Dramaonlinelibrary.com Website Review

Over 1,300 plays from Bloomsbury, including Methuen Drama, and Arden Shakespeare, and Faber & Faber, plus production stills from the Victoria and Albert Museum and the American Shakespeare Center Over 120 plays and non-fiction books on theatre from Aurora Metro Books, including wide-ranging and highly contemporary new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama and drama by black and As*an writers Over 400 plays from a specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books featuring pre-eminent playwrights including Howard Brenton, Jez Over 170 plays from notable and award-winning authors including Daniel MacIvor and Hannah Moscovitch More than 350 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the US’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and are performed by leading actors from around the world including Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Helen Hunt, John Goodman and hundreds of others Stunning film adaptations of core curriculum plays from Sophocles to Oscar Wilde, alongside modern clas*ics such as Michael Frayn’s Shakespeare’s history plays featuring a star-studded cast including Benedict Cu*berbatch, David Tennant, Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville, and A landmark reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Maxine Peake in the title role 21 films recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Features landmark productions from the Globe Theatre’s most recent seasons, including the first production from the indoor Jacobean A 90 minute masterclas* from Steven Berkoff, world-renowned writer, director, and actor A six hour acting masterclas* with international coach Patsy Rodenburg, starring Joseph Fiennes The Arden Shakespeare Studies Archive provides historical, critical, and theoretical background to Shakespeare’s work and the Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Theatre Studies Archive offers companions to theatrical movements, theatre histories, geographies, playwrights, and research