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Core Collection

Home of The
Arden Shakespeare
play editions

The Core Collection forms the heart of Drama Online, offering a rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists.

The collection as a whole includes over 2,300 playtexts, with titles from Bloomsbury’s imprints, Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare, as well as Faber and Faber.

The front cover of Othello by William Shakespeare
The front cover of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The front cover of Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
The front cover of Endgame by Samuel Beckett
The front cover of Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti
The front cover of The Effect by Lucy Prebble

Discover:

  • The best dramatic texts from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill
  • The internationally renowned Arden Shakespeare play editions
  • Contemporary writers including Katori Hall, James Graham, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Lucy Prebble, and many more
  • Major foreign works in translation including Bertolt Brecht and Luigi Pirandello
  • Production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum and The American Shakespeare Center

New additions include:

Hot Chicks by Rebecca Jade Hammond - Teenagers Ruby and Kyla spend their evenings dreaming of moving to Vegas and going viral. An encounter with older girl Sadie means their dreams of pool parties could become a reality… but at what price? Moving through terror and humour, this is a challenging drama about ‘county lines’.

And I and Silence by Naomi Wallace - in 1950s segregated America, two friends, one African American and the other white, negotiate both life in prison and society beyond bars.

Transmedia Theatre Plays: A Contemporary Anthology edited by Caridad Svich - during the global pandemic, theatre had to adapt and challenge ideas of what was possible. This collection includes pieces made for podcast theatre, climate crisis activist manifesto film/theatre, multi-location broadcast plays, and more.

The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen and adapted by David Hare - Hare’s adaptation of Ibsen’s classic play starred Ralph Fiennes in its 2016 run at the West End’s Old Vic Theatre.