Jack Thorne and *territorial restrictions may apply Tom Wells For a full list of titles available visit www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Best Interface – The Charleston Advisor Highly Commended for Publishing Innovation – ALPSP Innovation Excellence Award – The Stationers’ Company

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Key Tools and Features:

• An intuitive e-reader featuring scholarly editions, in-text annotations, as well as page and line numbers corresponding with the print edition • Advanced and full text search capabilities. Filter results by playwright, genre, period, theme, cast size, gendered roles, word-length, and more • Visual aids for study and rehearsal, including a Words and Speeches Graph and a Character Grid for each play • Part books: character lines and stage directions readily available for each individual role • Play Finder: search for a play via cast size, genre, period, playwright and more • Personalized experience: citation tool, bookmark, highlight, annotate texts, save searches, and view search history

Praise for Drama Online:

‘Given the breadth and diversity of the content offered – and that the content is full-text – Drama Online is highly recommended for any library with a performing arts or dramatic literature focus.’ Reference Reviews

‘A well-designed and easy-to-use database that succeeds admirably in making the texts of plays available online in an environment that will enhance their use for study and performance … As a database designed to provide the texts of plays of most interest to students of theatre, from antiquity to the present, Drama Online is unique among the theatrical databases currently available.’ The Charleston Advisor

‘Drama Online is an invaluable resource for my students, staff and me. It allows us to access such a wealth of treasured texts in an instant.’ Jeff Janisheski, Head of Acting, National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Sydney, Australia

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Drama Online offers collections on a subscription or perpetual access basis. Free institutional trials are available. Libraries: ask us for a free trial, price quote or more information: Americas: [email protected] Outside Americas: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected]

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