Drama Online

Alternate Titles: Bloomsbury Drama Online

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Drama Online is an award-winning digital resource designed for literature and drama courses.

Subscribed collections include:

• Core Collection: Originally created by Bloomsbury Publishing and Faber and Faber, the Core Collection currently includes over 1,700 playtexts from Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, and Faber and Faber. The platform also includes 700 images from the Victoria and Albert Museum and American Shakespeare Centre

• Critical Studies & Performance Practice: Features over 370 academic eBooks from the prestigious Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints, offering invaluable critical, contextual and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance and Shakespeare studies. The title are grouped under Context and Criticism or Theatre Craft.

• Nick Hern Books Modern Plays: Over 570 modern plays from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights including Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, and Caryl Churchill.

• Playwrights Canada Press: Over 175 plays from established and emerging Canadian playwrights including Daniel Maclvor, Hannah Mosovitch, and Colleen Murphy.

• The RSC Live Collection: The Royal Shakespeare Company creates theatre at its best.  Made in Stratford-upon-Avon and shared around the world, the RSC produces an inspirational artistic programme each year, setting Shakespeare in context alongside the work of his contemporaries and today’s writers.

• Shakespeare's Globe On Screen 1 (2008-2015): 21 films recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV.

• National Theatre Collection: 30 films drawing on 10 years worth of National Theatre Live broadcasts. 

 Access open only to UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)

Permitted uses not available. Please contact e-resources for details.

English; Theatre