UCC Library: Drama and Theatre Studies: Getting Started

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Contemporary Monologues for Women
[e-book] Fifty speeches for women, all written since the year 2000. Playwrights featured include Mike Bartlett, Alexi Kaye Campbell, Caryl Churchill, Helen Edmundson, debbie tucker green, Ella Hickson, Lucy Kirkwood, Rona Munro, Joanna Murray-Smith and Enda Walsh. The editor gives an introduction including the vital information you need to place the piece in context (the who, what, when, where and why) and suggestions about how to perform the scene to its maximum effect (including the character's objectives and keywords). It also features an introduction on the whole process of selecting and preparing your speech, and approaching the audition itself.

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Key Library Resources for Drama & Theatre Studies

Early 17th Century Drama
UCC Library has access to 19 collections in the Early 17th Century Drama series within Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, in addition to all of Shakespeare’s plays. These 19 collections comprise the complete works of Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger and Sir John Suckling.
Literature Online
Literature Online runs from the 8th Century to the 21st Century and includes 340,000 works of poetry, 6,000 works of Drama, 2,250 works of prose as well as over 400 journals.
William Shakespeare - OSEO
Full text access is available to all of Shakespeare’s plays within Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, in addition to 19 titles in the Early 17th Century Drama series.

Special Collections in UCC Library

Important collections of rare & older material. Collections relating to Drama & Theatre studies include:
• 16th – 19th century: Older Printed Books. This collection includes individual and collected editions of John Lyly, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare. Do a subject search for ‘English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan’ to find out more.