Drama Online is an award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world's leading drama publisher. Our exclusive imprints, Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare, are joined by playtext and streaming content from world-renowned partners including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe, Stratford Festival, TCG Books, L.A. Theatre Works and many more.
This fast-growing resource is now available to millions of users in several hundred institutions across the globe. It offers over 4,500 playtexts, 800 hours of video, 450 audio plays, 650 scholarly books and over 30 volumes of major reference works.
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Available now for purchase via annual subscription and perpetual access at institutions worldwide.
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We recognize that content highlights differ by institution so you can customize your Drama Online experience. Choose from the collections below to meet your institution's needs:
Playtexts
Video
Audio Plays
Scholarly Books
Reference
Winner of the Best Interface award from The Charleston Advisor
Winner of the Innovation Excellence Award from Stationers’ Livery Company
Drama Online appeared in Library Journal's Must-Have Databases for Academic and Public Libraries 2020
Drama Online [is] a gigantic digital storehouse of recordings, play texts and contextual academic information run by Bloomsbury...The site has also significantly just taken receipt of a mouth-watering batch of NTLive and National Theatre archive recordings. The Telegraph, November 2019
“An excellent resource that all schools with theater departments and libraries serving artistically minded patrons should seriously consider.” School Library Journal
“Drama Online offers audiences the option to read Romeo and Juliet, listen to the audio production, or watch various filmed performances ... a valuable enhancement to academic collections serving theater programs, and school or public libraries.” Choice
“...succeeds admirably in making the texts of plays available online in an environment that will enhance their use for study and performance.” The Charleston Advisor
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