Image from Measure for Measure, Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016–2018) DRAMA ONLINE ABOUT DRAMA ONLINE Developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing and Faber & Faber, Drama Online was created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. e award-winning digital library is a fast growing study resource which now features over 2,300 playtexts from 800 playwrights, almost 400 audio plays, 260 hours of video, and 300 scholarly books from leading theatre publishers and companies, o ering a complete multimedia experience of theatre. Designed to meet the full range of teaching and research needs, it is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with lmed live performances, lm adaptations, and audio plays. Individual collections can be purchased or subscribed to separately to tailor Drama Online to your institution’s needs. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS PLAYTEXTS Core Collection Nick Hern Books Playwrights Canada Press Aurora Metro Books AUDIO PLAYS L.A. eatre Works VIDEO Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen (2008–2015) Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2 (2016–2018) e Royal Shakespeare Company Live e Hollow Crown BBC Drama Films and Documentaries Maxine Peake’s Hamlet the Film Shakespeare in the Present Stage on Screen Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains CRITICISM AND SCHOLARSHIP Critical Studies and Performance Practice FEATURES AND BENEFITS Research and Production Tools Bene ts for Students Endorsements and Reviews Promoting Usage Why Drama Online Contact Us Image from Enron, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Core Collection PLAY TEXTS Image from Butley, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Core Collection CORE COLLECTION e Core Collection forms the nexus of Drama Online. With over 1,500 playtexts and more added each year, this collection is truly the foundation of the platform. Features preeminent theatre lists A world-class, comprehensive and images from: collection: • Bloomsbury’s authoritative imprints, • e best dramatic texts from Sophocles Methuen Drama and e Arden Shakespeare and Shakespeare to and Caryl Churchill • Faber and Faber • Student editions and rst night programme • Production photos from the Victoria texts and Albert Museum and e American • e internationally renowned Arden Shakespeare Center Shakespeare play editions • Major foreign works in translation from Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Frank Wedekind, and more www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Content highlights across genres: • Realist works from Ibsen and Chekhov • e Arden Shakespeare playtexts • Comic masterpieces from Oscar Wilde Featured playwrights and Noël Coward from past and present: • Modern classics from: • Jean Anouillh: Antigone — Tom Stoppard • Samuel Becke : Endgame, Happy Days, — David Mamet Waiting for Godot (UK and ROW only) — A l a n B e n n e • Alan Benne : e History Boys, — Caryl Churchill e Madness of King George III, — Simon Stephens e Habit of Art (UK and ROW only) — Mark Ravenhill • Anton Chekhov: e Cherry Orchard, — Edward Bond e Seu , ree ers, nce n — Alan Ayckbourn • Caryl Churchill: r s — Harold Pinter • Mark Haddon: e urus nc ent — Brian Friel t e n t e tme — Willy Russell • Katori Hall: e untnt — John Osborne • John Osborne: c n ner — David Greig • Sophocles: ectr, e us — April De Angelis • A continually growing collection of the — David Hare very latest contemporary writers including — Shelagh Stephenson Polly Stenham, Katori Hall, D.C. Moore, — and many more James Graham, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and Lucy Prebble www.dramaonlinelibrary.com NICK HERN BOOKS Over 500 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, plus exciting new voices, and a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres. Collection features: Other highlights: Mike Bartle , Howard Brenton, • Caryl Churchill: More than two dozen plays Jez Bu erworth, Caryl Churchill, David Edgar, by one of our greatest living writers, which Helen Edmundson, Vivienne Franzmann, blend stunning formal innovation with a clear- debbie tucker green, Ella Hickson, eyed, un inching look at the world around Lucy Kirkwood, Liz Lochhead, usincluding Escaped Alone (2016), Far Away Conor McPherson, Rona Munro, Nina Raine, (2000), and A Number (2002) Jack orne, and Enda Walsh • Top contemporary Irish playwriting: including strikingly original works by Enda Walsh such as Disco Pigs, Misterman Exciting recent additions: and Ballyturk, and uncanny, heartfelt plays • e F e r r y m a n by Jez Bu erworth: winner of by Conor McPherson (“quite possibly the the Olivier, Critics’ Circle eatre Awards, nest playwright of his generation” New York and Evening Standard eatre Awards for Times) including e W e i r , e S e a f a r e r , and Best New Play, seen at the Royal Court, e Night Alive London’s West End, and on Broadway • The Terence Rattigan collection: sixteen • Girl om the North Country by Conor plays by one of the twentieth-century’s McPherson, with music and lyrics by leading dramatists, including devastating Bob Dylan: as seen at the Old Vic eatre masterpiece e Deep Blue Sea, legal and and in London’s West End family drama e Winslow Boy, and one-act play e Browning Version, twice adapted • B a l e e l d by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène f o r l m Estienne: a return to their acclaimed • NHB Drama Classics: adaptation of great Indian epic including foreign works e Mahabharata, and seen on an in translation from Nikolai Gogol, Alfred Jarry, international tour Molière, and more www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Cover Image from Escaped Alone, Nick Hern Books PLAYWRIGHTS CANADA PRESS Collection highlights: Plays produced to great acclaim: • Works by First Nations playwrights • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize • Works by playwrights of colour • Governor General’s Literary Award • Plays with large casts for Drama • • Monologues Windham-Campbell Prize • • Classic Canadian plays Siminovitch Prize • Contemporary Canadian plays Key Titles: • Indian Arm by Hiro Kanagawa: Winner of • White Biting Dog by Judith Thompson: the 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award A poetic black comedy about a divorced for Drama, this adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s lawyer who prepares to kill himself by Li le Eyolf powerfully explores the uneasy jumping o the Bloor Street Viaduct, until intersection of privilege and birthright he encounters a small dog who sets him on • Lion in the Streets by Judith Thompson: a di erent path One of Judith ompson’s most enduring • Bone Cage by Catherine Banks: A poetic plays, Lion in the Streets looks at those su ering and darkly humorous portrayal of life in rural from inner emotional turmoil Nova Scotia, where stripping the environment • East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch: means stripping your soul e son of a German expatriate ees his • Almighty Voice and His Wife by Daniel family and a empts to invent a new life, David Moses: A young couple woo and until the past catches up with him wed, but they’re Cree and it’s 1895, the rst • The Monument by Colleen Wagner: A generation a er the Riel Rebellion, and it’s searing exploration of the nature of forgiveness suddenly hard for the people who followed and a profound classic that examines the the bu alo to live happily ever a er. What are paradox of the soldier today, and the ambiguities they going to do? It’s still a bit early to go into of morality and justice show business. www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Cover Image from e Goodnight Bird, Playwrights Canada Press AURORA METRO BOOKS With over 120 plays, the Aurora Metro Books collection o ers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by black and Asian writers. A unique collection for the modern Up-and-coming modern playwrights: classroom: • Robin Soans’ verbatim drama • Single plays and collections of black and e Arab-Israeli Cookbook Asian drama • Manjula Padmanabhan’s Onassis award- • Collections of Asian and African drama winning play Harvest • Classic plays for family audiences • Germaine Greer’s version of Lysistrata: • Southeast Asian plays collection the sex strike • Top children’s playwright Charles Way’s Topical subjects: many plays for young people • Plus: Roy Williams, Benjamin Zephaniah, • Arab-Israeli con ict Winsome Pinnock, Beverley Naidoo, • Homophobia Gabriela Preissová, Enid Bagnold, • Political corruption Githa Sowerby, Aphra Behn, and Elisabeth Robins. • Muslim identity • Global nancial crisis • Immigrant experience • War in Bosnia AMB has published select • Social media international authors and • Iran works in translation • Yugoslavia from around 20 languages • Refugees www.dramaonlinelibrary.com Cover Image from A Girl With A Book, Aurora Metro Books AUDIO PLAYS Image from Watch on the Rhine, L.A. Th eatre Works L.A. THEATRE WORKS L.A. eatre Works is a non-pro t media arts organization dedicated to present, preserve, and disseminate classic and contemporary plays. rough live in-performance and in-studio recordings, world-class actors are recorded in state-of-the-art sound, complemented by intricate sound designs and on-stage e ects, transforming classic and contemporary stage works into intimate, compelling, and sound-rich audio plays. L.A. Theatre Works’ audio productions have received awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Writers Guild of America, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Audio Publishers Association, among others.