1. How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? This fascinating exploration of the complex lives and careers of lesser-known Victorian actresses provides a timely... READ MORE
1. How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? A book about violence that is being done to us, as spectators, and how we can try to resist it. 2. What book in your... READ MORE
It is the Bard’s birthday today and we are celebrating with these ten fascinating books on Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare by McBean By Adrian Woodhouse Shakespeare by McBean... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? It’s a book about how street theatre has been caught up in deindustrialisation and redevelopment, and what that... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Death in modern theatre investigates how dramatists and theatre-makers from the late nineteenth century to the present... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? Queer exceptions is a new study of the contentious relationship between performance, individuality and the demands of... READ MORE
What book in this field has inspired you the most? When I began to write, I was inspired by the storytelling of Andrew Stott in The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi and his ability to craft an... READ MORE
Three Renaissance usury plays The Three Ladies of London, Englishmen for My Money, The Hog Hath Lost His Pearl Edited by Lloyd Edward Kermode This book provides for the first time... READ MORE
Shakespeare and laughter A cultural history Indira Ghose This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, and is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not... READ MORE
Piercing the bamboo curtain Tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years by Michael Lumbers This new study is the first comprehensive account of U.S. Policy toward China during the... READ MORE