{"id":1306,"date":"2018-11-27T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2022-05-31T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:50:31","slug":"drama-online-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/drama-online-whats-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama Online: what&#8217;s new?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1307 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/admission-2974645_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/admission-2974645_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/admission-2974645_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/admission-2974645_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/admission-2974645_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Library has subscribed to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/linkit?sv=o&amp;s=sn&amp;q=61112625730002411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drama Online<\/a><\/em> for a few years.\u00a0 This resource contains the text of over 2,000 international plays, from ancient to contemporary, together with contextual resources. It&#8217;s likely to be of interest to anyone studying literature, languages (ancient to modern), film studies and media.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve recently upgraded our subscription to include the <strong>Nick Hern Books<\/strong> collection (over 400 plays) together with the <strong>2017\/18 core update<\/strong> (117 plays).<\/p>\n<p>All the plays are individually catalogued and searchable via <strong>Library Search<\/strong>,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/dosearch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"821\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/dosearch.png 821w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/dosearch-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/dosearch-768x676.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/> or you can search\/browse them all in various ways on the <em>Drama Online<\/em> site.<\/p>\n<p>For example, using the options at the top of the screen, you can browse by title, author, genre and time period, or if you click <strong>Find Plays<\/strong> on the home page, you can add in other search filters, such as number of roles or scenes. Select\u00a0<strong>Context and Criticism<\/strong>\u00a0for access to a wide range of e-books about drama.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1311 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/do2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/do2.png 965w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/do2-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2018\/11\/do2-768x632.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When viewing a play text, click <strong>Play Tools<\/strong> to analyse the speaking parts and appearances of different characters throughout the play.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dramaonlinelib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dramaonlinelib<\/a> for news and features about this fantastic resource!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library has subscribed to Drama Online for a few years.\u00a0 This resource contains the text of over 2,000 international plays, from ancient to contemporary, together with contextual resources. It&#8217;s likely to be of interest to anyone studying literature, languages (ancient to modern), film studies and media. We&#8217;ve recently upgraded our subscription to include the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/drama-online-whats-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drama Online: what&#8217;s new?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[4,95,23,22,21,16,17,210,19,24],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","tag-classics","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-english-language","tag-english-literature","tag-film","tag-french","tag-german","tag-media-2","tag-spanish-and-latin-american","tag-translating-and-interpreting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}