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This website was dedicated to British Gothic drama and its various manifestations between 1768 - the year of composition of the first Gothic tragedy, Horace Walpole's The Mysterious Mother- and the later, pre-Victorian, culture of the 1820s and 30s. The materials made available here range from critical bibliographies to links to internet resources and teaching and study aids, and are offered as a starting-point for all those readers who wish to explore Gothic drama and theatre in order to rediscover a cultural phenomenon which, although now relatively unfamiliar to contemporary readers, was as notorious, shocking and frightening as the better-known Gothic romance. This website is no longer updated.

The website TheatreHistory.com features information about a wide range of theatrical traditions in Europe, North America and Asia. The site offers an index of topics relating to the theatre history of different cultures. There are resources on Irish theatre, British theatre, Russian theatre, Spanish theatre and many more. There is a good cross-section of information about contemporary theatre, as well as pages devoted to ancient Greek and Roman and medieval theatre. There is also general information about the origins and development of the theatre. Under each topic, users can access information on playwrights and dramatic practice. Topics include biographies of key figures in the history of drama, synopses of plays and contextual studies about relationships between drama and society.

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.The website is currently under redevelopment. Includes @ http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Projectsite/Bibliog.htm a full alphabetical bibliography on classical reception in english contemporary literature by Ruth Hazel

P A L A T I N E (Performing Arts Learning and Teaching Innovation Network) is the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music.

"Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English from c.1970"

an independent web resource dedicated to the dissemination of information about literature (fiction, drama and poetry) written by Spanish women. The site is divided into two sections: the first is a 'magazine' that offers regularly updated news of publications by Spanish women, reviews, interviews, events, literary prizes, book fairs and signings. There are links within the magazine to websites of specific publishers and authors where appropriate, and to other websites that may be of interest. The magazine invites and publishes reader comments about its articles, and the user may also access an archive of material. The second section is a unique, extensive index of 20th Century Spanish women writers, offering biographical and bibliographical details.

The home of unique films of leading British theatre productions for schools, colleges and universities.We make the best of British theatre accessible to every learner. We use the latest technologies to inspire and engage viewers of all ages and abilities with a front-row seat experience. Our exclusive behind-the-scenes documentaries and written teaching and learning resources aid deeper understanding of productions and texts.Use our service to enrich students' cultural experience and support learning in English, Drama and Theatre Studies.

This project, hosted by Indiana University, USA, seeks to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. The works include anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. Writers represented include Josephine Butler and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

reviews of novels in English translation, in particular drawing attention to otherwise neglected contemporary works from around the world, but also reviews of classics, non-fiction, drama and poetry.

This Web site hosts the draft text of the new version of the second part of 'The London stage, 1660-1800'. The original work was an authoritative multi-volume guide to the plays and theatre history of the Restoration and eighteenth century in London, first published in the 1960s and 70s. The section of the new edition made available here covers the period between 1700 and 1729

Il blog di Nick Hern Books, la casa editrice inglese specializzata in performing arts con un occhio di riguardo al teatro contemporaneo britannico

Joseph Donohue is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has taught dramatic literature since 1971. A theatre historian with special interests in the British and Irish theatre from the late eighteenth century to the present and in the nineteenth-century British music hall, he is the author of Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age (Princeton, 1970) and Theatre in the Age of Kean (1975), and editor (with Ruth Berggren) of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Text of the First Production, St. James's Theatre, London, 1895 (Colin Smythe, 1995), which won the 1997 MLA prize for an outstanding scholarly edition and the 1997 Hewitt prize for an outstanding work of theatre history