from Bloomsbury Publishing:
Bloomsbury Digital Resources is pleased to present an opportunity for Minitex members to save up to 15% on our new video content partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, now on the Drama Online platform as the RSC Live Collection, with an opportunity to take an additional 5% off for early subscribers.
The RSC Live Collection offers students worldwide a front row seat to experience the very best performances of Shakespeare from the world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company. With 13 RSC productions available at launch we are immediately expanding our video content within Drama Online and complementing our Arden Shakespeare and Methuen Drama collection play editions and scholarly works allowing users to read, analyze, listen, and watch plays in the same digital environment. The collection will continue to add new RSC productions as they are filmed, as the RSC works through Shakespeare’s canon.
RSC Live Collection Content Highlights:
- Richard II, starring David Tennant
- The Tempest, starring Simon Russell Beale and featuring innovative live motion capture
- Hamlet, with award winning Paapa Essiedu in the title role
- King Lear, starring Sir Anthony Sher
- Including: Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, Henry V, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour’s Lost, Love's Labour’s Won ("Much Ado About Nothing"), The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Cymbeline
Key Features and Benefits of the Drama Online Platform:
Designed specifically for students and scholars, Drama Online offers a unique user experience:
- Interactive Transcript Player—Full transcripts for video plays, real-time tracking of lines spoken, automatic text scrolling, hyperlinked text throughout for navigation to the relevant timestamp, ‘search transcript’ function
- Play Finder—Find plays based on cast size, gender of roles, word count, period, and playwright
- Personalization Features—Save searches, highlight and annotate text, and bookmark content
- Monologue Search—Find monologues by keyword, gender, and word count
- Character Grid and Words and Speeches Graph—Available for each play, visually represents all character appearances by scene and numbers of words spoken by each per act
- Develop a Part Book—View lines and stage directions for individual roles
- Intuitive eReader—featuring scholarly editions and in-text annotations
For pricing or a trial, contact Bloomsbury Publishing rep Matt Buser.
