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Drama Online

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Access: University of Delaware Library; campus network; available via proxy access
Description: Drama Online offers scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information. Critical interpretations, theatre history surveys and major reference works on authors, movements, practitioners, periods and genres are included alongside performance practitioner texts, and acting and backstage guides.

The most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays ranging from the works of Aeschylus in the 5th Century BC to the present day are covered in Drama Online.

Titles include:

  • The most unrivalled scholarly editions of The Arden Shakespeare
  • Realist works from Ibsen and Chekhov
  • Major foreign works in translation from Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Frank Wedekind and more
  • Comic masterpieces from Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward
  • Modern classics from Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Simon Stephens, Mark Ravenhill, Edward Bond, Alan Ayckbourn, Christopher Hampton, Brian Friel, Willy Russell, John Osborne, David Greig, David Harrower, April De Angelis, David Hare, Anthony Neilson, Shelagh Stephenson and David Eldridge
  • The very latest contemporary writers such as Polly Stenham, Katori Hall, D.C. Moore, James Graham, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Lucy Prebble and theatre companies Complicité and Filter.

The collection features the pre-eminent lists of Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber & Faber and will be continually updated with the latest modern playwrights.
Producer: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Trial Ends: May 18, 2013