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Drama & Performance Studies New Books Catalogue January-June 2021 Drama Online is an award-winning Best Interface digital library and fast growing study resource which now features over — The Charleston Advisor 2,500 playtexts from 800 playwrights, 400 audio plays, 300 hours Innovation of video, and 370 scholarly books Excellence Award from leading theatre publishers and companies, offering a complete — Stationer’s Livery Company multimedia experience of theatre. “Drama Online is a well- Content Highlights designed and easy-to-use • Playtext: Core Collection, Nick Hern Books, Playwrights Canada Press, Aurora Metro Books database that succeeds • Audio Plays: L.A. Theatre Works • Video: National Theatre Collection, Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on admirably in making the texts Screen, Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection, RSC Live Collection, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen (2008–2015), Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016–2018), The Royal Shakespeare Company Live, of plays available online in The Hollow Crown, BBC Drama Films and Documentaries, Maxine Peake’s Hamlet the Film, Shakespeare in the Present, Stage on an environment that will Screen, and Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains. • Criticism and Scholarship: Critical Studies and Performance Practice enhance their use for study Features and Benefits and performance.” • Interactive Transcript Player—Full transcripts for video plays, real- time tracking of lines spoken, automatic text scrolling, hyperlinked — The Charleston Advisor text throughout for navigation to the relevant timestamp, and a ‘search transcript’ function • Intuitive eReader—The seamless eReader includes in-text annotations and citations, with page numbers and line numbers that match up exactly with print editions • Play Finder and Monologue Search—Select plays based on cast size, gender of roles, word count, period, and playwright and find monologues by keyword, gender, and word count • Related Content—All content on Drama Online is linked by genre, period, and theme keywords, making it easy to discover and compare and contrast works for projects and research • Character Grid and Words and Speeches Graph—Each play includes a character grid and bar graph showing character appearances by part and scene and the number of words in each scene by total or by individual character Available via Subscription and Perpetual Access www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Follow us: bloomsburydigtl & @dramaonlinelib Image: The Tempest, The Royal Shakespeare Company Live Free 30-day institutional trials are available now! Americas: [email protected] For more information, please contact: UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] For more information, please contact: UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia: [email protected] Americas: Free 30-day institutional trials are available now! [email protected] Image: , The Royal Shakespeare Company Live The Tempest Follow us: bloomsburydigtl & @dramaonlinelib www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Available via Subscription and Perpetual Access scene by total or by individual character appearances by part and scene and the number of words in each includes a character grid and bar graph showing character Character Grid and Words and Speeches Graph—Each play • compare and contrast works for projects and research period, and theme keywords, making it easy to discover and Related Content—All content on Drama Online is linked by genre, • monologues by keyword, gender, and word count size, gender of roles, word count, period, and playwright and find Play Finder and Monologue Search—Select plays based on cast • match up exactly with print editions annotations and citations, with page numbers and line numbers that Intuitive eReader—The seamless eReader includes in-text • ‘search transcript’ function text throughout for navigation to the relevant timestamp, and a — The Charleston Advisor time tracking of lines spoken, automatic text scrolling, hyperlinked Interactive Transcript Player—Full transcripts for video plays, real- • and performance.” Features and Benefits enhance their use for study Criticism and Scholarship: Critical Studies and Performance Practice • Screen, and Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains. an environment that will Peake’s Hamlet the Film, Shakespeare in the Present, Stage on The Hollow Crown, BBC Drama Films and Documentaries, Maxine of plays available online in on Screen 2 (2016–2018), The Royal Shakespeare Company Live, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen (2008–2015), Shakespeare’s Globe admirably in making the texts Screen, Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection, RSC Live Collection, Video: National Theatre Collection, Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on • database that succeeds Audio Plays: L.A. Theatre Works • Press, Aurora Metro Books designed and easy-to-use Playtext: Core Collection, Nick Hern Books, Playwrights Canada • “Drama Online is a well- Content Highlights multimedia experience of theatre. — Stationer’s Livery Company and companies, offering a complete Excellence Award from leading theatre publishers Innovation oks of video, and 370 scholarly bo 400 audio plays, 300 hours 2,500 playtexts from 800 playwrights, — The Charleston Advisor resource which now features over Best Interface digital library and fast growing study Drama Online is an award-winning Contents EBooks Play Collections �������������������������������������������������������������� 3 ePub and ePdf availability is listed under each book entry. See the website for details of vendors, or to puchase individual ebooks direct. 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The Arden Shakespeare . 15 Key to Symbols Representatives, Agents & Distributors ������������������������ 19 Available on inspection / as exam copies: order online at www.bloomsbury.com. To request any other PB or eBook, email [email protected] (Americas) / [email protected] (UK / Rest of World). Companion website or online resources available. Available for institutions to purchase as Title by Title, discrete discipline modules, or via Evidence Based Acquisition. Now available via GOBI. www.bloomsburycollections.com. Bloomsbury Open Access Selected research publications are available on open access. For our policy or to publish OA, see www.bloomsbury.com/openaccess. Proposals See www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors. Pricing and Availability Whilst we try to ensure that prices, publication dates and other details are correct on going to press, they are subject to change without further notice. 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DRAMA & PERFORMANCE STUDIES - Play Collections DRAMA & PERFORMANCE STUDIES - Play The 24 Hour Plays Viral My White Best Friend Monologues (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) New Monologues Created During the Edited by Rachel De-lahay Coronavirus Pandemic Originally commissioned by The Bunker Theatre The 24 Hour Plays as a critically-acclaimed festival that ran in 2019, My White Best Friend collects 23 letters that Edited by Howard Sherman, Independent engage with a range of topics, from racial tensions, scholar, USA microaggressions and emotional labour, to queer Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in desire, prejudice and otherness. Featuring work from some of the the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to most exciting
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