Description

Drama Online Playtexts presents institutional digital collections of dramatic literature and play scripts from leading theatrical publishers. The catalog spans thousands of works, including the Core Collection from Methuen Drama, Faber and Faber, and The Arden Shakespeare, alongside specialized collections from Aurora Metro Books, Playlab Theatre, Currency Press, Nick Hern Books, Oberon Books, Playwrights Canada Press, and TCG Books. Offerings encompass ancient Greek tragedy, canonical classics, translated global drama, and contemporary prize-winning plays.

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Academic institutions, Drama students, Institutional digital drama research and Accessing theatrical playtext collections

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Schechner Plays, edited by Richard Schechner and published by Intellect Books as part of the Playtext series, is a comprehensive 588-page collection of performance texts. Spanning his work from the 1950s to 2014, the volume brings together orthodox plays, group-devised scripts, and adaptations embodying his environmental theatre approach, including Dionysus in 69, YokastaS, Makbeth, and Imagining O, alongside early unreleased works, contextual introductions by Schechner, and an overview by Márta Minier.

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theatre scholars, drama students, studying environmental theatre and performing canonical adaptations

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Drama Online is an educational resource from Bloomsbury designed for teaching, learning, and research in drama and the performing arts. It provides access to over 5,700 playtexts, more than 800 hours of streaming video, 450 audio plays, and over 1,000 scholarly books. Content spans works from Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, Faber, and Nick Hern Books, with media from partners including the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Students, Academics, Drama teaching and learning and Academic theatre research