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Costumes for the Stage: A Complete Handbook for Every Kind of Play

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Staging Musicals

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Shakespeare's Kings

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Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions

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Boy From the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey

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A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard

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Dear England: The Real Story of the Three Lions Rebirth

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Black Britain: A Photographic History

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BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship

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Directing Amateur Musical Theatre: A Practical Guide for Non-Professional Theatre

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Acting Through Song

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Fear Less: How to Win Your Way in Work and Life

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Sharp Suits: A celebration of men's tailoring

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Black British Drama: A Transnational Story

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Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre

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Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan's Girl from the North Country and Broadway's Rebirth

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Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise

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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

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The Theatre and its Double

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Evoking Shakespeare (and forgetting!)

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Drama Menu at a Distance

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Character Breakdown

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Merchant & Mills Sewing Book

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Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materials

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Do Conversation: There is no such thing as small talk

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Theatre and Christianity

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An Actor's Guide to Corporate Role Play: The Best Side-Job for Actors

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South Bank: Architecture & Design

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Chekhov on Theatre

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Approaches to Actor Training: International Perspectives

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Shakespeare's Language

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Shakespearean Rhetoric

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The Playwright's Manifesto

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Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

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Comedy Acting For Theatre

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Ibsen on Theatre

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What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century

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Screenwriting: The Craft and The Career

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Everyday Shakespeare

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Play the Game: A Drama Workshop Guide

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Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through The Ages

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Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense

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Work: The Last 1,000 Years

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Strong Female Character

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Theatre and Migration

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Theatre and Medicine

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