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GCSE Drama for Edexcel
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News

• Newspapers do not have to be current. Search them online and remember you have access to a wide range of countries.
• Finding articles that spark off ideas can often be more accidental than planned and this is fine, but if there is a specific subject that you want to find an article about it is better to go to online newspaper sites. The Guardian has a particularly good group of sites that are searchable.
• The newspaper article represented in the Coursebook was taken from the Internet on Friday 20 April 2001 at 10:16 AM. See it in full here.

Fiction

• Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an operator's account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois.The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
• The English Server Fiction Pages. This site offers works of and about fiction collected from their members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.It includes short fiction published on the English Server and elsewhere, novels published on the English Server and elsewhere, onlinemagazines of and about contemporary fiction and criticism, other Internet sites publishing fictionliterary criticism, essays and books about fiction, organizations which present awards for excellent fictionplays, screenplays and dramatic criticism, epic and short verse, and poetic criticism.

Non-fiction

• Bibliomania brings you a wide selection of non-fiction books that have influenced generations.
• Also do not forget the Project Gutenberg Site
• In the Coursebook there are excerpts from The Man Who Married His Hat Tree (and Other Cases of Extreme Mental Disorder), by Dr. Oscar Spivack, Ph.D., Chief Supervising Physician, New York Hospital for the Extremely Mentally Disordered Case History #506: The Man Who Married His Hat Tree. This was taken from the Internet on Friday 20 April 2001 at 10:20 AM. You can view this file here.