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Abraham, Adam (1)
Adams, Chris (1)
Alfaro, Luis; Alvarez, Boni B.; Shekar, Madhuri; Kamitaki, Mary Lyon; Quarles, Julie Taiwo (1)
Allain, Paul (University of Kent, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Univ (1)
Allen, Paul (1)
Almond, Todd (1)
Artaud, Antonin (1)
Aston, Elaine; Miller, Suzie; Squire, Rosemary; de Angelis, April; Mitchell, Ann (1)
Barnett, David (University of York, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Un (1)
Billington, Michael (2)
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Brecht, Bertolt (1)
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Delijani, Dr Clare Finburgh (Goldsmiths University, UK); Boenisch, Professor Peter M. (Aarhus Univer (1)
Doran, Greg (1)
Ella Hawkins (1)
Francis, Dr. Ben (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) (1)
Fuchs, Barbara (1)
Glover, Eric M. (Yale University, USA) (1)
Gontarski, S.E. (1)
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Grotowski, Jerzy (1)
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Helland, Frode (1)
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Hughes, Harauld (1)
Inverne, JAMSes (1)
Kenrick, John (1)
Kerbel, Lucy (1)
Kulick, Brian (1)
Lavender, Andy (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of S (1)
Laver, James; de La Haye, Amy; Tucker, Andrew (1)
Liedke, Heidi Lucja (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) (1)
Londre, Felicia Hardison (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central S (1)
Machon, Josephine (1)
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Menzer, Paul (1)
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Moran (1)
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Patterson, Michael (Late of De Montfort University, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of Sp (1)
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Swift, Daniel (1)
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Tait, Prof. Peta (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School (1)
Taxopoulou, Iphigenia (1)
Taylor, Millie (1)
Taylor-Batty, Mark (University of Leeds, UK); Artaud, Antonin; Taylor-Batty, Mark (University of Lee (1)
Todd, Professor Selina (1)
Van den Dries, Luk (University of Antwerp, Belgium); De Laet, Timmy (University of Antwerp, Belgium) (1)
Walsh, Fintan (Author, Birkbeck, University of London, UK); Hartl, Anja (University of Innsbruck, Au (1)
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State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945

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All Change Please: A Practical Guide to Achieving Gender Equality in Theatre

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

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Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 6: Littlewood, Strehler, Planchon

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 5: Grotowski, Brook, Barba

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 4: Reinhardt, Jessner, Barker

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 2: Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 3: Copeau, Komisarjevsky, Guthrie

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 1: Antoine, Stanislavski, Saint-Denis

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 7: Barrault, Mnouchkine, Stein

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Staging Ancient Greek Plays

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Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume

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Sustainable Theatre

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The Faber Pocket Guide: Musicals

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre, 1963–1975: Olivier and Hall

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The Commedia dell’Arte: Forms of Drama

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The Great European Stage Directors Volume 8: Bausch, Castellucci, Fabre

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Satire: Forms of Drama

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Golden Tongues: Adapting Hispanic Classical Theater in Los Angeles

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Musical Theatre Histories: Expanding the Narratives

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The Chronicle of Western Costume: From the Ancient World to the Late Twentieth Century

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Feminist Theatre - Then and Now

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Applied Theatre

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Musical Theatre Script and Song Analysis Through The Ages

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Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

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Musical Theatre: A History

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The Invisible Actor

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Performing the Queer Past: Public Possessions

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

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Social Media in Musical Theatre

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Towards A Poor Theatre

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Artaud on Theatre

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The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today

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