Global Plays Collection 1 is now live on Drama Online, offering 100 plays in translation from Methuen Drama.
With 100 plays across 18 volumes, the collection contains work by dramatists from 25 different countries, including India, Nigeria, Argentina, Japan, Ethiopia, Algeria, and Ukraine, with the majority being translated into English for the first time. The collection showcases the work of both established and emerging global playwrights with each volume masterfully translated by leading practitioners in the field.
The volumes include pedagogical material, in addition to academic introductions which address the work of the writers and the themes within their work.
Highlights of the collection include:
- 30 plays by Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse over 6 volumes, including his seminal work Someone is Going to Come, and his later trilogy A Summer’s Day, Dream of Autumn, and Winter.
- Gendering Taboos: 10 Short Plays by African Women, which presents work by the 10 winners of the African Women Playwrights Network’s international competition.
- Selected Plays by Griselda Gambaro – a new anthology which offers the Anglophone world a fuller representation of the internationally-acclaimed Argentine dramatist’s work.
- Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora – six plays by writers such as the late, great Nigerian dramatist Duro Ladipo, the Ugandan poet and playwright Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu, and Ama Ata Aidoo, who was one of Ghana’s most celebrated playwrights.
- Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution – the first anthology of 21st century Ukrainian plays, this volume brings together key works from the country’s impressively generative post-Revolutionary period, many of them published here in English for the first time.
Drama Online is an award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world’s leading drama publisher. It offers over 5,000 playtexts, more than 800 hours of video, 450 audio plays, nearly 900 scholarly books and over 30 volumes of major reference works.