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Journals
- Stage Directions– The latest in the art and technology of theatre (US)
- ArtsJournal – A digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world
Dialects
- International Dialects (IDEA) – Online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings
- The Speech Accent Archive – Speech samples used to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers
Sound Effects
- Free Sound Effects (Dramatic Publishing) – Pick and choose your sound effects to create your own customized CD
Play Indexes
- The Guide to World Drama– Descriptive database of playwrights and their plays.
Shakespeare
- Shakespeare Configurations – A fresh look at configurations – and reconfigurations – of Shakespeare from the first quartos to the most recent incarnations
- Ultimate Shakespeare Resource Guide by FreeBookNotes – A list of some of the best Shakespeare resources on the web
- Shakespeare Monologues – a website containing all of Shakespeare’s monologues, sorted by gender and show
- Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project – “CASP is the first research project of it’s kind devoted to the systematic exploration and documentation of the ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted into a national, multicultural theatre practice … including learning, teaching, multimedia, and research resources and pedagogical tools related to how Shakespeare has been adapted into (and out of) Canadian theatre”.
Resources for Drama teachers
- Free Stuff (Theatrefolk) – “No strings, no signups, just good stuff for you to use in your classroom.”
- New Drama Teacher Toolkit (Theatrefolk) – Exercises and activities, classroom management, advocacy and podcasts.
- Good School Plays – “My name is Richard Stuart Dixon. During my years as a high school teacher in British Columbia, Canada, I wrote, directed, and produced over one hundred and sixty large-cast scripts for my drama classes. I’m offering an assortment of these stage-tested scripts for the free use of teachers and their students.”