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Core Collection

The Core Collection forms the nexus of Drama Online. With over 1,775 texts and counting, this continually updated collection features the pre-eminent theatre lists of Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints and Faber and Faber, as well as production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center. Content highlights: include classic works from Bertolt Brecht, Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov as well as modern classics from David Mamet, Harold Pinter, Katori Hall and Simon Stephens.

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Content Highlights

• Plays from Aeschylus to the present day
• Student editions, scholarly works and first night programme texts
• The internationally renowned Arden Shakespeare play editions
• Realist works from Ibsen and Chekhov
• Major foreign works in translation: Bertolt Brecht, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, Frank Wedekind and more
• Comic masterpieces from Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward
• Modern classics from Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Alan Bennett, Caryl Churchill, Simon Stephens, Mark Ravenhill, Edward Bond, Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Christopher Hampton, Brian Friel, Willy Russell, John Osborne, David Greig, David Harrower, April De Angelis, David Hare, Anthony Neilson, Shelagh Stephenson, David Eldridge and many more
• A continually growing collection of the very latest contemporary writers including Polly Stenham, Katori Hall, D.C. Moore, James Graham, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Lucy Prebble