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Best of the Web: Arts & Humanities » Literature & Linguistics » General Literature Resources » Drama
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Academic Info - Drama Resources
Directory of online resources.
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BBC Audio Interviews - Playwrights
Clips from audio interviews with British playwrights.
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British Women Playwrights around 1800
Mounts online texts of plays not widely available in print, publishes working papers and responses on important issues, and provides research resources, including a detailed bibliography of works on Romantic drama & British women playwrights [last updated: 23 December 2001].
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Centre for Research in Early English Drama
Annotated directory of relevant resources.
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Doollee
An "online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays. Use the navigation bar to the left or the quick search alphabet above to begin searching for information on Plays, Playwrights, Literary Agents or Publishers."
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English Server Drama Collection
This site contains original plays and screenplays, criticism, and links to other sites concerned with theatre. It publishes both classic and contemporary works.
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Greek Theatre Research
Links to ancient Greek theatre resources.
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Inter-Play
An online index to plays in collections, anthologies & periodicals, devised at the Portland State Univ. Library. The database includes works from the late 19th Century through 1999.
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ISU Play Concordances
This project connects to the concordances of ten plays which can be searched, counted, and printed.
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Medieval Drama Links
A comprehensive collection of links covering all facets of medieval performance.
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Medieval Drama Links from Sydney Higgins
A well-organized and categorized set of links to reliable sites on various facets of medieval drama, dance and song.
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Reception of the Texts and Images of Ancient Greece in late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry in English
This project has been established to document and analyse the theatrical and literary surge of interest in Greek texts and drama which is a phenomenon of the late twentieth century.
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Understanding Drama
An undergraduate site "designed to help you develop strategies for reading and understanding plays, as well as to find ideas and develop them in writing."
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WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama
Pointers to resources in over 50 countries for professionals, amateurs, academics and students. Includes a keyword search. The General Organizations and Resources and Theatre Image Collections Online categories are most helpful.
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WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama
Guide to quality theatre and drama resources on the web. Links to international online journals, museums, theatre companies, and collections of theatre images.

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