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Did I Ever Tell You This?

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Shakespeare & Co

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Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations

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So You Want To Be A Theatre Designer?

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The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: The Shorter Plays

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Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer

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Writing the Murder: Essays in Crafting Crime Fiction

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The English Table: Our Food Through the Ages

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So You Want To Act On Screen?

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A Woman Like Me: A Memoir

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Acting Is Your Business: How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career

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Your Rep Book: How to Find, Choose, and Prepare Successful Audition Songs

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The Lodger, Shakespeare on Silver Street

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Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose

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I Haven't Been Entirely Honest with You

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Careful the Spell You Cast: How Stephen Sondheim Extended the Range of the American Musical

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Cat Mania Embroidery: Zany and Fun Feline Motifs

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Acting Professionally: An Essential Career Guide for the Actor

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From Craft to Career

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Ain't I A Woman

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Ten Poets Charm the Pants Off Ten Historical Figures

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Shakespeare and Lecoq: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers

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Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

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Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share.

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Applied Theatre: A Pedagogy of Utopia

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African American Perspectives in Musical Theatre

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Adaption for Screenwriters

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About Friel: The Playwright and the Work

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Mastering the Shakespeare Audition

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Staging the End of the World: Theatre in the Time of Climate Crisis

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Stage Combat: Unarmed

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Playing Commedia

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Costume: Readings in Theatre Practice

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Modern London Map: Guide to Modern Architecture

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The Improv Handbook

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Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body

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Unapologetic Expression

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Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora

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After Black Lives Matter

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Alphabetical Diaries

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Welcome to the Club

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Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain

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His Name Is George Floyd

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Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

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Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

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